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by mapgrep 13y ago
>everyone of those google employees who lives in SF pays SF taxes, quite high taxes as a matter of fact Not sure what this refers to but San Francisco funds come mainly from payroll tax, sales tax, property tax, and real estate transfer
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by mapgrep 13y ago
>Companies don't pay taxes it's the shareholders and the employees who pay taxes. This is false. What do you mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_Sta... http://www.bloo
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by mapgrep 13y ago
I have gone through similar feelings and you raise a great point: The buses from Google, Facebook, etc. are far better than those same companies quietly doing nothing as their employees clog the freeways, which is very common among other co
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Not a crypto expert so tell me if I'm wrong but isn't the one downside of this the risk that a user will click "Allow" when he should not? I.e. a phishing site stating "if your Twitter mobile app prompts you to Allo
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Agreed but keep in mind the Perl community were black sheep for years because the language is so (admittedly) hairy and ugly oh and also not a "real" programming language because it gained adoption when scripting languages still h
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by mapgrep 13y ago
This is admittedly anecdotal but: I made the jump from Perl to Ruby, and I can tell you I miss the quality of CPAN. Yes you're right that CPAN has older stuff in it compared to say rubygems.org. It also has, as a gross generalization,
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Yup. They could use a fair, non misleading chart in the WaPo piece and still make a good point about copyright.
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Thanks for the pointer! I think you're right that The Atlantic piece is more fair. On the "adjusted" chart you reference, my thought was the adjustment makes that chart not hugely useful to the copyright debate. In other word
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Look, I'm all for limiting copyright but let's think about exactly what you're looking at vs what's in the original study ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2295085_code... ). The
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Then I'll try and be a little more civilized here: Along with some nice things, 4chan is also a notorious breeding ground for some of the worst and most noxious media and hateful activity (e.g. harassment campaigns) on the internet. Th
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Democracy has been trammeled before. This does not excuse it being trammeled again. The scandals you list at the end of your comment had, largely if not entirely, investigations and consequences. The NSA scandals largely have not. (The chie
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by mapgrep 13y ago
You are correct, the OS X EULA since 10.7 Lion has allowed two additional instances to be run within virtualization at no additional charge. Here is the EULA for 10.8, search for "virtual": http://www.apple.com/leg
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by mapgrep 13y ago
But if BBCW is emphatically not subsidized as stated above, wouldn't it be perfectly OK -- even more OK than regular BBC -- if it competed with UK commercial websites? Since it's not got any "unfair" subsidy advantage? N
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by mapgrep 13y ago
You seem to have missed this key passage in the linked article, which makes it pretty clear Ecuador is backing away. They could issue another "letter of safe passage," but won't and are saying he should face U.S. authorities.
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by mapgrep 13y ago
>The web is not just a place for text/words, that is not its heart and soul... It really never has been. I am thinking back when they named the protocol the HyperText Transport Protocol and the primary format the HyperText Markup La
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by mapgrep 13y ago
>Fares bring in a lot of money, but they cost money to collect—6% of the MTA's budget "A lot of money" is awfully vague. Especially for a publication called The Economist. Turns out farebox revenue is 41% of the MTA's
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by mapgrep 13y ago
So it's come to this: A company spends tens of milions of dollars financing great shows that wouldn't exist otherwise, including one that was cancelled and left for dead, then makes it incredibly easy and cheap to get at this cont
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by mapgrep 13y ago
>backups are only done in whole-file increments, not at a block level OP seems to refer to how the Time Machine destination backup file is chunked when using a sparsebundle, such that individual chunks can be updated in isolation, whic
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by mapgrep 13y ago
There is a cool system called ConXTech that uses robots to make big chunks of buildings that can be assembled on site with far less work than conventional steel-frame construction. Think of it as a lego type snap-together system http://www
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Exactly. Or put another way, freeloaders gonna freeload. Netflix won't make money locking out the guy who bums a password to save a measly $8/month, because as soon as that guy gets locked out he's headed to BitTorrent, not the Netflix sign
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Right, my point is that neither service is ironclad secure. (By the way, loading and activating a prepaid Visa anonymously is more tricky than you'd think post Patriot Act - I'd venture criminals would more likely just grab a stolen CC). In
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by mapgrep 13y ago
It's also very possible to abuse a local, bricks and mortar key duplication service. To abuse the online service, you need a valid credit card not in your name or traceable to you, a valid anonymous dropbox to ship to, a clean shot of the
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Where is MySQL innovation nowadays?(dom.as)
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Great tool. Any plans for a browser plugin that lets people see what others have highlighted on a given page?
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by mapgrep 13y ago
You bring up a great point, which is actually an excellent alternative answer to OP's question, "what do you expect?" What we should expect is for banks to protect themselves as businesses by changing compensation to account for long term r
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by mapgrep 13y ago
>what do you expect in a free market system that rewards every marginal advantage I expect the government to allow so-called free market capitalists to fail when they fail. Lehman was emphatically NOT staffed by the best and brightest -
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by mapgrep 13y ago
Ah, sorry I misread you! :) I hesitate to put an expiration date on Google+, except relative to RSS. Hmm.
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by mapgrep 13y ago
>"There is no "patent" on... creating a more durable (and by that I mean self sustainable) service which has the same capability." I'd love to hear why you believe going from a decentralized open shared system like RSS to a centralized
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Cool, glad I wasn't just dumb or crazy :-) And I look forward to the blog posts.
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by mapgrep 14y ago
It just sounds like you meant to say "capital is ABUNDANT in comparison to the talent." Capital being scarce in comparison to the talent has been the case for decades if not centuries. >"With convex work in the technological era... your

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