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961.
by rms 17y ago
Thom Yorke himself is believed to have leaked These Are My Twisted Words to what.cd. Email me if you would like the link to the .png of the five things he downloaded from what.cd.
962.
by rms 17y ago
I think the metric used by pg for judging flagging availability for users is the percentage of stories you flag that are actually killed. It's bad to have a really low percentage of that. HN does seem to be collecting more and more secret r
963.
by rms 17y ago
Maybe because lots of people who like SEO read these forums? At a certain amount of users, sub-interests can gain a voting-block like effect. We'd need to see more data about increased SEO posts to know for sure though.
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by rms 17y ago
Involuntary, inhumane incarceration threatens actual thieves. Those that collate stealing and piracy are wrong; it's just a cheap rhetorical point they use because it takes too many words to dispute. Moral values should come into play onl
965.
by rms 17y ago
After looking at the actual papers, it is more correct to say that the first aliens were described in 2007. Or 2004, if you go off of the earlier paper on the topic.
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by rms 17y ago
I disagree, the music already exists in the hydra. It costs nothing to duplicate. More and more users can be added without having to diminish the qualities of the existing rips, as only one rip of each type is allowed. Adding more downloade
967.
by rms 17y ago
I was referring specifically to the music hydra and its 175,000 users as the example of the superior product. All of the rips on the hydra are of the highest quality and in multiple formats, as I said in my post.
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by rms 17y ago
Piracy is not a market correction. It is a superior product . What.cd and waffles.fm, with their depth of product and usability, make iTunes and Amazon music seem like a joke. The music hydra does not just have every album, it has most ver
969.
by rms 17y ago
It probably makes sense for those founders living in that specific geographic area that can't move for whatever reasons.
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by rms 17y ago
While Seti continues without finding anything interesting, the first aliens were discovered in 2007. We probably won't have much to talk about, though.
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Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities (2007)(sciencedaily.com)
6 points by rms 17y ago|2 comments
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by rms 17y ago
I have to regularly practice a certain amount of emotional detachment from this kind of thing. I am surprised and grateful that human civilization mostly continues to function.
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by rms 17y ago
GNU is a lot more likely to be around in 500 years than Microsoft or Windows.
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Activist ejected from "public" meeting on secret copyright treaty for tweeting(boingboing.net)
53 points by rms 17y ago|25 comments
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Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International(techcrunch.com)
83 points by rms 17y ago|52 comments
976.
by rms 17y ago
48% is still a majority vote. Only a small percentage of non-institutional shareholders actually vote.
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by rms 17y ago
http://www.reddit.com/comments/15gkq/startup_news_ycombinato... , but I was a few days late so I'm not sure.
978.
by rms 17y ago
Ctrl-l, n, enter
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by rms 17y ago
I'm not sure. The only time I did this was in 2007 or 2008. I saw that the expiring domain was hosted with Godaddy, so I concluded without any research that I should use Godaddy's domain backorder service. It cost $17.95 + registration and
980.
by rms 17y ago
Oh, come on people, let's play along. Remember, it's not the number of your epenis that is important, it's how you use it. I'm #140.
981.
by rms 17y ago
If Verizon is really going to deploy LTE that much faster than all of the other carriers, I find this possible. Does anyone know how many cities are supposed to have Verizon LTE by the end of 2010?
982.
by rms 17y ago
I'm as big of an advocate for justice and human rights as anyone, but this just isn't true. Hong Kong and Singapore are the obvious examples. Do you mean that economic freedom is meaningless without broader human rights?
983.
by rms 17y ago
Me too!
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by rms 17y ago
Yeah, it would only work if he had paid moderators.
985.
by rms 17y ago
Does anyone think that a viable business exists here? Happy to explore it with people via email.
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by rms 17y ago
I also thought that after some guy's post asking for a $150 Android phone with no cell connection. I wonder how cheaply one could be manufactured by someone that wasn't Google or an existing manufacturer. I wouldn't want to get in a busines
987.
by rms 17y ago
Nate Silver, as usual, sums it up. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/why-progressives-are-...
988.
by rms 17y ago
Personally I like a definition based on depth -- most politics is not allowed, but deep, more intellectually heavy material from sources like the New Yorker and Harpers is ok, as it's very distinct from the types of reporting seen on TV.
989.
by rms 17y ago
I think you gave up the rhetorical point of being able to cite the guidelines by making a comment saying that you flagged the story. I disagree with you because the guidelines themselves are intentionally fuzzy. There is no litmus test for
990.
by rms 17y ago
The rule isn't as as strict as don't talk shit about the government, more like "you can talk some shit about the government as long as you never question the ultimate authority of the Communist Party to rule China."

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