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by mbillie1 12y ago
> So maybe you should consider respecting someone who thinks taking his life and innocent lives to make a point, or at least respect the point he is trying to make. "Even today it takes only the crudity of a persecution to give an o
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> The author does not want you to respect the cause for which he has taken the risk, but the fact that he felt strongly enough about it to put his life on the line for it Again, I fail to see how conviction is by itself worthy of respect
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> Sunde was willing to take risks for what he believed in. He deserves a lot of respect for that no matter what people think about the morality of what he helped to create I find this argument completely fallacious. Does it change the va
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Google Targets 10,000 NYC Households for High Speed Internet(wnyc.org)
3 points by mbillie1 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> But there is something to be said for "playing well with others". We're all trying to make things, not be the backdrop for your exquisitely-crafted sense of craft. I had the same reaction here. Everybody wants good desig
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by mbillie1 12y ago
I made it to http://regexcrossword.com/challenges/experienced/puzzles/4 before I opted to keep my sanity for the remainder of the day instead of continuing :) very well done. As noted, add non-FB login option
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by mbillie1 12y ago
With respect to the 5 questions at the end, it seems arguably that the author's own evidence demonstrates the incorrectness of the decision for everyone except current customers. Interesting path to take, and nice to read the thought p
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> I don’t think any company should have both horizontal (i.e. services) and vertical (i.e. devices) businesses. I find it curious that Microsoft is the target of this criticism, and I am further curious what the author thinks about Apple
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by mbillie1 12y ago
The Mistake Not... 's unveiling of its name in The Hydrogen Sonata is one of the funnier ship name moments I can think of.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
I've always found the Culture a fascinating and refreshing alternative to the extremely played-out and commonplace dystopic visions of AI as exist in virtually all other science fiction. It's also interesting to think about how a
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by mbillie1 12y ago
In the Gulf of Mexico and the area around Florida, the Coast Guard does an enormous amount of drug-traffic-policing.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> If those are really problems - you have problem with your gov and your laws, not bitcoin or tip4commit. This is a staggeringly arrogant position to take. "Go change your laws, not this bitcoin service." Really?
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by mbillie1 12y ago
I'm not sure how "Popularity" counts as a reason unless you are a high school student. Also, on my i7 MBP Retina with only 8GB RAM / 256GB SSD I notice no lag whatsoever, even while running a VM and two browsers. This st
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by mbillie1 12y ago
I take issue with the title of the article, which seems to equate positive thinking with naivety. It's link bait for exactly the people who don't need it: the despondent and cynical.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
This thread is indeed alarmingly close to becoming a parody of itself: "Why don't poor people just make more money?"
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> The full Facebook post, obtained by Bloomberg, contained an anti-U.S. rant calling the government guilty of “immoral and unethical acts.” Is it necessarily anti-U.S. to accuse the government of immoral and unethical acts? Surely most o
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by mbillie1 12y ago
I left Dropbox for Copy solely because of the appointment of Condoleezza Rice.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> I'm curious to see what sort of dynamic this creates in the site. As a daily reddit user for 4+ years, I'd wager that it'll just be an exaggerated amount of the same. With any internet community it seems, given enough ti
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> At this point, it’s not really possible to revolutionize the smartphone I see this sentiment batted around quite a bit these days. Just because nobody has revolutionized the smartphone in the past few years doesn't mean it'
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> I love where I live and I'm not leaving. This is a big motivation for me as well. I live in Salt Lake City and all winter long I can ski at dawn before every day of work, and all summer long I can climb 11k' mountains 20 minu
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by mbillie1 12y ago
Interesting article from a small non-tech company out where I live, Cotopaxi. They're a SLC area outdoor-gear manufacturer with a fairly creative take on their social mission, and they're off to early success thus far. I thought t
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Before Incorporating a Social Mission [in Your Startup], Consider These 5 Things(entrepreneur.com)
2 points by mbillie1 12y ago|1 comments
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> Are you now an "Apple guy" because you have money to spend and no longer consider Apple devices overpriced for their value, and you now value your time more? This is definitely a big part of it, yes. I could make it work wi
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> I use Linux on my desktop because I need something that just works. Agreed - I still use Linux on my desktop for this reason as well. I can have years' worth of uptime, if need be. I haven't used a Thinkpad, which the comment
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by mbillie1 12y ago
> Fighting with Android became less and less appealing over time This rings true to me. I was long a diehard Android/Linux guy - even an explicitly anti-Apple person. 5 years of professional development later and I'm typing on
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by mbillie1 12y ago
A few places in Salt Lake City, the side-of-the-road parking is in between traffic and the bike lane, shielding the bike lane from cars. I'd be curious to see if it makes a statistical difference in accident rates.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
That's like saying that "being skinny and being in a room with body builders will never be safe" because the larger people are capable of physically hurting you either deliberately or through negligence - in other words, that
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How does that help, other than economically discouraging cycling?
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by mbillie1 12y ago
Cutting and insightful. Thanks for linking it.
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by mbillie1 12y ago
What a nightmare it would be to update the UK flag in language selections everywhere...

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