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by fnid2 16y ago
Personally, I think it'd be great to have a public wireless grid, but think of the privacy issues. The government could have much easier access to our emails. But back to your point, the toll roads I travel on charge more for semi-trucks
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by fnid2 16y ago
Nice quote. I loved "Stranger in a Strange Land." Recommended reading for all...
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by fnid2 16y ago
It's called "leap-frogging." Preventing it is the goal of patents, but many here argue against those as well. It's like they want things to be better, but they don't want to allow the creators of those better things to benefit from the be
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by fnid2 16y ago
You aren't SOL, you can stop using so much bandwidth. You can be a conscientious user of shared resources. Using a constant stream like that is almost always a bit lacking in legitimacy. It usually means you are using the service in ways
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by fnid2 16y ago
You could say they are greedy assholes, or you could say they are trying to maximize the revenue potential of their investment. Software companies do it all the time. Oracle charges Salesforce more for its database than it charges a univers
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by fnid2 16y ago
A move like eschewing moves away from net neutrality is arguably (which is all it needs to be) a move done in good faith to increase the bottom line of the company It could be argued that it violates the property rights of the corporation
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by fnid2 16y ago
Telecom is a red ocean. Too many providers and too few customers. To grow, they have to extract more out of their customers, provide less costly services (increasing margins) or venture into areas outside that red ocean. But blue oceans are
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by fnid2 16y ago
I've never bought this argument. It is mathematically unsound. Systems behind my firewall, touched by one or two people, and with fewer hackers trying to break in are exposed to fewer threats. Many people want to break into gmail, because
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by fnid2 16y ago
"Sort of" = the opposite in reverse, where as palindromes are the same in reverse...
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by fnid2 16y ago
Corporate leaders have a fiduciary responsibility to act like greedy assholes. We have to understand that. It's required by the SEC and the law . Corporations must grow. They must increase their share price. They must continue to do
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by fnid2 16y ago
I agree, but I will also say that you can almost always find ways to get more done with more people. For example, it's easy to break up a project into code, css, html, javascript. That's four people right there. You could also have a gra
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by fnid2 16y ago
They don't have to be better . What is "better" anyway? More efficient algorithms? More normalized data? Fewer bugs? For me, it's about experiences and perspectives. When I work with other programmers who have unique approaches to proble
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by fnid2 16y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. The solution isn't to hurt Mark directly. The solution stop using facebook.
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by fnid2 16y ago
I work with my hands and I love it. Not only do I code, but during the day, I am renovating my house, shoveling horse manure into my garden, and caring for a flock of 9 chickens. No one around me understands what I'm doing on the internet
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by fnid2 16y ago
The argument life extenders make is that in 20 years, we'll cure all the ailments that may cause death for another 20 years and then within that time, another set of cures will evolve until eventually, we've cured everything that could kill
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by fnid2 16y ago
I wonder about the tragedy that can be caused with easy access to deadly force. If/When the proverbial shit hits the fan, if many people around you have guns, a single irrational one could cause a firestorm that kills you in the crossfire.
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by fnid2 16y ago
The frog one is false http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
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by fnid2 16y ago
There was a frontline episode last night on Education, Inc. (i think it was called) and I think it presents a dangerous trend -- though not for the reason Frontline said. Our country is broken. Many of the for profit institutions (like un
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by fnid2 16y ago
lifetime medical expenses are accrued in the last few years/months of life When my mother got terminal cancer, the last few months of her life became her most valuable. Those last days were scarce. In a way, they are infinitely more valua
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by fnid2 16y ago
Did you neglect the November 5, 2009 shooting at Ft. Hood that killed 13 people out of convenience to support your point or because you don't consider it a terrorist attack? Even so, there's something insincere in a post that would mention
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by fnid2 16y ago
That list doesn't account for the type of alcohol. A liter of whiskey would do more than a liter of beer. Point: Australia could be drunker if they drink relatively more hard alcohol than those higher on the list, giving mahmud the win.
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by fnid2 16y ago
Since we don't know what the price is, Google might have paid a sum for the product that is simply less than it would cost them to rebuild it themselves. Plus, they get the press for the acquisition and a talented, happy new member of the
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by fnid2 16y ago
I once worked for a product company that started out charging a lot for its product. They began to struggle finding new customers for their product because it cost so much. I said, "Why can't you just decrease the price?" The reason was be
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by fnid2 16y ago
Nothing, because I don't have a facebook id.
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by fnid2 16y ago
If I had written this post, it would have been titled: Why I never created a facebook account. Anyone who is crying now, should have known better.
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by fnid2 16y ago
I suspect that the show put on by Congress and Goldman Sachs will end up a wash for the banks and the people. No one will get punished and Congress will say, "See, even the worst of the bunch -- Goldman Sachs -- was within the law, so all
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by fnid2 16y ago
api.viglink.com added to my hosts file
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by fnid2 16y ago
It's not patents that are broken, it's America that is broken. The goal of capitalism was to create a society in which people could come together and create something bigger than an individual. The result has been exactly that -- corpora
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by fnid2 16y ago
I believe the stock market is a measure of human consciousness. It measures our expectations, our emotions, and our perception of reality. I once had a job in a finance department, before I knew anything about stocks, and I said, "I could
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by fnid2 16y ago
Bhutan had a king that everyone loved. He decided that his country would degrade under a new king after him who may not be so benevolent, so he instituted a Democracy. The country has since degraded. Families have broken up over arguments

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