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901.
by pyre 11y ago
> many of their customers don't feel they should be paid This happens to physical products too, I don't see how specific individuals not wanting to pay for something has any bearing on the existence / effectiveness of copy
902.
by pyre 11y ago
The argument for Copyright is that is incentivizes people to create things (e.g. musicians to write songs). Are you stating that without copyright no one would write speeches? Would people have just abandoned the Civil Rights movement bec
903.
by pyre 11y ago
It just takes a different mindset. My father used to work in the auto industry and he still complains to no end about the EPA and emissions testing, and how in California the car exhaust is "cleaner" than the air going into it, so
904.
by pyre 11y ago
On the other hand, are you going to argue that the existence of copyright is what caused MLK to write said speech? In the absence of copyright, we never would have had the "I have a dream" speech?
905.
by pyre 11y ago
So you're saying that "jack up the prices to wring more money out of dying people that don't have any other choice" is a perfectly valid, 100% ethical business decision that every single person on the face of the planet
906.
by pyre 11y ago
It's the same thing as posting a "tear off this phone number" page on a bulletin board. You always tear off a tab or two when you first post it, to make it look like people have shown interest.
907.
by pyre 11y ago
> 'f' may not be combined with 'u'. I thought that Python3 removed 'u' strings, was this just a bit of humour in the PEP?
908.
by pyre 11y ago
EC6 allows you to destructure in the function definition ?
909.
by pyre 11y ago
I was using "never implement your own crypto" as an example. I think that "never implement your own crypto" is a more important rule to follow than anything regarding TCP. On the other hand, if you don't know much
910.
by pyre 11y ago
> American Exceptionalism even has a creation myth and a pantheon of gods. It's something else entirely. Are you referring to the American Revolution and the Founding Fathers? If so that sort of thing doesn't seem exclusive to
911.
by pyre 11y ago
> do you have videos of stoned drivers driving poorly? Your claim is that your "common sense" is correct until proven wrong?
912.
by pyre 11y ago
> You're not going to outperform TCP to do what it's good at. I took this to be something more akin to "never implement your own crypto." If everyone followed that advice there would be no crypto, so it's obvio
913.
by pyre 11y ago
When have commercial loggers ever "thinned things out?" Since the beginning it's always been a "choose a section of forest and start chopping until nothing is left" industry.
914.
by pyre 11y ago
SQL Injection is an application layer exploit that gains the attacker access to the database, but does not involve any sort of privilege escalation. Consider this: an attack gain access to your bank's user credentials database. Do you
915.
by pyre 11y ago
> What if we raised our children as a society This presumes that we could come to any sort of group consensus "as a society" on how to raise our children.
916.
by pyre 11y ago
Reimplement it on Node.js to compete with Grunt and Gulp.
917.
by pyre 11y ago
Even Google violates this though. Google Inbox is a good example of this. Compare Google Inbox in Chrome Mobile vs. the native app.
918.
by pyre 11y ago
Well, the machines got complex enough that we created operating systems to abstract them, and they became their own little sandboxes.
919.
by pyre 11y ago
I daresay that some codebases might rely on overflowing behaviour even if they don't know it. I've worked with a codebase where assumptions about unused RAM were that it was always zeroed out. Moving to a different platform (Lin
920.
by pyre 11y ago
As long as you have the ability to address memory directly, I would say that it's possible. I'm not 100% sure about how memory is allocated though. Outside of virtual memory, are the actual chunks of memory sequential, or would ov
921.
by pyre 11y ago
Note: this is from 2011. I was wondering why news talking about events 5 months post-Fukushima was marked as a "Newer" story.
922.
by pyre 11y ago
Or "root" in Australia.
923.
by pyre 11y ago
It doesn't have to taste bad to force you to eat it in moderation. There are examples out there. People complain that Pepsi is too sweet, and you can only drink a small amount before they can't drink anymore. You could also talk a
924.
by pyre 11y ago
So when people act in bad faith it is "ok" so long as we mistrust them anyways?
925.
by pyre 11y ago
A monarchy is fine so long as you end up on the throne, I guess...
926.
by pyre 11y ago
> so the next time I travel in the west (soon) is going to be an adventure... Well, there are pre-paid credit cards. You could always try those, but IIRC some hotels refuse to take them. It's also easier for the hotel to just charge
927.
by pyre 11y ago
Large banks will do things like structure charges so as to extract the maximum amount of overdraft charges. For example: You have $40 in your account. You spend $20, then $12, then $5, then $120. One would logically conclude that at
928.
by pyre 11y ago
> The last time I tried to rent a room at a hotel in Canada, they would not accept cash -- credit card only. This has more to do with the hotel's liability. If you steal from the hotel or damage the room, they will apply those extra
929.
by pyre 11y ago
To add to jschwartzi's comment, what if there was a snack food that tasted good, but you could only consume two handfuls before you felt like you couldn't eat anymore? Some people might find this situation perfect because it helps
930.
by pyre 11y ago
I get the "technically" but I believe that the FDA was going after it as a deceptive labelling practice.

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