modzu

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1. 901.▲
   by modzu 8y ago

   i agree with you 100%! i think you misunderstand -- thats exactly what im saying
2. 902.▲
   by modzu 8y ago

   damn. we need more linus, not less.
3. 903.▲
   by modzu 8y ago

   swat teams don't raid COMICON and carry away everyone dressed up in star trek outfits in paddy wagons right? fan art is a legitimate and protected form of artistic expression
4. 904.▲
   by modzu 8y ago

   they're sort of mail-blasted out to anything even remotely infringing; you put the onus on the recipient to prove otherwise. for fans and small shops without the resources to make their case (which may well be legitimate), its bullying
5. 905.▲
   by modzu 8y ago

   thanks for this! developer here; im going to recreate this app for the sole pleasure of telling cbs to 'suck it' when they send the inevitable cease and desist. and when it goes to court, ill be back pleading for help! :)
6. 906.▲
   by modzu 8y ago

   cbs seems to be a machine of human automatons not actually thinking or doing anything.. just following an algorithm, copying the shapes and colors from gene roddenberrys works and sticking on a price tag every business cycle
7. 907.▲
   by modzu 8y ago

   yup. cbs should be handing the team a wad of cash and saying, "run with it!!!"
8. 908.▲
   by modzu 8y ago

   its not really google specific other than in the sense google is breaking the law; if some other company breaks the law then yes, the law should come after them too...
9. 909.▲
   by modzu 8y ago

   for all you geniuses downvoting my tldr commment: by far the 2 most popular suggested alternatives from the thread were fastmail and protonmail. fastmail costs money. for us elite hacker types its no biggy but does your mom pay for email? i
10. 910.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    i was not calling "you" xenophobic, i was saying the sentiment of distrust for anything chinese seemed xenophobic to me, barring an explanation (which you provided, thanks. the exchange of ideas is good!). but i will call you a sp
11. 911.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    maybe its got an xtrans!
12. 912.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    i didnt mean to offend you either, it just seemed like more of a xenophobic than technical argument. apple is lauded for the security and privacy of the iphone but it is manufactured in china. could china have their hands in that "cook
13. 913.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    i read it. tldr: there isnt one.
14. 914.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    lol. you propose using an alternative then immediately ask, "btw what's an alternate..."
15. 915.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    i dont know why your comment is being downvoted instead of being replied to. its a valid comment. sadly im seeing this all the time now -- comments being downvoted just because other users disagree. if you disagree and have a valid argument
16. 916.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    your shirt was probably made by a chinese consortium too. why not touch opera because of that? americans.
17. 917.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    google seems too big to fail. what are you going to do? start searching with yahoo?
18. 918.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    does chrome let you choose what to sync? opera does (which is also forked from chromium), and you can encrypt the data with your own pw
19. 919.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    yep, infantry seems like the obvious application. wasnt BD funded by darpa?
20. 920.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    there's also opera. almost worth it just for the speed dial :)
21. 921.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    the irony here is that the premise might not even be true -- does social credit really provide the "control" or "stability" it aims to achieve? who is writing the algorithm that says "napkins" credit your socia
22. 922.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    i've been reading this same headline every year for 5 years :(
23. 923.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    neat! but (speaking of the pendulum fallacy) if the fuel tank was attached with cables instead of a fixed structure, wouldn't that actually work?
24. 924.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    i think the issue here is that in some states, there is an authority that needs to determine whether the price was an error, and that it cannot be at the sole discretion of the sportsbook?
25. 925.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    maybe i should not have used the phrase "void"; in this case the contract includes a clause that says, "where a blatant or palpable error is made in... prices offered... bets may be settled at the correct price at the time at
26. 926.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    it seems that errors are not uncommon and when they are "obvious" they typically void the contract. not sure why people are freaking out here. if you logged into your bank account and saw an extra zero that was caused by a tempora
27. 927.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    porn
28. 928.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    but electric engines don't flatten your stomach
29. 929.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    another way to think about it is this -- you could say to someone, "don't complain about your bike -- just lose 10 lbs and you'll get to your destination faster than you would by changing your bike". yeah ok, but like lo
30. 930.▲
    by modzu 8y ago

    it is true the difference in total weight is quite marginal (maybe 1%?) but that doesn't mean the impact is equal to 1%. there is a perceptual quality that is often neglected when calculating the differences purely in terms of physical