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by glesica 14y ago
Gittip doesn't try to trick you into giving anyone money. It is a completely deliberate action on the part of the donor.
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by glesica 14y ago
I can't stand two spaces after periods. It gives me a weird twitch. I sometimes do a find-replace before even reading a document. It is a superfluous keystroke, but I think what really bothers me is that it just looks ugly and uneven to me.
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by glesica 14y ago
First, he wasn't using wifi. Second, JSTOR does not have a click-through ToS on university campuses, so he never had to agree to anything.
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by glesica 14y ago
Not necessarily, and it is controversial. I read the indictment and have followed the case and, though I'm not a lawyer, it seems to me that most of the charges were dubious, at best. They seem to have over-charged him, perhaps to extract
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by glesica 14y ago
That's the wrong way to look at it. The process had wiped him out financially and almost certainly damaged his mental state. It doesn't matter if you're acquitted if you are punished before the trial even begins.
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by glesica 14y ago
He didn't kill someone with a knife, he put butter on his toast with a knife. There was literally no crime committed, certainly no crime worthy of federal prosecutors and decades of potential incarceration. He downloaded a bunch of files us
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by glesica 14y ago
He used the Internet as it was meant to be used. MIT had no security, JSTOR had no security. Issuing a GET request to a web server is not, and should not be a crime. http://unhandled.com/2013/01/12/the-truth-about-aaron-swartz...
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by glesica 14y ago
And all of that will persist for a short time until someone invents something new that disrupts it all, just like the Internet disrupted old media. That is why I find the legal wrangling more worrying than anything else. Apple and Google ca
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by glesica 14y ago
I'm not worried about criminals though. I'm worried about legitimate businesses that will do things I object to. The criminals will do what they want, and I have remedies available to me in case I am victimized. But if some over-zealous sta
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by glesica 14y ago
How would the bank know whose money got stolen? It's basically a bad question. If the bank fails because of the robbery, then you lose all your money in 1903 (or at least most of it). Otherwise, things just keep on trucking as normal. Edit:
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by glesica 14y ago
But at what cost? I get a job today, fine. But then the company that found me the job is pressured to monetize better. Then what do they do? To whom do they sell my data or something based on my data in a way that I do not necessarily appro
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by glesica 14y ago
Same here. I use tmux + mosh and I've been extremely happy with the results. I put my laptop to sleep, wake it back up and everything is right where I left it. If I need to use a different machine to connect I just take over the tmux sessio
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by glesica 14y ago
So the cops who did their jobs should get medals? I don't care that hundreds of thousands of cops did their jobs, that's what I pay them for. What I care about is that the cops who don't do their jobs are punished. The things police offic
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by glesica 14y ago
I would prefer not to see every single blog post from every single person I follow. I'd much rather see blog posts organically, by following people who find interesting things and then seeing the things those people found interesting en
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by glesica 14y ago
Yes! This frustrates me to no end. A surprising culprit is (or was, I stopped using them because of this) Hipmunk. I would think that a new, web-savvy company would have a reasonable web site. But they don't. Their web site is complete garb
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by glesica 14y ago
Seems to me that your second idea is probably pretty accurate. History books (general purpose ones, that is) cover wars extensively. On the one hand, wars cause rapid and massive political and social changes, so they are obviously very impo
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by glesica 14y ago
Completely different. Azure is for servers. Consumers don't use Azure for day-to-day computing. MS is hemorrhaging consumers, most to Apple and Android, but some to desktop GNU/Linux. That last category might grow as people stop needing M
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by glesica 14y ago
It worked on the Thinkpad I bought a few weeks ago... I think most machines are configured to boot from the optical drive first. Even if there is a boot menu, that is still much less scary than having to hunt through a series of menus to fi
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by glesica 14y ago
It seems like what MS may be getting (or trying to get), at least in part, from this is a return to (or continuation of, I suppose) GNU/Linux as strictly an "enthusiast" OS. A BIOS tweak won't stop me, but it would definitely stop my mom. I
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by glesica 14y ago
Nope, you're living in a bubble. Not everyone went to a "good" school. This is one of the things that cracks me up about the HN community. It seems like everyone went to Stanford or MIT and the dumb kids went to CMU. The vast , vast majo
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by glesica 14y ago
I admit it's a complicated issue. See my response above... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4965196
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by glesica 14y ago
No, local competitors win out over multinationals. This is better in my opinion. Human capital and knowledge are more mobile than ever, and should be even more mobile (why can we import goods freely but importation of labor is tightly restr
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by glesica 14y ago
In a global economy, restrictions on parallel importation are destructive and backward. What happened to "free trade"? I see no difference between buying something in country A and selling it in country B and buying and selling within the b
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by glesica 14y ago
First, would anyone sign a credit card agreement that said "we can change the terms at any time without telling you"? No. In fact, a material change to a contract means that either party can back out of the original contract. This is how pe
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by glesica 14y ago
Is it really deceptive when only a handful of people (HN readers) even know what Subtle (did I spell that wrong?) is, and they can tell the difference immediately, despite the identical layout?
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by glesica 14y ago
The argument isn't that she was a homeopathic "doctor". The argument is that she was influenced by the ideas behind homeopathy, and because of that influence the "treatment" she administered made sense to her. Her logical reasoning had been
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by glesica 14y ago
There is also the problem of absolute versus relative numbers. Even discounting the number of people saved, mainstream medicine has possibly still killed more. But it has also been used on more people, hence the "mainstream" designation.
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by glesica 14y ago
Obama has run his final campaign. Sure, he's going to worry about his legacy now, but there's no such thing as "political suicide" for him any more. Just sayin'.
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by glesica 14y ago
How so? China is still, to a great extent, a command economy. The usual rules don't apply. The Chinese government can create all the artificial growth it wants and is not directly answerable to the public. One could point to basically every
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by glesica 14y ago
I found the desktop version of the site nearly unusable. While I was waiting for the Javascript mess to render the actual content I hit the scroll wheel, the screen flickered a bunch of times, and I ended up one a completely random article

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