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by glesica 14y ago
I don't understand why you would ever want to ruin a perfectly good PDF by letting Scribd anywhere near it...
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by glesica 14y ago
So Facebook can't run it's own business? Facebook charging for "reach" is the essence of the free market. They have developed something valuable and now they are going to sell it. And no, it isn't a straw man. Users suck at moderating and
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by glesica 14y ago
They don't own their "Likes"! Has that ever, even for one single moment, really been in doubt? Facebook owns the platform. You play in their sandbox, you follow their rules. They own all the toys. Look at Twitter locking down their API
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by glesica 14y ago
Good riddance! What he and others are complaining about is that Facebook has started to use pricing to stop them from spamming users. This is a good thing! We're free-marketeers, right? Prices allow scarce resources (eyeballs, users are the
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by glesica 14y ago
Assuming the system keeps up. Right now it is nearly impossible for many of us to work part-time without taking a huge hourly rate cut. You can (sometimes) work as a contractor/consultant, but then the tax and healthcare systems are stack
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by glesica 14y ago
The sample was from a subset (geolocated tweets) and involved only a very specific set of keywords. In other words, this was not an exercise to see how many racist tweets there are. It was an exercise to see where the racist tweets genera
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by glesica 14y ago
I have a huge problem with people submitting bug reports because it needlessly creates the perception that the software is buggy. Pointing out racism has nothing to do with "stirring racial divides". This appears to be a reasonably sophisti
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by glesica 14y ago
This is a really good point IMHO. People say all sorts of things behind closed doors. But self-censorship in public is almost certainly more common in some areas of the country than in others.
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by glesica 14y ago
I'm sorry, but this is a completely wrong-headed statement. Standardized testing for school children and A/B testing for web site visitors are completely different beyond the fact that both involve the word "test". When you run A/B tests on
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by glesica 14y ago
This is a good point. I wonder if they could go half way on resolution independence, a hybrid solution of some sort. They don't really need true resolution independence since they control all the hardware. But if they had something that w
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by glesica 14y ago
I'm not arguing that trade can't work, I'm arguing that a market in water would be a magnet for abuse and exploitation. The problem I often have with these sorts of economic debates is that economists tend to see politics as an after-though
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by glesica 14y ago
So how exactly do we know that the political failure modes, in this case, would be worse than the market failure modes? Last I checked, formalized, real existing markets are extremely vulnerable to political manipulation by both public and
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by glesica 14y ago
Yes, and it isn't working very well. That's part of the objection. We have plenty of agricultural capacity, and yet food prices are volatile (which markets are supposed to help prevent) and generally rising quickly.
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by glesica 14y ago
A market solution is a human solution. People decide how to structure their societies, of which economies are a part. They also decide how to structure their markets, when they choose to create them. I should point out that when I say "ma
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by glesica 14y ago
I agree entirely. As long as we are still subsidizing something, removing subsidies should be the first thing we try when we decide to liberalize. Oil is a good example. Its production is subsidized and its consumption is taxed.
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by glesica 14y ago
Until industries lobby government for subsidies, either individual or for the entire commodity (look at corn) so they can buy water at the "market" price and sell the resulting products below what should have been the market price.
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by glesica 14y ago
Not really. It's more like Apple issuing you a coupon for a free iPod Nano, but when you go to checkout with the iPod Nano and a Macbook in your cart, the cashier tells you they're both free. It may still be unethical, my point is just that
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by glesica 14y ago
If you take a very naive view of what it means to be "winning", then sure. But I don't think such a view is ever warranted in business (heck, or even sports). A team that is up by a few points heading into the final period, but has been tho
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by glesica 14y ago
This hits the nail on the head in my experience. As "technical" people (I think that describes most HN readers) it is common to find ourselves working with at least a few people who are less adept at various technologies. In some cases this
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by glesica 14y ago
Yeah, maybe cross-border copyright shouldn't even exist... I don't see anything in the constitution about enforcing international copyright law within the United States. And even if it is part of an agreement with another country, it still
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by glesica 14y ago
This could be, I suspect, both a blessing and a curse for companies like Coursera and Udacity. On the one hand, many of the people participating today are probably highly motivated and doing it out of a desire to learn new things and solve
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by glesica 14y ago
I didn't "see" the same thing in Atlas Shrugged that I was apparently supposed to see. To me, the protagonists were the altruistic, non-objectivists. The antagonists, far from being "collectivists" were actually compulsively selfish, even t
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by glesica 14y ago
First, I sympathize with you. However, I personally love the idea of polluting .xxx with non-pornographic (and interesting) material because I think the entire idea behind .xxx is flawed and goes against the spirit of the Internet. Freedom,
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by glesica 14y ago
Not necessarily every single one, but generally, yes. I think government officials should have virtually no privacy in their official lives. Unless someone is actually saying nuclear launch codes or passwords out loud, there is no reason fo
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by glesica 14y ago
What's wrong with sarcasm/satire as a means for making an excellent point?
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by glesica 14y ago
I agree with your fire analogy. Could have done without the "all-knowing government" hyperbole, though. That just makes you sound like a wacko and detracts from your otherwise-valid points.
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by glesica 14y ago
I LOL'd, thank you. I agree with this sentiment. It's something that has been going on for a long time. Even as far back as 2006, Canonical and the Ubuntu community seemed (to me, anyway) to be overly focused on convincing my mom to use Lin
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by glesica 14y ago
Private sector seems pretty enthusiastic about the wars to me... I agree with libertarians in the sense that I think concentrated power is a bad thing. But I think the idea that an unregulated market would be any better is laughable. The an
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by glesica 14y ago
The interesting question here, to me anyway, is whether this whole debacle is a sign of a real problem at Apple, or whether it was just an "oops" (like the iPhone antenna). The conventional wisdom (for the past decade or so) has been that A
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by glesica 14y ago
Huh? Longtime Ubuntu user here, I have no idea what you're talking about... Desktop Linux has plenty of problems, no need to invent new ones to complain about. Unless you were installing programs manually you shouldn't need to worry at all

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