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by drcube 12y ago
Fair enough. I'm not a lawyer. Just throwing out ideas.
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by drcube 12y ago
Do they run on Android? Windows? Linux? My point is that they're locked to an ecosystem I'll never be able to leave if I heavily invest in. I minimize app purchases for this reason. I don't want my digital life to be tied to
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by drcube 12y ago
Couldn't you sue? Your home purchase was predicated on Comcast's word that they could service your new home. You require it for work. Now you've bought a home, have to sell it for a loss, all due to Comcast. I don't see
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by drcube 12y ago
I'm not going to pay $10 for an app I can't transfer to another device. As long as our phones are disposable so too are our apps. And I don't pay top dollar for garbage.
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by drcube 12y ago
There is, however, an infinite amount of information, which is basically free to copy and transmit anywhere in the world. So to the extent that our lives exist on the internet, we are already living in a post-scarcity world. And considering
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by drcube 12y ago
The fact that Uncle Sam is the ultimate rent seeker is beside the point. The difference between land and widgets is that widgets are continuously manufactured and sold. Once you sell me a sandwich, you can't take it back. It's min
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by drcube 12y ago
I don't know if I've got it wrong or the author does, but I think about it like actual rents. Landlords don't make money by providing a service or selling goods. They make money by sitting on something no one else is allowed
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by drcube 12y ago
I think you missed the point. Planets orbit in ellipses in the regular, 3D world.
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by drcube 12y ago
You mean "a scheme to deflate artificially high engineers' wages"? If you can't compete with foreigners working in your field, you can't compete. I'm concerned with the indentured servitude we're putting H
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by drcube 12y ago
"Pay it forward" means to grant a favor or gift on a random person, in remembrance of one who did a favor for you before. The idea is to initiate a chain of favors and gifts to brighten the world in general. It's a play on wo
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by drcube 12y ago
At this point MS hates Google more than Linux/Android. This doesn't surprise me at all.
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by drcube 12y ago
I long for a high walled cube. It's like an office without a door! I have the 4-foot high cube variety and people are always sneaking up on me from behind and my coat drags the ground when I hang it up.
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by drcube 12y ago
No. Apes (including humans) are more closely related to old world monkeys than new world monkeys are. When you are more closely related to monkeys than other monkeys are, most people would say you are a monkey. Including me.
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by drcube 12y ago
Cladistically, apes are monkeys.
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by drcube 12y ago
That's because they can't call themselves the equally medieval term "doctor". Even though they have "Juris Doctorate" degrees.
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by drcube 12y ago
I didn't want to see it but now I do . I imagine this is more PR than spinelessness.
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by drcube 12y ago
We have refineries on land, too. We just put fences around them. The ocean is a big fence.
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by drcube 12y ago
Yeah. The main benefit of digital technology is the ability to copy and transmit data freely. Nobody complains when the email I sent is still sitting in a folder in my mailbox. I don't have to hand write a second copy for my own reco
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by drcube 12y ago
> It seems to be a big loophole for the government to just go and steal whatever they want from you, before you've been proven guilty. Nevertheless, that's how it works in the land of the free. http://www.npr.org&#x2
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by drcube 12y ago
>I wouldn't have a mortgage if I was worrying about food, car fuel or job stability. Really? Mortgages last 30 years, are you sure your current level of income will too?
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by drcube 12y ago
Agreed. When FB Messenger asks for my location, or my contact list, I just click "don't ask again" and "deny". And I get to ignore all the furor over the new Messenger permissions my friends are freaking out about.
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by drcube 12y ago
Except for mattresses, there is simply no reason to buy new furniture. I'm an engineer, I had a house fire recently and will easily have the budget to buy new furniture for my house after it is repaired. But I plan on shopping at Goodw
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by drcube 12y ago
Is it even illegal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater? This isn't 1900. There are accessible, well-lit exit routes in every theater I've been in. Not to mention fire suppression systems, alarms, and the fact that you&#
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by drcube 12y ago
It was news to me when I discovered ancient Greece wasn't just white stone and marble everywhere. Almost all of it was painted bright, gaudy colors. In my opinion, it makes them more beautiful. http://io9.com/5616498&#x
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by drcube 12y ago
No.
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by drcube 12y ago
"Free as in freedom".
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by drcube 12y ago
It's not an "AR-15 lower receiver maker". It's a cheap CNC mill you can do an infinite number of useful things with. Should high quality printers be illegal because you can make counterfeit bills with it? Or is the poten
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by drcube 12y ago
I assume they're going after the manufacturers of safes, paper shredders and burn barrels, next?
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by drcube 12y ago
Isn't this just a cellular mesh network? How does it compare to wifi mesh networking as far as range, security and usefulness? I'd like to see more of these decentralized alternatives to monopoly infrastructure providers, I'm
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by drcube 12y ago
Not only does fact-checking take longer than blindly clicking "share", fact checkers are vastly outnumbered by blind-sharers. Of course the former is probably a big influence on the latter. One of the things that really impresses

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