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by drats 17y ago
>What's the motivation for writing the article? Well, he managed to name-drop Stanford, MIT and Google in a short article with the nutritional value of cardboard. Everyone knows that after the first job or two flashing a ivy-league CV
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by drats 17y ago
This whole post was quoted in the earlier article on this that made the front page so it contributes little other than opening up the debate again without any framing.
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by drats 17y ago
Look you aren't "genuinely curious" you are being a total wanker. Wiktionary definition: "A specific act committed in violation of the law." Wikipedia (the sentence before you earlier nitpick quote): "Crime is the breach of one or more rule
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by drats 17y ago
You could have saved yourself a load of typing just by looking up the definition of "traitor" in the dictionary. By the way, while you are at it, look up "strawman" also. To Stallman he is a traitor to the ideals and helping the enemy (see
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by drats 17y ago
I am more worried about the grammatical mistakes I see in my post than your objection. Why? Well I would hope that if we were talking about something else and I said "convicted killer" you wouldn't fly into a exclamation marked rage over th
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by drats 17y ago
To extend your a) a little, Stallman has every right to be suspicious of a company which has; deliberately targeted GNU/Linux in the past and said it's coming after it, said GNU/Linux infringes patents, is a convicted monopolist in the USA
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by drats 17y ago
But the article is at -1 on such a scale, so I am a few steps ahead. You can't just "win" by bludgeoning your opponents with thousands of poorly written words. Some things do need to be laughed at and ignored.
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by drats 17y ago
I am not a regular here, and not a coder nor business person, but isn't the whole point of Y-Combinator to find a place between $250k and $0? I.e. to let 20-somethings build their prototype on a shoestring? I mean the "if you can't code, ba
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by drats 17y ago
I am not going to read thousands upon thousands of words containing constant use of the n-word, extreme arrogance and purple prose.
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by drats 17y ago
Ah but the thing would be so big that the space debris problem would have to be dealt with first or it would not be practical. And what better way to deal with space debris than to make the system capable of directing microwave and laser en
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by drats 17y ago
Yes, but the windmills don't get you a 1GW energy weapon in space.