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by bobbyi 17y ago
The provision seems like common sense. If you are going to have a minimum amount needed to be an "investor", why would that amount not be pegged to inflation (which is what the provision does)? What is the rational argument for having the
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Out of curiosity, how much further do you think he would have gotten? Do think usage of free software today would be 3x higher if Stallman were less abrasive? 10x?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Are you sure that was just put up today in response to the latest youtube counsel blog post? It does sound that way, but the statement isn't dated so I can't tell for sure if that is the "red herring" they are talking about or if this is an
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by bobbyi 17y ago
If they win the case, the amount of money they get will be highly related to how much "damage" youtube did to them. The fact that they found it valuable to have their content on youtube undermines their arguments that youtube is causing the
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by bobbyi 17y ago
So does this mean anything? Or is this what they would say even if they were really hoping to settle?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
His criticisms seem to amount to saying that he doesn't like this genre of movie. Complaining that a fantasy movie doesn't make realistic predictions about the future of technology is like complaining that a romantic comedy didn't have enou
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by bobbyi 17y ago
The main thing the calculator program seems to have over python is easy unit conversions. Also, I have to admit that python 2's default behavior regarding integer division is not what one expects from a calculator (I expect 3/2 = 1.5).
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by bobbyi 17y ago
His preferred calculator seems fairly close to using ipython which is what I would do.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Am I screwing PBS if I watch one of their programs and don't give a donation?
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by bobbyi 17y ago
You don't get to be a millionaire by throwing your money away on frivolous things like clothing for your upper body.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Because someone owns the exclusive rights to the Daily Show in the UK and no one does in Germany.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Also, the money that was spent didn't just go to extending his life. A lot of that money was spent on pharmaceuticals where he was an "early adopter". People like him covering the massive costs of developing those pharmaceuticals are paving
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by bobbyi 17y ago
If you do those 2 things in conjunction, I doubt you'd have to worry about people "stealing" your IP. And yet Google is potentially pulling out of China due to having its IP stolen.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
It would be more notable if they didn't diversify and bet the whole company on HTML 5.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
All of the posts on twitter don't come from some single source. There are millions of people posting things.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
"even if half of tweets were sent via text message that would still only be 1% of the text message traffic." Only if you assume everyone has zero followers (who receive tweets via SMS).
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by bobbyi 17y ago
They are important, but this one didn't really add any new information beyond the ones we've already seen.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
All of google reader is blocked by their robots.txt, exactly like the article is saying mahalo needs to do for their scraped content http://www.google.com/robots.txt
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by bobbyi 17y ago
x.org vs. x.com
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by bobbyi 17y ago
Well then, I guess they need to re-architect some of Flash Player. They've had more than three years to get this figured out.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
A bus that always manages to lose your luggage.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
If it's actually happening, you can find a more reputable source than the Daily Mail.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
I think this would be about strike six.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
They switched to that when there were complaints. Lucky people like the poster of this blog entry got to be google's guinea pigs so they could figure out that they should have that screen.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
I hadn't realized until reading the article that Google Maps on the Droid has multitouch now. I just tried it and it works great.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
"What’s there to loose except for the feeling of powah?" 30% of every dollar that goes through the App Store.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
The reason Python is such a joy to use is that it hasn't felt the need to be all things to all people. Those of us who use python are often coming from C++, perl, etc. and know all too well what happens to languages that try to add every fe
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by bobbyi 17y ago
It's not just about diversifying, but about allowing the companies you invest in to make their own decisions. I don't think anybody here would be happy about once of their investors trying to force them to delist themselves from google.
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by bobbyi 17y ago
That looks like about 13 infographics.

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