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by roc 13y ago
The problem is that the costs of sprawl aren't effectively conveyed to the commuter. The increased costs of infrastructure, road maintenance, etc aren't remotely made up for in vehicle, property or fuel taxes. In which case, yes,
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by roc 13y ago
That's just Nintendo being Nintendo. They (seemingly) don't ever watch their competitors or consider the lessons their competitors are learning. It's not so different than their being dragged kicking-and-screaming into conne
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by roc 13y ago
That seems to be a de-facto-standard away from being solved though. Someone, or some collection of someones, are going to hit on a controller and/or case and/or variant device that establishes some set of inputs that clicks with
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by roc 13y ago
I didn't mean to imply maliciousness -- rather to draw a line between the sorts of friend-of-a-friend-of-an-ex-coworker parties you might miss out on for not being on Facebook, and a party of an actual friend you know and spend time
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by roc 13y ago
The kind where squabbles between two private parties are civil matters until and unless someone commits (or conspires to commit) an actual crime? Particularly when the "harm" here is harm of reputation due the target's public
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by roc 13y ago
What kind of friends are they, that don't notice and/or care to invite people except through Facebook? Also, birthdays? Aren't those the sorts of things you find out about once per friend and then add to your own contacts? I
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by roc 13y ago
> "The most common Android handset in use in the US of A " has very little to say about what the bulk of Android devices are, given that something like 80% of Android activations are outside the USA. Further, the discussion
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by roc 13y ago
Yet how long after the hardware was absolutely capable of matching iOS for responsiveness in the current UI, did it take for Android to prioritize and achieve that goal and how long did it then take manufacturers to update their implement
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by roc 13y ago
Well, Snowden alleges warrantless wiretapping, but didn't have evidence of that. [1] A subsequent whistle-blower bringing proof that it wasn't just possible , but that it was done (routinely), would be worse. Particularly if
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by roc 13y ago
In which case: who needs micro-gravity to fly?
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by roc 13y ago
The US Government's concern is that if Snowden gets off light other whistleblowers will step forward. That's the root logic behind the 'war on whistleblowers'. Which strongly suggests "we ain't seen nothin
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by roc 13y ago
> "And in micro gravity, we can fly" And our bodies rapidly fail... Any colony for contemporary humans will need earth-like gravity, artificial or otherwise.
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by roc 13y ago
> "Here’s an idea! Play two minutes of commercials and double your revenue!" If they could actually sell two minutes of commercials, I'm pretty sure they would. Expecting them to match the rates paid by massive existing
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by roc 13y ago
Perhaps they should call it "pretty good"?
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by roc 13y ago
I don't think it's about users not caring at all . It's more about the limit to which they can add yet-another nuanced technology/security concern to their life and work and then keep up with it as times change. [1]
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by roc 13y ago
People are not going to pay attention to a color-coded internet-weather-report sort of icon. But maybe if you switched the iconography/expectation: use a 'person' icon, instead of the lock, for vanilla SSL. It would indicate
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by roc 13y ago
That the court doesn't find these claims any more broad or abstract than any other is more a condemnation of the status quo for these kinds of patents. Because, truly, this one isn't egregiously bad in its phrasing. It's a
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by roc 13y ago
> "only a few kilometers?" At 30 - 50km/h? Yeah, " Only ". The hypothetical human in your example would have a car that traveled a couple thousand km/h. Given which, we'd be right to say "only&q
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by roc 13y ago
So something like every single bee in a couple hundred colonies flew out to a single pair of trees to be poisoned? Isn't that fairly odd behavior in and of itself? Wiki suggests bumble bees only range a few kilometers. Is it even nor
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by roc 13y ago
Only lifeguards need to be able to spot it at 50'. And they'll get training. For everyone else: you only need to spot the silence. People in water make noise and move. If anyone isn't doing that, talk to them. You don'
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by roc 13y ago
I agree the context matters, but there's a long history of equivocating the fictional and instructional, on the part of people who try to draw these lines with regards to speech. [1] I simply don't think the line is as clear-cut,
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by roc 13y ago
At the same time... if this same content was written as fiction, with the viewpoint character/hero accomplishing his goals through these same methods and relaying that same philosophy through dialogue or internal monologue, would it be
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by roc 13y ago
I tend to agree. However -- 12 years later, I'm willing to look past the "GUBMINT OUT TA GITCHYA" angle if that's what it takes to sway public opinion/attention. Calm and objective hasn't so much as slowed thi
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by roc 13y ago
Security clearance involves being wiretapped these days? And how would that remotely explain Powell, who would have been cleared to the highest levels decades before this program?
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by roc 13y ago
> "What exactly happened recently" The existing outrageous actions of the government were finally given attention by the media, a large slice of the populace finally seems to have noticed and the government has been compelled
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by roc 13y ago
> "I suspect that the money earned from selling "another man's treasure" will rapidly decline." That was my first thought: "people can fill boxes with crap worth less than ten dollars longer than you can c
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by roc 13y ago
Just s/words/content, if you like. If your content is pictures, the same philosophy applies: ditch any ornamentation that gets in the way, just post your damn pictures. If you're selling the pictures? Get the pictures out th
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by roc 13y ago
You can 'just leave' pseudonymous communities because their aggregated judgment doesn't follow you to the next one. But if one's real identity is flagged as "(likely) sociopath" on a Real Name service, how doe
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by roc 13y ago
If they can discharge student debt on bankruptcy, wouldn't that just normalize the process of: 1. take on loans 2. go to college 3. declare bankruptcy 4. enter jobs market? Or are we counting employers continuing/extending their d
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by roc 13y ago
I'm not even sure parental credit would slow things down. That might send more of the less-privileged students to smaller universities and community colleges, but I'm not sure they constitute a large fraction of major university s

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