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It's not my fault your business model sucks.(sob.apotheon.org)
14 points by apotheon 17y ago|46 comments
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My Dad, the phone phreaker(chipsquips.com)
4 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
Okay, fair enough. Thanks for clarifying.
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by apotheon 17y ago
> No, it's because it'd be stupid. Since when has stupidity disqualified legislation from being passed into law? > A consumer is free to discriminate by whatever criteria he wishes when purchasing goods, the employer is not allowed
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by apotheon 17y ago
I don't see where you get the impression that I'm advocating for (solely) taking your "passive" approach, either. Against what, exactly, are you arguing? Is there something I actually said to which you object? Are you assuming for some r
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by apotheon 17y ago
You must not drive much in places where the effective speed limit is higher than the posted speed limit -- which, in my experience, is almost everywhere . If you drive the speed limit or less in other than heavy, slower than usual traffic
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by apotheon 17y ago
It is much easier to identify what it is not than what it is. One could even cheat by claiming that anything is "not zen".
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The Pirate Bay is back with a vengeance (or: rethink your business model)(blogs.techrepublic.com.com)
1 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
I suppose it probably never looks like oppression to people who aren't being oppressed until a bunch of people not in the original oppressed class die. (I was going to say "until someone dies" until I remembered all the people who died for
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by apotheon 17y ago
Isn't it "oppression" when government is the bully? You probably don't see it as "oppression" because you disagree with some part of the ethic that drives them to fight. I'm just guessing, though.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Is that self-referential?
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by apotheon 17y ago
None of what you say Craigslist did wrong obviates the importance of recognizing what Craigslist did right . It seems that what it did right has proven more important than what it did wrong in this case, in fact, further attesting to th
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by apotheon 17y ago
Who said anything about "extrapolating from 'it worked for Craigslist'"? I didn't say "Some of us have been trying to get our bosses to copy Craigslist for years!" What I said was that some of use have been aware of such principles for ye
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by apotheon 17y ago
On the other hand, it was a summation of Voltaire's perspective on freedom of speech.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Censorship doesn't have to be government-run to be censorship, and in some cases (such as when a privately run Website's policy says "no swearing or your posts will be deleted") it can even be a perfectly acceptable practice. I don't think
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by apotheon 17y ago
> The average person isn't likely to have the opportunity to write an editoral for the Wall Street Journal The average person isn't likely to write as well as that article was written. > a small minority of anti-reform fanatics hav
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by apotheon 17y ago
There is a difference: 1. Demonstrating in front of the store and forwarding boycott emails targets consumers, trying to get enough pressure aimed at the Whole Foods founder to get him to recant or shut up and stop contributing to the deb
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by apotheon 17y ago
These two concepts -- that many people are ignoramuses, and that more convincing evidence might help -- are not exclusive of each other.
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by apotheon 17y ago
My biggest complaint about this is that it's going to give many people who don't actually help traffic, and just drive slowly, feel self-righteous about their driving habits. Yes, in some circumstances this driving style can help traffic
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by apotheon 17y ago
Nice use of "peloton".
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by apotheon 17y ago
I have had to commute on two of the top ten worst rush hour stretches of highway in the country (and they're within a few miles of each other in southern California, on the 91 and I-10). Noodle is exactly correct that such driving "culture
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by apotheon 17y ago
That too.
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by apotheon 17y ago
That's not "zen" -- it's artificial regularity. Zen would be driving at what feels like a natural speed, only adjusting that when circumstances dictate, and "letting go" of your attachment to forward progress when something stands in your
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by apotheon 17y ago
In other words, yes -- you're saying I'm doing things in the wrong order, and I shouldn't care whether something's on HN before I decide whether I want to submit it, dammit.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Do you not find the notion that humanity is full of ignoramuses "sad"? Gaining advantage because the rest of the market is populated by idiots doesn't make it any less sad that everyone out there is an idiot.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Agreed. That doesn't dispute what I said, though.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I thought he looked like an organized crime thug in court on a murder charge.
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SCO v. Novell appeal: $$ from Sun deal is Novell's; rest for jury trial(groklaw.net)
4 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
Since when is the fact people walk in circles when they don't have a reference point "new research"? I learned that in the Army in '94, and I learned it in the Boy Scouts in the '80s. Maybe the research is new, but all it does is corrobora
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by apotheon 17y ago
I think Google passed the point of no return shortly after it went public -- because public corporations are, almost by definition, prone to "evil".

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