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by fu9ar 10y ago
off of the top of my head: SDR, Storage, bigger/better Speakers, more USB/whatever ports, HDMI output, video Projector, JTAG (why not?), RFID edit: oh, temperature/barometer built into the device would be pretty cool too.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
This platform actively discourages downvoting, so a couple people out of hundreds or thousands of viewers deciding to upvote you doesn't mean that the addition was appreciated. I thought you meant exactly what you said, and I meant exa
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by fu9ar 10y ago
I realize that it is unpopular, but civility would not have made my point. I appreciate your input.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Copyright is automatic in principle, but not in practice. You have to pay lawyers a shitload of money in order to enforce either. The same risk, of having to pay lawyers a shitload of money, stands in both cases.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Corporate lobbying isn't the only kind of lobbying.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
It was new to me and was worth a wry grin.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Sometimes, but significantly often, when I click on an email in the Outlook 365 web app, nothing happens. The display pane goes blank-white. There is a noticable delay when I click to focus on the search bar, and often I have to retype beca
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by fu9ar 10y ago
Well, it seems like the OP was supposed to get stock options at these places where they worked, but somehow their stakes vaporized in some kind of finance shell game. But of course, it's all caveat employtor, right? Silicon valley comp
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by fu9ar 10y ago
So, instead, I have to pay "taxes" to plutocrats as insurance premiums. Yeah, that makes sense.
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by fu9ar 10y ago
I'm not arguing that Capitalism is okay, either. The dignity of work is how the "Owners" morally justify their use of wage-slavery to capitalize.
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by fu9ar 11y ago
The dignity of work is a Protestant myth.
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by fu9ar 11y ago
idk maybe anyone who uses internet karma points to determine whether someone is worth talking to is both the jerk and the asshat
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by fu9ar 11y ago
Maybe it was that at one time, but these days it is passed off as a factual event along with the false story about Archimedes' Eureka, the false story about Albert Einstein failing math, Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb, Henry Fo
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by fu9ar 11y ago
Why are Americans okay with education being an exercise in repeating falsehoods?
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by fu9ar 11y ago
Collective bargaining for better wages and working conditions is part of what got us a step up from the world described in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. It took 30 years, but did you expect it to get fixed quickly and easily? Politics i
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by fu9ar 11y ago
You don't need a blue collar union patterned after UAW, but there have been multiple successful lawsuits about illegal wage suppression across many areas of high tech. They are probably the tip of an iceberg. These lawsuits suggest a m
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by fu9ar 11y ago
Ah, the old corporate myth of meritocracy.
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by fu9ar 11y ago
If they are a publicly traded company it could be argued that lobbying Congress for beneficial legislation would be a part of their due diligence toward increasing stockholder value.
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by fu9ar 11y ago
Honestly, if I was running a company that relied on IP, I'd be worried that Congress will probably fuck it up even worse.
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by fu9ar 11y ago
No. It's not the same motivation. Human hierarchical social behavior is not the same as other primates. It's much more complicated and in most human situations social status is based on a constellation of intangibles rather than w
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by fu9ar 11y ago
I hate this more than these words can convey.
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by fu9ar 11y ago
Making the argument that those two behaviors, management insisting on punctuality and violent bodily mutilation, are commensurable is the exact kind of insane thinking that I am criticizing.
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by fu9ar 11y ago
Calling an Industrial Age invention a primate dominance ritual is insane.
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by fu9ar 11y ago
Who says that? We need software patent reform and sufficient funding and training within the patent office so that patent reviewers can do their job well, not obliteration of the concept. Actually, we need an overhaul and streamlining of th
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by fu9ar 12y ago
Raise your hand if you saw that coming when Android and Apple beat Microsoft to the punch in the global mobile market, and then kicked them a few times while they were down, and then laughed about it.
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by fu9ar 12y ago
The reclassification of broadband services is primarily a legal issue. The activists promoted this Title II "common carrier" classification and many people just parroted that without asking what that really meant. Nothing is simpl
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by fu9ar 12y ago
It's not about time or anything so logical. It's about wowing tech-illiterate executives with flashy new toys.
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by fu9ar 13y ago
Friendships build on bitten tongues aren't much use anyway.
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by fu9ar 13y ago
I'm glad that all of those intelligent idiots are stuck writing HFT algorithms for a middling salary on Wall Street so that the rest of us who are playing a better game can get on with life. Money isn't everything.
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by fu9ar 13y ago
As a note, it was cheaper for me to leave Texas and move across the country to Oregon and pay non-resident tuition than it was to stay in Texas and pay resident tuition. Not every state has the same opportunities. I'm not bemoaning my

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