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by pingswept 15y ago
> We (NoScript users) have our reasons to keep it disabled by default. Out of curiosity, what are those reasons? Related to privacy? Annoyed by animation?
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by pingswept 15y ago
The subheading of the linked article, "Monthly IT complaints dropped from 70 to a maximum of 4" is contradicted in the article text. The text of the article says that the "maximum number of complaints" per month dropped from 70 to 46, not 4
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by pingswept 15y ago
I live in the US. I think most of those things happen a lot less than you think. To take what I think is the most extreme example, in the ~35 years that I've been parsing speech successfully, I don't think I've ever heard someone refer to a
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by pingswept 15y ago
(Not sure why you were downvoted-- seemed like a reasonable response.) I do think the degree to which software builds on itself is different than in other engineering disciplines, but I'm afraid I don't have evidence to back it up. The clos
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by pingswept 15y ago
Historically, you're correct. But the people who codified patent law certainly didn't anticipate the development of software, in which every program of substantial size necessarily uses multiple different patented techniques. Do you think t
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by pingswept 15y ago
I don't think that the examples given in the blog post are examples of a "hair trigger." For one, it's repeated behavior; even a small annoyance is worse when repeated for years. If I were one of her male coworkers, and I had to watch that
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by pingswept 15y ago
I agree that there's no need for mischaracterization, but there is a need for people to jump in and say what they think. I'll try to explain why I thought you were defending sexist humor. This is the line that made me think you were defendi
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by pingswept 15y ago
Agreed that we should strive to be less fragile. I think Jon Postel put it well in RFC 793: "TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." ht
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by pingswept 15y ago
I agree with your description of how humor typically happens, and because of that, I don't enjoy working in most places. While it seems "fun is fun" for you, the same fun sucks for me. But I'd suggest that an alternative exists-- you can ac
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by pingswept 15y ago
I think you should revise your perception of what is being gained by sexist humor. It seems that you get some good laughs out of it-- no problem for you. For the people on the other side of the joke, it's not fun. From what Katie Cunningham
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by pingswept 15y ago
Do you think there's a conflict between sexism and fun? As in, "Well, I'd like to stop making sexist jokes, but then it would be so boring here." I would rather work in an office where the jokes are of the funny sort, rather than the makes-
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by pingswept 15y ago
Nice work, Dave. This has come a long way since last summer.
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by pingswept 15y ago
The book mentioned appears to be: http://www.amazon.com/B-S-Price-Strategy-Prisoners-Prosperit...
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by pingswept 15y ago
From what I understand, Toyota is using Tesla's motor and battery technology in the new electric RAV4: http://wot.motortrend.com/toyota-tesla-come-together-compani...
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by pingswept 15y ago
"taught me to sled" Does "sled" mean something unusual here? My experience is that it is similar to falling down a hill, but with something slippery under you-- not really a skill that needs teaching, I thought.
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by pingswept 15y ago
I don't think that the article was too strident at all. (I was a high school math teacher for years, and computers seem utterly useless to me when it comes to teaching kids to think mathematically.) I'll take a look at the videos, as you su
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by pingswept 15y ago
Elsewhere on this page, someone comments: "I would love to see one of these 'complaining about Khan Academy' articles with an attached example of the author's Right Way to teach whatever subject." I'd be interested in your response to that.
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Call for comment on CERN open hardware license(ohwr.org)
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by pingswept 15y ago
I don't think it's odd, but I'm much more likely to contribute to something open source than proprietary on Kickstarter. With open source, if the project fails, the parts of the project still be useful to the world. Not so much with propr
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by pingswept 15y ago
If the restrictions were made clear before the software is installed, I would agree with you. Yes, you can see the EULA as part of the sales process, but it's presented as part of an unreadable pile of legal crap. If it were presented in th
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by pingswept 15y ago
I think we actually agree here. I said: "net gain, after you count all the costs." I meant "all the costs" to include opportunity costs.
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by pingswept 15y ago
Agreed. I'm assuming that even though individuals might all like to live in a society that is unfairly biased in their favor, we have no way of creating that. The next best option is a fair society, where, as you say, legislation and reduct
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by pingswept 15y ago
As long as the household percentage is nonzero, I'm afraid I disagree. Suppose recycling used more energy than it saved (which is the case for some materials e.g. low grade plastic waste in places with little plastic manufacturing). Then, e
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by pingswept 15y ago
To quote you: "you don't have some God given right to the content they produce/deliver. Instead of pirating go without." I don't understand how that fits with finishing making the list. If you can keep some pirated music around since high s
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by pingswept 15y ago
The fraction of the total waste stream that you can affect is irrelevant when deciding whether to recycle. Any single industrial waste creator could make the same argument-- my company only creates 0.001% of the waste stream, so it doesn't
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by pingswept 15y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but it seems you have a contradiction here: " (All I have left is to make a list of the music I have and listen to in order to delete it all and slowly purchase it, which I've started doing). I either pay for so
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by pingswept 15y ago
"infringing a state granted monopoly" is the best description I've heard yet. Thanks for that.
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by pingswept 15y ago
> Regarding the "facilitating" part, notice it is just one of three items in a definition. ALL of these items have to be satisfied Yes, you are correct. I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.
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by pingswept 15y ago
Ah, it appears that the HN link parser clips the colon off the end of the URL in my previous post. I fixed the formatting, but the link is no longer clickable. Should be copy/pasteable. About the "wholesale piracy" bit: that's also wrong. T
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by pingswept 15y ago
The rebuttal is this: The bill defines "foreign infringing sites" as those infringing sites that have their domains registered outside the US, are "US-directed" and "used by users in the United States." This would include, for example, all

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