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by pi18n 14y ago
Well, as an anecdatum, many people think Greenspan made the housing bubble worse by trying to remove regulation, and that he did so due to his belief in Objectivism. In general, from the standpoint of someone against it, Objectivists seem t
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by pi18n 14y ago
The juxtaposition of > unchecked privilege and > says when they've got nothing left to argue so ironic. The problem with your argument at the bottom is that black people actually are at a disadvantage because of discrimination. Wher
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by pi18n 14y ago
Solving design problems: "when searching for an app, users might also want to search for books. By combining the two functions we can make their workflows more efficient."
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by pi18n 14y ago
Apple and Disney are two of the most egregious campaigning against freedom via patent and copyright law. It's not going to be a Star Trek-like future when you are only allowed to sell ships without rounded rectangle displays and only allowe
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by pi18n 14y ago
Those poor operators will have to find something else to overcharge for.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Yes, this restrictive control over the App Store is the most unfortunate thing they've developed. I would not be surprised if they tried to lock it down entirely by first changing the default security to "App Store only", and then removing
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by pi18n 14y ago
I'm really enjoying your zen-like calm. If I had to enumerate everything I disliked about their experience for developers I would be foaming at the mouth after three or four bullet points. Everything you posted is basically an understatemen
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by pi18n 14y ago
Adobe pulls this maneuver on OS X as well. Other Mac apps will try to sneak in some global software for cool effects; I've had Growl installed three of four times without my consent. Obviously the Windows installers were worse on average,
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by pi18n 14y ago
I am an Apple user, and the Apple experience has jumped off a cliff for developers. What you are talking about is the casual experience for people that don't know how to use a computer. If you don't know how to use a computer at all, Apple
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by pi18n 14y ago
And that makes the objection invalid?
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by pi18n 14y ago
Then they shall thank us for sending them there so soon.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Yes, this is could be a much better project if it was written fresh, and preferably in a different language altogether.
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by pi18n 14y ago
You are the one doing mental gymnastics. I never said it was right to make a copy, I said it was not stealing. I am sorry that you want so badly for them to be the same, but they are in fact legally different for very good reason. I would n
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by pi18n 14y ago
Your analogy is incorrect. Making a copy/breaking DRM is not the same as stealing. Stealing deprives the original owner of a physical good, making a copy does not. That's why I wouldn't agree with you walking out of a store with a physical
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by pi18n 14y ago
Handing out data after requests is not an abuse of power, that's a failure of the data storage facility to do a bare minimum attempt to protect their users' rights. I say this because the actual abuse of power is secret Patriot Act warrants
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by pi18n 14y ago
Good counter point. There are plenty of horror stories about this exact thing, and it is totally different.
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by pi18n 14y ago
My opinion is that if you put anything sensitive into the cloud without encrypting it, you are not doing it right. If you don't want the government reading whatever it is, why on Earth would you trust the cloud providers?
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by pi18n 14y ago
Well, as much as I think their position on this is complete bullshit and a slap in the face of freedom, they aren't committing crime to get at it, they are either asking nicely or have some form of warrant. Presumably, one would be committi
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by pi18n 14y ago
Yeah, seriously. I just did some work with the s7 implementation of Scheme. "Only two files!" I think in all fairness, I think the idea is that you should just drop it in your source without needing to worry about git subrepos (or whatever)
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by pi18n 14y ago
Maybe this is cynical, but there seems to be little reason for them to not borrow enough from friends and family to collect from Kickstarter, and pay them back immediately after. Unless the gifts are ridiculously expensive?
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by pi18n 14y ago
Surely Rob Pike could get funding to start a hardware company, especially if the aim is going to be low powered devices connecting to cloud services?
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by pi18n 14y ago
My gut reaction was the same, I'm more interested in the technical solutions the experts have come up with. The cloud idea is interesting, but I've already got git and vim everywhere so it's not a radical idea for me. I wish he had gone int
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by pi18n 14y ago
I've wondered for a while now, why isn't Plan 9 rising along with cloud computing? It seems like it would mesh very well with having many computers connected in a network, and might make tasks like massively distributed map/reduce more acce
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by pi18n 14y ago
This is my thinking. The guys pursuing these patent cases typically are well aware that their patents are not non-obvious, and quite often aren't even novel. Lodsys is my typical whipping boy; if they weren't shocked that "click for upgrade
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by pi18n 14y ago
I think instead of having users agree to permissions on Facebook and Android apps, they should have to explicitly grant permissions to the app. Maybe by dragging an icon or something that represents "email address", "real name", and other c
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by pi18n 14y ago
I'd love to see some sort of punitive damages if a patent you sued over gets invalidated. At a minimum, Apple should need to compensate a portion of Samsung's legal fees.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I mistook your comment for saying they were roughly equivalent, I didn't get that you were pointing out the expanding rights for corporations vs. contracting rights for individuals. Please accept my apologies, I do believe that what you are
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by pi18n 14y ago
I'm one of the ones to leap out of the woodwork and shout that copying is not theft, so it's only fair that I point out this; torrenting is a massive copyright violation, as you are basically republishing the content. What Amazon did in thi
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by pi18n 14y ago
Yes, you are absolutely right. Of course there is a clause allowing them to do whatever they feel like with the books you get from them. I like the duality you've pointed out. They sure would love for a copy to qualify as property when dete
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by pi18n 14y ago
I used to have Calibre, but decided not to install it on my latest system, due to this bug and the cavalier reaction to it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027

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