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by roc 12y ago
> "I think the courts are a better solution for that problem." So who sues? The students who are under-served by a public education system that doesn't teach evolution? Let's suppose they find a jury of their peer
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by roc 12y ago
Because school administrators may be blocked from outright banning the teaching of evolution/sex education/unpopular-but-actual history/etc, but could simply threaten/actually fire teachers until the entire staff was agr
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by roc 12y ago
The traditional justification is that teachers need to feel free to discuss ideas that social trends or local political whim may disagree with. They may even need to take a Devil's Advocate during a lesson and argue a pretty unpopular
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by roc 12y ago
They don't pay taxes to toll road operators.
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by roc 12y ago
Sure, but they're only using the bridge to drive to McDonalds. It's McDonalds generating all that traffic -- they should pay the bridge operator too! /sarcasm.
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by roc 12y ago
Except none of the provisions for paid-prioritization mentions, let alone mandates, new roads. If this were about new toll roads, these already exist and are paid-peering arrangements, CDNs, etc. [1] These new rules are explicitly about &#
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by roc 12y ago
This is more like conditionally charging people more to drive on the roads that already exist, based on destination, rather than vehicle. And it's pretty easy to see where that could lead to discrimination.
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by roc 12y ago
You can certainly expect it -- and not just because technical users could use VPNs to end-run traffic shaping. You can expect it because VPNs are overwhelmingly used by technologists and 'business' users. In general, these people
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by roc 13y ago
> "But a behemoth like Microsoft or Sony? Why pay up?" You don't negotiate with terrorists, because there's no real barrier to entry into terrorism. At its simplest, someone just needs a gun and a lot of nerve. Th
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by roc 13y ago
> "Though likely this is the commonly accepted definition, for all practical purposes this very naive definition. " No, it's not. It's the actual definition that exists to draw a distinction between the unique sit
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by roc 13y ago
> " Is this just another version of paying off the trolls to make them leave you alone?" That's absolutely what this is. Instead of being on the receiving end of a thousand lawsuits, you 'invest' in IV, which
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by roc 13y ago
Patent Trolling was defined due to the 'trolls' being "non-practicing entities" -- a fact which obviates cross-licensing, counter-suit and basically any strategy other than the simple math of "license cost" (to
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by roc 13y ago
> "why should geographic location dictate my salary relative to my peers?" It doesn't. Your unwillingness to relocate does. Everyone has their own reasons for where they're willing to look for work and why. But th
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by roc 13y ago
> "I have a hard time believing that's actually the case."
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by roc 13y ago
> "how is that less responsible for the results?" Devil's Advocate: It's not. But they didn't join Dropbox's board, so it's irrelevant. It is possible this isn't about partisanship, just person
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by roc 13y ago
> "I think an advantage of having this decoupled from a smartphone is that you don't have to treat it like a smartphone" Not to mention the credential waltz you'd have to do in a hypothetical app, in a home of more
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by roc 13y ago
Running makes you wetter than walking over an equivalent time period . The main goal of running in the rain is to get to a shelter -- to minimize that time. Something your link covers, and points out. [1] So it would be with a plane: Flyi
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by roc 13y ago
We prop up worse with less concern. The real reason we won't drop the trade embargo is that it's a very powerful bargaining chip, for whenever the Cuban government decides to talk.
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by roc 13y ago
> "According to one report, the predictions made by the Good Judgment Project are often better even than intelligence analysts with access to classified information" This makes me wonder how well analysts do, when they aren
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by roc 13y ago
Late packets aren't always completely worthless. a "late" rocket_fired type of packet can be very useful if it still shows up before the next packet that refers to said rocket. It really depends.
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by roc 13y ago
> "maybe the top .1% is more numerous." You may want to rethink that.
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by roc 13y ago
Which is just begging the question of whether more time/more hits == more engagement.
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by roc 13y ago
And not unlike Facebook/Oculus, Google/Nest makes perfect sense from the Nest side and very little from the Google side. In both cases there are potentially large payoffs in the long term. But they're extremely high price ta
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by roc 13y ago
Actually, I think the "scaling" is the money to hire the staff they'll need to improve their technology, in this time before they have a chance at a sufficient revenue stream to bootstrap. Facebook-type users are a decade or
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by roc 13y ago
As with DRM - you can't make data accessible to an untrusted client and retain any control over how it might be (mis)used. Anyone telling you that you can, is selling something. VDI and VNC might make a certain class of contemporary ma
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by roc 13y ago
Whether people are adopting VDI as supplemental support for the transition to first-class web/mobile workflow might be interesting during the transition, but the end result is the same. Making BYOD work means building an enterprise
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by roc 13y ago
> "Technology seems to move in circles." VDI, Citrix, et al are less a reaction to how awesome mainframe/terminal architecture is, and more a statement about how utterly horrible it is to maintain an enterprise Windows i
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by roc 13y ago
First, Apple and Google haven't been getting "a pass" they've been called out as the primary perpetrators every single time this story has come up. Which has been many times, for several months now. Second, you don&#x27
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by roc 13y ago
They have something like it . As do almost all makers of modern battery-powered electronics. But no-one else is claiming essentially no loss of capacity after 3000 cycles . Apple boasts 80% of original capacity after 1000 cycles . Whi
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by roc 13y ago
I suspect the answer is similar to "why don't they stream FDR-data, live, for all flights?". That being: the airlines feel the cases in which extra measures matter are only a small subset (flights with problems in incredibly

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