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   by gabemart 14y ago

   I don't necessarily disagree with the argument that a free market enthusiast should desire unions. I disagree that a free market enthusiast should desire unions in their current form, which we both agree is far from a free market. In other
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   by gabemart 14y ago

   While it's not a position I hold myself, I imagine such people would argue that unions are not the free market because of the legal protections and privileges they enjoy. I'm no expert, but I know that in at least some jurisdictions a union
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   by gabemart 14y ago

   >Yet at the same time, you don't have the fear that someone will randomly start shooting people. But if "an armed society is a polite society", you do presumably have to worry about someone shooting you if you're rude to them? I think r
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   by gabemart 14y ago

   Original article (discussion): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947013
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   by gabemart 14y ago

   For the sake of comparison, the equivalent section of the Flickr UK TOS [1]. The difference seems fairly stark. >With respect to Content you elect to post for inclusion in publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! Groups or that consists of p
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   by gabemart 14y ago

   >I define "art" as something I (the proverbial unskilled layman) couldn't do in a weekend. This doesn't seem a very robust definition. Do you think things like aircraft carriers and landfills are art?
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   by gabemart 14y ago

   The article author signed up for a demo account after receiving the b2b marketing email containing "a report snapshot for 42Floors.com showing names, companies, and emails of site visitors and the information seemed plausible." Like the p
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   by gabemart 14y ago

   >These are things I put together in a day and edited in windows movie maker. When youtube offered adding ads I ignored them thinking it would never amount to anything. At $8.7 ECPM I feel absurd having skipped the chance! Presumably, yo
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   by gabemart 14y ago

   I don't know how the blocking is actually being done, but it's not via DNS. I've been using 8.8.8.8 at home and piratebay.org remains blocked.
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    How long is the code? What happens if I approach a bufferbox in the middle of the night and try to brute force a TAN?
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    I found this article quite frustrating. >Condorcet formalized the idea that group preferences are also non-transitive. If people prefer Hanselman to me. And they prefer me to Guthrie. It does not necessarily mean they will prefer Hansel
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    >And he's absolutely right: that's not "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching [..], scholarship, or research", so it does not fall under fair use, and the length and nature of the sample is completely irrelev
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    >A .01% yield on the energy incident on earth would power everything we ever need. This sounds like the Chinese soda analogy [1] in a different form. The fact that we only need 0.01% doesn't indicate the ease of capturing 0.01% in the f
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    >It'll be interesting to see how they will handle scaling. Selling T-Shirts is easy As someone who is a non-standard size, I hope that new business models provide a much greater range of clothing sizes. Offering three or four sizes of T
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    >No. It's that criminals think twice about robbing or raping someone if they know they are armed. Then wouldn't a more appropriate aphorism be "An armed society is a safe society"?
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    Would you mind linking to your first flash game, for the curious?
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    >An armed society is a polite society. Is the subtext of this statement "An armed society is a polite society because rude people get shot"?
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    >All my development happens in ssh and firefox. So performance is not an issue. Does that really bear out? I like the idea of a low-powered netbook connecting to a high-powered server for development, but in my (very limited) experience
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    Huh, I had no idea that feature had been deprecated. I guess it's been a little longer since I used it than I thought.
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    Slightly off topic - can anyone explain why a patent, which often involves a great deal of research expenditure and is vetted through a long and expensive process, is granted for 20 years, but copyright, which covers almost any form of crea
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    I'm not sure how that link supports your assertion I'm wrong. Can you be a little more specific?
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    You can format a link to be something like: http://username:password@members.example.com I wouldn't say that means the account in question is unprotected.
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    >For instance, Mechem's sniffer dogs have displayed a 90% success rate on target filters, so statistically having three dogs per team perform cross-checking paths on the field should produce the 99.6% confidence level for the type of mi
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    I hope I'm not being overly pedantic, but: >If you think of the internet as just a series of pipes; then it’s what you push down those pipes that matters. That should be a comma, not a semicolon. Semicolons are used for separating relat
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    >I have yet to hear a convincing argument on why planning for the edge case, which is usually a minor headache at worst, is worth it in the long run. In this case, the cost of "planning for the edge case" is close to zero. In fact, you
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    Thanks again for your help.
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    Thanks for taking the time to help me, those points will make it easier for me to put together a proposal when I start approaching developers. I realize your time is valuable so feel free to leave it at that if you like. Having said that: W
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    Thanks for your response. Could you give me an idea of the principle missing price-defining parts?
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    I'm not a developer. I've been considering paying someone to develop an iOS app for an upcoming project I've been working on which is based around subscription to a magazine-like service. The application would need to: * Be built around the
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    by gabemart 14y ago

    I was baffled by his example of the wikipedia article in both orientations. For me, the portrait mode he spent so long criticizing seemed the clear winner in terms of readability.