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"In a world where all the obvious names are taken, finding a good name is a test of imagination. And the name you choose tells whether or not you passed that test." Then again, what you make of the name also matters.
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Rewards programs turn out to have been an extraordinarily shrewd way for credit card issuers to align customer's interests with their own desire to limit the power merchants would otherwise enjoy as the conductors of transactions. In o
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It's also important to recognize that "the reasonable expectation of privacy" can refer not only to expectations about the effect of physical barriers to legal intrusion (e.g. curtains), but reasonable expectations about what
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"it's illegal to upset powerful IP lobbies." Demonstrably untrue. See "Google / continued existence of" for a case in point.
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"So by this logic...the source code for any web browser, torrent client, media player etc. etc. should be subject to these notices because they can be used to infringe copyright?" No. And as the complaint makes clear, it is not be
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You can play a more complex version of that game using video of the vibrating strings on a musical instrument. Here's an especially good example: http://vimeo.com/4041788
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Giving up on ag is an extreme response. The more reasonable approach is giving up on categorically insane water use policies that actually encourage waste by (a) placing a trivial price on each farmer's allotment and (b) reducing their
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Given the massive bailout provided by the taxpayers - to say nothing of total de facto immunity from criminal prosecution - yeah, writing off the economy-chocking overhang from the credit bubble is the least that should be expected.
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You're not seriously debating the validity of the social contract with regard to banks that operated multiple interlocking frauds on such deep and massive scales that they just about wrecked the entire global economy, are you?
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This is especially true when your insolvency is the direct product of a criminal enterprise conducted by the lenders on such a massive scale that it threatened to wreck the entire global economy. In other words, my obligation to pay is co
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Quite often, this kind of detailed reiteration can be an important part of maintaining one's own knowledge. And making the effort to explain a topic well keeps one aware of what is and is not well understood outside of one's own,
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Exactly. And I'm not impressed with the way the "professionalism" police are so quick to condemn Torvald for one justifiably angry email while giving such a conspicuous pass to a sustained pattern of passively aggressive, mea
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Except the corporation didn't do anything. And actual, living breathing human made a deliberate and criminal choice. And that dude belongs in jail. Or rather,"those dudes". A good prosecutor would start at the bottom and work
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Repugnant? That's pretty severe language coming from someone who is being as...(how to put this politely?)...as economical with the facts as you are Seriously, why not save the outrage for cases where you can restate the case without
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Outside of split ownership, the word "sharing" becomes a bit of a misnomer. What Airbnb or Uber does is not sharing in any generally accepted sense of the term. That is to say, these are not co-ops in which the owners and the user
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"Thankfully Apple hasn't done this and hasn't made the MacBook a touchscreen device." Ha. Also, I can't wait until they do. Seriously, I've become so used to / enamored with the full touch interface on the
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Good point, though I think that few people paid that directly. From what I recall, base models have been $200 with a two year contract from the word go.
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In the last 13 years, they've delivered three new platforms: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. (I'm not counting Apple TV, since Jobs' "hobby" designation still very clearly applies). Each of these had extraordina
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Here's an elected representative (i.e. not an unrepresentative outlier) who wants to make it harder for black people to vote specifically and explicitly because they're black. http://fortressamerica.gawker.com/ge
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Apple tends not to lower their prices. Instead, they offer newer models will with more features at stable price points. If prices do drop (e.g. the 5s) it's because an older product is still being sold alongside a newer one at the stan
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In general, TV people have absolutely no idea what's involved with coding. Accordingly, they're likely to assume that it's much easier than it actually is, not realizing that their "simple" request may involve a fai
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Actually, not every business has schedule as their top priority. That's true of most R&D efforts, and it's especially true of creative endeavors, which tend to be (in NASA parlance) "discovery driven missions." It co
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>> "You would think then that the Republican party would be full of KKK members." No, because the Republicans are a national party and the KKK barely has enough members to populate a state fair. In other words, I would not t
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Um, that's not the definition of "slave". It's not even in the same ballpark as the definition of "slave". This is free advice, so you can take it for what it's worth, but if you've ever found yoursel
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Part of the reason that public transit is so bad is because it's having to compete with cars in areas that cars really don't belong. In cities where cars are not such a big part of the mix, public transit gets a lot better. And of
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Congestion pricing is a fee, not a fine. Again, there's a difference. Let's keep the conversation honest, okay?
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If somethings got to go, the obvious choice is cars. Indeed, that's what cities like London have aimed to do with initiatives like congestion pricing, which attach a prohibitively heavy cost to driving during the most congested times o
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"I'm not sure how racism worked its way into an article on health care." That confusion may be a product of poor reading comprehension. Notice that my comment was not a direct reply to the article, but one directed to a seco
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"In fact, you would be hard pressed to find any racism in the TEA Party or Republican party." Lol.
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Um, you may have missed the point. 1. The thing that distinguishes the values of the Civil Rights era reactionaries is that they're generally failing to transmit themselves from one generation to a next. So unlike the more egalitarian

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