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by drcube 15y ago
Twitter is censoring users at the behest of their governments. They don't have to. How long do you think it would continue to be illegal to mention Naziism in Germany if Twitter, Facebook, Google, et al, decided to boycott the entire countr
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by drcube 15y ago
The wiggle room is that maybe, when Twitter, Google and Facebook, and every other company that values free speech (if in fact they actually do) pulls out of their country, the citizens will realize how shitty their laws against free speech
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by drcube 15y ago
Ha ha, mine too. It says it's "adult content". There's a special place in hell for business owners who inflict Websense or any other method of censoring content on their own employees. If you don't trust me to use it, don't give me a comput
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by drcube 15y ago
It's getting less different over time. Let's go back a few thousand years and ask Plato. Suppose he says "Literacy is not as basic of a skill as speaking and remembering. Proof is that it takes speaking and memory as foundational skills to
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by drcube 15y ago
So you don't think kids should be taught to read if they don't have an interest in it? What about math? Computing is a basic skill on the same level as math and literacy. It's only getting more important. You don't have to be an aspiring au
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by drcube 15y ago
Regarding point 2: Advertising is an arms race. Nobody benefits from spending millions of dollars on advertising; they benefit from outspending their competitors. Everybody would be happier if they could outspend their competitors without s
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by drcube 15y ago
Law enforcement steals personal property all the time, with no recourse for the owner. All they need is an excuse to link it with an investigation. Even if nobody is ever accused of a crime, and nothing goes before a judge. Then later they
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by drcube 15y ago
When is Microsoft going to get the bright idea to incorporate everything anybody writes in Word or Visual Studio into their own IP portfolio? Or Adobe appropriates the copyright of any image edited with Photoshop? Here's to the crazy ones.
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by drcube 15y ago
Nothing. They call those "universities".
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by drcube 15y ago
And if one person buys a digital work due to piracy who otherwise would not have even known the artist existed, there is a benefit. Do you have any evidence that the costs outweigh the benefits?
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by drcube 15y ago
Off topic: The illustrator is apparently Andy Rementer, and while his name isn't familiar, the art very much is. Where else has this guy's work been featured?
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by drcube 15y ago
I like Android, but the back button is totally useless to me. It only works in the simplest of cases, namely when opening an app and not navigating beyond that, I know I can press the back button to get to the home screen. Otherwise, my wor
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by drcube 15y ago
$60,000 per online + print subscription, perhaps? http://www.ieee.org/documents/55589_ieee_sub_price_list_2012... If we get to just say what we're worth, I'm worth a billion dollars, and my employer is woefully underpaying me. The governm
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by drcube 15y ago
Well you start with all the matter and energy in the universe compressed to a point...
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by drcube 15y ago
Learn Python the Hard Way is available for free on the web, but you have to pay (a nominal fee) for the pdf or epub versions. So I'm not sure it counts as a "free ebook".
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by drcube 15y ago
GNU already chose Scheme as the language of choice for Guile, which is (intended to be) to GNU as a whole what elisp is for Emacs. So I could see emacs eventually being ported to Scheme. But not CLisp.
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by drcube 15y ago
Sharing information is the only way to advance human progress. I'm not religious at all, but I certainly consider sharing to be a fundamental aspect of humanity and an important right we should all defend and help to advance. Richard Stallm
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by drcube 15y ago
I think there's a business opportunity here, insulating companies from the risks of hiring in order to give them more time to judge the candidate. For example, a recruiter offers the company a skilled, vetted employee, with the promise of p
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by drcube 15y ago
It seems to me that measuring utilization is like measuring the coastline of Britain. The more accurately you try measure it, the more meaningless the question becomes.
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by drcube 15y ago
"Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on." http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
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by drcube 15y ago
"More laws!! Think of the children!"
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by drcube 15y ago
If it is decentralized and pseudonymous, who do you subpoena, and how do you find out who they are?
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by drcube 15y ago
"Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all." -- The Great Gatsby
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by drcube 15y ago
Your point is valid, but it doesn't rule out genetics. Our genes express themselves differently in different environments. So our changing environment could cause people on average to get fatter, while genes still determine who gains weight
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by drcube 15y ago
Another jab at CarrierIQ. Like it's part of the "Single Android Specification" or something. Just because some unscrupulous carriers like to spy on their customers doesn't mean everybody with an Android phone is a chump. I've been on Androi
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by drcube 15y ago
Atmosphere itself is plant technology. It wasn't here before life and it won't be here after. Earth WAS pretty inhospitable, life just overcame those hurdles. Chances are we can do it again. It won't be easy, cheap or quick though.
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by drcube 15y ago
A great tool I use for these kinds of annoyances is bugmenot.com. Type in newscientist.com and find "bmn@mailinator.com", password "bugmenot". 4 days left to read the article!
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by drcube 15y ago
"Even when CIOs promote 20- and 30-somethings, they often don't have loyalty to the organization, Mok says.... They will stay with you as long as they see certain things, including personal growth or personal value enhancement, whether that
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by drcube 15y ago
Maybe they're just waiting for the CyanogenMod port of ICS? :)
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by drcube 15y ago
This would be true if livestock ate human food. As it is they mostly eat things we can't, like grass, on land that is poor for agriculture. Feed corn usually just fattens them up there at the end, and I'm all for minimizing that disgusting

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