mibbitier

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by mibbitier 14y ago
Also "large" is fairly meaningless when you don't include a measure of complexity. Sharing images is a fairly simple task.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Is market leader defined in terms of quality/features? Or number of users?
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Socialism is just a path to Communism.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
If you nationalize everything, and run everything as a state owned monopoly, then individuals can no longer own companies. That was the extreme position of the Labour party. Obviously some things need to be state owned. I would say that h
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Are you 100% the memory leak was in nvd3 code? Did you submit a bug report or patch? I guess some like kicking people when they're down.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Briefly searching around the net, anything can be found to be very scary.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
And how history is often decided based on who shouts the loudest, rather than the actual facts.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
How is the state owning monopolies and locking out competition considered "liberal"?
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by mibbitier 14y ago
> Correction: higher-band taxpayers might have been paying through the nose. People paying less tax (i.e. the less well-off) were paying less. Ah yes, because as long as it's those nasty greedy rich people overpaying for inefficient sta
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by mibbitier 14y ago
You're probably right. But I can wipe with a towel in 2 seconds. 20 seconds is far too long to be any use.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
If we hadn't privatised industries like British Leyland, British Steel, etc etc etc, we would be bankrupt and in the grips of unions. Maybe you weren't born when this was going on, but "prices were cheap" is idiotic. British leyland, Britis
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Is nationalisation of the entire economy to state ownership really "progressive"? That clause has some pretty nasty overtones IMHO.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Everyone knows how to call up their ISP and ask for filtering to be turned on or off. First step after buying a mobile phone is to call them up and get them to remove the stupid filtering.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Air dryers are incredibly bad. Hand dryers are practically a waste of time since they barely do anything IMHO.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
It may well have been a "fun thing" they added in there, but never intended to release to the public. The "bug" could well have been that it was enabled in the public release. So, it's a feature, but the bug could have been that it was unin
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Reddit demographic is extremely anti-advertising, and poor. Not exactly an extremely easy group to monetize.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
If everyone got one of these, websites would just change a bit of code, and ads would work again. Thankfully, most people find advertising a useful part of their lives - adblock usage is still something like 1% of users. blocking ads is as
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Writing a complete json parser would have taken less time than writing this rant...
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Cleaning up? By spending spending and more spending? And increasing the wars and death tolls? hmmmm... Not quite sure how that's helping things.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Please do not speak for other people. I am from the UK and literally cannot understand why anyone would want 4 more years of the same. Wars waged, promises broken, drone strikes, trillions and trillions spent, plunging the country further a
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Just put some more javascript in there to deal with it. I'm sure it's not the hardest problem in the world.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
huh? Infrastructure is totally and utterly irrelevant to the problem. I know enough about common sense to make such a claim. Just send a new message, exactly as you would post an original item/comment/etc, but have some special text/f
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by mibbitier 14y ago
All they need to do is add a new "message" to say "y'know that message number 4029375 in the cache, yeah that ones deleted, ignore it". This is not hard.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Difference is though, with an internal combustion engine, the "turning fuel into power" happens inside the car. Whereas with electric cars, it happens at a power plant... then gets sent to the car via electricity, with lots of it wasted alo
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by mibbitier 14y ago
You mean the ones that typically only last a year or 2?
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Burning coal to make electricity, then transmitting that electricity all over the country, wasting some of it along the way... Then using that to charge a battery, then using that to power a motor. I'm not sure it sounds particularly effici
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by mibbitier 14y ago
That would explain why Currys and PC World are also ridiculously awful. Every time I go into one of those shops, it's because I need something immediately, to take away. They never have it in stock, and ask if I'd like to order it. If I wan
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by mibbitier 14y ago
I'll bite. How in the world do you consider driving to be wasted time? Don't you think while you're driving? Don't you work through problems in your mind? Don't you rest, listen to music/radio? Don't you have interesting discussions with
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by mibbitier 14y ago
3. Why does everyone sigh when they find a "software" on off switch compared to a hardware one? Because the software one invariably doesn't work, or doesn't work immediately. 4. I'm sure it's possible to make an automatic transmission bette
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by mibbitier 14y ago
1. Can you imagine Top Gear proclaiming driverless cars as the way to get status? No. They'll be ridiculed by anyone who knows anything about cars (Same way people who drive an automatic are ridiculed). Imagine "Drag and drop programming is

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