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by pj 17y ago
"the good chunk" and "the vast majority" are not mathematically equivalent. One is well under 50% and the other is well /over/ 50%.
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by pj 17y ago
I clearly said, "This is the problem with BitTorrent and this is why we should simply stop using it to steal. " So you argue against what I said by using an example of something that is not stealing -- even after I acknowledge legal things
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by pj 17y ago
It's not sharing. It's stealing. If the users of BitTorrent created products of equal value to the products they steal with BitTorrent, then perhaps it may be considered sharing, however, the vast majority of BitTorrent users create nothin
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by pj 17y ago
I am so worried about it because I understand the risk involved in creating a digital product with value and the loss of reward to society caused by leeches who choose to enhance their lives at the expense of a creator's benefit. I think th
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by pj 17y ago
it clearly says,"no data available" If it had the average age, or the mean age, then it would have given it to you.
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by pj 17y ago
Fair enough. You have to understand though, that BitTorrent was invented to enable the quick and easy sharing of large files, i.e. movies, music, and software. It was known from before the first line of code was written that the primary us
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by pj 17y ago
Are you being serious? Do you really believe I don't understand that BitTorrent is not illegal? It is the USE of BitTorrent that is illegal or, more precisely, the majority of users of BitTorrent are using it to commit crimes and I would a
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by pj 17y ago
Knol is one of the reasons I don't like Google. Why would they want to compete with Wikipedia? They, like the world, should want to help Wikipedia thrive. Wikipedia is good. The enemy of good is bad, therefore google is bad. The logic is
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by pj 17y ago
We should all be completely embarrassed by this. It's the most ridiculously childish thing I have ever heard and it damages the reputation of the entire BitTorrent community. With people like this leading the community, it's fate is disaste
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by pj 17y ago
When I read #31, I started crying... weird.
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by pj 17y ago
Can we please stop cluttering the front page with every post to the google blog? If we care what google has to say, we can subscribe to the RSS feed.
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by pj 17y ago
Software hipsters are the ones using CouchDB. The relational model has been refined over decades to accommodate the requirements of generic information systems and eliminate a lot of the problems that mapreduce-based databases ignore. Couc
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by pj 17y ago
Working with friends can be bittersweet. The trick is to figure out how to work with friends. Do they have the right risk tolerance? Can they contribute in an area that will move the company forward. Will there be ego clashes that jeopar
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by pj 17y ago
Congratulations on your successful exit and thanks for posting this. Sometimes it's hard to read these things and think they are true, but they are. Yesterday, I was thinking, "Why am I doing this? Why do I work so hard for ~nothing?" and t
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by pj 17y ago
Take my karma! Laughter must be erradicated forever!
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by pj 17y ago
This place has no sense of humor! It's funny, I'll up you.
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by pj 17y ago
If you look at the chart, you can kind of see that the percentage of users in the past 12 months decreases with potency and risk of the drug. marijuana (10%), cocaine (2.3%), meth (0.5%), and heroin (0.1%) I'm curious though, why more peopl
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by pj 17y ago
It's way too early to be showing people the product. It is the timing of the demo that important.
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by pj 17y ago
Everyone ridicule's IE and yes, there are valid arguments against it, but one could also argue that it is because Microsoft shipped IE with Windows that the Internet was able to grow like it did. Before IE, users of the internet had to use
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by pj 17y ago
It gave you a job!
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by pj 17y ago
The success of WA is going to depend on the comprehensiveness of the data sets. If the user goes there and wants an answer and the topic of interest isn't in their dataset, then the user will revert to Google and wade through the results an
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Dark cloud computing(news.idg.no)
2 points by pj 17y ago|1 comments
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Company behind world's cheapest car to sell $7,800 apartments(businessweek.com)
3 points by pj 17y ago|0 comments
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by pj 17y ago
It's interesting to watch it go up and down when you say something controversial. I agree with you. It's childish and reflects poorly on the BitTorrent community which is already treading water. Anyone who has produced anything of value wan
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by pj 17y ago
It's amazing how many comments to this thread are trying to rationalize FB's claims when everyone knows they are bogus.
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by pj 17y ago
Spray paint has lots of legal uses as well, but you'll still find it locked up in a cage at Home Depot.
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by pj 17y ago
If your customer wants to use your product for illegal activity, it's wise to avoid helping them.
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by pj 17y ago
How likely is this with Eric Schmidt being Obama's advisor? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=... Talk about a conflict of interest...
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by pj 17y ago
I think the author of the question is young and excited and someone with influence has recognized their achievement. The team has probably never been in that situation before, so they've never seen how high one can get on such approval tha
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by pj 17y ago
The author of the question says, "The money is fair enough..." His question is one of control, not money. The OP wants to control his life and his product. Truth is, products don't last forever. They require maintenance and support, marke

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