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by arebop 11y ago
This is like opposing software because it is "copyrighted generally useful technical information". You should rather oppose patentability of life, or advocate for a hack analogous to copyleft, than oppose the technology.
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by arebop 11y ago
When I visited Argentina a few months ago, I saw remarkably many gold and silver shops in BA and elsewhere around the country.
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by arebop 12y ago
Miniscule ATM fees, and wherever there's a network connection, there's an ATM. Maybe someday, smart contracts (but AFAIK today they are only used for toys).
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by arebop 12y ago
Probably paranoia, unless that large company was a competitive cloud computing business. The TOS [ https://cloud.google.com/terms/ ] has two sentences that pretty well eliminate any risks about the use of data and it als
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by arebop 12y ago
Sometimes slow is forgivable if things are fun. For example, I enjoy walking to the farmers' market, though it would be faster to order food for delivery. But I don't enjoy driving, parking, and picking packaged goods from a wareh
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by arebop 12y ago
People can and do sue Google all the time for violating laws and their own policies for Gmail. Turns out they rarely have a legitimate case, but the point is that Google is not unaccountable except in the imaginations of cynical paranoiacs
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by arebop 12y ago
I guess that would raise costs to 6320/435 = 14.5x. At $1.6 million per seat [ http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/how-much-does-... ] you could buy congress for $10.1 billion. The federal budget
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by arebop 12y ago
I see discussion in this thread about what makes sense or seems reasonable, but no empirical observations. Two examples that come to my mind would be acetaminophen and coral snake antivenin. The former is widely available as a generic, the
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by arebop 12y ago
I think the 64k RAM perhaps refers to the QBasic module size limits [ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/45850 ].
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by arebop 12y ago
I did something like this in college, and I was thinking semantic annotations would be an editorial pass like copyediting. These days you'd probably let some ML system take a crack at it before using human effort to bring the quality u
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by arebop 12y ago
Google alumnus Kenton Varda has https://sandstorm.io/
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by arebop 12y ago
"Such holes do not undermine the fundamental conclusion that humans are warming the climate, which is based on the extreme rate of the twentieth-century temperature changes and the inability of climate models to simulate such warming w
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by arebop 12y ago
If you are a company that is rarely at fault, then it would be great to be able to separate risk from fault and take the customers that your competition is overcharging.
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by arebop 12y ago
I disagree with the characterization of SF as forward-thinking. There are many people with big ideas and willing to undertake risky endeavors, but there are also many people who vehemently resent "techies." I think most SF citizen
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by arebop 12y ago
Canaries are not well-settled in law [ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq ].
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by arebop 12y ago
I remember that this idea was tried for music in 2007 and it took a few years for courts to wind up with a fairly nuanced legal landscape for doing this in the U.S. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v.
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by arebop 12y ago
I suppose by "internet" you mean "web" and in particular the fundamental problem you see is that LaTeX assumes the input contains everything needed for the final output, whereas hypertext on the web can be remixed in an
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by arebop 12y ago
Private companies such as traditional unionized(?) maid service organizations shouldn't be trusted to provide a social safety net either.
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by arebop 12y ago
* working hours: but this time around, the market for piecework is much more competitive; just look at the lyft/uber drivers for example. * health care: realistically, health care costs for poor people are born by society in any case.
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by arebop 12y ago
https://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ ?
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by arebop 12y ago
You can always choose "Black Car" (the original Uber offering). They have all the traditional livery bonafides, licenses, etc.
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by arebop 12y ago
Here's what I do: Work at a company that encourages/allows you to do free software development. Then you only have to write proprietary code that's not generally-useful anyway; no conflicts!
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by arebop 12y ago
Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy for your bedroom or can the government freely search that too? Does your answer change after you hire a housekeeper (or housekeeping company) to dust your furniture and put away your socks?
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by arebop 12y ago
So cloud companies that want to preserve user's rights w/r/t to user data and doing email should not be able to do spam detection? Should they be able to adjust the markup in HTML emails such that the composition of emails in
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by arebop 12y ago
Not really. Your question is reasonable, but the real point here is that Comcast is not remotely competitive with Google Fiber. If Google Fiber were a loss leader or otherwise levitated by Google, then this would be a disingenuous compariso
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by arebop 12y ago
This wouldn't be a very interesting story if the answer were "yes." Whether Google or Toyota manufactures a self-driving car with manual override doesn't matter much from the point of view of a typical citizen or someone
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by arebop 12y ago
I think you are wrong. Google's current business requires that they are able to match your interests to ads. Contrary to popular belief, it has nothing to do with selling you out to advertisers and it doesn't even strictly require
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by arebop 12y ago
It's competition that is driving cell phone development, not a profusion of many thousands of government-granted monopolies over aspects of each phone.
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by arebop 12y ago
Segregation by use into residential/commercial/industrial zones is a characteristic of suburban rather than urban planning. An alternative to zoning by use is to zone by intensity or pattern of activity. You can consider externali
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by arebop 12y ago
LaTeX is good if you want something typeset well, and either you want to use free software or you want to version-control the document. Customizability and control are really not hard to achieve in LaTeX. That's not to say that it&#x27

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