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by PostOnce 8y ago
We can't fight a fair "based on great products and infrastructure" economic war when one side is playing by different rules -- e.g. industrial espionage, copyright and patent violation, requiring Chinese ownership of foreign
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Probably means 10 gauge shotgun shells but I've never heard anyone call them "20mm" edit: hmm, maybe that doesn't make sense since he also says 12.7mm, maybe he lives where there was once a war like m0zg says
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by PostOnce 8y ago
So the front page is full of garbage -- we can all see that -- contribute something useful and that'll become less true or entirely untrue. Paste some interesting junk to read?
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by PostOnce 8y ago
In the end you have two options, give in, or don't -- and if you give in, they may still say "not good enough" or "I don't believe you". If you negotiate with hostage takers, you encourage hostage taking.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
You don't have to humor every opinion, nor rebut them, and it's quite okay to tell people that you don't care about their opinions at all. They can go seethe and sulk somewhere else. It's also okay to publicly laugh at p
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Not only that, but Steam games get fucked with after release, so you can't even necessarily get the original game if Steam is still operating. https://www.pcgamer.com/au/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-stea... (songs
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by PostOnce 8y ago
check the HTML5 stuff for games you can play right now (most are free): https://itch.io/games/html5
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by PostOnce 8y ago
I also worked on a Python project that integrated DocuSign. I was able to hack together solutions and skirt around DocuSign's many problems, garbage documentation, and general very-low-quality API, but in no circumstance would I ever r
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Computers "predict recidivism" and will tell you you're not allowed to be paroled because "the algorithm says" you're going to reoffend. Computers will tell you you can't get a loan because the algorithm s
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Go browse https://www.archive.org -- you won't regret it. There's no telling what you'll find, in all languages, from all eras, from magazines to music to movies to games to books, maps, ephemera, junk mail. Ted N
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by PostOnce 8y ago
It may not change the value of his business advice... but then again, it may. It may be that he doesn't care about people. It may be that he would recommend you pollute a river to save money. I'm not saying his advice is without m
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by PostOnce 8y ago
There's more to life--and business--than money. Do we want to take advice from a man who hates the public? Do we want to build that future? Even if what he says sounds legitimate, should we not question whether there are motives and et
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by PostOnce 8y ago
he didn't say the guy deserves to get away with it, though he said the guy should be sued in civil court and be made to pay damages, rather than sent to prison by a criminal court
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by PostOnce 8y ago
We determined previously the guy is full of shit, knowingly manufacturing counterfeits in China and scheming to avoid interception by customs, plainly stating as much in email which was later used as evidence. example of such an email: htt
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Sure. It could always be used as a promo tool / halo product though; e.g. the press you can generate with the limited edition could move units of the non-limited one. But you're right, generally it's a hobby or just a gesture
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Yeah, understandable; that's what I meant by the "let's ignore you need DOOM" part, because everything Romero made he's giving away free. So his business model is still "it's free digitally, but costs for
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Dozens of small companies (ranging from a couple of people to a couple dozen) rely on me to decide and direct their tech stacks; I always suggest something other than Amazon even where Amazon is suggested first by them; the vast majority de
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by PostOnce 8y ago
This business model is cool, free game digitally, but boxed it costs money. (let's ignore the "you need the original doom" stuff for the purposes of considering this business model) Also, the company providing the actual boxe
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Imagine downloading a manifesto or something from a protest sign in a newspaper or on TV. Imagine downloading a working application from a barcode (perhaps assuming you have the "reader" app which includes a set of software librar
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Vanity is a benefit; it's hardly the only benefit. We'll spend maybe $100,000 on phone bills in our lives, I wonder would I be happier with a bunch of Instagram alerts, or having crossed the Antarctic alone; what would create fo
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by PostOnce 8y ago
That's the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, this is the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (used to be in Boston). Unless I'm mistaken and they both let you do stuff on the computers, which would be cool.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Oh, I forgot, if you take $100 from the government for food, you're a no-good leech, but if you take $100,000,000 from the government, you're a job creator and a pillar of the economy. The rich don't get handouts when they fa
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by PostOnce 8y ago
How are you supposed to stop being small time if you can't take any amount of risk to get into the big time? Investing isn't "guaranteed free money", it's a calculated risk. Should only the rich be allowed to take r
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by PostOnce 8y ago
I used to shop at a supermarket here, spending upwards of 10K/yr there on my family grocery bill -- they got some AI startup camera bullshit and I've never been back. (Startup stuff both in store and parking lot, supposedly ties c
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Why not order online from a sporting goods store, or, if possible, direct from the manufacturer? "Get everything in one place" was more valuable when we had to travel from place to place and it took 30 minutes, but traveling from
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by PostOnce 8y ago
But as he also admits in the book, he would pursue anything and everything, but Bill Gates would temper his expectations and help direct energy in a productive direction; so, it's possible--or even likely, I think--that Paul Allen woul
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by PostOnce 8y ago
It's a good read. I often wonder what would have become of him had his parents not had the forethought to send him to Lakeside School; his family wasn't rich like Bill Gates' family; I imagine, with money, Gates would have do
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Many here have noted his many large-scale philanthropic efforts, which are fantastic, and often benefit our whole species. But my personal favorite, even if it doesn't benefit large swaths of humanity in the same way as a cell research
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by PostOnce 8y ago
I got to page 38 before I even thought to look at how long it was, it's kind of engrossing, and because it's mostly quotes and infographics, it doesn't take long to go through a page, it's not Mochizuki's proof of t
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by PostOnce 8y ago
The linked report is WAY more interesting than the article. Covers much more ground (not just 'PC culture') and in a better way. I just started reading it not knowing what I was in for, somehow both easy to digest but still broad

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