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by avz 12y ago
Yes. Because secret court orders and censorship strengthen trust in the proper administration of justice.
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by avz 12y ago
Suppose you were right and it really was about jury impartiality. Why invoke national security? Quote from the article: > The super-injunction invokes “national security” grounds to prevent reporting about the case, by anyone, in order t
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by avz 12y ago
I'm genuinely puzzled by the central importance of debt in the lives of Americans (reflected for example in the importance of the infamous credit score which is something my country also has, but which barely anyone cares about). Imagi
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by avz 12y ago
Exposing your users to MITM attacks in order to encourage donations? Pure evil.
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by avz 12y ago
Brings to mind Aral Sea where the diversion of rivers for irrigation projects have led to the shrinking of the sea area with disastrous consequences for local ecosystems and communities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara
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by avz 12y ago
I'm absolutely astonished by the degree of egocentric delusion, arrogance and lack of self-criticism displayed by the author: * he smashes thousands of dollars worth of equipment because the producer's business model no longer fit
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by avz 12y ago
It's a misrepresentation to cast the account suspension as if it was a punishment for a crime. Google has the right to terminate a business relationship with partners who violate their terms and conditions and ignore their warnings. De
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by avz 12y ago
> [...] makes me willing to forgo the legitimate opportunities for anonymity, just to be able [...] [emphasis added] Yes. You 're willing to forgo anonymity. Now ask the others.
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by avz 12y ago
I haven't downvoted you and don't really understand why anyone would, but I do disagree with you strongly. I think you've failed to account for many vulnerable groups who could (and in fact have in the past) suffer as a resul
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by avz 12y ago
> "When a woman criticizes me, it goes to a different part of my brain than when a man on my team does. I get defensive really quickly." This point isn't stressed enough. Majority of people treat criticism differently depe
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by avz 12y ago
For a single robber it may be a bit far fetched, but sooner or later a tech savvy one will realize he can provide this as a service to other robbers to reduce his personal risk and scale up revenue. I think PDRM is a great initiative and ho
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by avz 12y ago
Fingerprints requirement sounds a bit ludicrous. Is this standard practice applied to other financial services companies? Capital requirement is misplaced: Bitcoin startups are not generally fractional banking institutions. Also, they opera
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by avz 12y ago
> If you are paying for the service it is not sharing, is it? Yes, it is. In sharing there is no implication that it is for free, "to share" means simply "to use or enjoy something jointly or in turns." Source: http:
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by avz 12y ago
I used to think taxis and hotels needed to be regulated to ensure quality and safety of the services. I don't anymore. It's pretty obvious by now that users have more trust in the sharing economy services like Uber than they do in
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by avz 12y ago
Sharing a ride or renting a property is a high risk proposition and humans have traditionally relied on trust networks and connections like families and friends to find good customers and providers. I think the true innovation of the sharin
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by avz 12y ago
Time complexity is essentially the expression for computation time as a function of input size. Before you can discuss it you have to decide how you measure the size of the input. What you pick as the size of the input may vary from problem
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by avz 12y ago
I'd risk the optimistic expectation that human ingenuity can work with such a state of affairs. Here's one example I can think of: if an interesting measure in a phenomenon follows some equation, we could find some solutions to th
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by avz 12y ago
> "Financial envelope"? You don't literally keep all of Microsoft's cash in a big envelope, do you? Why is he deriding the usage of the word "envelope" in this context? Doesn't "envelope" just
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by avz 12y ago
Fair point. However, for this specific event other news channels are good enough. More importantly posting politically charged stuff on HN may over time increase the incidence of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80
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by avz 12y ago
From HN guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports [...]. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by avz 12y ago
Growth is needed to lift people out of poverty, create jobs and opportunities and support wider range of social projects from infrastructure to space exploration. The burden we're putting on the resources of this planet is indeed very
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by avz 12y ago
Economic growth does not necessarily imply destruction of the environment. The growth rate refers to the rate at which value of products and services in an economy grows. The aggregate environmental footprint may in fact shrink or grow sl
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by avz 12y ago
They do age slower. There are two effects here. First, gravitational time dilation slows the on board tick rate deep in the gravity well. As you get out of the well your on board tick rate increases relative to the surface due to decreasing
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by avz 12y ago
Time dilation affects all processes. The astronauts age slower, though. The effect is a lot smaller in Low Earth Orbit. ISS is a mere ~423km above surface. GPS satellites are ~20,200km above surface. Here is the effect for different distanc
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by avz 12y ago
"Kinematics is a form of classic mechanics that studies the motion of points, objects and groups of objects regardless of the impetus for motion." Yes. But this means studying movement under the assumption that F=0. It has nothing
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by avz 12y ago
Right to be forgotten is completely unsuitable for the purpose. First, it only requires removal of the information from some search engines. Smaller search engines which have not been notified by the concerned person can continue to index a
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by avz 12y ago
You do have a point here. What I wrote ("The novelty is increased utilization through sharing of what used to be exclusive.") is actually not the core innovation but its consequence for society. The core innovation of sharing econ
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by avz 12y ago
> That's what I mean - most resources are shared. Most resources are not shared. In the old economy only special classes of resources designated to provide a service used to be shared, e.g. taxis and hotels. Now thanks to sharing ec
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by avz 12y ago
> It's a rental agreement, there's nothing fancy or new about it. The novelty is increased utilization through sharing of what used to be exclusive. Private property has a downside: it generally stands unused or underused when
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by avz 12y ago
I don't think "to share" means what you think it means. It means "to use or enjoy something jointly or in turns" (source: http://thefreedictionary.com/share ). This doesn't imply "for free&

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