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by moxiemk1 16y ago
To be fair, at the time of writing, it was pretty difficult to destroy another nation's cities/property/wealth without physically entering and being next to them.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I'm quite sure that IBM actually makes the processors, at the plant in East Fishkill, NY. In the history section of that Wikipedia Article, IBM manufacturing the chips is referenced several times, but never Sony.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
> With the GPL, you can do whatever you want with the software except prohibiting users to do whatever they want with the software The GPL can prohibit me from distributing the program modified to depend on proprietary closed-source cod
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
But "Free Software" doesn't liberate you as much as "Open Source Software" - with BSD licensed "open source" projects, I can literally do whatever I want with the code. With GPL licensed "free software" projects, I am not allowed to distrib
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
The Wave Federation Protocol applies the old-school newsgroups philosophy of a local server handling storage and federation of communications (perhaps about a document, as in Google Wave, but more generally about arbitrary things) so that t
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Though the website may be down, purchases aren't being affected. I just bought something using paypal 2mins ago. Cousin comments indicate that it may be http vs https, which is at least confirmed in my browser: https://paypal.com loads wh
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Just because he turned himself in doesn't mean that he wouldn't flee afterwards. Wikileaks is in a very large part about influencing perception. Everything has a purpose. Again, someone who has been trekking around the globe because many go
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Is it bizarre to refuse bail to someone who has been constantly on the move and clearly knows how to evade detection to a fair degree? He seems to be a perfect example of a fleeing risk.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Not only has there been nothing resembling an "age of democracy" in modern times, but Julian Assange doesn't stand for democracy in any way, shape, or form. He has indeed demonstrated that modern technology combined with antiquated practice
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Decision matricies fall into the trap of treating qualitative data quantitatively. I would sincerely hope anywhere I am looking for a job is smart enough to know that this is fundamentally unsound.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Could we call it something more descriptive than "cablegate?" Its also not a scandal in the same way as Watergate - much more in line with the likes of the "Pentagon Papers". Perhaps a similarly descriptive hashtag, like #wikileakscables or
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Android seems to have the same problem with Skype: since Google's business model is different from the other mobile OS developers, it falls to the handset makers and carriers to make those sorts of ridiculous decisions. Verizon being the so
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Unless you include AppleTV, which today is getting an iOS 4.1 update http://www.macworld.com/article/155879/2010/11/appletv.html
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I had been reading this list; the main reason I still have a question is because this seems to indicate a scale different than I think we can achieve. Not so much the next Flip Camera company, taking a market that major companies think is a
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Ask PG: Hardware/Infrastructure startups and YC?
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
The argument as to whether _Brave New World_ has literary value is completely separate from _Fahrenheit 451_ and _1984_. Please, make the argument that it isn't the case on this particular book, but I'd say no book belongs in English clas
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
You're correct, I just checked. At one point, I remember there only being "Connect with Facebook" on the quora.com page for signing up. Now, both Twitter and Email are options. I guess I'll check this thing out now
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Is that all you're going to allow? I know I'm in the vast minority, but when sites only allow Facebook Connect, I don't use them. (still haven't made a Quora account). Maybe a small link underneath "Use other identity providers..." for thos
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
This was a great read. I've been in an academic slump of late, but I've just begun getting out (a bit late this semester, perhaps) and I can say he's absolutely right about doing smaller things that matter less, moving eventually into large
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Easy ways to open and close new accounts using the web interface. Operations like closing out an old savings account, opening a new one, etc. are simple to describe operationally, but aren't possible/are very hard online. Also, detailed exp
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
This question assumes that there is something valuable that Instagram does that Path is "copying" in some way. Instagram does a good job of quickly taking photos, applying filters, and then uploading them to your choice of social photo site
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Since there are 180million of them, presumably they were generated with a computer. Then, it seems that they probably fit into a finite number of patterns. If these could be determined, wouldn't this be a rather easy to crack captcha system
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Facebook has, I assume, the ability to discern me from an app, and so easily could give me a way to export my friends contact information made visible to me while simultaneously not giving it to Farmville.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
A quibble about the "download your information" feature: This is not data export. It's a nice offline look at some of the data I have on facebook, but not all the dt I've added, nor complete data of what it claims to have. The archive of
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Indeed: the article claimed Opera mini made mobile Safari feel painful to use, which in my experience is patently false. It is only occasionally noticeably faster, and the rendering is far worse. Mobile Safari is great because it actually
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
If it really is our data, then they should provide some sort of export-to-file that you could conceivably upload somewhere else. Streamlining the process of moving to another site, though, isn't part of being open with data. Its just a cour
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
This isn't the issue in a filibuster; the cowardice is on the part of the senator who refuses to give up the floor. The whole point is that you talk until the bill expires, and so cannot be voted on. Filibustering senators are declaring t
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
It's been a traditional courtsey in the Senate for the party in power not to shove through votes often, in respect that in the future they would eventually be the minority party, and occasionally need to filibuster as well. The possibility
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
No, they don't? The Republicans have used filibuster as a threat at an unprecedented level. The Senate has only nominally been in the Democrats' control. EDIT: Punctuation
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
If this turns out to be easy to learn, it could be huge. Fluid movement offers lots of possibility for high-speed. Unfortunately, odds of getting this on my iPhone are about zero. This may be the first software that has made me envious of A

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