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by detst 14y ago
This is what Turing_Machine is doing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum Offering something free doesn't make one immune to criticism and criticizing isn't entitled whining. This is fair criticism.
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by detst 14y ago
I suspect the answer is "significantly". It would have been better to post in the morning.
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by detst 14y ago
I considered that and I'll admit that I was being a bit lazy with my comment but I think it could be written in a reasonable way. Perhaps a license fee attached to any failed legal action. Or even limit to certain types of legal action.
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by detst 14y ago
"Sue us and your license is revoked" is quite a reasonable provision, IMHO. Edit: if you're going to down-vote, at least read my clarification below.
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by detst 14y ago
No. You should read the other comments before posting. DannyBee explains above: "It's about what happens when two people file patent apps for things they can both prove they invented ." If I steal your invention and patent it, you still ha
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by detst 14y ago
Stealing a definition from below: > Sexism definition: Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex. I'm not arguing that this isn't a terrible, unwarranted attack; I'm arguing against the dil
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by detst 14y ago
How do you know the motivation of this person? Every time one of these stories come up, someone tries to call other people out for rationalizing. It's not rationalizing, it's calling it as they see it: someone being an asshole. If you want
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by detst 14y ago
You might want to stop and consider who's "not participating in this conversation in a constructive manner". You've called him a "software-bigot", "troll", "jerk" and "asshole". You seem to be taking his valid criticism personally. I've re-
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by detst 14y ago
> And yet, that's what the law said. It wasn't the law[1] but rather a contractual restriction on surchages. This settlement with VISA and MasterCard removes that restriction. It doesn't apply to other companies like American Express. [
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by detst 14y ago
That's the same logic that results in people paying a huge markup on cables because it's only a fraction of the cost of the TV they just bought. $100 is $100 and $600k is $600k. Trying to put it in relative terms to minimize the cost doesn'
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by detst 14y ago
> Do you want all your neighbors and potential employers to know you've filed for bankruptcy? That's a fair point and I certainly wouldn't but that's really a different matter as AnthonyMouse pointed out. My personal opinion is that I d
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by detst 14y ago
> 99% of the public wouldn't know what to do with PACER 99% of the public wouldn't know what to do with the YouTube API[1] but the fact that it's readily accessible means the 1% can do interesting things for the 99%. Don't be so presump
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by detst 14y ago
But you've completely derailed this post. I think you could have raised awareness about this man while also keeping the discussion on the positive aspect of these questions being asked at all.
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by detst 14y ago
> I've been shocked to see how many geeks - including Linus, do not seem to understand the concept of maximum penalties. And I'm shocked to see how many people misinterpret those geeks. We don't believe he was absolutely going to end up
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by detst 14y ago
I've been more violated entering NFL games than going through airport security, on average. The problem is that the American people want to do anything about terrorists, crime or "for the children" at the expense of our civil liberties. I
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by detst 14y ago
I love HN for discussions like this when a security expert familiar with the Chrome architecture will jump in and break things down (good or bad). Increasingly I expect a contrarian at the top stating nothing but the obvious fact that there
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by detst 14y ago
I'd expect more intelligent people, which this community claims to consist of, to not react the way it has to the events, with nothing but hyperbole and sensationalism. Your first comment here on HN contains this: Even withi
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by detst 14y ago
> Getting rid of plea bargaining doesn't make the problem better He didn't say that and I hope you know the difference. Reform is desperately needed.
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by detst 14y ago
There are all sorts of unanswered questions but whether or not it affected his mental state is not among them. I'm angry about an unjust prosecution that should never have had the opportunity to cause this damage. I can't know if things wou
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by detst 14y ago
> Even so, these careless and unfounded words must have hurt tremendously, much more so than had nothing been said at all. It angers me to think that HN could have contributed in any way to the dark place Aaron ended up reaching. More s
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by detst 14y ago
I'm not challenging that it's a useful data point. I'm questioning why you couldn't resist the urge to close the tab if you're going to bother to offer feedback. Time is finite and it's a perfectly valid reaction but not if you're going to
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by detst 14y ago
It's interesting that you were so proud to judge a website by its slogan that you'd come here and tell all of us. It's one thing to have that reaction, it's another not to resist that urge and then announce to everyone that you judged the b
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by detst 14y ago
> And in all of this noise we've only heard a few whimpers about the systemic failings that have brought about this tragedy, with vastly more voices calling for specific heads to roll. "Calling for specific heads" is a perfectly reasona
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by detst 14y ago
Right but the root problem is that I can't take my Verizon phone to AT&T because of hardware incompatibility. There's not much sense in fighting for something that is largely irrelevant to most people.
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by detst 14y ago
This is the answer. Chromebooks are a buy-in to the web platform. That's why it's good for the consumer. It de-emphasizes the OS; users can seamlessly switch between Windows, Mac, another Linux distro, iOS, Android, etc. and stick to the we
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by detst 14y ago
No, this is him very intentionally posting to a public web site, wanting people to discover it, knowing that they would and now they have. Rather different from "she shouldn't dress that way..." for obvious reasons. Your claim (in another p
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by detst 14y ago
> But this is getting ridiculous and this sleuthing/snooping is uncomfortable. Maybe it is but it's pretty clear from the other posts in this thread (posted about the time you posted this) that this is the reaction he was expecting. Thi
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by detst 14y ago
> (and I wish it was possible to connect by SIP to google voice) There was a time when you could connect Google Voice to Gizmo5 (SIP) but then Google bought them and disabled that functionality.
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by detst 14y ago
A README is the absolute bare minimum for a GitHub project. Even a lack of code can get some interest in an idea. Someone landing on the GitHub page will reflexively look for the back button if they haven't seen the blog post. Great work!
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by detst 14y ago
I'm not going to argue that Google+ doesn't fit some definition of "social network". But what's up with the snarky comments? How about sticking to an argument, instead of making comments like "The only person who thinks otherwise is you", w

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