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by chwahoo 16y ago
That's a fair question. I think most -isms simplify complex systemic issues by applying a particular framing. Since this abstracts away aspects of the issue that don't fit frame but might still be important, -isms may fail to address the
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by chwahoo 16y ago
> Why not radical changes? I think the motivation for radical changes is based on the idea that we are stuck in a "local maxima" (of some "goodness of society" function) that gradual change can only optimize to some limited degree and t
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by chwahoo 16y ago
That most countries employ various mixes of policies generally fits with my thinking about how things should work. Bugs in the systems should be addressed through incremental changes. While I think countries shouldn't be run by strict adhe
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Regarding the police, I know that there is a least a subset of libertarian capitalists that would disagree with you. They seem to dislike the police and strongly prefer gun rights for protection of self and property.
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by chwahoo 16y ago
While parts of his story resonate and it fun to to hear people explain phenomena based on different ideologies, I've never heard an alternative to capitalism that sounded credible at a large scale. (Most any system could work at a small sca
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Was the original emailer telling Divvy that he won't pay $14 dollars for something that continues to have pop-up ads? Or was he saying he can't pay the $14 dollars (and the price was quoted on a pop-up)?
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by chwahoo 16y ago
You can always use your judgement - there doesn't need to be a policy of giving your product away for free. If you detect that the requests have become too frequent or you start getting many similar requests, its easy to respond with a fri
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by chwahoo 16y ago
As a Ph.D. student, I can tell you that the faculty I work around are very serious about teaching. Universities are sincerely in the business of education before anything else. That is what they sell. While some students may be more inter
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by chwahoo 16y ago
While I'd also probably prefer an android phone, the creator of this video seems quite ignorant of the legitimate reasons not to make buying decisions based on laundry-lists of features. Iphones seem to have the best "app ecosystem" at the
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by chwahoo 16y ago
That's a great point. The truly great works motivate derivative works and copyright doesn't play well with this. No work exists in a vacuum so locking up lots of our culture behind copyright will limit the space of ideas pursued. I've re
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I'm not sure what you are arguing. I was invoking the free market in support of blockbusters. People pay to watch big-budget movies in droves. The free market suggests the creation of blockbusters (particularly sequels) and not art-house
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Statements like this can frustrate both sides of the debate. Words like "theft" really consist of a cluster of related meanings. Copyright infringement probably satisfies some of them, but not others. I think your case would be better ma
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by chwahoo 16y ago
There are many people folks who enjoy the summer blockbuster more than an art-house flick. I would be pretty sad if the options in music, movies, software, and books became severely limited because the system could no longer compensate the
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Copying things has existed for a while (although it was never as easy as it is now). We chose to develop copyright despite this because we wanted to promote creation of works like books and music. I don't necessarily disagree with your lar
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Aside from attributing all this to the RIAA and the MPAA, I can see a line of thought that might move policy makers in this direction. As time goes on, an increasingly large slice of the U.S. (and world) economy is coming from non-physical
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Some retailers require you to start the checkout process find how how much shipping (and possibly tax) will cost. When I am shopping around for something, I'll often go partway through the checkout process just to get a cost I can compare
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Like many others, I'm not surprised by this post: of course devices will have different graphical capabilities and developers will need to take them into account for decent performance. These complaints scream out for a framework/engine bui
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Out of curiosity, did you read the full article? It does a great job in making the point that disease/not disease may not be the right question to ask (which is a good thing because it isn't straightforward to answer).
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I agree. The current "rocketfuel" setup requires a pretty invasive modification of your machine's configuration - I would only recommend it for VMs or dedicated machines. I really wish companies would offer launchpad hosting (although I b
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by chwahoo 16y ago
I think it's funny and effective. I'd have paid attention during the commercial and would have been aware of the message (tax amnesty). OP: I'm not sure what you mean by "this is not a spoof." Are you suggesting that you really find this
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by chwahoo 16y ago
Are you suggesting it hasn't?
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by chwahoo 16y ago
OT (but related): I pay for a 20Mbps connection in the DC area through a cable provider. On a number of speed-test sites, I only get around 6Mbps. I tried calling tech-support, but my representative went down a script asking me about clea
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by chwahoo 17y ago
In defense of "How to win friends and influence people", its title makes it sound more manipulative than it is. (Relatedly, it may not be the book the original poster is looking for.) Way back when I read it, I hadn't given thought to all t
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by chwahoo 17y ago
re: the stylus, I absolutely agree that a 3rd party stylus will do the job, I was commenting on the suggestion that stylus-based interaction is necessarily a symptom of bad interaction design. In fact, although it is not fashionable, incl
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by chwahoo 17y ago
I think Apple has been on a streak of releasing some great products, but I'm growing weary of Apple condescendingly telling people what they don't need (such as multitasking and copy/paste) and then turning around and touting those features
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by chwahoo 17y ago
This isn't legal advice, but software written by undergrads and not funded by the University is usually owned by the student.
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by chwahoo 17y ago
I got invitations about 5 days after joining (last night). It isn't useful initially (unless the people you want to communicate with are already in). I think you are right that google is taking the wrong approach with invites, but with a b
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by chwahoo 17y ago
Great! - this is a move in the right direction. I'm really hoping for a web version.
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by chwahoo 17y ago
The article isn't confused - he's using the SQL in the same way you are (in your first paragraph, anyway) - he's referring to RDBMS's. His point is that that many of the performance benefits of a KV/documentstore based db can be achieved i
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by chwahoo 17y ago
relatedly, there is a javascript library for event handling based on arrows: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/PL/arrowlets/

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