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by eurleif 14y ago
They lost a lot of traffic, and it started before ask.fk took over: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=400&h=220&o=f&c...
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by eurleif 14y ago
Precedent is not the same thing as constitutionality. How is that possibly constitutional?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Formspring does let you see someone's questions and answers without having an account if you go to the profile. I guess they could highlight some accounts on the homepage, but people mostly used it to ask their friends questions, so that wo
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by eurleif 14y ago
I've seen a lot of people bemoaning the loss of Google Reader's ability to see old items which aren't in the RSS feed anymore. Unfortunately, that feature can't be implemented as well without centralization.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Google Reader doesn't have ads.
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by eurleif 14y ago
The CCA isn't a software license issued to end users, like the GPL; it's an agreement contributors sign giving Canonical rights to their code. It looks like a less-restrictive alternative to copyright assignment, which the FSF requires for
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by eurleif 14y ago
There's presumably a sweet spot in between fixed costs and tiredness, and I suspect it's closer to 8 hours than to 4.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>By the same token, it's more efficient to hire one worker for 16 hours than two workers for 8 hours. Not necessarily. Being tired reduces efficiency.
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by eurleif 14y ago
But it's more efficient to hire 1 worker for 8 hours than 2 workers for 4 hours. The latter has more overhead in terms of training, etc. Why would an employer choose to do that?
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by eurleif 14y ago
What I want to know is, why the hell is Netflix faster than Xfinity's video service through my Comcast connection? I get minutes of buffering every time I use Xfinity. It's ridiculous.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>“could possibly make sense, but first I need to analyze the market and understand what exactly the importance of this company is.” That doesn't sound like it's being seriously considered to me.
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by eurleif 14y ago
What determines whether a price is sane or insane for a commodity with no intrinsic value?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Correlation is not causation. Maybe people who have enough free time to garden tend to be better off in general.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>Flash interfaces that likely 'worked', but had been designed by an alien with no comprehension of human cognition or interface design. How is bad interface design a problem specific to Flash? Surely you can create a bad interface with
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by eurleif 14y ago
My point was that it doesn't support the "technology is neutral" meme. A world with antibiotics is always going to be better than one without them. The worst you can do with them is make them less beneficial.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Huh? RSS couldn't be used to spread celebrity gossip, or news about a violent revolution?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Water is that way, sure, but the specific example I gave isn't an evil use of water. What about antibiotics? Your only example of how to cause harm using them is by not giving them to people, which just shows that when they are used, they c
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by eurleif 14y ago
It's not the antibiotics being used for evil in your scenario, it's the lack of them. It's like saying water can be used for evil by depriving people of it. That's not at all the same thing as a technology which really can be used for both
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by eurleif 14y ago
That's not the same thing as a technology which can be used for both good and evil.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>Even something generally considered beneficial like antibiotics causes problems if selfishly misused. What problems do antibiotics cause, besides lessening their own future effectiveness?
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by eurleif 14y ago
No one is forced to participate in a corporation. If you like freedom so much, why don't you think people should be free to choose to pool their resources, and to give some of their control of those resources up to the group's leadership?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Most ads are paid CPC, not CPM. So the advertiser doesn't pay until someone actually clicks the ad. And while it may be true that people who block ads would be less likely to click them, I doubt it's the case that they wouldn't click them a
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by eurleif 14y ago
Why would autonomy be important for moon mining, with a round trip time of 2.5 seconds? The cost of an operator couldn't possibly be significant relative to the other costs involved in moon mining.
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by eurleif 14y ago
As far as I know, it can only create a pointer of type A that actually points to a value of type B, not reference unallocated/deallocated memory. Nullable<T> could do that too if the language allowed it.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>Such quotas were also in USA. Are you sure about that past tense? http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/19/fears-of-an-...
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by eurleif 14y ago
How do you expect them to do that when the language doesn't allow it? Can you show an example of Go code which creates an invalid pointer?
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by eurleif 14y ago
Wow. "you can of course request a refund" in a press release actually means you can request a refund, but it will be refused? Just... wow.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>The expressible values for a pointer-to-T are, in theory, the following: A null pointer (pointer-to-0) A pointer to a valid instance of T A pointer to a previously valid, but now invalid because it was freed, instance of T A pointer to
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by eurleif 14y ago
Maybe not, but whether it's ok to eat animals does, and so does consistency. If the criteria you previously gave is really the criteria you believe makes it ok to kill/eat something, why aren't you willing to say it's ok to eat humans who m
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by eurleif 14y ago
There exist people who aren't braindead, but who don't have sufficient intelligence to have a concept of "being fair". I don't know where you got the idea that they don't exist. (You may counter that even the least intelligent person will g

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