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by m3rc 12y ago
They certainly got the disruptive part down, their pricing is ridiculous. I'm now the owner of a fitness band despite my previous reservations about how useful they actually were, because the Xiaomi MiBand was $17. It's pretty inc
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by m3rc 12y ago
Can we maybe find a Genesis planet real quick? I'm not ready for him to be dead :(
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by m3rc 12y ago
Movies don't look "weird" at 48fps, they just look different from what we're used to. However watching 24fps movies on a TV with a higher refresh-rate that just duplicate frames, DOES look weird, and that's not a ve
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by m3rc 12y ago
Not only that, but if that piece of fantastical bullshit is actually way worse if taken at face value. "Obviously, in retrospect, if we had known what that meant in terms of how it was implemented, we would have never done it." So
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by m3rc 12y ago
There was no plea deal offered to Ulbricht, and he steadfastly refused to plead guilty. Honestly hearing stuff like that makes me pretty damn confident in the prosecution's case, Ulbricht really does seem like the kind of guy who thoug
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by m3rc 12y ago
And I bet if you wanted she could rate your competitor's apps as well
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by m3rc 12y ago
What if your startup's product is a Wallet Ninja?
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by m3rc 12y ago
Not to mention that they would run into all sorts of problems with their weird "give 10% of investments back to the users" idea.
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by m3rc 12y ago
Yes, but that's hardly reason to purposefully feed the flames of reddit conspiracy theorists by making a more high profile announcement. And if there is a /r/TIL post down the road that starts a witch-hunt it's not like
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by m3rc 12y ago
What would you have had them do? Make a full blog post for every single employee they hire or layoff? Have the entirety of the site (which is already hypercritical of the admins) mull through and critique every single personnel decision? Th
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by m3rc 12y ago
It was, everyone who really cared about it in the slightest knew http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2uadvd/the_real_rea... http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2u
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by m3rc 12y ago
Oh I don't know any real details about it, or what "community" was affected, that's just what came to mind when they mentioned DMCA take-downs in the post. I don't think there was a ton of other content that got eno
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by m3rc 12y ago
The celebrity leaked nude stuff had a lot of DMCA flying around, pretty sure they even nuked a couple subreddits to comply with some of it
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by m3rc 12y ago
Would that also mean the defense would be barred from mentioning it? If they're approach is to prove that DPR was multiple people over time it would probably help them to talk about nature of the name in the context of the movie
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by m3rc 12y ago
This comment isn't responsive to mine.
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by m3rc 12y ago
I certainly haven't heard that "a majority of low-income urban families already have broadband access", in fact I've read pretty much the exact opposite. I certainly agree that there are a host of other improvements that
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by m3rc 12y ago
I didn't mean to imply we should skip Title II, I was more saying that regardless of the method, Title II utility classification or munincipal run entity or another opiton, just anything other than the current privatized system
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by m3rc 12y ago
I mean... yeah if you start from the assumption that universial broadband access is regressive then it'd be a bad idea but that's making a massive assumption with only one outcome 1.) The market is already providing those services
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by m3rc 12y ago
What? I'm not saying that broadband access has to be a Title II service, I was just refuting you saying that the current privatized system is better than a utility/munincipal solution because you had a choice between two providers
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by m3rc 12y ago
I don't think you read mine either. We already do that, we already use public funds to pay for things that do, or have the potential to, benefit the rich more. Besides the fact that there's no way to actually prove paying for brad
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by m3rc 12y ago
Are the current munincipal partnerships with Google Fiber worse than the current totally private run ISPs?
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by m3rc 12y ago
So where's the downside to the current munincipal partnerships areas like Kansas City have with Google Fiber?
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by m3rc 12y ago
If it's an upside for everyone, how is that supposed to be regressive? Is tourism regressive? Or libraries? Do you have any examples of a tax payed for service that is somehow totally equally spread in it's helping of people?
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by m3rc 12y ago
I'm sorry, I don't see those in any way the same. In both of your latter examples there IS a judgment being made by a form of AI someone built, there's a question there of someone building a tool that can act and decide thing
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by m3rc 12y ago
Faster broadband isn't just an improvement on a personal level where specific power users benefit, as we've seen in cities that start up partnerships with Google Fiber it's an incredible boost to the city's economy from
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by m3rc 12y ago
Seriously, the roomba doesn't make a judgment about the insect because the roomba isn't making judgments about ANYTHING, it's just an extension of a human's choices, it just happens at a delay from when the human initial
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by m3rc 12y ago
If it's not profitable for a company such as Verizon, isn't that another argument towards classifying broadband as a utility and setting up service providers through a munincipal partnership where profit isn't the goal?
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by m3rc 12y ago
Maybe not to you, or to someone coming from a pure math area, but to anyone who studies social changes/trends then yes, it would be
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by m3rc 12y ago
This is the Paper issue all over again
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by m3rc 12y ago
Not sure what it used to be, but they've updated how they treat crowdfunding: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/months-after-borking...

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