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by nathanb 14y ago
Fair warning: the first title that came up for me was NSFW.
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Some language in the post I found interesting: > The language we proposed also raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement. We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to rem
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They are providing your data to a third party who intend to use it for profit without your explicit consent. How heinous you view this act depends on how much you value your data, I suppose, but I think the analogy quite accurately describe
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by nathanb 14y ago
> Linux isn't free, not only does it cost time, it costs privacy. How does that follow? I'm assuming you're using an economic rather than ideological definition of the world "free", which sort of misunderstands the point of the article
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by nathanb 14y ago
From the article: > T-Mobile will have to explain to customers that they will actually save money over the length of a two-year contract by paying a lower value plan rate. So it sounds like they're still locking you in to a contract at
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by nathanb 14y ago
Can you elaborate on "off-contract"? It sounds like even without the subsidy you still have to commit to a two-year contract.
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by nathanb 14y ago
In my opinion, by linking a person's gittip account with their public persona (twitter or, worse, github) and then calling a person out as "suspicious", you are doing your user base a disservice. If I was trying to do the right thing by tip
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by nathanb 14y ago
Sounds like they're misusing the word "suspicious". Either that, or they're setting themselves for PayPal-esque issues at scale. If your business model is "one suspicion means your account is frozen", once you are at a scale large enough to
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I don't see how "not adequately replicating mouth conditions" leads to "would not be useful to determine effect on enamel". Yes, there will be significant differences between drinking Coke and soaking a tooth in Coke overnight. But that doe
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Do they? Even so, they will remineralize at the same rate regardless of the substance which dissolved them in the first place, right? (Ignoring, of course, that the ongoing presence of bacteria feeding on sugars may counteract the remineral
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by nathanb 14y ago
Is that true? I remember Mythbusters disproving the myth that it would dissolve a tooth overnight. Perhaps a week is too much time.
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by nathanb 14y ago
Or how about experimental science? Get some human teeth (probably not difficult or expensive for a dentist), weigh them, plunk them in each liquid, let them sit for a week, see which ones lost the most mass. Obviously scientific rigor would
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by nathanb 14y ago
Presumably because NSS is the only part of Mozilla actually written in C...
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Would be cool if it went into greater detail. "Oh, you're a C programmer? You can work on NSS". Thanks for letting me know. I'll log that away. How about this: "You're a C programmer? Here's an interesting bug targeted to the NSS component
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Are you sure that's accountable and transparent enough? Perhaps we should establish a third agency to handle complaints regarding the second agency and ensure that everything is aboveboard.
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by nathanb 14y ago
I didn't downvote, but an assertion coupled with waffle words and with no citation doesn't add much to the conversation. Phrasing it as "in my experience, love is contagious" would at least frame the comment more accurately (individual expe
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by nathanb 14y ago
Yeah, it would definitely be interesting to know that. But even so, is it really that hard to believe that the feds have their own agenda and are acting on their own for this one? I realize I have no proof to back up my assertion that this
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by nathanb 14y ago
JSTOR have said that once they had a guarantee the articles had been secured--which I believe means that Aaron claims he no longer has them and has not, and will not distribute them--they had no more interest in pursuing the case. This is t
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by nathanb 14y ago
You are conflating two independent ideas: was it wise to behave as she did, and was 4chan's response OK. The answer to both is "no". It was unwise for her to do what she did, but that does not justify the response. Don't accuse people of bl
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by nathanb 14y ago
I don't think any reasonable person has a problem with PayPal deciding to freeze funds in order to ensure that they make a profit. The problem is that, once they have done so, it requires Moses and ten Biblical plagues in order for them to
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by nathanb 14y ago
> Valve makes games people actually want to run, rather than most of the games we work with now... BURN! And I know I've said this before, but there are open-source drivers for the other vendors' cards as well...and I think they'd ben
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by nathanb 14y ago
I'm running Arch as well, though I don't use the AUR. Stuff tends to crustify too much and too easily in there.
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by nathanb 14y ago
I think the article does a great job of explaining the problem, but doesn't explore the ramifications far enough. Let me give an example: a few months ago, a new version of Skype was announced for Linux. I was excited, since I used Skype 2
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by nathanb 14y ago
Do I just fail at reading, or do these benchmarks lack any context? The question I want answered is how these chipsets compare with other offerings. The context I would like to see is the same tests run on low/mid/high-end AMD and nVidia pa
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by nathanb 14y ago
Are windshield flyers now called "fake parking tickets" in order to sound less like spam?
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I think you're missing the point of what I said. I didn't say that story-based games should be movies rather than stories. I said that if games don't utilize the interactivity of the medium, they may as well be movies. If the interactivity
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by nathanb 14y ago
I think you just made his point for him. What makes games interesting as a storytelling medium is the degree of interactivity. If a game is heavily story-based but I can get all (or most) of the game's value just by watching a youtube video
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by nathanb 14y ago
Also: because humility isn't just beneficial when you're talking to a genius. I've regretted being brash or self-promoting fairly regularly, but I have yet to regret being humble. Though admittedly this may be related to the low sample size
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by nathanb 14y ago
He has two version of Templar Assault and Cyber Knights (paid and free) and three versions of Star Traders (paid, free, lite). Many big-name games do this (you can choose between a paid version and a free, ad-supported version). Rovio relea
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by nathanb 14y ago
Yeah, but not for Android or their Play store or their app ecosystem. brador's comment stands. Would I trust my livelihood to a company with a proven track record of not caring about its own digital sharecroppers?

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