gloob

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by gloob 16y ago
Microsoft didn't "build security in at the start", nor did Apple, nor did Twitter, nor (I suspect) did Facebook or YouTube. It's a pre-alpha of an open source project. Of course there will be problems.
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by gloob 16y ago
Given that the purpose of unions is to weaken companies' bargaining position by preventing them from "divide-and-conquering" the workers, I would guess...almost none? And it would be perfectly ideologically consistent?
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by gloob 16y ago
1. They're allowed to make $200,000 off of the community but other developers aren't? When you can demonstrate to me how the existence of GPL-licensed web servers prevents the creation and sale of proprietary web servers, and additionally
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by gloob 16y ago
"When in doubt, use brute force."
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by gloob 16y ago
Perhaps I'm just being dense today, but in what way is "Religion is bad, m'kay?" not a non-sequitur to the question that was actually asked?
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by gloob 16y ago
This is the very definition of politics.
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by gloob 16y ago
Revenue numbers say nothing about profitability.
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by gloob 16y ago
Yes there is.
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by gloob 16y ago
It is worth noting that said "small wedge" has (historically) been a good small wedge. The point is, people seem unconvinced of the magicality or revolutionariness of this particular wedge.
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by gloob 16y ago
Meant to upvote you and fat-fingered it, sorry.
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by gloob 16y ago
"Sit around feeling smug about your superior moral philosophy without doing anything, and the poor bugger'll starve to death."
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by gloob 16y ago
Even at the height of Microsoft's reign, you could still walk into a shop and buy a Mac. Just sayin'.
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by gloob 16y ago
Though "Facebook will fail because pretty much all companies fail eventually " is a reasonable one. No-one, looking at Apple in 1998, could have correctly predicted what they would be like a decade down the road. It's not unreasonable to
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by gloob 16y ago
"What about when your restaurant is frequented entirely by murderers? Will steak knives be good utensils then?"
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by gloob 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by gloob 16y ago
If a person's morality is flexible enough to permit bank robbery, then a very weak justification is probably adequate.
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by gloob 16y ago
Unless you can prove that the military is unnecessary and their absence would not prevent more bloodshed than they cause then I would say my equivocation is right on the money. I disagree. Rather, I would suggest that the burden of proof
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by gloob 16y ago
If the American government is indifferent to the fate of the informants (which refusing to work on removing the names of informants would suggest), then why should Wikileaks be held to a higher standard? At the very least, Wikileaks doesn'
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by gloob 16y ago
I find it bizarre that so many people suddenly care so much about the lives of a couple hundred civilians in Afghanistan. Between the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, tens or hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed, and nary a tea
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by gloob 16y ago
Yes he is. The information he released in the latest round of "secrets" gave away informants to people that can (and will) kill them. The story I've heard is that Wikileaks attempted to contact the White House, so the two parties could go
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by gloob 16y ago
At the beginning, on Firefox, it was soul-deadeningly slow.
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by gloob 16y ago
"To me, the information given is not worth the number of lives that will be lost as a result." Fair enough; that's an honest disagreement. My perspective on the matter is simply that whatever the number of deaths that Wikileaks will hypoth
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by gloob 16y ago
When the Americans kill civilians ("Collateral Murder"), Wikileaks gets blamed for being biased. When the Taliban kill civilians, Wikileaks gets blamed, even when they tried to contact the White House so they could remove information about
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by gloob 16y ago
Whatever number happens to mesh with the poster's predetermined position on the matter. If they think that HFT isn't "real work"[0], they'll set the level low. If they're a free-market fetishist, they'll say the tank is indefinitely large
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by gloob 16y ago
The poster you responded to didn't, by my reading, say that Apple were poor sports. He said that this would be portrayed as them being poor sports. Whining is normally a form of poor-sportsmanship, and this comes across as whining (at lea
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by gloob 16y ago
You don't get big without VC Perhaps I'm just jaded or out of touch, but I'm pretty sure something like Flipboard wouldn't get Google-big even if they were given 100 million dollars rather than 10. Huge investments might be necessary to b
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by gloob 16y ago
So did 9/11, for that matter, which probably outranks the BP thing in many people's minds.
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by gloob 16y ago
The popup when you enter the page isn't actually spam, and isn't actually some customer satisfaction thing. It took me a few minutes to figure that out, though.
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by gloob 16y ago
While I sympathize with your feelings on the matter, there's no need to be snarky about it.
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by gloob 16y ago
You'll have to take that up with him; I'm afraid that my insight into the minds of complete strangers is rather circumscribed.

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