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by astine 15y ago
"Sounds like someone who is tiptoeing right up to the edge of recommending a liberal arts education and then shying away. ;)" Emphasis on a liberal arts education, as opposed to a humanities education. A true liberal arts education is a
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by astine 15y ago
Your complaint seems just a little bit ridiculous considering that most Americans, yourself probably included, use computers made in China or made with parts made in China. In fact, it's probably easier to find and computer 100% free of pro
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by astine 15y ago
I liked your first comment better :) I'd like to believe folks when they defend RMS on things like this, but this isn't a first time offense for him. I used to have a lot of respect for the FSF and RMS but then I started reading their websi
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by astine 15y ago
Both Stallman and Phelps are willing to use the deaths of someone they dislike to promote their views. Both consider their own cause to supersede human feeling or basic practicality. Phelps is more extreme and his message less tolerable, bu
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by astine 15y ago
"Comparing Stallman to Limbaugh is unjust." I agree, but I thought that comparing him to Fred Phelps might be a little aggressive.
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by astine 15y ago
Stallman is like the Rush Limbaugh of the Free Software movement. It doesn't matter if he occasionally has a point (he does here,) his complete lack of tact and his small-mindedness tend to overshadow his message. He's right, Jobs' life wor
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by astine 15y ago
It's a good move. I remember joking with a colleague once about submerging a datacenter in a lake for the same reason.
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by astine 15y ago
"All of his demands are either directly related to his health or the moral causes that he champions." Did you read the same list I did? He requests to stay in somebody's home but specifies a list of foods he doesn't like and demands he be c
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by astine 15y ago
This comment really puts thing into perspective for me. Getting onto sites like TechCrunch and the like is useful for getting initial exposure, but it's no replacement for building a consistent user base.
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by astine 15y ago
Yes, yes it does. What if Wikileaks is taking especially large donations from powerful interests and chooses to censor its output as a result? To say that transparency only applies to governments is to miss the whole point of transparency.
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by astine 15y ago
"And you suggest he should be transparent with his sources. " Reread the grandparent's comment. He's not saying Wikileaks should reveal it's sources but that it should release its source material. As opposed to editorialize. As opposed to b
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by astine 15y ago
They did. Ever hear of the Zeppelin? They took off all the time in their hey-day. It's a myth that they were filled with hydrogen; the Hindenburg was only had hydrogen in it because at the time helium was not available in Germany at the tim
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by astine 15y ago
The GOP might be singing his praises, but the Democratic Caucus would be screaming bloody murder about the lack of trials. It's all politics.
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by astine 15y ago
I think he means Gaddafi, but he was killed by Libyans, not Americans.
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by astine 15y ago
Ben Ali was not shot in the head by an armed mob. Mubarak wasn't killed either. There was a stable transition in either case. The issue isn't that anyone sympathizes with Gadaffi, but that it calls into question the solidarity and stability
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by astine 15y ago
This article is in desperate need of an editor... or at least a simple proofread. There are a few weird formatting mishaps and at least a few sentences that don't make any grammatical sense.
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by astine 15y ago
"I must have been careless with my pronouns. I meant likeminded as in "think it's a good idea to assault 20yo girls who are peacefully protesting"." If that's what you mean, I'd scrap that whole sentence. As to advocating retribution; that'
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by astine 15y ago
"but I'm sure likeminded individuals are a little more aware of what could happen if you do something like that on camera in the 21st century." It doesn't have to happen on camera. All it takes is one person to take it on himself administer
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by astine 15y ago
Publishing the names of police officers and bankers seems to me to be a remarkably stupid idea. If people start getting beaten or attacked as a result of the events in NYC whatever support that protestors currently have will quickly dry up
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by astine 15y ago
One could make an entire PoliSci dissertation out of your comment.
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by astine 15y ago
Elon wants to be the Man who sold the Moon. Or Mars, as the case may be. Don't blame him. I want to be that man too.
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by astine 15y ago
The clever bit is that they are using taxi routes to predict traffic patterns rather than just looking at where the traffic jams happen. They've demonstrated that creating direct routes which correspond to taxi routes does much to alleviate
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by astine 15y ago
It's hard to make an apple-to-apples comparison here as private companies in the past decades have been forbidden to do what NASA has done. Not to mention, NASA's most memorable achievements were fueled largely through patriotic furor. I su
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by astine 15y ago
The way I remember it, the founding fathers weren't protesting the taxes, so much as the lack of representation. That's arguably wrong as well. A large number of American colonists (particularly in Boston; esp John Hancock) made a living
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by astine 15y ago
I think the draw of pacman is that it's really simple. (Actually that's the draw of Archlinux overall.) Pacman is fast, useful, and you can learn its feature set in ten minutes. Apt-Get is considerably more complex by comparison. Especially
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by astine 15y ago
"Am I splitting hairs?" You are, but let me split them further. Any expense can be classified as either a capital expense or a consumptive one. Expenses classified as one can usually, with a few logical contortions, also be classified as th
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by astine 15y ago
"Really? I can't say I read the comments comprehensively, but the main poster called her a 'bitch' a couple of lines in, and there was a lot of discussion about her breasts." Is not the same thing as targeting her specifically because she i
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by astine 15y ago
So, tl;dr for your link seems to be that people are attacking this woman, not specifically because she is a woman but because they believe her to be con-artist. I only spent a brief moment reading the comments but I didn't see a lot of peop
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by astine 15y ago
ProGuard doesn't really solve the problem for Clojure though, as most of the Core library is necessary for core features of the language to function. Dropping 'eval' support for Android targeting Clojure apps might work, but it hasn't been

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