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by fab13n 14y ago
I keep buying from Amazon, but I compulsively save a DRM-stripped version of every book I buy. If at any point it became impossible to do so, I'd switch to another book provider, be it the pirate bay if necessary. It's a necessity, not only
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by fab13n 14y ago
VC are companies, not people, so what they earn is counted as benefits, not revenue. Moreover, in their P&L, they can subtract the L from their P, and average their money streams over several years. There are legitimate issues with this
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by fab13n 14y ago
You can be amoral, by not basing your actions on moral considerations. That's what's expected of judges, cops etc.: they (ought to only) consider whether you broke the law, not whether you're a good person. Reddit banned jailbait because it
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by fab13n 14y ago
This was for legal matters, not for distastefulness. The same obligations fall on network operators, and wouldn't be cancelled by any net neutrality law.
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by fab13n 14y ago
No. Reddit is about reflecting their audience's taste or lack thereof, not condoning nor condemning it. Reddit works precisely because they maintain some sort of "net neutrality" ethics, refusing any editorial meddling. Banning a distastefu
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by fab13n 14y ago
The degree of objective and conscious evilness in Violentacrez' behavior is debatable, indeed, but that's not the issue. At least that's not what makes this story newsworthy IMO. I think that Gawker's "journalist" ought to get more flak tha
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by fab13n 14y ago
Gawker's behavior is shocking, not in terms of free speech, but in terms of journalistic ethics. This story is, in the most literal sense, fabricated news. The point of the article wasn't that there existed trolls on forums getting a kick o
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by fab13n 14y ago
> if you've managed to attract the all-seeing eye [...] But I guess that governments expect large-scale surveillance to be the primary way to attract the all-seeing eye. National security was done a certain way during the cold war, when
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by fab13n 14y ago
The concept of "natural property" exists, it describes what you can personally secure, by any effective means (violence, intimidation, cunning, alliances...) In the natural order, a predator who killed a prey loses it as soon as a bigger an
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by fab13n 14y ago
ACtually, the answer lies in the article: > why would an operator choose to work with you? > > we can integrate the operator’s value-added services into the device Translated in plain english: "Operators mourn the pre-iPhone tim
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by fab13n 14y ago
The _sellers_ want an alternative to iOS and Android. A possible reason why none exists on the market--at least not with significant numbers--might be that the buyers don't want it. More precisely, buyers don't seem to want anything that se
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by fab13n 14y ago
They obviously considered the bladder option when designing the craft, which means that: - either air and He separate fast and well enough to make it unnecessary; - or there are big problems which make the bladder impractical. I have no ide
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by fab13n 14y ago
> I don't believe that Apple is going [...] to compete on price. Probably not on price, but on market share. iPads currently are the only decent game in town, except for the e-reader niche; they're safe as long as Android doesn't reach
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by fab13n 14y ago
My understanding is that Uber does 2 things at once: (1) they create a legal business to compete with the current taxi one, which is corrupt beyond repair; (2) they secure the high-end segment of that market to themselves. Point #1 is quite
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> what's to stop entities from outbidding everyone? They can, but by doing so, they'll pay a lot and enrich the state rather than parasites. On one hand, auctions cost them money; OTOH, they can't charge more for the lease than what a t
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by fab13n 14y ago
Selling the illusion of control to lost managers is a pretty good business plan: it scratches an issue which terribly itches them, and they're paying with someone else's money.
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by fab13n 15y ago
> To literally handicap yourself by 50 percent is insanity. This is very PC, but BS nonetheless. At the stage when people can be profitably hired by start-ups, the male/female ratio is nowhere near 50% among technical candidates. I'm n
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by fab13n 15y ago
I might be wrong, but it seems to me that ad blockers are mostly used by sophisticated users who won't fall into the "you're the millionth user!" scams anyway. For the ad seller, the bandwidth used to serve non-dumb users is a net loss, so
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by fab13n 15y ago
In all fairness, the title is misleading, if not disingenuous. - An announce has been made by a president who's not so likely to be reelected next month. If he's kicked, his law proposals are moot. - This president has a compulsive habit of
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by fab13n 15y ago
You mean, the privacy of those people who will be scanned and groped by TSA thugs minutes after they've checked their luggage in? It seems that people are ready to give up the last bit of dignity as soon as they enter an airport; if a compa
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by fab13n 15y ago
Paying by the kg, whether kg of flesh/fat or kg of luggage, wouldn't be absurd. The kg of fat might be a bit cheaper, though: you need luggage crew to haul luggage, but most haul themselves autonomously. A reason to impose penalty on luggag
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by fab13n 15y ago
Most people with critical thinking are hardly surprised by this; this needs to be shown to average Joes, not hackers. Hence I suggest to vote this up on YouTube, rather than / in addition to HN.
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> I really doubt they are showing that iPad in landscape mode They would, if showing it in portrait mode would have spoiled a design innovation.
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by fab13n 15y ago
Remember: the original question was whether Tesla was a sideshow; the comment you responded to argued that it wasn't, quite compellingly IMO. Similarly, Sun and Java certainly weren't sideshows either. You're wondering about Tesla's commerc
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by fab13n 15y ago
They have a genuine big business in CAD systems, which they sell more easily than Rafales...
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by fab13n 15y ago
> * It lacks an easy-to-use symbolic debugger. > * It lacks a first-rate IDE. <plug>This is changing http://eclipse.org/koneki/ldt/</plug&#62 ; > * Array indexes start at 1. This sounds dangerously similar to "I can
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by fab13n 15y ago
> What more do you need? Not a tablet anyway, it seems. Kidding aside, I believe you've nailed the problem with this tablet's UI: it seems designed by people who don't see the point of a tablet. They understand it as "a laptop without a
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by fab13n 15y ago
That's a possibility, but the risk of having your data inadvertently destroyed is much higher. Moreover, you must trust your ability to stall inquiries for up to a week. It really depends on the relative cost of having your data destroyed v
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The way courts generally work, they need a proof you've done something wrong to condemn you. If there are a dozen friends who had the wiping rights to your keys, and they knew you'd been arrested, any of them could have decided to wipe the
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by fab13n 15y ago
To counter this, you need an encryption method with these properties: - you can be banned or self-banned, irrevocably, from accessing your data; - you can prove to the judge that you can't access your data; - even with full forensic copies

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