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by noarchy 13y ago
You'll hear similar things from vim users. And for those of us who use neither, we also like what is familiar, and it may keep some of us away from both emacs and vim.
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by noarchy 13y ago
In some ways it does resemble a bribe in exchange for freedom. There's also an exchange of power, where they introduce various permits and licenses associated with regulating the industry.
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by noarchy 13y ago
Apple can't popularize anything in the way they've done without millions of accomplices, who line up to hand over their money to Apple. What is Apple doing right that promoters of other platforms are not?
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BlackBerry Ltd’s BBM boss Andrew Bocking leaves the company(business.financialpost.com)
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by noarchy 13y ago
I suspect that it is "predatory" if it puts you out of business. It becomes illegal if you can convince a legislature to intervene (witness what happened in France, to Amazon[1]). Consumers don't tend to complain about lower
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by noarchy 13y ago
I bought a Nook Color in early 2011 during a trip to the States (I live in Canada). It was the first Android device on which I did any sort of mobile dev or hacking. My first experiences with custom roms, in fact, was on my Nook Color. Unfo
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by noarchy 13y ago
I'm quite aware that these kinds of razors were once commonplace. It is their [expensive] comeback that is noteworthy, and what I've dubbed a 'hipster fad'
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by noarchy 13y ago
That, or they also know that they can offload the cost onto the cities whose governments are willing to pay for it, instead. In such cases, why would the teams spend the money themselves?
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by noarchy 13y ago
By all means, I'd love to know what kind of value it adds. Up to this point, I've assumed that this, and products in this category, are some sort of hipster fad.
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by noarchy 13y ago
Some people are looking for places to spend their relatively-high incomes. Ditto for other, oddball things that have come along, of late, like super-expensive shaving equipment (first thing that came to mind).
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by noarchy 13y ago
You're assuming that the successors of Bush and Obama won't be as bad or even worse (if that's imaginable...and it is, I think). This era may mark a crucial point at which the collapse of the U.S. accelerated, I'll grant
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by noarchy 13y ago
Andrew Johnson won election to the Senate shortly before his death, in 1875. This was after several attempts to win political office in his post-Presidency years had failed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson#P
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President’s goal for NSA reform — no more Edward Snowdens(thehill.com)
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by noarchy 13y ago
Name-dropping Milton Friedman would be useful to court Friedmanites, not necessarily libertarians . I'm guessing that his son David ( http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/ ), who is even more libertarian than his father,
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by noarchy 13y ago
The likely outcome of this is that Rand Paul will be called out on his partisan motivations (and there will be some truth to it, I admit) in the media, and the courts will ultimately throw out the lawsuit and thus protect the surveillance s
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by noarchy 13y ago
We're in a new era of surveillance, where Nixon's abuses look like schoolyard pranks compared to what governments are doing today. Even the excesses of Hoover's FBI can't touch what is being done now. Considering how lit
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by noarchy 13y ago
If some people want to spend their time and energy on political pursuits, they're free to do so. I won't try to stop them, but I will be happy to both discourage them and to not join them in such pursuits. This isn't like try
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by noarchy 13y ago
Gay marriage and pot legalization haven't done anything to diminish the power of the State. If anything, they've done the opposite, by introducing even more controls into certain areas of our lives. But leaving that aside, I think
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by noarchy 13y ago
You think encouraging the use of technologies that protect privacy is akin to NRA rhetoric? Or is it that I don't believe in relying on government to protect privacy? We'll have to agree to disagree.
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by noarchy 13y ago
And when that court decides that it is all perfectly constitutional? That is the outcome that I expect, at this point. I think it is better to rely on ourselves to protect our privacy, where possible.
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by noarchy 13y ago
Those of you who want a political answer to this surveillance problem should pay attention when these things happen. This is your system, in a nutshell. The legislators, judges, law enforcement officials, etc, are all in on this. Don't
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by noarchy 13y ago
I don't know how "sensible" the change is, other than you're not going to automatically be treated like a criminal. It is a step in the right direction only due to the latter. If we treated other things (alcohol, for ins
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by noarchy 13y ago
I don't work at Shopify, but I've been grateful to them for allowing many of the local dev meetups here in the Ottawa area to use their fantastic space for our meetings. So I am glad to see things going so well for them.
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by noarchy 13y ago
>There's no point in critizicing Castro unless you also acknowledge everything he changed for good, and how the United States in the name of freedom and democracy wants to undo all that. Once you put everything at the same level, th
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by noarchy 13y ago
>Publicly approved? Publicly approved? The amount of rage-induced facepalming this causes is immense. No one in the public has known what they're up to, and Congressional attempts to get insight have been stymied and shut down. No o
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by noarchy 13y ago
The established checks and balances failed. There is a very good reason that journalists often have special protection in a free society: when they do their job, they help to bring balance to what might otherwise be unchecked government pow
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by noarchy 13y ago
And the HN Pedantry Patrol shows up, on schedule. Do we really deal with computers so much that we forget that human communications allow for a certain level of artistic license and flexibility?
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by noarchy 13y ago
I don't want to get drawn into a false dichotomy. The pre-Castro period was no paradise, I'm fully aware.
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by noarchy 13y ago
You're right. For North Americans, Cuba is local, and is discussed far more often. Singapore is definitely not without its issues ( http://www.hrw.org/asia/singapore ), and you'd be very hard pressed to find a
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by noarchy 13y ago
"all of the bad things" seem to continue: Cuba remains the only country in Latin America that represses virtually all forms of political dissent. The government of Raúl Castro continues to enforce political conformity using short

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