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by rick888 15y ago
It's not theft. It's worse. Theft of something like a television means just that physical physical is stolen. It's the cost of doing business. Over time, if piracy is not stopped, users will get the idea that your software is free and wi
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by rick888 15y ago
"If you have a middle-class family of 4 and it feels like average is struggling, then that's good: now you know how your voters feel." Maybe. But I know when I'm struggling, I worry most about where I'm going to get my next dollar. I don'
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by rick888 15y ago
Even when I'm by myself, I still need version control. It's nice to know that I can easily go back to any version I've checked into the system. I use visual SVN for windows+tortoise SVN. I also can ssh into my box and check source files i
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by rick888 15y ago
Would this really be ideal though? Most women (not all) want be pursued by men.
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by rick888 15y ago
If you go to the entertainment section, there are lots of copyrighted movies and shows being streamed and I doubt they have permission from the content creators. This brings in lots of traffic to Justin.tv (there are ads on each video). Be
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by rick888 15y ago
Exactly! I also think that building something cool in the hopes that you will get bought out by a large company is the hip thing to do. Selling and marketing is boring to many of the people that want to start a company.
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by rick888 15y ago
I'm a developer and while I do know CSS and html, I'm not a designer. I've cut up Photoshop templates in the past, but I usually leave it up to a designer. Designers need to know at least some CSS or html. If not, then they are just graph
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by rick888 15y ago
"Otherwise how could anyone who needed a connection use it? Sheesh." When enough people use your wireless connection and you get slapped with an IP letter for your ISP, you will realize the error of your ways. "The only reason to fear someo
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by rick888 15y ago
..and if we had no security, would it be any better? I'm shocked at all the anti-security people here on HN. Do you also have no password on you wireless connection and pay for goods online with no SSL? I would really like to see if the pe
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by rick888 15y ago
This is exactly why it's good not to have a pure democracy: I'm just trying to get my point across an I'm immediately silenced.
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by rick888 15y ago
It also explains why they wanted the thesis theme to be GNU: so they can add it to their services and not have to pay for it, giving them more potential value at less cost to them. Evil, but brilliant.
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by rick888 15y ago
"It doesn't stop trivial attacks we could come up with on here" Show me an attack that's happened in the last 10 years. "it's meant to pacify people like you" I feel like you are on the side of the terrorists. If not, they love people like
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by rick888 15y ago
I would like to see proof of this.
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by rick888 15y ago
The fact that potential terrorists know that the security in the US is so high is most likely stopping many from attempting attacks in the first place. You also can't say they've never caught a terrorist. There have been many stories on th
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by rick888 15y ago
exactly.
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by rick888 15y ago
I thought they were phasing these functions out (mysql)? I've been using PDO for the last couple of years.
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by rick888 15y ago
"You seem to not know anything about this, so I'll cut you some slack even though your wording is slightly offensive." If these really worked and made sense, we would have more worker owned cooperatives as opposed to corporations. I haven'
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by rick888 15y ago
Spamming isn't illegal. In fact, it can teach you a lot about marketing. I'm actually impressed than an 18 year old could make enough with it to pay for school.
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by rick888 15y ago
It showed me that we still need banks. Even though bitcoin has no banks, people used the wallet sites as essentially a bank. One of the other reasons the banking industry doesn't see much innovation is that it needs to be very secure (whic
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by rick888 15y ago
"Worker-owned cooperatives do not share that design flaw. They also have little to no motivation to outsource." You can start a worker-owned cooperative now. Why don't you? You could even make it a non-profit and save on some taxes. What
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by rick888 15y ago
"Yet how exactly is creating a company any better? If you keep servicing other people interest, it could be called an illusion of freedom" If you sell a product or service, you get to choose what goes into that product or service. Look at
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by rick888 15y ago
Why do people have this mindset? You aren't forced to work for anyone. If you feel that being an employee is slavery, start your own company. At least for now, you still have the freedom to do this in the US. Freedom means you have to tak
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by rick888 15y ago
"Cases of rape and murder could be quelled substantially through better economic opportunities and greater access to healthcare, including abortions. Bad men usually had bad upbringings." This isn't necessarily the case. There are plenty o
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by rick888 15y ago
I wish people would not downvote based on their own personal opinions.
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by rick888 15y ago
"No war needs to be fought." No war needs to be fought: If you want to allow evil people to either run the world or continue with atrocities. Because we are not always dealing with rational people, brute force is sometimes the only answer.
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by rick888 15y ago
But piracy hasn't stopped or slowed down.
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by rick888 15y ago
so, you need to give them everything for free at the fastest bandwidth possible. The only way to stop piracy is: 1) give all of your stuff out for free 2) have a service that can't be pirated The reason big companies don't want piracy to be
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by rick888 15y ago
I wish we could, but the problem is there will always be new forms of criminals that need to be imprisoned and wars that need to be fought. What I want to know is why we need to have rapists, murderers, and criminals? Can't we do better as
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by rick888 15y ago
He was in his senior year when he dropped out. That's like giving up a marathon when you are in the last stretch of the race.
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by rick888 15y ago
This is asked almost every single time there is a black line.

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