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by largesse 14y ago
I tried watching the video, but it had no information. Not a drop of code or an ounce of strategy. It was just a status report.
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by largesse 14y ago
Good question. I'm tempted to just allow the courts to nullify TOS provisions. They periodically do, calling them "unconscionable."
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by largesse 14y ago
Descriptivist. Sorry ;-)
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by largesse 14y ago
Fair enough. Thanks.
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by largesse 14y ago
This begs the question: if the acquisition was talent acquisition why couldn't they have just sold the Posterous name and software?
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by largesse 14y ago
I know HN follows the "less is more" philosophy, but one thing I'd really like is the ability to "save" a submission like you can on reddit. As it is, the only way I can do that is to comment, which probably isn't very good for anybody.
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by largesse 14y ago
If Obama cares about education, he can start by dismantling the 'No Child Left Behind' apparatus. It is the most concrete impediment to responsive education I've seen in my lifetime.
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by largesse 14y ago
Weren't Quora the ones who tried to tell other users which pages you read also? Yup, it was them: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/09/creepy-quora-erod... This more than cluelessness, it's the same sort of low-grade sociopathy that
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by largesse 14y ago
I too am outraged. I nearly lost my monocle.
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by largesse 14y ago
I suspect that there's no such thing as an Illinois or Massachusetts account to Chase. They are all just accounts held by clients who are US citizens.
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by largesse 14y ago
Interesting, but we live in a country where the Mayor of New York (Bloomberg) is attempting to actively restrict the use of narcotics for people in pain in order to keep them out of the hands of abusers. We live in a pathetically immature c
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by largesse 14y ago
It's a shame that the term consultant carries that connotation these days.
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by largesse 14y ago
You're a consultant and variable overhead of $20 to $100 a month is unmanageable??
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by largesse 14y ago
You made me briefly imagine an 'excel app' with a 10 hour download from an app store. Don't make me do that again. I'm still recovering.
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by largesse 14y ago
Obviously, the answer is to have everyone sign up for BangWithFriends. Then anonymity is assured.
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by largesse 14y ago
The article doesn't say anything about how the law is taking shape, it just repeats criticisms of it.
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by largesse 14y ago
Unlike children (who typically are given their toys), these toys are the result of "his" work. Er, no. They are the work of everyone who posts on CL.
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by largesse 14y ago
I'm wondering whether a good defense would be that with natural gene mutation, these seeds aren't the ones under patent.
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by largesse 14y ago
Re Devil's Advocate: that's a copyright rather than patent.
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by largesse 14y ago
Predictable. I really wish Google or IBM had acquired Sun. We could be seeing a second life for Java rather than this disgusting shuffle of the undead.
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by largesse 14y ago
Stockpile in preparation for ammo control?
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by largesse 14y ago
It's human nature. People have done this for millennia and I think that they always will. That's why I don't get upset about it. I don't expect anything different from human beings. This is the way we act in aggregate. Fight the battles yo
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by largesse 14y ago
..if they know the username of the account. Beyond that, I don't think there is any legal basis to compel a password. Do you know of one? I'm curious about it. In the UK, apparently, there is but only for criminal investigations.
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by largesse 14y ago
In the anecdote in the article, the guy who had his laptop searched was asked for a password. As far as I know, there is no legal basis for compelling a password at the border. He could've just said no. The price would probably be losing
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by largesse 14y ago
Two things: It's a but late for this. Second, I don't think the world works that way. We like to think that public pleas for individuals to abstain from voluntary action are effective, but it doesn't seem likely. Consider that the number o
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by largesse 14y ago
And this is how 3D printing becomes regulated out of existence.
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by largesse 14y ago
It's a good article. Human beings are wired to believe that things that are "natural" or "pure" are better than things that are "artificial." It's a quality of human nature that seems to show up in all cultures. Steven Pinker lists many o
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by largesse 14y ago
He seems to have his facts wrong. Swartz did have legal access to the articles. He merely used an alternative mechanism for acquiring them quickly.
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by largesse 14y ago
I'm fine with actual neuroscience.
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by largesse 14y ago
Simple answer: they would lose money from the junk mailers. It's a sizable part of their revenue, possibly more than half.

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