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by glesica 14y ago
I think you kind of hit the nail on the head with your last sentence. You will continue to use the service for fairly meaningless tasks. It seems Facebook wants its users to use their service for more than that. So while this debacle may no
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by glesica 14y ago
Because it's a slippery slope from there to eliminating property rights entirely. If you require companies to declare all instances under which they will terminate service they'll just amend their ToS or add insanely broad clauses that let
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Doesn't hurt that quite a few politically connected companies seem to be making a boatload of cash from security theater.
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by glesica 14y ago
Sure there is, but not necessarily (only) in the way that was originally implied. Science, generally speaking, involves observation and inference. A scientific approach to airplane security would therefore (to simplify greatly) involve look
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by glesica 14y ago
Where did the dead-weight loss come from? It's just consumer and producer surplus. There is no dead-weight loss in this situation as we've been discussing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_surplus
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by glesica 14y ago
Guy who has taken Econ 101 here. Price discrimination doesn't eliminate dead-weight loss (it really has nothing to do with dead-weight loss), it just converts consumer surplus into producer surplus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_disc
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by glesica 14y ago
But most of those aren't UI problems, they're data quality problems. I agree that Craigslist isn't perfect, but the problem isn't the UI (ugly as it is).
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by glesica 14y ago
I just used Craigslist to find an apartment about 1.5 months ago. Based on my experience, I disagree with you. Sure, a slick interface would be cool, but it could very well change the nature of the site in a bad way. I agree that it would b
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by glesica 14y ago
Extremely interesting points. I wonder how the rest of the Google ecosystem factors in. For instance, they are making what appears to be a pretty hard move into productivity apps (Docs + Gmail). This is a potentially lucrative market, altho
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by glesica 14y ago
> The larger the institution, the less accountable every individual within that institution tends to act. I'm reading Liars and Outliers , by Bruce Schneier, and this is one of the big points he makes in his discussion of how trust and
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by glesica 14y ago
I've been looking at Chrome OS for this very reason. Apparently it includes a terminal app. I almost never have a program other than a terminal and a browser running, so it would work out perfectly. That being said, since the Chrome OS devi
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by glesica 14y ago
The sample budgets are nice, but why not just say "$4.32 per 32MB of RAM per month". Also, what's with the jump from $8 to $80? Seems like quite a few people would be interested in hosting something between those two price points...
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by glesica 14y ago
You are not getting down-voted for speaking ill of Gnome/KDE but rather for making a completely subjective statement as though it were established, objective fact. I have used OS X as my primary OS for long periods of time (totaling about 1
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by glesica 14y ago
I agree with you. In fact before I discovered that feature on a Mac I was absolutely baffled trying to figure out how people used Macs for real work. On the other hand, I do a decent amount of desktop support in my job and I have yet to fin
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by glesica 14y ago
> I.E. they hit start and begin typing. Who are these users and how do I get a job supporting them? I provide support to over 100 people and I've yet to find a single one who uses that particular feature. And now they're supposed to lea
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by glesica 14y ago
A staffer (?) mentions further down that almost no one was using their Public folder, so I really doubt that the average Dropbox user wants any of the things you listed. Dropbox is a file storage and sharing service, not a CDN or web host.
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by glesica 14y ago
Linked-to from the article: http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/12/1218... > He also explains that he believes Inman's fundraiser to be a violation of the terms of service of IndieGoGo, the website being used to colle
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by glesica 14y ago
> then the only loser is FunnyJunk. I'm not so sure this is the case. The Oatmeal also loses since it has to defend itself against a garbage lawsuit, were one to be filed, or pay tens of thousands of dollars to prevent such a filing. In
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by glesica 14y ago
This would actually make my current bill go up , without adding any additional services (aside from the free smartphone hotspot, which wouldn't get much use), and with less total data than we currently have. The problem is that we don't us
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by glesica 14y ago
I apologize for the curt reply. There have been a number of these "Linux" threads lately on HN and the disinformation (on both sides) bugs me to no end. Clearly you've had some troubles and you have a right to be annoyed. For reference, and
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by glesica 14y ago
I don't know about Windows folks, but as a Linux user I rarely touch the mouse except while using a web browser, and point-and-click is all I need there. In fact my Thinkpad has a convenient middle mouse button just above the track pad that
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by glesica 14y ago
I can't stand this crap. Do you own a Thinkpad? I'm typing this on a T61 and items 2-6 on your list are complete garbage. I have never experienced any of those things. It's not that I just don't care, I do care. If that much was wrong, I wo
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by glesica 14y ago
Moore's Law doesn't apply to this situation because you aren't comparing CPUs designed for the same market and purpose. A low-power laptop CPU might very well be a year or more behind its desktop brethren.
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Oh come on. I'm sorry, but how can you be older than 12 and not understand how this stuff works? Would Steve Jobs have come to any of our funerals? Doubtful. That didn't stop literally the entire front page from being filled with articles
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by glesica 14y ago
I think the point is that doing this is riskier, and more difficult than just stealing CC numbers and such.
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by glesica 14y ago
This is actually a really good point. I can't find it now, but there's an article floating around somewhere about a government employee in some small town accusing Apache or Debian or some project of being "hackers" because his web server b
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by glesica 14y ago
So what are they supposed to do? Sort through the seeds one-by-one? The problem isn't that Monsanto is necessarily asking for anything that is obviously crazy, it's the implementation that causes problems. It's a lot like software patents i
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by glesica 14y ago
How can you separate the two? Mechanized agriculture requires large amounts of energy, does it not? So if your energy source is unsustainable, your farming method is unsustainable. Seems logical.
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by glesica 14y ago
This isn't really a commentary on Linux itself though. Optimus can cause issues on Windows, too. It's new tech and Linux support is at the bottom of vendors' "todo" lists. The problem here is twofold, though I'm not necessarily saying thes
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by glesica 14y ago
Update: I found a list of common words that was easy to get into the proper format. It purports to be the 978 most common words, though it seems to have been compiled in the '60s. Whatever, close enough for me. It resulted in 893 hits. So,

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