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by boboblong 14y ago
(Disclaimer: I have a "bitcoin net worth" of about 10 BTC.) The first thing I thought of when I discovered Bitcoin was micropayments. I can understand the comparisons of Bitcoin to a pyramid scheme, but I don't think they're valid. A better
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by boboblong 14y ago
When people speak of "abstract math", they generally mean mathematics, because they use the term "math" far too loosely. In a very real sense, a person can be taught to "do math" all the way through Calculus III, Linear Algebra, and even Di
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by boboblong 14y ago
Most do.
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by boboblong 14y ago
>Gender is something that occurs on a spectrum, but most of the world is still trying to pretend there should only be two boxes to divide us all into. It might be technically true that gender occurs on a spectrum, but it's also true tha
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by boboblong 14y ago
>If one look at university education, women dominate the class room in every areas of math except one subject (abstract math) In other words, women are better than men at complex arithmetic, but men are better than women at mathematics.
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by boboblong 14y ago
>You must include our content, and you must pay us for it. Where are you getting the first part from?
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by boboblong 14y ago
But it's Google who's making a big deal out of this, not the publishers. They could have just delisted the publishers without a peep.
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by boboblong 14y ago
So, in other words, the posters defending Google are being totally disingenuous when they claim that Google couldn't care less about these petulant little publishers and that the publishers need Google far more than vice versa. Apparently,
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by boboblong 14y ago
1) If someone wants Google to stop displaying a one-sentence excerpt from their page, Google should respect that. 2) I never said that indexing should be opt-in. I said that the use of excerpts should be opt-in. 3) I should think that someo
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by boboblong 14y ago
There's a difference between linking to something and using an except from a published work without permission. (Yes, it would be fair use in isolation, but not as part of an automated, systematic process that's part of a commercial enterpr
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by boboblong 14y ago
>The debate is centered on Google News. As far as I know, News is one of the few services where Google haven't, don't and won't show ads. "Systematic clipping of one or two sentences [...] for the purpose of providing an ad-free overvie
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by boboblong 14y ago
>The crux of the matter is that you're missing the newspapers motive. They don't want Google to ask their permission, they want google to pay them, which is a huge difference. They DON'T want google to ask for their permission and then
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by boboblong 14y ago
"That's a strawman; the bots never indicated intention to read. They indicated (via `User-Agent' header) intention to index content and got HTTP 200 OK response to that." The publishers aren't objecting to being indexed. They are objecting
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by boboblong 14y ago
Here are a few points to consider: 1) The notion that the systematic clipping of one or two sentences from every news story you can find on the Internet for the purpose of selling ads is "fair use" is totally absurd. 2) The "robots.txt" arg
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by boboblong 14y ago
I'm sure that maintaining your account is part of the original understanding too. Just for the record, I think that anti-circumvention laws are absurd, and that EULAs aren't worth the RAM they consume. But I also think it's childish to buy
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by boboblong 14y ago
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
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by boboblong 14y ago
>This is saying I cannot get my content back (content I PAID for) without a CC on file. You didn't pay for a book in the abstract. You paid for a DRM-protected file, and you got it.
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by boboblong 14y ago
"The far bigger danger is that the eBook reader is a device running on integrated circuits and battery, which will break in only a couple of years and those B&N servers will not be online forever (I would be quite surprised if they are
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by boboblong 14y ago
You're simply wrong about gender in Western society today. "As a man I never have to worry about going to the gas station at night because I might be raped." From the Wikipedia article Gender and Crime: "In 2004, males were almost 10 times
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by boboblong 14y ago
I can see white privilege, but male privilege is pretty much a joke. Women have all the advantages, and even before the women's rights movement men were only given certain advantages because it was necessary for group survival. In the 21st
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by boboblong 14y ago
6) Considers "social conservatives" to be lower than dirt, but would like nothing more than to control what everyone does, says, and thinks to make sure that no one's feelings ever get hurt
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by boboblong 14y ago
There's nothing more nauseating than listening to a member of the most privileged, pampered, self-deluded group to ever exist--i.e., a white, middle-class woman--spew vitriol over imagined oppression.
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by boboblong 14y ago
Modern standards are despicable. The fall of Rome was a catastrophe.
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by boboblong 14y ago
I am racist and sexist and I'm very confident in the quality of my understanding of the world compared to that of egalitarians. I strongly believe that the present received wisdom in the West regarding race and sex will be viewed in the fut
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by boboblong 14y ago
You said, "Even if there is some genetic difference, it seems clear that the vast majority of the difference is cultural and not genetic." I simply pointed out that this is not clear at all.
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by boboblong 14y ago
My position is that a 100% culture, 0% biology explanation for group differences is highly unlikely given the fact that statistically significant biological differences do exist between "races" (groups that were geographically isolated from
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by boboblong 14y ago
That's not at all what I'm arguing. Nice strawman though.
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by boboblong 14y ago
"Even if there is some genetic difference, it seems clear that the vast majority of the difference is cultural and not genetic." This is just a rephrasing of the original baseless assertion. The relative contribution of genetic and cultural
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by boboblong 14y ago
My comment wasn't sarcastic and I'm not interested in evangelizing.
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by boboblong 14y ago
As a geek, believe me, the feeling is mutual.

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