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by alexqgb 14y ago
Oh come on. Literally every business that relies on any kind of stock, real estate, or other form of property depends on the government for the security of that property. Yes, their survival depends - in part - on providing a decent product
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by alexqgb 14y ago
You know what industry is truly obsolete? The film industry. I mean the actual film-itself industry. Why? Because producers, studios, and exhibitors have nearly completed the move to all-digital pipelines. The product formerly made by Kodak
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by alexqgb 14y ago
In the early part of the scientific revolution, Francis Bacon said (in essence) "Man cannot do what has never been done, except by means not yet tried." There are two parts to this; the means and the ends. Succeeding means getting both part
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by alexqgb 14y ago
While it's true that there were no round-the-world chases in exploding robots piloted by naked sea nymphs in the earlier works of Sophocles, they did figure more prominently in his later plays. Scholars remain divided as to whether this was
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Aristotle himself lists spectacle as one of the essential components of drama, alongside other indispensables such as a plot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle) That's not to say that writers with poor plots don't resort to
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by alexqgb 14y ago
In other words, it comes down to intent (i.e. the difference between manslaughter and murder).
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by alexqgb 14y ago
RTFA. Or don't, and simply understand this: "the news", as referred to in the OP, is actually a subset of news in general, in the same way that fast food is a subset of food in general. The point is what while most people can easily disting
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by alexqgb 14y ago
That's not what it says at all. What it says is that there are really big, deep, important, and world-changing stories happening all around us, but you won't get them from what passes for news. What you will get is a fragmentary sugar-high
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Exactly. This article doesn't make much sense unless you read it carefully enough to understand that "news" has a very specific and limited definition in this context. Indeed, when it described the damage done by news, it notes an inability
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If you don't see any difference between advocacy (on your own dime) and literally handing a check to a person with regulatory power over your commercial interests, then you are well and truly lost to reason. The Constitution guarantees the
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by alexqgb 14y ago
I knew a woman who did white-collar criminal defense at one of San Francisco's most high-profile law firms. She heard "99 Problems" and thought "actually, those are very sound tactics."
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by alexqgb 14y ago
The OP is not to be taken seriously, thanks to deep ignorance about how currency works in general, and how bitcoin works in particular. In 1998, Paul Krugman described the fatal flaw that will inevitably sink any currency that includes it;
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by alexqgb 14y ago
The elegance of the Flat Tax idea is not the flatness of the tax, but the fact that it's a straight line tax. There's no reason why this essential feature can't be combined with a progressive (read: more humane) system by adding a gentle sl
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by alexqgb 14y ago
This seems like atrocious advice. Here's the bit that seemed especially misguided: "Ted may tell you that other team members made it difficult for him to meet his deadlines, that it's not his fault; at that point, you're likely to become a
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by alexqgb 14y ago
They don't give fig about playing with Glass. They care about money. It's a shake-down, don't you see? New technology emerges, gets a lot of buzz, and catches the attention of corrupt legislators, attracting "interest" in the way a successf
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by alexqgb 14y ago
It loads in the app, and there's a button that gives me the option to load in Safari if I want to.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Oh wait, I'm an idiot - of course this isn't your app that's showing the ads, because you don't have one. It's the QR app, which I downloaded just to try your service, and mistakenly thought of as yours. Sorry about that. Turns out that the
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Let's add "rent seeking" to the list of terms you've failed to properly understand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking You'll note that the defining characteristic of rent seeking behavior is the effort to avoid producing new and
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Scan for iPhone (the one they recommend on their site).
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> ... and nobody's Newton disappeared. More importantly, Newtons weren't distributed for free, shutting down the development of a nascent trade in handheld computers designed for sale.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
LOVE this, with one major caveat. I hate, Hate HATE the ads. It's a visceral level of rage that I find remarkable since that's not how I generally respond to in-app ads. They're just so very very wrong in this context, mainly because they
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by alexqgb 14y ago
The thing about Reader is that its appeal - while limited - was limited to a disproportionately influential segment of the internet. This made its shut down stupid for two reasons. The first is that RSS's well-established failure to go main
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Thank you. It never ceases to amaze me how much of the "criticism" aimed at copyright depends on massive distortion of otherwise well-defined words. Refusing to pay your rent to a property management company on the grounds that they're a re
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That's a really good point. I suppose that getting rid of the (insane) statutory damages would make it economically unviable to enforce the law at the individual level, and you could secure a healthy space beyond publisher's reach in this w
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There is nothing "outdated" or "obsolete" about content production. The issue is that technological advance has effectively stripped the business of the legal protection that it - like every other healthy business on the planet - depends on
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I set up my own domain (hosted by InMotion, who have fantastically good customer service) and run my email through that. My initial reservation was that I'd be relying on spam filters that were inferior to Google's. In practice, it hasn't b
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Uh, if you're going to cite the guidelines, please make sure you're not opening the comment thread by violating them. Specifically: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think some
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by alexqgb 14y ago
As Lessig (among others) has noted, "code is law", which makes politics and technology inseparable (case in point: PIPA/SOPA). What worries me are technologists who not only don't understand this, but think it's appropriate to "flag" discus
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Here's Evgany Morozov with a more thoughtful account of the cognitive limits revealed by the parent comment, which are functions of inadequate education, rather than deficits of intelligence or good-will. Expressing this in an insulting way
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Really glad to see Aeon gaining traction. Their editorial voice runs counter to the dominant academic convention that separates liberal arts and humanities from the hard sciences and mathematics. It's not about putting them together, so muc

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