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by nfoz 12y ago
I'll agree to the jist of your "opposing argument" above, except for the uncomfortable tone, and this derogation: > It really is a supreme sense of entitlement. That doesn't follow. Why do you attribute such disrespe
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by nfoz 12y ago
One obvious way is taxation. It's the same way we fund expensive photographs of space, and high-quality journalism, and world-class educational materials... all of which contribute to the common good, like these insect photos. There a
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by nfoz 12y ago
> But we don't do that. We don't want to pay taxes to let him fly around the world and photograph things for the good of the commons. I want that. Many people want that. And my tax dollars do do this already. Provincial an
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by nfoz 12y ago
It seems that he is (or, used to be) making a living from a specific business model that only exists because it is upheld by copyright law. I am of the opinion that copyright law should be (slowly, responsibly) abolished. As long as peopl
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by nfoz 12y ago
You think the Law should be used to determine how to properly incentivize the commerce of photographs, at the cost of its peoples' freedom of expression? Probably you do, and that's a fine perspective. I was just offering a diffe
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by nfoz 12y ago
Another point of view: the more amazing they are, the more important it is that they are in the public domain, as it would be a valuable asset for the commons.
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by nfoz 12y ago
> We can do it technically My understanding is that this is a difficult technical challenge and an active area of research. It is difficult to predict which geological structures on Earth will be stable and inaccessible by life forms or
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by nfoz 12y ago
One of the non-renewable aspects of Nuclear power is the storage of nuclear waste, which has specific geological requirements which are not easy to satisfy in many parts of the world. I expect that's a more limiting factor than the ava
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by nfoz 12y ago
I bought a Chromebook Pixel 2015. The first thing it asks, when you turn it on, is for an Internet connection. You cannot go past the first-boot panel until you give it internet access, then agree to Google's ToS which says you'
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by nfoz 12y ago
Maps was the one Google app I thought I'd miss when I switched to Blackberry. And, it is. But Blackberry Maps is soo much nicer for the "just show me where I am on a map" use-case. Street names are shown, and displayed in l
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by nfoz 12y ago
It doesn't turn off the screen, and it doesn't turn off the ads. It stops the moving video and audio, and replaces it with a mostly-static blue screen with a few ads that jump position on the screen now and then.
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by nfoz 12y ago
"Both sides win" when a consumer chooses to spend their money on gambling. They're getting what they pay for, of their own volition. I consider advertising to be offensive, and think it's appropriate for a society (big
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by nfoz 12y ago
I love laptops and follow the market quite carefully. But why is this here? I can understand the discussion about the new Apple Macbook, and the Google Pixel 2015, and the Dell "Sputnik" linux laptops. Because they all have some
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by nfoz 12y ago
How is the keyboard? The "thin" craze seems to me that keyboards are all disappointing compared to small laptops that I own that are 5+ years old.
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by nfoz 12y ago
I don't understand how this: > prefetching is a browser feature; users should be able to disable it easily. can be preceded so closely by this: > there is a hidden preference that you can set to disable link prefetching. > How
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by nfoz 12y ago
> A bacteria doesn't differentiate between human's throat and a martian's butt. I'm not sure that a spider does either.
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by nfoz 12y ago
It sounds like how I'd raise a pokemon...
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by nfoz 12y ago
> Dolly was conceived through surrogacy after the death of her brother, international archer and coach Cherukuri Lenin, in a road accident in 2010 reports said. > Her father, Cherukuri Satyanarayana, said she had been trained since bi
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by nfoz 12y ago
Thank you. It is short and fascinating.
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by nfoz 12y ago
Why shouldn't this be up to the mouse driver? I used to just use middle-click for this.
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by nfoz 12y ago
Sounds good to me.
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by nfoz 12y ago
.... which is exactly what I propose is the problem. Those are the extra features that we bought at the cost of users' security and privacy. Even if those are desirable features, it's not clear that they should be a part of the
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by nfoz 12y ago
I think it's reasonable to consider that we should stop adding new features to the web until it's at a point where we could have at least one www that doesn't leave users vulnerable. Literally every browser is unsafe, and has
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by nfoz 12y ago
I don't know the background. Doesn't this same problem exist with any store ? I could buy a laptop from BestBuy, or I could go straight to the manufacturer e.g. Dell. I've always been annoyed when I can't just buy th
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by nfoz 12y ago
I agree tap-click is awful. MacOS does a fantastic job at supporting both modes. Other laptops... not so much. They seem to expect tap-click, because they get so confused when there are two fingers on the pad. I want to move with one fin
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by nfoz 12y ago
Afaict it's not yet known if there will be any hardware differences between the Windows and Ubuntu models. Yes, of course you can wipe the OS in either case. Dell's Linux extensions are open-source as far as I know, e.g. their to
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by nfoz 12y ago
Agree. The funny part is that Apple's touchpad driver is open-source (under a scary Apple Open Source license, but still). You can read it. Or at least, you could circa 2006. I've been meaning to hack on the Linux driver since
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by nfoz 12y ago
This looks very nice to combine with the Novena: http://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
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by nfoz 12y ago
Oh interesting, this is the M3800 which is Dell's beefy 15" Linux laptop. Glad to see it getting some light. If you're looking for something more portable, the New XPS 13 is in development and is supposed to launch soon. I
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by nfoz 12y ago
I want the govt / central banks to do it.

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