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by goggles99 13y ago
Look, I am against censorship of the internet - but a line has to be drawn somewhere. The internet is ubiquitous. Four year old kids can surf the web proficiently these days and easily get to hardcore porn by accident. That is by design of
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by goggles99 13y ago
> BYLINE: Each September the state of Massachusetts asks one thing from "Scarcity" author and Harvard economist, Sendhil Mullainathan, to renew his car inspection sticker and each year this recipient of the MacArthur Genius Awa
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by goggles99 13y ago
It will be very interesting to see the numbers in the next 5 years. Numbers of those who smoke pot vs who don't. Lets see how successful financially each group are. How much they contribute to society. It will also be interesting to se
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by goggles99 13y ago
Nothing is perfect, Stack Overflow is a great resource online. Of course it has a few quirks and problems, but why try to bring it down by publicly quitting it and seemingly trying to bring others with you. Quietly leave. Making a noise lik
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by goggles99 13y ago
FYI, When someone says "Windows" they generally are talking about a PC desktop. Not a phone version. I am guessing that you probably already know this, but want to push any angle for a rebuttal. I am referring to Windows 8 specifi
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by goggles99 13y ago
LOL... steam and all their holier than thou blog posts about being open and better than Microsoft - That was never anything more than a rant about the Windows 8 built in app market that they were afraid would undercut their profits and dom
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by goggles99 13y ago
> federal authorities will have to buy more chairs for the Senate floor Oh the irony of this statement...
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by goggles99 13y ago
HAHA, C# copied Java in many ways, now Java is following suit. Good for them.
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by goggles99 13y ago
> Your First Hire Should be a Sysadmin (an imperative and definitive statement) Written by a Sysadmin.... He goes on to say how he built infrastructure and how it benefited the company but... He was far from the first hire at Crowdtilt
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by goggles99 13y ago
What determines an Educational Site as you have stated that they should not require big brother's approval? Anyone can say their site is "Educational". Calling BishUK an educational site is how this story even broke daylight.
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by goggles99 13y ago
They are blocked because they didn't file for (or were denied) an exemption. Everyone was told for some time now about this. If they were denied, it is because a three year old could access adult material there (no verification of any
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by goggles99 13y ago
Typical Apple fanboi downvotes without rebuttal or explanation.
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by goggles99 13y ago
>* Apple dominates the high end, and is at 0% of the low (some might say junk) end.* Where did you get the idea that Apple dominates at the high end? They haven't for a while now. The Galaxy S4 was outselling the iPhone 5 all by its
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by goggles99 13y ago
> c - After lots of thinking I agree with Apple. Current form factor is just right for communication device [1]. All that thinking got you one vote - unfortunately for apple, most votes want a bigger phone (the numbers don't lie).
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by goggles99 13y ago
That advantage is running out. You can only have a new revolutionary product every 30 years (this 64 bit chip's effect is quite oversold in this article). See Mac vs PC in the 90s. Apple is still playing the same game (Expensive, Close
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by goggles99 13y ago
Android has basically been a three legged horse in the speed/performance because of the Dalvic runtime anyway. Who cares about 32/64 bits. When Android comes out with it's new java compilation model and runtime (ART) in versi
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by goggles99 13y ago
Teen use on Facebook is declining? Well teens don't generally have much money anyway. How does this translate to the end of Facebook? How many teens use Linkedin?
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by goggles99 13y ago
Is this how you get to the top of a HN comment thread? by posting something totally ignorant? Why is the text in your post not completely faded away yet? There must me more of your type around here than I thought. Where was it said that if
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by goggles99 13y ago
LOL, I posted this same message on the blog comments and they deleted it. Nothing like censorship to stifle opposing opinions.
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by goggles99 13y ago
As much as I think that people should be free and hate the government telling people what to do, I sometimes wonder if a situation like this can only be prevented or alleviated by force. Why do people like this keep having more and more kid
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by goggles99 13y ago
My point is that the ability exists to set contact info (as you have on Hacker News). This can include your real name or not. The contact info can include identifiable info or be some anonymous email account. The choice is left up to you.
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by goggles99 13y ago
> 1. It reminds me to be civil and think before I post. This may be true but it inevitably makes you dishonest. There are things that you believe or feel about certain things that you will never post. These omissions equate to a lack of
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by goggles99 13y ago
Thanks for the reply. I meant no offense. The article uses the words people of color several times. I fail to see how using people of color and colored people are different. Sorry if this hurt your feelings.
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by goggles99 13y ago
> I agree there are systemic issues of racism keeping blacks and latinos away from open source, but those issues have nothing to do with open-source per se. The free time issue is a big one. Access to computers at home in early childhood
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by goggles99 13y ago
> One of the spaces you might think would be a gateway for developers of color to enter the industry is through open source software development. You don't have to know somebody or have a degree in software engineering or get hired
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by goggles99 13y ago
> we don’t really have a German or UK or whatever patent system any more, we have a European Union one. So this German case doesn’t apply just to Germany, it applies right across the EU This has got to be false information. It was menti
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by goggles99 13y ago
Interesting, but how do we know it is genuine (not counterfeit)? Where is the press release from BofA?
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by goggles99 13y ago
Does it really matter when you get a new free android smartphone every two years? I doubt that people will get far enough behind to really care. Also, Google framework updates now so you always have the latest core experience without your U
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by goggles99 13y ago
This is a terrible idea. There is no justifiable reason to do this. The reasons given are weak, this is just more over engineering that will add an enormous amount of complexity and add no real value. Lets look at the reasons given as to wh
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by goggles99 13y ago
Yeah they can: They are both the first black elected leader of their respective countries. Not in terms of worthiness. If Obama was exactly the same in every way but was 100% white, he never would have even made congressman let alone eith

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