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by hack_edu 15y ago
Because a very large portion of piracy now travels through ad/premium based free file hosts rather than torrents. New hosts pop up each day and those who post the files rake in cash. There's seemingly no ceiling on the number of file hostin
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Or that they have thousands of years of history where civil servitude is a scholastic meritocracy.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
I will concede my Mondays half-caffeinated status at the point of writing. My tone was a bit strong but I stand by my commentary. :)
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by hack_edu 15y ago
So, vigorously insist it's a duck even if it can't quack. Sleaze is the fastest route to funding? I'm all too reminded of Saturday's NYT article[1] [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/technology/silicon-valley-...
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by hack_edu 15y ago
I like your style. Care to share yours?
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by hack_edu 15y ago
This is the inevitable "truth/reality" our author is achieving to discover. These aren't easy lessons learned when working in finance or having early success with your first startup.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
I've been on trains where both doors in a car broke and the train kept going. The mechanic was fixing the door as the train went along, even.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Do you ride in the East Bay beyond MacArthur very often?
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Simple solution. Emacs. Oh, wait... Nevermind!
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Since when has Firefox/Mozilla NOT promised that their next release will manage memory better?
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by hack_edu 15y ago
> The humanities are full of fuzzy concepts that defy precise definition Perhaps its beside your point, but this is exactly what's most important about learning how to write. There's a whole lot more that you learn by exploring 'fuzzy c
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by hack_edu 15y ago
After a few quarters of CS and internships in the industry, I realized how great opportunity it was to change majors in order to focus entirely on writing within a superb Humanities department. The lack of a CS degree hasn't stunted any bit
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by hack_edu 15y ago
This argument is used around here to explain away anyone that doesn't agree with your favorite startups's angle... Its so much more complicated than that. The clearcut assumption that those who express this particular ideal are immature and
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by hack_edu 15y ago
It surprises me how much the argument that those anti-Real Name believe this way because they "don't understand and have never ran their own business" or are old-fashioned. This argument is used around here to explain away anyone that doesn
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Are you on Gingerbread? The keyboards before 2.3 are awful.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
The Android browser is not Chrome as addressed in the article.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Very true. Its quite unfortunate that Dave Winer's career has devolved into one where all he does anymore is blog like this.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Lock your phone.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
No one has been arrested or persued for downloading AntiSec releases. It's a further example of the industry/governments lulz-iness.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Just SQL dumps they say? And how about the prose this time?
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by hack_edu 15y ago
> This is the price (one of many) they pay for their eventual big payday. "Screw clients, acquire currency!"
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by hack_edu 15y ago
> I don't understand why Airbnb aren't as rigorous as regular rental companies? Because they wouldn't be profitable if they were, it's too complicated and doesn't fit in their model. The regular rental companies would soon copy their mo
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Absolutely, and I wholeheartedly participate in the discussion. However, my participation shows me that this is not the forum to hash it out. All reasonable points are bombed with pea-shooter arguments that hide all the real content of the
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Very true. Nothing but sweeping happens here. It would be nice, but no convincing would change the reality of discussion here; that's sad.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Why do we let the same tired discussion about gender pervade HN once per week?
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by hack_edu 15y ago
You're fooling yourself if you still think they are just weekend warrior kids.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Providing it as a torrent lower the costs at least. Plus, if they were concerned about infrastructure costs they'd have no problem finding mirrors willing to donate bandwidth.
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by hack_edu 15y ago
> Well, there is a non-zero cost to hosting and delivering documents, as well as creating the infrastructure to allow it Sounds like a perfect job for bittorrent distribution....
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by hack_edu 15y ago
A significant goal of the movement is to bring to light just how insecure systems can be, and to not trust those who fail to protect. And to claim all they could do then is to DoS is the same BS write-off that you hear around here everyday,
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by hack_edu 15y ago
Note: These arrests are connected with the PayPal/Visa/Mastercard DDoS attacks organized by Anonymous/AnonOps, and have nothing to do with Lulzsec/Antisec or any of the major breaches.

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