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   by icarus_drowning 16y ago

   I don't think an intelligent person would believe that once a regulated Internet were in place that there is a high probability of it changing either. Now, if it is regulated properly, that's a feature, not a bug, but that's a big if. I'm c
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   by icarus_drowning 16y ago

   While I agree that a large part of the blame for Wave's failure falls on Google, I think its hard to make the case that it "solve[s] problems [people] don't have". Anyone who's ever dealt with the horror of a multi-user email thread (>&
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   by icarus_drowning 16y ago

   I haven't found many. A vast majority are "natural law" arguments, which I think are exceedingly weak. A better approach (from a conservative/libertarian side) is to just ask the question why government is defining marriage in the first pla
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   by icarus_drowning 16y ago

   This really makes me sad. I work in media, and I have found that the collaborative aspects of Wave really made that process easier. I scored an entire film earlier this year, and the producers and I only used Wave as our collaboration space
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   by icarus_drowning 16y ago

   Has anyone done a comparison on how well the kerning/hyphenation/etc. compare to TeX's? As I understand it, even some commercial packages that are designed for this sort of thing still fail to match TeX's. I could be wrong there, however.
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   by icarus_drowning 16y ago

   Hey, at least the substance is there... if this situation is as you characterized it, I see it as a rather massive breach of trust on the part of Tumblr. The tone might be regrettable, but that's a minor concern.
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   by icarus_drowning 16y ago

   While I wasn't a huge fan of the tone here ("They really don’t give a shit, huh?"), it does seem like something that needs to be brought to everyone's attention.
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   by icarus_drowning 16y ago

   I can't see how it won't end up looking like a massive cut in entitlement spending, probably along the lines of Paul Ryan's most recent doomed proposal: http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/ This isn't to cheerlead Republican s
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   by icarus_drowning 16y ago

   The word "market" appears in the article exactly 3 times. Although it is clear the author is making at least one argument that market forces are more efficient than government regulation, it is hardly the only point of the piece. During the