ShawnBird

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by ShawnBird 14y ago
What is wrong with cap and trade? I don't have a strong understanding of the proposed law but it stands to reason that the free market would be able to find the most efficient method of reducing emissions.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
It makes sense why they would do it. It let's them get response from the community and use that feedback to address concerns and hype the positives for the official announcement. It is just like the open betas that video games have been doi
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
And that whatever killed them did not damage the radio and/or auto pilot.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Point of Contact
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Well it seems like the main concerns are the fact that nobody got JoCo's approval before moving forward and there does not seem to be any attribution. I don't entirely agree with the outrage but the fact that this is done by Fox who are rea
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
I think we should get cheap internet to everyone. I really thought the plan to use television white space[0] was interesting. Funneling money into something like Google Fiber would also be amazing. Broadband, like the postal and telephone s
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
> $100 in utilities That seems really low. I live in a small house and here are my utilities: Phone: $50 Internet: $60 Water/sewer/garbage: $100 Electricity: $80 (less in the summer, more in the winter) Gas: $10 And you left out mandato
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Well from my understanding the 4 months is not what he would get for sure, that is just what the prosecutor would tell the judge to do. He could still get anywhere between 4 months and 50 years (the maximum after the prosecutor added even m
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
I would be interested to see data from the Humble Bundles on pay-what-you-want pricing. They seem to have done things over the past few sales that have resulted in higher averages.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
What about a Neuromancer style brain upload where a computer takes a series of very long incredibly detailed interviews and brain analysis and constructs a simulation of that person? Sure it might not be exact but, as you said, it really ca
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
The nexus 7 has a high density screen.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Oh, never mind. I have seen some libraries that have very low usage rates of books compared to computers and I would not mourn a scaling down of their books on hand as long as they kept a strong catalog.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
I didn't make that comment so I can't answer for it. What I can say is that the area that the term covers is arbitrary and that you can discuss one facet of it without involving the others. There is no reason that trademarks need to be disc
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
I said that information is intangible, not that all intangible things are information. You are being absurd. A physical book and a digital representation of the information are completely different. The only thing that they have in common i
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
What you are saying makes no sense. I am not talking about manufacturing or brands or trademarks. I am talking about the data. Trademarks are already public, you don't have to pay to look at a logo. How is my argument even tangentially rela
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Luckily there are lots of books, I haven't seen them removing any. Why is this lucky? Are the books being used?
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Well what do you use to view information? You don't look at it on an information screen and you don't store in on an information drive. You are just arguing Symantec. If you have a book the physical object is the book and what is written on
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
I was speaking generally. I obviously don't think that there should be no privacy but I do think that free and limitless access to public information is an ideal of the hacker community. I consider books, music and movies as a kind of infor
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Are you saying that selling plastic by the sword is better for society than a strong public domain? Or do you just think that a system where content can be produced without artificial scarcity is idealistic? I guess what I am asking is this
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
> Say you go on this quest to find the best city to live in. You find a good one, and you're not unhappy. But you'll always have that doubt: "What if I had quested just a little more? Would I have found an even better city?" And that'll
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Well most banks give out loans without the consent of their members on a per loan basis. Taxes are similar, people agree to pay taxes but they don't have a say on a per loan basis of what is done with those funds.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
People just us Game of Thrones as an example because it was popularized by The Oatmeal (and possibly others) for it's status as being easier to pirate than pay for. I think they just use the name as a symbol now because if you mentioned a d
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Cellulose is only 40% carbon.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Especially for things that you kind of need to touch. If you are designing something physical it could be a cheap alternative to whatever the current mockup methods are.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Some kind of fuse or something to show what was about to happen with a 'stop' button might have been better. I don't think anyone would click a 'party' button.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
If you are doing it for an employer it is at least worth what they are paying you for it. I would argue that qualifies as treasure.
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
If a policy benefits poor people in general and more black people are poor it would stand to reason that it would help more black people. I think that the problem with AA is that it attempts to treat the entire country. A better solution wo
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
The focus on race in racism is, in part, due to people acknowledging race as a thing. There is nothing more significant about skin color than hair color but we don't have programs to help out blondes and we don't talk about 'the blonde vote
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Unfortunately you can't just 'fix' something like that by handing out grants to people with dark skin. Baring some large redistribution of wealth the most effective thing we can do is to remove all the barriers that we can and encourage imp
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by ShawnBird 14y ago
Well the number of abortions is far lower than the number of people on the internet or even the people using file sharing. I think that OP was just saying that the impact of SOPA effects a larger number of people, not that the impact was mo

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