_jgvg

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by _jgvg 8y ago
He's one of the greats of the crazy diets: people should eat more white sugar and fructose, people shouldn't exercise because it stresses the body, people should reduce or eliminate vegetables from their diets, and so on. Also the
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by _jgvg 8y ago
It isn't just technically worthless, it is technically wrong. I know that none of it is even the point, but that's where the article loses itself: there is no point but to make an appealing critique of nothing in particular. It is
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by _jgvg 8y ago
We've seen it before: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-google-news-effect-spain-r... Everyone loses. And smaller, local, independent companies lose more.
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by _jgvg 9y ago
> So the internet was created with public funds; you and I paid for it. Very little of the current infrastructure was built with public funds Most of the hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure around the world come from compan
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by _jgvg 9y ago
> So not "every online community" should be barred from censorship on their own properties, but if you're running a core information service, you're danged skippy that censorship is not okay. Google or GoDaddy aren&#x
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by _jgvg 9y ago
> Do you think it acceptable for casual users of the phone network to keep their own list of phone books that include self-published phone books that the major phone book book publishers won't list? I didn't really get your poi
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by _jgvg 9y ago
> A power the US government gave them. With no requirements that they should not refuse service to anyone. > Also, no one is saying "force." Then what are you saying? Should Google be "xxxxx" to accept Stormwhateve
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by _jgvg 9y ago
> You weaken your own rights by choosing to interpret "speech" literally instead of as participation in public communications and discourse, which increasingly occurs over channels that do not require everyone to be within shou
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by _jgvg 9y ago
> As a registrar Google is serving the public and I doubt you can deny someone this service in a moral sense. Actually, you can deny anyone except protected categories. > Can a doctor deny to treat them if they end up in his office fo
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by _jgvg 9y ago
> "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Please notice that the quote is not "I disapprove of what you say, but I'll offer you my house for you to say it".
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by _jgvg 9y ago
> To support someones right to free speech is not the same as supporting the content of said speech. Supporting someone's right to free speech doesn't mean enabling them to. I support the right of the Nazis to voice their (IMHO
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by _jgvg 9y ago
> If private companies have the abilities to squelch speech from the public internet Nobody is doing that. Nobody is mandated to give you a medium for your speech. Go on the corner and scream all you want.
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by _jgvg 9y ago
the orientation is horrible. why is north up? just no.
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by _jgvg 10y ago
I'm looking forward for the summary of this post.
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by _jgvg 10y ago
Yes, they can, but you can only create "muscle memory" by practice. And practice includes reading cases, trying to figure things out and getting it wrong, discussing how to do it and so on. You can read a hundred books about codin
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by _jgvg 10y ago
I have an undergrad in computer engineering, and an MBA from a top-10 or top-5 (depending who you ask) school. I learned a LOT from it, even though my experience after my undergrad degree was mostly in business. Businesses, finance markets
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by _jgvg 10y ago
Maybe we should just add lithium to the water supply, although that would drive conspiracy theorists crazy! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1699579 "Using data for 27 Texas counties from 1978-1987, it is shown
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For only the second time in our history the ownership of The Economist changes(economist.com)
180 points by _jgvg 11y ago|143 comments
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by _jgvg 12y ago
Stallman's answer: "I am skeptical of advice from people who disagree with what I stand for."