Zakharov

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by Zakharov 14y ago
You'll run out of founders long before you run out of money.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
It's reasonably likely that a good chunk of the $100m will end up going to charity, which would go a lot further toward curing cancer or whatever the charity is focused on.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Some licenses may stop short of the extent permitted by law, e.g. by putting conditions on use.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Startup idea: take out-of-patent medicines, rebrand them as herbal remedies, triple the markup, get a reputation as selling "safe" herbal remedies that work particularly well.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
At the same time, consider that anyone peddling herbal remedies and the like is almost guaranteed not to be an impartial scientist.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Not really relevant to the patent issue, but your second point is a bit of a fallacy. It's possible that android would have even more market share without a patent war, or that the patent war was a risky strategy which had positive expected
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by Zakharov 14y ago
As an Australian, I'd say American English sounds loud.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Blizzard actually did this in Warcraft 3, the chance of getting a Critical Strike or related effect went up every time you failed, and down every time you succeeded.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Henrik's math calculated the chance of missing the "I love you" piece each time. The chance of missing any one other piece each time is the same.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
I could understand attacking government websites as a protest, but why go after random civilian sites? They're just associating themselves with the worst part of the Palestinian resistance that way.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Adding another dimension doesn't make a difference; adding another candidate does.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Nukes? The French have a lot of them.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
This already exists. If your boss is making more money, he will (theoretically) pay more corporate tax, and that goes to welfare for the unemployed.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
According to the article, content creators are fine with phase shifting. "And the RIAA and the MPAA agree with you. In 2005, their lawyer (now the Solicitor General of the United States) assured the Supreme Court that “The record companies
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by Zakharov 14y ago
It comes down to the utility of money, or roughly speaking, how happy the money will make you. $20,000 is a lot more valuable to someone with $10,000 than someone with $50,000. In other words, having $10,000 is worth, say, 10 utility, havin
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by Zakharov 14y ago
If you want to check whether a browser supports a feature, it's preferable to check whether the browser supports the feature instead of whether the browser is a browser that supports the feature. The latter can cause problems when dealing w
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by Zakharov 14y ago
If you look at this from another angle, it's not so bad. Would anyone be angry if there were three pacifists on the Defence committee? A certain portion of the American population opposes science, and as harmful as that is to the country, a
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Wouldn't that deter prosecutors from going after relatively minor crimes that are less likely to lead to a conviction?
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Empowered is the opposite of oppressed.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
This looks really cool, it seems perfect for hosting games in the playtesting phase, as a free host without onerous bandwidth restrictions. +1 for Python support.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Another annoyance the author didn't mention is that unzippers frequently mangle the filename and/or metadata if it uses Unicode. Archive Manager is the worst at this.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
It would be interesting if, alongside this charter city, people would set up a liberal-socialist city-state, an authoritarian-capatilist city-state, and an authoritarian-socialist city-state.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Extreme libertarianism is anarchy, but the vast majority of libertarians are not anarchists.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
I think in this case "least bad" means "least bad in the worst case".
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by Zakharov 14y ago
The people who acquire power tend to be those skilled at acquiring power. To be more accurate, those who acquire power tend to be those who are good at acquiring power under the system for doing so. Existing political systems favor the most
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by Zakharov 14y ago
In Australia people vote for individual members, but most do so based on party affiliation. The members available to vote for are chosen by the parties. Candidates seem to be chosen more based on factional loyalty than on expertise; unless
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by Zakharov 14y ago
These aren't "large scale purges" or "death mobs", they're targeted assassinations. Blackwater, villainous as they may be, aren't killing indiscriminately to cause fear.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
They're not moonlighting for the Zetas or the Russian mob because if they were, they'd lose billions of dollars of CIA money.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
Assuming generation lengths of a conservative 20 years, earning 2% interest after inflation and capital gains tax on the money would result in the real value of the estate staying constant after taxes.
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by Zakharov 14y ago
I think Facebook's position on this would be that the user goes into their contact book, selects the @facebook.com email address of the person they want to email, and then Facebook gets the email because it's on their service.

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