Mononokay

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by Mononokay 8y ago
> Based on Carreyrou’s dogged reporting, not even Enron lied so freely. The rest of the article was more or less just copying every other article about the subject, but this line is just beautiful.
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by Mononokay 8y ago
In eBay v Newmark, the full quote you're looking for: "[Newmark and Buckmaster] did prove that they personally believe craigslist should not be about the business of stockholder wealth maximization, now or in the future. As an abs
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by Mononokay 8y ago
Literally every one of those goes against current case law, which can be seen in eBay v. Newmark; plus "LMGTFY" isn't really an explanation.
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by Mononokay 8y ago
Case law states otherwise; see eBay vs. Newmark and Dodge vs. Ford Motor Company.
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by Mononokay 8y ago
Not Statute, but case law. See eBay vs. Newmark. Unless I'm misinterpreting something about it, in which case, can you explain? (Genuine question there.)
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by Mononokay 8y ago
Salesforce is a public company, which means the CEO has a legal duty to optimize for maximum benefit for the shareholders of said company under the law. "Change the law so I don't have to do scummy things," is actually fairly
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by Mononokay 8y ago
Do you feel guilt over creating them?
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Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”(techcrunch.com)
195 points by Mononokay 8y ago|190 comments
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by Mononokay 8y ago
From what I've heard, Facebook has the most chill culture out of the big three.
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by Mononokay 8y ago
The goal is to make an uncensorable method for everyone to send and receive information with. Without it, thousands of people in authoritarian regimes would be disadvantaged.
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by Mononokay 8y ago
> Reminds me of the Tor project calling themselves a "human rights project" It fundamentally is a human rights project.
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Australian government proposes to limit cash payments for purchases to AUD$10K(theguardian.com)
88 points by Mononokay 8y ago|111 comments
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by Mononokay 8y ago
Nah. If you hopped in early you made, and still make, tonnes. It was amazing for the intelligent poor. Not to mention there are cryptocurrencies made to do genuinely cool things, like to allow private transactions for people in authoritaria
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by Mononokay 8y ago
CentOS repos often don't use current software, so not necessarily.
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by Mononokay 8y ago
You're all good. *You might need to change names, if he has any claim at creating it.
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by Mononokay 8y ago
My guess is that he mistyped *BSD.
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by Mononokay 8y ago
Technically you can. He can't own the concept, and if he didn't contribute anything you're more or less good; he never bought your code or anything, did he?
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by Mononokay 8y ago
> But I believe that most men who have been to war would have to admit, if they are honest, that somewhere inside themselves they loved it too, loved it as much as anything that has happened to them before or since. This sounds conspicuo
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by Mononokay 8y ago
So weird that they're bringing back Vanilla servers - maybe that'll be possible again?
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by Mononokay 8y ago
> I'm reminded of gun control legislation - except you can't build a gun from scratch in your basement Blatantly false for that bit, but I agree with the rest of what you're saying. > The other — and arguably more impor
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Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Prompting Evacuation Orders(chicagotribune.com)
2 points by Mononokay 8y ago|0 comments
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by Mononokay 8y ago
> My favorite hack I feel responsible for was the wow zeppelin hack (zeppling fly points were stored client side ) so you could change them and the zepplin would take you somewhere else! Wait, really? I'm surprised I hadn't hea
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by Mononokay 8y ago
I think he understands it exactly, personally. Just because he's upsetting The Atlantic doesn't mean he's not understanding it.
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MoviePass brings back ‘unlimited’ movie subscription plan(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Mononokay 8y ago|0 comments
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by Mononokay 8y ago
Greater KC Area =/= KC Metro Area
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by Mononokay 8y ago
You can audit the code of every Electron app, so why are you acting like it's full of spyware that you'll never be able to have privacy with?
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by Mononokay 8y ago
He never said he was doing science, no? A politician, for example, can move science forward by pushing a bill that laxes regulations, increases funding, etc. Increasing awareness and causing people to talk about it very well could have
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Venezuela Offers India Crude Oil on 30% Discount, If It Agrees to Pay in Petro(indiatimes.com)
1 points by Mononokay 8y ago|0 comments
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by Mononokay 8y ago
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The Pentagon is working on a radio wave weapon that stops a car in its tracks(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Mononokay 8y ago|1 comments

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