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by javert 11y ago
There's an easy solution to the last-mile problem, which is for communities to own the infrastructure and operate it as a non-profit. Believe me, people would do that if they were getting sufficiently screwed by telcos and if it were l
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by javert 11y ago
If Windows started sucking, people would switch. Demand would arise for a better alternative. In the long run, companies and consumers are not going to choose a significantly inferior product. There are no specific examples that will get yo
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by javert 11y ago
That's not the way I work. And you can see that from my statement. I don't invoke any moral principles to make my case. It's all pretty down to earth. edit: Actually, to elaborate... A better way to put it: I go from the grou
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by javert 11y ago
Absolutely. That makes him even worse. "Antitrust" is a bogus concept. It is never and was never in the public interest. It is also a massive violation of the rights of companies and their shareholders. Consider that if Windows&#x
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by javert 11y ago
I have zero respect for someone who would take a role like that.
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by javert 11y ago
This "DBT" idea seems like it's just a specific implementation of "CBT." Not something to contrast with "CBT".
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by javert 11y ago
I just want to say that there are two perspectives expressed in response to this comment. One is the idea that pleasure in life comes from starting out abstract (e.g. with abstract goals) and finding more specific things to enact those goal
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by javert 11y ago
Yeah, eli_gottlieb's comment was just not accurate. As you know, you absolutely can be lonely for 14 years and be "just fine." You will be lonely , but you will go on living, go on taking pleasure in some things (even if the
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by javert 11y ago
> obfuscate I'm certain the user meant "obfuscate" in the sense given in the dictionary. You are using it here in a different sense, like "provide a layer of abstraction so that un-needed details do not have to be con
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by javert 11y ago
Agreed. You can't rule out conspiracy theories automatically, because conspiracies do happen. Conspiracy theories are right, some of the time. edit: In fact, it's good if we have a paranoid part of the populace that constantly loo
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by javert 11y ago
I am actually working my way through that series right now. I think there may have been a confusing episode where it seems like he dies, but he didn't if you pay close enough attention. Because I do remember being confused at one point
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by javert 11y ago
What's your point? I've seen that episode. Unfortunately, Whorf does not discover the A in "Berenstain Bears" and then discover that it's due to manipulation of the timeline and violation of the temporal directive a
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by javert 11y ago
MCRed's narrative can be true without the "lizard brain" nonsense being true (which came from someone else). What he is describing reminds me a lot of grad school (although that is a totally different context).
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by javert 11y ago
How long til the copyright expires? Then we can print new editions that make the requisite correction.
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by javert 11y ago
They should make a Star Trek time travel episode to explain this. Most of the Star Trek time travel stuff is already pretty stupid, so that's not a reason to not do it.
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by javert 11y ago
What exactly did they do to clean up the air in London? I mean, just pass regulations that factories have to be further from the city, or what?
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by javert 11y ago
I wonder how robust the GPS system is. Could an unexpected space phenomenon bring it down? What would happen if a rogue nation started shooting down the satellites? This isn't a real answer. I hope someone with a real answer comes alon
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by javert 11y ago
Perhaps create an app or website that reads text. You paste in the text you want it to read to her---web pages, books, e-mail, whatever. Each item you "push" to her gets queued up so she can listen when it's convenient. The c
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by javert 11y ago
Yeah. Based on the name and past history of the government, I assumed it was something nefarious. (And probably like the Congressmen, I haven't read it, so maybe they did slip something nasty in.) Honestly, they ought to just pass a la
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by javert 11y ago
> No, it was not an honest attempt to understand your point, it was an attempt to ridicule your facile, ridiculous non-point. This shows that you put people's whims over the truth. You'd rather influence by intimidation than b
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by javert 11y ago
During the school year, getting into a good college is much more than a full time job. It's an "all the time" job (except sleeping). And by "good college" I don't mean Ivy League, I also mean the next tier down
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by javert 11y ago
> But I think it's important to maintain a healthy appreciation for the artifice of it all I don't think it's artifice. If you want to get into the best universities, you have to have perfect grades and stand out. I think
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by javert 11y ago
Cake doesn't choose to call itself cake. Feminists choose to call themselves feminists, and thereby associate themselves with bad feminists. But let's not quibble here--- most feminists are collectivists advocating for what they
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by javert 11y ago
Nothing can be good if it chooses to go by the same label as a lot of bad. "Good" feminists provide cover for "bad" feminists. Thus, all feminists are bad.
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by javert 11y ago
edit: To put it more simply, a stereotype is not the same thing as racism.
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by javert 11y ago
By > I loathe this kind of thing I meant "academic learnings." "Learnings" is not a word in the English language. When I see writing that is this bad, it evokes, to me, an image of an Indian student who effectively o
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by javert 11y ago
The way to do it is to create an essentially non-profit organiation with a very limited charter, which is to provide internet infrastructure only. Then we and huge companies all invest in it (it would still charge for access). It would cost
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by javert 11y ago
Somebody should do a spoof video of their marketing video that shows exactly that.
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by javert 11y ago
> supplement your learnings > Academic Learnings Dead give-away. I loathe this kind of thing. To me it evokes an image of someone who only knows computer science, and is entirely ignorant of other topics (say, history and literature
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by javert 11y ago
> there is less awareness of the wheel there What does that mean? What is "the wheel"? Don't take this as a sanction of the rest of your comment.

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