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by cynest 14y ago
Maybe. The problem is that a year ago when this first came up the admin(s) resorted to homophobic name-calling. This doesn't give them much credit in the image control department.
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by cynest 14y ago
> (There's a whole bit in Snow Crash about that, actually.) Admittedly it was katanas in Snow Crash.
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by cynest 14y ago
From my personal experience this is an entirely plausible reaction.
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by cynest 14y ago
They are all 4 of lodsys' patents according to wikipedia.
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by cynest 14y ago
> no need to take it personal This sort of passive-aggression has no place in polite discourse.
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by cynest 14y ago
Which is not undergrad and has a significantly smaller emphasis on grades.
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by cynest 14y ago
Liability: the fault is with either software or hardware makers. Also fewer cases will exist due to increased reliability.
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by cynest 14y ago
Why single out unions? The same arguments can be made for any group of people with a vested in the status quo.
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by cynest 14y ago
Them and what army?
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by cynest 14y ago
Good. Early action will prevent this from being made controversial later on by groups who might see it as a threat (eg police unions trying to maintain traffic tickets as a revenue stream for departments).
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by cynest 14y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3791894
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by cynest 14y ago
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761013 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970945 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2766060
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by cynest 14y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450669
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by cynest 14y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=562014
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by cynest 14y ago
Can people start linking the previous discussions on these?
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by cynest 14y ago
Because missing launch windows hasn't de riegeur since spaceflight's beginnings?
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by cynest 14y ago
It implies that a drinking culture is important within the company. This tends to appeal to "bros" moreso than other groups and can be a major turnoff to most others.
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by cynest 15y ago
A blowtorch can open such a safe in <1 day. Depending on the encryption, cracking it in a year might be impressive. And that assumes they can prove it's even there.
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by cynest 15y ago
The problem here is that you have to convince people you're telling the truth. If there are any number of stenographic techniques at your disposal, and only way to confirm whether you're being honest is if the drive decrypts, then unless th
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by cynest 15y ago
How does one determine whether something is pirated in these cases? All the music I've bought in the past few months has been distributed to me DRM-free so there exists no difference between it and a pirated copy other than a receipt. To ma
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by cynest 15y ago
> Today’s high school seniors were born prior to the World Wide Web More like before mass penetration of the world wide web. I can't recall a time in my life where I've lacked internet access, and I've graduated high school.
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The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of his high school teachers(foreignpolicy.com)
631 points by cynest 15y ago|154 comments
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by cynest 15y ago
If this continues it may become a club 27 analogue. Though 27 is perhaps a much less random number than 69 in that regard since all three of those dictators had different causes of demise.
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by cynest 15y ago
> If Apple was doing business with North Korea would you flag any comments about the regime? Israel is not closed to Western investment. Apple getting this through did not require significant action on the part of local government. In t
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by cynest 15y ago
> True depression is knowing that not being is an option equally viable to being. There's a quote by David Foster Wallace that states it better: "The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out
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by cynest 15y ago
> I'll be slightly disappointed because there's something appealing in the possibility that the universe doesn't fit nicely into an equation. iirc, the Standard Model is a few pages of equations. Not nicely at all.
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by cynest 15y ago
> astrology Astronomy is the correct word here. Astrology is horoscopes and the like.
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by cynest 15y ago
There's a high transaction cost in someone filing a complaint against those, so it doesn't happen. It's quite a shame given that I've seen a few examples of videos taken down by actors with no connection. Eg Zenimax taking down a video rela
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by cynest 15y ago
Probably only increase the costs.
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by cynest 15y ago
There are a number of good science posts that make the frontpage. This is originally what kept me on this site.

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