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by nobodyorother 9y ago
The trouble with these code snippets is that they condense very complex and squishy social structures into what incorrectly appears to be simple binary decisions. Creative Commons spent years defining what "commercial" means. It&
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
It's unlikely the US military was the part of the government that endorsed it. The US government is so big, so bureaucratic, that it's less a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing, and more like the right
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Not really. The trouble with deanonymization in a network is that as soon as anyone fails to follow the proper privacy protocol, the entire network can be unmasked through the social graph. For example, Flickr users have been identified by
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Does Apple acquire? It'd be difficult/weird for them to start integrating/selling Android devices/ecosystem, which feels like they'd be putting their feet up for a few years while Google continued advancing. It fee
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
As always, Moxie impresses. :)
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
If you count the US's 98 international airports, doesn't that cover the entire country?
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Heck, friend, Black Tar Sands Crude is the cure for every ill you've got! Back aches, stomach aches, tooth aches, liver spots, bald spots, acne spots, and even your carpet's pet spots, Black Tar Sands Crude will fix them all! Rem
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Please stop making new licenses. You do not need a new license, you need to understand how to use the existing ones and how they interact with one another. The number of license interactions you need to mange on any project is the factori
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Hey, they're not United, which: - Breaks Guitars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo - Killed the World's Largest Rabbit: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/united-airlines.
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Totally! We're going to have to start by making sure we never standardize it. </sarcasm>
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
It was Georgia state law, two years ago, essentially saying that while you can have the text of the law, you can't have the annotations that inform the interpretation of the law: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy&#x2F
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
It's the Tiger Woods problem, also known as Focus on Your Core: TW gets video game endorsements and makes ungodly piles of money because he's a great golfer. When he focuses on making new games and supermodels instead of golfing,
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
A painful number of my electronic devices also do this: cell phone charger, laptop power cord, electric toothbrush, surge protector, ... I go around the house unplugging them at night, and try to keep the doors they're in shut during t
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
I've been wondering that too. If possible, it'd be nice to combine username, second-factor, and password, as they all perform different functions that people often ambiguate: - Your username is who you think you are. - Your secon
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
I'm paraphrasing the news report because it's been a few years, but: The border patrol agent became suspicious when the driver opened the glove box to retrieve his registration and a hand reached out from within the box to give it
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
I can't wait until somebody patents "signaling pedestrians" and we all have to deal with brand-specific signaling mechanisms. Thank Zod QWERTY was invented so long ago. /cynicism
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Not if you're the US government, apparently? Tim DeChristopher spent 21 months in prison despite how he "had raised sufficient funds for an initial payment to the BLM (which the BLM refused to accept)." https://en.
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
The only example I've ever seen of American Chestnut is in the North Chagrin Reservation Nature Center. It's amazing wood, it almost glows, even 80+ years after construction: https://www.google.com/maps/place
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
My (somewhat oblique) question is why copyright would apply to a dead guy's works. ...It's not like respecting copyright is going to get him to write more.
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Well, that makes about as much sense as this comment being subject to section 1201 of the DMCA, due to it's double-ROT-47 encryption.
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Assuming you live in Iowa, you could sell that as a really bad revenge action movie: eBay's Bose Boise Betrayal.
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Nah, spreadsheets did that on their own. Have you ever actually found a usable spreadsheet?
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
But, but... but those aren't the things I wanted them to like! ...Murderers! Industry murderers!
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
With the 3BN tax-dollar giveaway, Wisconsin will not receive any positive pie returns from Foxconn until 2043. Assuming Foxconn doesn't move on to another location in 2042. It's worth pointing out that Wisconsin is giving billion
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Yeah, it's like a more prophetable Cassandra cluster.
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
If you look at the old player guides (the Super Mario World guide comes to mind) you'll actually find a couple mis-pastes where the image was laid out or cut badly before being photographed for the magazine. It took a fair amount of wo
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Regulatory capture.
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Or they're a big enough seller that their (basically) monopoly position allows them to generally ignore bad feedback.
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
For psychology studies, sure. Not for landing airplanes, unless they're paper ones. Depends on your context, I guess.
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by nobodyorother 9y ago
Makes me wonder what adding Guix build support to dpkg (and vice-versa?) would look like, or whether it would even be possible in a coherent way.

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