codyrobbins

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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Yeah, I was wondering the exact same thing about copyright. Given the current state of copyright law, it seems like it might be of dubious legality to take a carefully engineered and manufactured part and duplicate it at the press of a butt
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Well, exactly my point was that other sites tend to show lower prices that sound great but that don't actually exist. Did you actually purchase the fares at that lower price, or just price them out? Every time one of those other sites has s
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
The entire time I was reading this article I was wondering just what kind of data Cory Doctorow could have that is so important as to require this kind of thought be put into its encryption. Does he have access to some sort of nuclear secre
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
As Francisco d'Anconia would say, 'check your premises.' Your argument is predicated on the assumption that there are billions of people on earth not capable of living the life they imagine. Exactly Rand's point is that this assumption of y
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Yes, everyone's is: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=iphone+activation+server .
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Speaking of how close is too close, I've never understood why anyone uses sites like Farecast or Kayak or Expedia at all. I've been using ITA's QPX directly for years — it's at http://matrix.itasoftware.com . As another commenter mentioned
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
Aha… an answer to my previous question! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=573730
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by codyrobbins 17y ago
When Lawrence Summers resigned I was highly disappointed about the entire incident, as it seems no one can question, with good intentions, generally accepted facts about gender equality in the interest of the truth, rather than what might b
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Ask HN: Short list of the best hacker/entrepreneur/startup-related meetups to attend in NYC?
5 points by codyrobbins 18y ago|1 comments
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by codyrobbins 18y ago
Perfect, that's just what I was looking for. Thanks!
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by codyrobbins 18y ago
Accept my apologies -- I honestly didn't intend that reply to come across as mean-spirited, but I guess it did. I just feel like judging a person just because they use a particular turn of phrase is kind of awful, especially when, as the ar
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by codyrobbins 18y ago
Huge pet peeve. I think less of a person when the perfectly legitimate use of 'literally' is a pet peeve of theirs. If you read the article you would understand how there's nothing improper about the usage. If you knew anything about human