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by joesmo 11y ago
This is a nice load of shit from a pretty well-accomplished bullshitter (he almost made Bush look not-retarded) that really says nothing other than the police/government/military can do no wrong and we should sacrifice everything
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by joesmo 11y ago
Ironically, this sounds like a customer experience that's way worse than anything described in the article. Especially since this is hardly advertised to users.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Considering what they get in return for hosting all those free OSS projects, I'd say they're more than breaking even, so let's not pretend like they're doing anyone a favor here. Github would simply not be nearly as big
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by joesmo 11y ago
A lot of theft, burglary, robbery, assault, murder, etc. would simply not exist or be marginalized just like they are currently for alcohol. It's been awhile since I heard of a shootout over booze distribution. Yes, there is still a bl
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by joesmo 11y ago
For news articles and business correspondence (memos, emails, letters), if I don't know what the article is about and the general conclusion of the article after reading paragraph one, the writer has failed horribly. There's few t
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by joesmo 11y ago
"If no one was sentenced for cases where drugs crimes were the most serious offense, then 85% of black state prisoners would still be imprisoned. So, that wouldn't solve the problem of black "mass incarceration" in US st
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by joesmo 11y ago
Startups thrive on taking advantage of early employees and as long as there are naive employees willing to take the risk and work for nothing I don't think we'll see any changes.
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by joesmo 11y ago
What's the difference? If the email content was not encrypted, it'd (most likely) be available in plain text somewhere along its route. If the email content was encrypted, we wouldn't be reading it now.
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by joesmo 11y ago
This was my first Clojure book and it's quite fantastic for a beginner with no prior Clojure or functional experience.
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is an excellent argument for piracy as a learning tool and against the current trend in copyright law (see TPP, etc.). I really see no difference between this and someone pirating content with the intent to learn (like my teenage self)
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by joesmo 11y ago
Ironically, the same thing is also a must in the richest country on earth should you wish to actually learn something.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Can someone explain to me how this is legal seeing as to how the Supreme Court ruled this unconstitutional without a warrant in Kyllo v. United States ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States )? Or is this
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by joesmo 11y ago
I agree. So I'll add that none of those places had any values aligned with agile at all, despite spending time, money, and effort on agile. Maybe that's because values don't come from processes and trying to implement a proce
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by joesmo 11y ago
Here's a new methodology I invented (that's about as useful as agile): perfection. Do everything perfectly. However, no one has managed to implement this amazing new methodology in a way that works yet. It's so simple. So man
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think this post on mobile performance is relevant: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is likely the number one reason for rejecting agile: it has already failed. I've worked at over a dozen places claiming to do agile and have found exactly zero that actually do. What's worse, the process degrades into 30-60 m
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by joesmo 11y ago
Who cares if Snowden broke the law if our own country is no longer ruled by law? I hear a lot of talk of whether Snowden should be punished or whether he should get a trial, but no talk about the punishment for the NSA. Until I see someone
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is criminal. I think a case could be made here for unauthorized access under the CFAA for users who don't want to switch but are switched anyway. Microsoft is clearly overstepping its bounds and accessing files that it has no perm
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by joesmo 11y ago
Whenever 'freedom' is mentioned in such a context, it obviously means the lack of freedom as in the USA Freedom Act, Freedom Fries, etc. Free trade is therefore, anything but.
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by joesmo 11y ago
Because to regular people he spins it as a trade deal that will get us x, y, and z. Regular people don't understand how they're being fucked in the ass by Obama on this issue.
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is what happens when you have companies profiting off the misery of others. The biggest reason for companies wanting to protect their source code in this case is that they already know their software is broken, like pretty much every o
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by joesmo 11y ago
Great article. This is the only way I can think about security. It leads to only one conclusion. Nothing connected to a network is secure, therefore nothing connected to a network is private. That's kind of sad actually, but it's
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by joesmo 11y ago
What's the point of having a company like FB or Starbucks in your country if they're an incredible net loss to the economy? Why not stop attracting these kinds of businesses or even actively seek to kick them out? I mean, assuming
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by joesmo 11y ago
So is there evidence of this in states where cannabis access has been legal/decriminalized for at least a decade like California, Washington, and the Netherlands as a whole? It sounds like a significant portion of students from those s
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by joesmo 11y ago
Yes, the pace of fundamental inventions has slowed down, but that has nothing to do with progress. I think the author confuses two ideas: progress and technological inventions. Progress is not defined by the appearance of new "fundamen
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by joesmo 11y ago
Special Interest groups misusing their position in a capitalistic system is capitalism. You can't separate the two. Wherever capitalism exists, special interest groups misusing their position exist. Thus, I'd say the problem is
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by joesmo 11y ago
WTF is this and why should I sign up if the site doesn't tell me anything about itself?
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Over 5000% Price Gouge Still Not Lowered by Turing Pharma. CEO, Martin Shkreli(observer.com)
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by joesmo 11y ago
Please. Anything the advertisers can come up with is easily defeated on the ad-blocking side. The only way the ad companies can get in is to convince ad blockers to let them pay and not be filtered ... which isn't a very good plan when
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by joesmo 11y ago
Arguably? I don't think so. If the producer wants to protect their content, put it behind a paywall or similar. If you're sending out content to anyone for free, you can have no expectations of making money. Either guard it or don

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