akadruid

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by akadruid 16y ago
Surely the ethical way of dealing with negative reviews is to improve what you are doing, not to drown out your critics and ignore your problems?
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by akadruid 16y ago
tl;dr: he was doing something constructive but not making money, so he's decided to emulate a guy who sells "how to paste over online criticism" videos. If the writer is reading this thread: please don't. Your integrity and self-respect ha
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by akadruid 16y ago
At least the counselor got him a job. What is strange is that he apparently gave up on his job hunt despite being underemployed in his new position. I wonder at some of these stories I read where people spend months looking for work as if i
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by akadruid 16y ago
I think free movement between governing systems would do a lot to weed out some bad ones and make them all more competitive. Your big problem is of course geography - you couldn't, for example, allow tens of millions of badly governed peop
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by akadruid 16y ago
I can barely see the difference even after the explanation; but it's a beautiful thing to watch perfectionists creating a truly great tool, and making it free. They really are making the world a better place.
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by akadruid 16y ago
Hence cheap and effective justice being the improvement. Justice that benefits only one party is of course no justice.
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by akadruid 16y ago
In the long term, this actually bodes well for society. Previously, the reason for not collecting debt was due to the higher cost of legal action, resulting in people using a variety of methods from simple reminders and payment plan offers,
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by akadruid 16y ago
Many of the questions that confused the author are down to language or cultural issues I think. A "C Form" is a common name for a tax form in several countries, including India. Also short for concessional form. CA is likely Chartered Acco
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by akadruid 16y ago
It seems the https equivilent of this page is missing, so if you're running EFF's HTTPS-Everywhere add-on, you'll need to disable it via the Options button in Add-ons.
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by akadruid 16y ago
This still doesn't work. For the flattr buttons to be there, there must be mugs paying for the system. Those mugs are doing it becuase they think they are going to be taking money out - but, like any pyramid scheme, only the people at the
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by akadruid 16y ago
You're dreaming. There is no pool of millions of non-creators willing to jump through hoops and sign up for a recurring monthly for your article. And there never will be an article worth doing that for, and they will never join. The only
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by akadruid 16y ago
The perfect pyramid scheme - require all the marks to pay to get paid, and promise them other mugs will keep paying in. Of course no-one outside the pyramid will pay (we've proved paywalls always fail and donate buttons won't pay for their
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by akadruid 16y ago
The problem is that chatrouletter was a novelty. The bored teenagers are already moving on to the next thing. I don't even want to imagine what you'd try and sell to an audience of a few dozen exhibitionists.
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by akadruid 16y ago
tl;dr: converting the darker parts of the web into a viable business model is hard. Mind you, I'd say chatroulette's problem is not obscene content, but the fact that it's a fad for bored teenagers.
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by akadruid 16y ago
this article is a good demonstration of the all-or-nothing big-government requirements of high speed rail. In the two countries which have working, effective, high speed rail networks (France and Japan) it cost billions, took many years and
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by akadruid 16y ago
Of course it's different. We sell and support (very expensive) software on Linux and Windows. If our customers thought the Linux dev team could stop us releasing updates, they'd be looking to migrate to more reliable platform sooner rathe
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by akadruid 16y ago
This article bugs me a bit, since it seems to be a "Big Tech Hates Africa" article, whereas I think the reality is more "all large companies are spending minimal resources on poorer areas of the world". It certainly does make Africa look a
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by akadruid 16y ago
I enjoyed the article; I would also normally enjoy the images alongside it, but in this case I found them really jarring and the fact that the article does not even make any mention of why they are there which left me wondering if I'd misse
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by akadruid 16y ago
I've been surprised just how long "amateur" server rooms survive cooling failure. Mostly becuase the densities tend to be lower, but also becuse you just get lucky with the way they're built. At our current office we had a server room tot
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by akadruid 16y ago
I don't think this is workable. First off, it means that everyone requires a single, authoratative identity on the web, which search engines and content grabbers can reference. Second, there's nothing in it for the search engines/content g
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by akadruid 16y ago
Twitter is not a community. Twitter is a tool. A community can use Twitter, but I think describing spamming Twitter as destroying a community is disingenuous. The success of email, usenet and blogs/microblogs etc depend on their openness
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by akadruid 16y ago
Please stop caring. Its bad for your blood pressure. Seriously, it's only Twitter. Conflict, famine, and poverty are bad for the world, but Twitter doesn't matter.
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by akadruid 16y ago
Yes, it was a trademark dispute. I believe the same is true in Germany ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10096107.stm )
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by akadruid 17y ago
The travel times are unduly pessamistic. Australia is an edge case - the reason that travelling London to Australia takes so long is largely due to poor overland connections after you reach southeast Asia. You can travel by train from Lon