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by reedlaw 16y ago
Maybe that's because illegal copying violates no natural law and is in fact allowable under a common understanding of property rights. If I own a hard drive, I can store anything I want on it. Copyright limits that natural property right by
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by reedlaw 16y ago
As a libertarian, I would interpret protecting "our most basic freedoms" meaning the right to freely enter into agreements with whichever service providers we choose. If a service provider chooses to limit bandwidth to certain sites I would
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by reedlaw 16y ago
There is alternative firmware: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105847
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by reedlaw 16y ago
I own a Kindle but rarely buy Kindle books from Amazon. There is plenty of high-quality free content as well as eBooks from other publishers like Pragmatic Press.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
It was $139 at the time of the predictions IIRC.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
I remember the predictions of a $99 Kindle for Christmas 2010.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
Seems like they will need high-end video cards for new games too. Doesn't seem like it could scale much that way.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
There is a Mac client. The download starts after you register.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
This looks similar to myriads of Chinese websites (not the design, but the selection of hit movies by cover art). Many Chinese sites serve up streaming videos directly in the browser. They are too slow to be usable abroad so I guess they av
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by reedlaw 16y ago
Could this phenomenon be in any way attributable to nostalgia? Personally, I find any online community loses attractiveness after a certain period of time.
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Rwandan Genocide Redux?(pop.org)
2 points by reedlaw 16y ago|0 comments
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by reedlaw 16y ago
I don't understand it either, as in why don't most people have any concept of time-off? I guess many Americans depend on 100% of their salary to pay their bills and so can't afford to take any unpaid leave. But why not take sabbaticals if e
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by reedlaw 16y ago
Research Triangle Park, NC (or remote, anywhere) - http://www.smashingboxes.com/ Work with me and a few others building and maitaining Ruby on Rails applications. We are a small firm doing mostly client work from big projects to small in
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by reedlaw 16y ago
Ditto for the dollar. You're taking a bet on the Federal Reserve's competency in regulating the US economy.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
This doesn't work with GNU Screen.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
That's an extremely funny statement if it's meant to be ironic. Almost like "unless you are a %w[Politician, Clergyman, Philosopher] you have no business making up your own mind about %w[politics, religion, the meaning of life]."
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by reedlaw 16y ago
That was interesting to me because today I also spent some time tweaking Emacs to make it work more like Textmate.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
I'm using ActiveScaffold which is useful both for admin and the frontend (but no Rails 3 support).
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by reedlaw 16y ago
Tax in NC is $92.85 nearly wiping out the savings.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
While I love the concept and polish on this and would love to be able to recommend something like this to friends, I'm sorry but I have no room in my heart for zombies.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
The parents implies there is not even an absolute concept of wealth.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
Or that it's obvious that we don't live in a democracy, or if we do, don't really wish to live in one.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
While your argument can be applied in a sense to federal reserve notes, it in no way applies to actual _wealth_. Imagine two people on a deserted island. One finds a gold nugget. Both occupants value gold. The one with the gold possesses we
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by reedlaw 16y ago
Yes, not good for your circulation.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
I have been working at a treadmill desk for around two months now. In the past two weeks I have walked over 60 miles at my desk. Usually I sit for only an hour or two during my work hours. I find walking while working very productive.
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by reedlaw 16y ago
I disagree with his advice on not using game engines. Just about any finished game will rely on someone else's libraries or code at some point. It would be insane to duplicate all this effort from scratch, except maybe as a learning exercis
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by reedlaw 16y ago
How did you collect these jobs? Automatic screen scraping or manually?
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by reedlaw 16y ago
I just went to dropbox.com and the play button got larger and larger each time I hovered over it. Could this be a bug, or a weird optimization test?
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Ask HN: How to build a business around other companies' ever-changing policies?
3 points by reedlaw 16y ago|1 comments
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by reedlaw 16y ago
Rethink the treadmill desk. Bodies are not designed for sitting all day. Building a treadmill desk was probably the best single thing I've done for both my health and productivity. Either that or take half-hour breaks to do vigorous exercis

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