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by jfb 12y ago
I don't use gmail, so mbsync + mu4e for me.
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by jfb 12y ago
Those deck chairs are not going to rearrange themselves.
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by jfb 12y ago
I love the Herzfeld version because of how Gates is portrayed, really.
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by jfb 12y ago
"You're ripping us off!", Steve shouted, raising his voice even higher. "I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us!" But Bill Gates just stood there coolly, looking Steve directly in the eye, before starti
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by jfb 12y ago
To say nothing of youtube-dl.
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by jfb 12y ago
There used to be many. I haven't encountered one in a while, however.
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by jfb 12y ago
It was the best way to run Flash programs without installing Flash system-wide.
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by jfb 12y ago
Probably. But I'll live without full unfettered access to Youtube's back catalog, which access I don't pay a dime for.
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by jfb 12y ago
The only reason I kept Chrome around is because I occasionally wanted to watch Youtube videos that were Flash only. I wasn't going to install Flash system-wide, so I was grateful for Google's approach of maintaining a private Flas
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by jfb 12y ago
Well, now I can delete Chrome.
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by jfb 12y ago
I try to sleep in three hour chunks; I find that that's my natural cycle, so six hours is better for me than 7.5. I usually go to sleep around 10 and wake up around 5.
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by jfb 12y ago
I would be happy with either (particularly the first) but politically the chances of something like that, which almost certainly would require legislation -- and would without question require a Sherman act prosecution from a Justice Depart
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by jfb 12y ago
No, he's asking very good questions.
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by jfb 12y ago
Well, then, you switch to Comcast/Verizon/&c. if these issues are important to you. Big ISP will be forced to compete for your business, rather than buying your acquiescence with franchise agreements and big steak dinners at y
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by jfb 12y ago
It seems to me that the right level for government to be involved in these sorts of questions is the municipality itself, rather than running back to Federal statute. Which is, again, orthogonal to preventing Verizon-owned statehouses from
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by jfb 12y ago
They can do this now. Municipal ownership of some of the pipes isn't going to stop what is essentially an orthogonal fight from happening at a higher level.
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by jfb 12y ago
The problem is that you have an asymmetry in resources between e.g. local officials who might want to stand up a fiber network and a company the size of Verizon, who very badly do not want this to happen. You need countervailing size, and i
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by jfb 12y ago
Who cares? The Feds here are not in the business of bandwidth provision; they're acting to counterbalance the elephantine mass of Comcast by preventing them from overpowering municipal politics.
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by jfb 12y ago
Really, he's calling for the FCC to prevent rent-seeking by local ISP monopolies by allowing the option of municipal networks. It's a really good idea; you can tell because of how stridently Comcast/Verizon/AT&T oppo
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by jfb 12y ago
This is a good page, but one thing it doesn't touch on (presumably because of the intended audience) is the fact that an understanding of genetics is necessary but insufficient to explain speciation, variation in heritable traits, much
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by jfb 12y ago
As a fellow YC non-success story (with a different narrative), I really enjoyed this piece. I took different lessons out of my time in YC, but I endorse this: I also want to note (in case anyone was wondering) that my experience hasn
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by jfb 12y ago
I'm not 100% certain you can point to government regulation as the sole or even the primary driver of car mass increases. Much of that is market driven. That said, I loved my twin-turbo BMW, but much of that was the inline-six.
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by jfb 12y ago
That's great, but I'd settle for half the speed and twice the density.
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by jfb 12y ago
Not always.
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by jfb 12y ago
More to the point, there isn't a single "cancer" to be cured.
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by jfb 12y ago
I guess XUL is the stumbling block for me there. And of course, the browser itself can be modified, for which yay! but really I'm looking for a small set of primitives exposed in a high-level language that can be combined to create web
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by jfb 12y ago
I think what would be interesting is not in bringing the web to Emacs but rather Emacs to the web; a web browser that exposed everything right down to the rendering primitives in a decent (well, better than elisp or Javascript) language, al
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by jfb 12y ago
Right, you shouldn't have to switch operating systems to get the benefits. It seems perfectly reasonable to expect the display subsystem of your preferred OS to support HiDPI mode, however it chooses to do so.
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by jfb 12y ago
Because that cruft has grown up in service of a timesharing model of computation that no longer holds. Why does my phone have a root user? Why do I have to escalate privileges to bind to ports < 1000? Why am I context switching at all? I
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by jfb 12y ago
If you have an idempotent service, why do you need the accumulated cruft of 40 years of bad ideas to provide it?

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