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541.
by roc 14y ago
I would think it has little to do with the benefit of the doubt and everything to do with retaliation and escalation. If the South found that the North definitely sunk a South submarine, the people would (more loudly) call for retaliation.
542.
by roc 14y ago
I think the point would be to codify a distinction and change (increase) rates on customs duties accordingly.
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by roc 14y ago
The independent claims all explicitly codify the follower/following mechanic. So if you want to show prior art, you'll have to find something where a user was subscribing to receive broadcast messages from other explicitly-defined users ,
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by roc 14y ago
And this is really where I have an issue with people posing the proprietary nature of Facebook, Google+, Twitter, et al as "A Problem". People throw their content into these services, time and again. Often doing so as they're suffering wh
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by roc 14y ago
> "I think this argument is disorganized. It reads as if he's arguing for free in favor of paid (which I don't really agree with), but I think he's actually arguing for open in favor of closed (which I do agree with)." That was my tho
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by roc 14y ago
> "I have no idea what they will do." Stall. Send out some FUD. Maybe lobby for higher duties (as compared to tariff rates). But most of the goods that have sufficiently large price discrepancies are going to a digital manifestation a
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by roc 14y ago
If Aaron's crime revolved around breaking a use agreement by downloading in bulk, and trespassing by stashing a laptop making those bulk downloads in a known-unlocked-utility shed, what "network vulnerabilities" would even have been be germ
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by roc 14y ago
> "I did all the work there, didn't I?" The negotiating work, yeah. Which is why you're getting 10% of every hour of work that someone saw fit to pay $300/hr for, despite your effort being of a fairly fixed quantity of time. And re
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by roc 14y ago
> "This way the recruiter is rewarded for getting a higher rate, and the coder doesn't feel like a victim." Fair recruiter reward for results is also the case when the recruiter just takes a flat percentage. And in trying to define a
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by roc 14y ago
While I hope they aim a little lower this time and work out the UI first, it'd be a true shame if they didn't attempt some resurrection of the agent/plugin interaction they attempted with Wave.
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by roc 14y ago
An export function is hardly the same thing. We're not talking about the concern that an RSS client might go away. There's no shortage of clients. No-one worries too much about those. The concern is what happens when the service goes
552.
by roc 14y ago
The only E-Mail validation involves sending an actual email with a response link. Because even if people happen to give you a functional email address, it isn't necessarily their email address. And I say that as someone who has come to
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by roc 14y ago
> "In other words, the low prices for health care found in other countries is, in part, subsidised by the American consumer." What you'd expect is that the research takes place in the US due to some level of higher profits, but it's
554.
by roc 14y ago
> "Chief Architects do not make decisions about killing products." No, but if you were trying to convince people you weren't forcing them into Google+, but Google+ was presenting alternatives out of their sincere love for the people
555.
by roc 14y ago
What I'm disagree with, is the idea that there must be some overarching Google Unimind for this to have been a conscious strategy, and thus that angle is implausible-to-laughable. I assert it's rather more plausible that such plans were u
556.
by roc 14y ago
"an engineer", Chief Architect, same difference, right?
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by roc 14y ago
I would find it difficult to believe that Google+ wouldn't have already been looking into getting news feed subscriptions into their product. An RSS-style solution with discoverability would leap-frog Facebook's News stuff and could even
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by roc 14y ago
1. The popular RSS readers all seem/seemed to be moving toward looking like Reeder and Flipboard, moreso than Google Reader's Web UI. It seems that UI is/was only necessary for a niche of the niche. 2. And yet there were non-trivial comp
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by roc 14y ago
His assumption only requires the group that's replacing Google Reader to have been aware of and involved in the effort to replace Google Reader. Which seems pretty reasonable.
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by roc 14y ago
That's funny, I assumed it was a PR move to make Google appear responsive when they inevitably add an RSS-ish feature to syndicate news subscriptions into google+ feeds, as opposed to appearing like a malevolent plan to kill a beloved ser
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by roc 14y ago
> "Storing your data somewhere else where it gets held hostage in a proprietary format is a lot of pain waiting to happen." Which isn't really all that different a situation from having your data held hostage in a proprietary format
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by roc 14y ago
I thought "sex-crazed" was just assumed when dealing with people who've spent any length of time in the food industry. [1] So when he said "sex-crazed", I expected he was somehow a notable outlier from the norm. But the characterization wa
563.
by roc 14y ago
If the fellow from the article read a few books and then proceeded to hire a team of the best and brightest specialists to help refine and perfect his concept, I'm thinking the response would be different.
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by roc 14y ago
> "It's complicated so we shouldn't try is basically the excuse." I think the actual criticism is more along the lines of "It's so complicated that it's incredibly unlikely this guy has been truly successful." > "Let the pioneers
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by roc 14y ago
I'd imagine that's because much of the net is US-centric by default and there's less variance/no language barrier between NY/CA/TX, as there would be between, say, Brazil/Argentina or Germany/Norway.
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by roc 14y ago
The people who currently care about retina-friendly graphics tend to be those who have long cared about carefully hand-tweaking every variant-scaled version of every graphic they produce. But as hi-dpi concerns become more mainstream, I dou
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by roc 14y ago
While it's possible that too-low fees could hypothetically make the USPTO a drain on the federal balance sheet, it's currently a revenue source . [1] And there's long been a separate (reduced) fee schedule for "small entities". And it's lo
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by roc 14y ago
You wouldn't know what your competitors are filing within months of it happening and then have any opportunity to do anything about it. Applications are only published to the public either 18 months after the earliest priority date or after
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by roc 14y ago
> "Navigate to <friend's name>." That's like claiming Wolfram Alpha isn't distinct from Google, because Google will occasionally hazard a guess at a canonical answer (if you formulate your search query precisely correctly). Su
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by roc 14y ago
Siri isn't about voice search. It's about voice-initiated tasks. Sometimes that's search, but sometimes it's a reminder, or a calendar appointment, etc. The innovation is in that distinction and in the context awareness. [1] And that

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