aapierce

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   by aapierce 11y ago

   That's because the library is funded by taxpayers – it doesn't need the money. How would you feel about a government-sponsored search engine? I think China has one of those.
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   Open Standards Are the Worst (Sometimes)(bloviations.net)

   1 points by aapierce 12y ago|0 comments
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   by aapierce 12y ago

   > You pay for cable TV but they sell you to advertisers. That's not quite right. You pay your cable provider for television service. The cable provider pays networks for their content (the networks are the "suppliers" in
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   by aapierce 12y ago

   What about the DNA tied him to the crime as opposed to the just the crime scene? The article doesn't really go into that. If they're just comparing the DNA that was left behind at the police station to DNA they found at a crime sc
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   by aapierce 12y ago

   I dunno, Instagram did pretty well for itself, despite being an (iPhone exclusive!) app at first. For a while, they didn't even have a web interface for viewing images, much less posting them.