ewillbefull

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by ewillbefull 12y ago
You going to have to come up with a better defense; the "it's just a different culture" and "you wouldn't understand" and "our values are different" does NOT insulate you from criticism. Your 'ba
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by ewillbefull 12y ago
> The law isn't about squelching free speech, it's just trying to keep this information from being so easily available. You're just mincing words here. There are profound speech arguments to be made when someone is coerced
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by ewillbefull 12y ago
If you think about it, it's pretty much the same thing as twitter, except the social graph is built more implicitly. In exchange for a larger selection of relevant content, you have to sift through more noise. But it probably feels bet
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by ewillbefull 12y ago
No, but you should be able to create Wine.
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by ewillbefull 12y ago
The problem with that, IMHO, is that payout is always for the previous month, so if they ban you right before payout, they're taking ~2 months worth of ad revenue from you. I don't understand how 3 weeks before payout is not enoug
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by ewillbefull 12y ago
Can GNU units or anything like it accept a string such as "100F to C" and understand what I'd like? If so I'd love to use that instead.
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by ewillbefull 12y ago
Funny; back in 2010 this exact thing happened to a company I worked at. The day before payout (for the previous month ) our AdSense account was banned. So we lost 2 months worth of ad revenue. They completely ignored all of our emails and
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
The conversation you're talking about is always happening, on IRC channels and mailing lists where work is actually discussed and merit trumps speculation.
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
If what you're saying is true, democracy is worthless. Decreasing the amplitude of political discourse would have no effect on the ignorance of the general population and their lack of skepticism and poor decision making. It would just
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
The most money does not win, the most votes does. Advertisements, books, DVDs... do not translate into votes. They are a part of public discourse that can be as easily celebrated as ignored.
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
This is very much a speech issue. Citizens United overturned provisions in BCRA which prevented corporations (which happens to include unions and non-profits) from speaking about a candidate 60 days before an election -- in the form of ou
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
Citizens United and other campaign "finance" rulings are poorly understood by the public still today. Most Americans probably still believe Citizens United had anything to do with contribution limits, or stating "money is spe
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
> There is a tendency for something to seem "easy" or "obvious" after the fact, but this is ignoring all the insight, effort, and risk it took to find that initial successful path to the solution to begin with. He car
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
I used to know people who performed these types of DDoS attacks. Usually it was because they were hired to do so by a competitor. Every time they would claim to demand a ransom, although they didn't expect for it to be paid. It just
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
Didn't godaddy recently seize a mexican protest website because ICE asked them to?
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
ICE/DOJ have been committing all sorts of nasty prior restraint. They got away with domain seizures against innocent websites simply accused of hosting copyrighted content. Over a year later they return the domains and don't even
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
I truly hope you aren't an American; having the right to offend others is a good test of whether you live in a free society or not. And twisting legal justifications to fit your perspective of what's okay is even more messed up.
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
To be fair, most of the downturn you see starting in Feb is due to this issue, it just came to a head when bankruptcy was inevitable. Not really a blip.
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
It's hard to overstate how much of a bad apple MtGox was. In 2011 they were hacked causing the first huge bitcoin crash -- probably still the largest crash ever in bitcoin's history. Yet because they had the most reserves, people
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
If mtgox recovers there will not be a crash, the price of bitcoin will skyrocket as people scramble to withdraw BTC by selling USD, since USD withdrawals are still pretty much impossible.
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
> and that simultaneously raised the number of transactions allowed in a block so that more could be processed Source? I don't believe the hard limit in blocks has ever been changed; bitcoin's devs are currently struggling to c
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
There is no evidence Disney is canning movies because they won't be able to profit from them 60 years from now. They are not thinking that far ahead (because they can't); you are deluded. You keep bringing up fair use, but that do
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
There are no business models which depend on a revenue stream existing 30 years from now to encourage the creation of works. In fact I can't think of any business models that are dependent upon such lengths of time; patents don't
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
The "indefinite" is not necessary in any of your points. What tangible difference in incentive exists for creating new works if your protection is 60 years or 1000 years after you die? Copyright is a contract between creators and
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
Nothing you wrote tries to justify indefinite copyright protections.
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
The distinguishing factor should be how the government protects net neutrality. Should the FCC have a limitless authority to regulate the Internet, which they happen to apply to net neutrality for now? Or should the FTC have authority to br
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
The only thing that needs to be enforced is anti-trust law. Monopolies are what give ISPs the ability, and perhaps the incentive, to filter and editorialize the Internet. The FTC should be involved in defending consumers against those behav
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
Yup, they can block your domain from embedding if they want.
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
Are near-block-headers a likely improvement or would they make this vulnerability worse?
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by ewillbefull 13y ago
Wouldn't the pre-render based on useragent be penalized because Google doesn't like being shown pages differently than non-Googlebot useragents?

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