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by drcube 14y ago
Simple. Monopolies and duopolies shouldn't be awarded patents, which are just monopolies themselves. Why award monopolies to monopolies?
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by drcube 14y ago
Explain the Burning Man comment please. I'm involved in the local Burners scene, but I've never been to the the big one in Black Rock City. My wife is going this year with a friend, but she was gifted a ticket. So I would like to know what
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by drcube 14y ago
He quit his programming job , not programming. I code (not very well), but I don't get paid for it. I'm an electrical engineer by day and enjoy writing code as a hobby. I doubt I would ever want to wade into a software development gig. I s
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by drcube 14y ago
Class size doesn't matter: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/study-cl... (And I would argue huge college lecture halls, and courses such as the Standford AI class also illustrate that small class size isn't what it's mad
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by drcube 14y ago
Sigh... This isn't somehow okay just because it is legal.
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by drcube 14y ago
Thanks for your answers. I don't think it warrants the attack on their company, but this is the first really damning evidence I've seen against MU since they were raided. I just thought they were considered an easy target because of their C
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by drcube 14y ago
Next time you write some code, try this: #define ONE 1 #define TWO 2 #define THREE 3 ... etc. Then use the words in place of integers wherever you need them. Hell, mix and match. And tell me if you are just as productive as you would be sti
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by drcube 14y ago
http://www.thepimanifesto.com/ The Pi Manifesto has a few examples of pi beating tau (statistics, polygons, and complex numbers mainly), while also pointing out how silly and biased some of the tau examples are. However, the argument isn'
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by drcube 14y ago
Tau is clearer in some domains and pi is better in others. The mental overhead from switching between the two is too much, so just pick one already. And let the rest of us know, so we can go back to having a clear standard and not requiring
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by drcube 14y ago
This is simply ad hominem. I asked how the web service differed in specific ways related to copyright, not how the founders differed in general.
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by drcube 14y ago
So Google doesn't know there is infringing material on the web? YouTube doesn't have the foresight to realize users will upload TV shows, movies and music? If I recall correctly, MegaUpload gave copyright owners free reign to delete anythin
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by drcube 14y ago
If you say "retro 90s UI" it sounds better.
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by drcube 14y ago
How was MU different from any other cloud storage provider, or for that matter, Google? They let people store data on their servers and access it over the web from their browser. That's it. You might as well say "Fuck Tim Berners-Lee, if cu
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by drcube 14y ago
Facebook Purity http://www.fbpurity.com/remove-facebook-timeline.htm
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by drcube 14y ago
What does that have to do with ebook readers, mp3 players or laptops?
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by drcube 14y ago
Unix never worked?? Permissions on Android suck because they aren't fine-grained enough. Maybe today I want an app to have this privilege but not tomorrow. Maybe I want this feature that requires this permission, but not that feature that r
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by drcube 14y ago
A few hours later it worked on my work computer with XP. Still doesn't work on my home computer with Arch Linux.
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by drcube 14y ago
"Ever" is a long time. These parties are ultimately beholden to the electorate which keeps them employed. They'll stand by their corporate donors right up until the Pirate values seem lucrative enough or popular enough to affect their botto
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by drcube 14y ago
I don't think you meant "people" there. Maybe "labor"?
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by drcube 14y ago
Do you have any evidence of that? It's my understanding that both parties are in Hollywood's pocket. I feel like the odds are roughly 50-50 either way, which is why I picked a party at random for my example.
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by drcube 14y ago
Why would eliminating the EU require re-erecting trade and migration barriers? That doesn't make sense to me. Why not keep the good and throw out the bad?
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by drcube 14y ago
The way third parties tend to work in the US is, once their ideas become somewhat popular, one of the main two parties absorbs it into their platform (with the other taking a stand against it). So I think it would be a success if, for examp
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How do I avoid giving Microsoft money?(boards.straightdope.com)
1 points by drcube 14y ago|0 comments
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by drcube 14y ago
I'm 29. Almost 30. I never heard of this guy (but now I'll be reading what I can about him), but that "1982-2012" is kind of creepy. Rest in peace, Mihai. I look forward to you inspiring me like you have many other commenters here.
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by drcube 14y ago
I think there is a big presumption here that Microsoft will continue to dominate the tablet/mobile/ARM world like they historically have the desktop/laptop world. I don't see any reason to believe they will. They are grasping at straws here
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by drcube 14y ago
There is never a reasonable case that the owner's control should be restricted. If the internet cafe wants to lock down all their machines, then go for it. If Sony wants me to pay >$500 for a locked down machine that only they control
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by drcube 14y ago
I don't see why this is controversial, especially if you replace "users" with "owners".
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by drcube 14y ago
When I visit a random website and they already know who I am, just call me Ted Kaczynski. I'll be in my cabin in the woods.
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by drcube 14y ago
Then how in the world has the UK decided to extradite him to Sweden? Don't you have to be charged with something first? I'm a legal idiot, but that doesn't make much sense to me. EDIT: Nevermind, cousin comment said he is wanted for a secon
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by drcube 14y ago
Doesn't work for me. https://mightytext.net/app -> " Error in GetUserInfo: timeout" whether I'm logged into Google or not. Too bad. I like DeskSMS and I'd prefer something like it only free.

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