YokoZar

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by YokoZar 14y ago
This is clearly wrong. All you need to do is read a bit of legalese to someone, have them ask "what's that mean?", and then realize that what you say next to them is entirely different. Legalese has all manner of special constructs that ha
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It's also solvable by simply having more donors, which is exactly what the article is advocating for
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Even though the number of "real" bitcoins remains given, there is nothing stopping individuals or banks from trading them more frequently or issuing tradeable notes denominated in bitcoins, which would both raise the effective money supply.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
About a year ago, Jeff Atwood came to the Something Awful forums to discuss ideas for better forum software. Unfortunately, it seemed like he had already made up his mind on the design, blithely dismissing well-articulated arguments agains
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It should be noted that SBC was one of the child companies of AT&T before their anti-trust breakup -- SBC envisioned a new AT&T taking over South Africa, and succeeded beyond their expectations (AT&T was broken up before home in
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by YokoZar 14y ago
These days I think it's clear that the dominant use case for shell scripts is not a full time responsibility but rather edge work for deploying/installing code written in other languages. Most people looking at shell code aren't going to b
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Then why not make that the crime, rather than speeding in and of itself?
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It helps if you recognize software as a public good in the economic sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good -- a healthy software ecosystem is much like having good street lights and roads. Expansive use of nonfree software is lik
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by YokoZar 14y ago
"never ever respond" implies that you already know they're a stalker -- but by that point you've surely already had some correspondence with them, unless you never reply to anyone. So how do you tell when it actually crosses the line?
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by YokoZar 14y ago
AirB&B is increasing the supply of housing in SF. Prices should fall in that circumstance, except that city policy has been dramatically restricting the supply otherwise.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Also note that vmware Fusion has a "Unity" mode. For what it's worth I asked Mark Shuttleworth about the overlapping trademark and he said all 3 companies were fine with it.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
There's no need to emphasize fiction there; both shows are fake.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Men are also more likely to take dangerous jobs that are more likely to get them killed, which pay better
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by YokoZar 14y ago
If you would like to attend one of these meetings and make a point while making everybody laugh, I suggest telling a fictitious story about the time you wanted to learn how to implement a software technology by looking up an expired patent
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Without having read this study in detail, other possible things tend to muck up such studies. Suppose you define mortality as "chance of dying within a year" 1) People who start dying (eg by developing cancer) might take more than a year,
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I find it unlikely that other manufacturers would take losses if they charged Apple prices; Apple prices tend to be substantially higher.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Comparing the distance you can swim may be a bit misleading as a very large component of skilled swimming is doing it efficiently. As you improve your stroke you become much more hydrodynamic and it takes far less effort (and time) to swim
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Another Blizzard game, Diablo 2, actually had a random number generator bug that went unnoticed for years. Essentially, any random chance in the game of the form 1 to n could only ever be 1 to n-1, I think with n-1 being twice as likely. Th
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It's probably less bad than burning massive amounts of coal. In the same way that moderate poverty is less bad than extreme poverty and dying from cancer is less bad than dying from childhood AIDS, this represents a form of progress.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Apple does at least build things, but it still has hundreds of bogus patents that it uses offensively to retard innovation. Perhaps we need a new derisive word to cover that behavior.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
If we had steering wheel angels we wouldn't need black boxes ;)
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by YokoZar 14y ago
By this reasoning, a government that operated more efficiently would be less successful. That can't possibly be right.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
So, to "protect consumers", they are proposing the following regulations: * A rule to forbid luxury car services from using GPS to meter the precise time and distance * A rule to forbid drivers from accepting electronic hails * A rule that
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by YokoZar 14y ago
The effective supply of bitcoins can increase if we invent ways to trade existing bitcoins faster (such as convenient apps or exchanges). This is why the Federal Reserve needs to know the "velocity of money" when determining how many dolla
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by YokoZar 14y ago
"Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition last year of the British software maker Autonomy for $11.1 billion “may be worse than Time Warner,” Toni Sacconaghi, the respected technology analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, told me, a view that was echoed th
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by YokoZar 14y ago
More importantly, aptitude is known to be broken. Aptitude's resolver never caught up with Ubuntu's multiarch transition, and will erroneously conclude that many things are uninstallable (or attempt to "fix" things by uninstalling half the
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by YokoZar 14y ago
If it ever actually ends up in court it has had far more than a single repercussion. Mere legal threats, or even the possibility of them, can seriously get in the way of productivity. Yes, it's stupid, and we should all lighten up and be a
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Canada's oil resources are relatively new as well, I think.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
As an attendee of the Ubuntu Developer Summit (where we were all promised beta keys), I can reveal two facts: 1) I haven't gotten any keys yet 2) There is an internal beta that some third parties have access to
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by YokoZar 14y ago
And here I remember the days where the very concept of a news feed was controversial for Facebook. The site still has considerable value without it.

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