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by random28345 10y ago
On the plus side, they didn't break the scrolling.
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by random28345 10y ago
If you can create "value" by creating a market, what happens to that "value" when that market is destroyed? When trepanation went out of style, it destroyed the market for skull-drills, and destroyed the market for hole-
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by random28345 10y ago
> It's starting to seem like they had these lists made up ahead of time and have been waiting for the right time to start cleansing the ranks. Kind of how the 342-page US Patriot Act was introduced days after the September 11th terr
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by random28345 10y ago
I love how the comments reference the "users", when what's really important is Google's customers. If allowing use of CC licensed content helped advertisers , it would implemented post-haste.
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by random28345 10y ago
> I'm curious why there's so much node/electron negativity circulating. "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses". --Bjarne Stroustrup I'm pretty sure t
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by random28345 10y ago
> Transients living in your midst! It sounds more like you pay extra to be away from the poors. That's an overly simplistic view of the housing market, but yes, that's a major factor in real estate pricing.
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by random28345 10y ago
> Meanwhile, if someone builds a better search engine, all of Google's customers could switch to it in ten seconds and never look back. Google's customers are advertisers. Someone would have to build a more effective advertisin
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by random28345 10y ago
My only wish is that the "no reasonable prosecutor" test would be applied to criminal cases against normal people, and not just the powerful and the privileged.
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by random28345 10y ago
> So basically there is only mainstream benefit: removing chargebacks. You mean mainstream disadvantage. I think most people using VISA are happy that they won't lose all their assets to fraud or theft of their credit card. Mainstre
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by random28345 10y ago
> Is that really what we need? Advanced weaponry at cheap prices? That reminds me of the high-school math teacher who brings condoms to the class when he teaches, because he's statistically less likely to contract an STD than if he
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by random28345 10y ago
I don't really know if the IANA should be managed by an international body, but the fact that Ted Cruz and the President of National Religious Broadcasters are in favor of this bill automatically make me think this bill is trying to pr
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by random28345 10y ago
> "Your honor, my client created and published a software library. The so-called victims here wrote code that specifically referenced my client's software library, by name mind you. My client in no way compelled or solicited th
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by random28345 10y ago
> It was not authorized by the card holder or a court order, so it is fraud. Sorry, you're wrong. I've had the IRS steal money directly from my bank account to pay for taxes (and fees, and fines) I didn't owe. The bank won
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by random28345 10y ago
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see the reason. You are correct, you do not see the reason.
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by random28345 10y ago
> The author has the first name "John Carlos". Why not take an educated guess and use (gasp) gendered pronouns? Because the text of the article could have been generated by a Turing machine with the pseudonym "John Carlos&
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by random28345 10y ago
> It's interesting to describe something that gets people what they pay for as selfish on the part of a third party. It's selfish because it is done with the goal of increasing Netflix's revenue. Now, in this case selfish
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by random28345 10y ago
> I find it hard to believe their motives are purely altruistic. Absolutely selfish. Their goal is to make boatloads of money by pressuring ISPs to allow their customers to access Netflix at the speeds the customers paid for. Once custom
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by random28345 10y ago
> Can't the ISPs just prioritize traffic to FAST to mitigate concerns? That's the beauty of it, if they do that then Netflix will be usable for their customers, and people will actually get the service they've paid for.
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by random28345 10y ago
> Subcontracting out work + massive federalism I think you meant massive anti-federalism. If we had a federal procurement system for math and english textbooks, after being put out for a nationwide bid, the per-unit cost would be about 1
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by random28345 10y ago
Tomorrow on Hacker News, Tesla remotely bricks the modified car and releases months of logs detailing every word spoken in and near the car, and every time the car drove to a liquor store or adult bookstore.
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by random28345 10y ago
I'm not sure what the big deal here is. This has an obvious solution. "Heap" is a word. Words have meaning to people. Different people ascribe different meanings to the same word. Each grain added to a pile of grain measurabl
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by random28345 10y ago
> I'm really liking the Gresham dollar idea. The main point is that it expires, thus forcing you to circulate it. I like the idea as well, but in the description it said that vendors would be onboarded with a promise to allow g-buck
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by random28345 10y ago
The most blindingly obvious in-your-face tinting was the movie Hero, where different interpretations of past events were tinted with a strong primary color.
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by random28345 10y ago
They're made out of meat. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
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by random28345 10y ago
> If people need to know or understand this stuff bitcoin will never work. Success rests on the what not the how. Bitcoin is an inflationary private currency with $10 transaction fees that is mostly used for illegal activity. Its value
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by random28345 10y ago
> Businesses, especially consumers, are helped more by the mobility of a car than public transport This assumes that everyone has access to a car, and that all automotive commutes are possible during "rush hour". Many businesse
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by random28345 10y ago
> it is impossible to factorize big numbers. For any number, there is no way of working out if a smaller number divides into it, short of actually doing the calculation. Yeah, the author doesn't understand the difference between the
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by random28345 10y ago
something something echo chamber.
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by random28345 10y ago
> but the grid doesn't know who you are. Sure, the grid only knows where you live, if you own or rent, size of your household, when you're home or away. Heck with a bit of data mining on "smart meters", I bet you coul
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by random28345 11y ago
> Most people in Ponzi schemes are being directly mislead. They don't think it's a gamble. Most people are being directly mislead. This is true for the vast majority of the human experience. Politics, love, advertising, the lis

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