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by quoderat 17y ago
No, but I know many medium-achieving students who could have contributed a lot more productively to society if they'd had the chance and the money to attend college. By focusing on only the high-end (and the low-end) we ignore what makes Am
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Internet Service Provider, Indeed(techreport.com)
1 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
I haven't gotten an iPhone because it doesn't have a physical keyboard. And I never will.
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It’s Time To Pony Up. Why Good Websites Shouldn't Be Free.(newsweek.com)
8 points by quoderat 17y ago|3 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
Ahahahahahahahahaha! Ahahahahahaha! Ah, the old media will be dying sooner than I thought.
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Strange Science? There's An App For That(wired.com)
2 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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The Myth Of Search - What Search Engines Don't Find(i-programmer.info)
3 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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Sanitizing Agriculture(sfgate.com)
8 points by quoderat 17y ago|2 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
If they don't put DRM in the shoes, then break into my house and steal them back in the middle of the night, I might consider buying something from Zappos again.
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by quoderat 17y ago
For being complete idiots and violating everyone's expectations of ownership? Is that enough? They've lost my business over this, that's certain.
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Support Should Never Be Necessary(thedailywtf.com)
2 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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California Will No Longer Be Able To Produce Fruit In 100 Years(io9.com)
4 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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Web 2.0 Collage Knows Where You've Been(maximumpc.com)
1 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
I wasn't trying to inflate the importance of my argument. I was offering a guess of a possible range, given that there aren't any statistics. That's a common thing to do, and I would do it again. If I had to guess, I'd probably say about 5%
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by quoderat 17y ago
It is unlikely, actually -- they were forced into DRM by the publishers, not because of any true desire to include it. DRM doesn't help Amazon; it hurts them. As for DRM, if you think that at least 200,000 people haven't heard of DRM (all m
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by quoderat 17y ago
Amazon is -- like most companies do, as it is hard to quantify -- ignoring the opportunity cost of including DRM. I and I am sure hundreds of thousands if not millions more like me would already have a Kindle were it not for the DRM.
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How To Upgrade Human Values(salon.com)
3 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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Why 2024 Will Be Like 1984: Amazon And The Kindle(slate.com)
16 points by quoderat 17y ago|18 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
Well, it certainly is a polemic, and it does try to make too many points in one post. I'm also a left-leaning liberal -- in most areas -- but the value of the post was that it attempted to elucidate the links between the persistent corporat
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by quoderat 17y ago
To me it's a convenient filter that lets me know the likelihood of some comment being good -- though it's not always reliable because unpopular opinions (like, often, my own) that threaten people's self-interests or self-image tend to get v
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by quoderat 17y ago
A fine Hacker News post. Wish I could unflag.
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by quoderat 17y ago
We in the US do very much live in a corporatist society. As the latest example, see Goldman Sachs making billions of dollars off taxpayer loans and government (AIG) guarantees. There is vastly more evidence than that, but that is just the l
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Productivity Increases Going To The Already-Rich(motherjones.com)
1 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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Worst Evolutionary Designs(wired.com)
1 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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The Evolution Of The Honda Accord(paul.kedrosky.com)
9 points by quoderat 17y ago|2 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
You'll never convince anyone that catastrophic climate change is likely, as too many people have their self-image and their perceived financial stability tied up in believing that it will not occur.
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by quoderat 17y ago
The more important question is, does Animal from The Muppet Show masturbate?
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by quoderat 17y ago
I really don't look forward to giving everyone the ability to use whatever crazy, hard-on-the-eyes font they want to use. Hitler on fonts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDiDATbIG-o (Not for the humor-challenged.)
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Save That Midnight Oil(dallasnews.com)
1 points by quoderat 17y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 17y ago
As a customer, I certainly did not benefit when Dell, a few years ago, moved their server support offshore, leading to that support team telling me repeatedly that I should "reboot Windows" when I was working on a firmware issue that would

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