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by rory096 15y ago
That's not really reconcilable with the guy using the 6 train stop at 23rd and Park.
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by rory096 15y ago
Early reports said Google's planning on releasing these later this year ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/technology/google-glasses-... ); as far as I've seen, nothing's changed on that front. No, they're not showing you actual prototype
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by rory096 15y ago
I don't think kmfrk is saying that the warnings are unjustified, more that they're just not getting through due to oversaturation. People hear about privacy issues all the time, but rarely see or experience actual negative repercussions, so
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by rory096 15y ago
LLCs act as pass-throughs, distributing profits (and thus taxes) in proportion to ownership stakes. As a presumably sole owner of an LLC, he'd have to file a Schedule K-1 with the company tax return, which essentially moves the profits of t
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by rory096 15y ago
>Looking at the future, China will probably get back to the first position. What basis do you have for that? Sure, China will undoubtedly take the distinction of largest economy in the world, but that's attributable to its outsize popul
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by rory096 18y ago
Not really. The press reporting a $15 billion valuation was bullshit; it assumed that the only thing Microsoft was getting was the stake. In reality, it got a lot more, including the advertisement contract.
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by rory096 18y ago
This article's outlook is way too simplistic; Chinese won't be the only influence on English's future. China still accounts for only a somewhat small fraction of English speakers, so other languages and cultures will have as much, if not mo
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by rory096 18y ago
I certainly agree that computer programming doesn't matter much, but what about hacking in the more general sense? I'm sure there are tons of problems in Africa where a simple solution could make a big difference (the recent thing with whee
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by rory096 18y ago
He doesn't mean the tag is optional, he means he likes how it gives you a choice between just going to the raw pdf and using scribd, so it's a tag making the use of scribd optional.
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by rory096 18y ago
His first comment is now -19 and his other two were -3 before I came in here. Why all the pile-on downvoting for no real reason, people? Are those comments really worth -19?
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by rory096 18y ago
No, Cuban is arguing that Hulu is somehow "beating" Youtube. Even if it is more profitable, it's more profitable in the same way that Apple is more profitable than Adobe.
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by rory096 18y ago
Indeed. This world record stunt got quite a few media mentions, and while I'm sure they would have gotten a lot without it because of the release, this likely generated even more publicity.
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by rory096 18y ago
The chances of it ever getting such a deal were slim; the media companies already hated them for stealing their content before, and would not have wanted to reward that with a deal to do it legally (some did, yes, but it was unlikely that m
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by rory096 18y ago
This is a bit of a stretch; they don't even really compete with each other all that much. Hulu only has TV shows; it doesn't have huge volumes of user-generated content. People don't use Hulu to the exclusion of Youtube or vice versa.
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by rory096 18y ago
Very fun, though there needs to be a way to turn off the sound without quitting out of the game.
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by rory096 18y ago
Indeed. And even if he were some new user who wasn't pg, his point would still be valid, and shouldn't just be dismissed offhand.
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by rory096 18y ago
Honestly, this post is exactly why we need downvotes (and I'm surprised it's been upvoted so much). I agree that the threadstarter is wrong, but explaining your viewpoint and why you think he's wrong contributes far more to the discussion t
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by rory096 18y ago
Not a single comment was removed from that AfD. Not only would that be completely against policy and instantly reverted, but I just checked every edit to it. (Yes, I need a life.) The article was deleted because the subject wasn't considere
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by rory096 18y ago
Whoa, that was bizarre. I just finished taking the online course of his a few days ago.
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by rory096 18y ago
The problem is that downvoted comments are less prominent- they're all the way at the bottom of the page (and greyed out). Thus if people start downvoting things they just disagree with, things that contribute to discussions won't actually
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by rory096 18y ago
From the article: "It's true that we writers borrow words from each other ? but we're supposed to admit it and not pretend we're original when we're not. I took the word ansible from Ursula K. LeGuin, and have always said so. Rowling, howev
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by rory096 18y ago
CACert isn't really unrecognized, it's just that they haven't worked out a deal with Firefox. There's a 5 year old bug about this, and they're just waiting for the company to do something before they add them.
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by rory096 18y ago
Not exactly. Creating a fork is much different from writing one's own Firefox- it's just copying code and changing the default browser bit, not writing an entire web browser that's exactly the same.
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by rory096 18y ago
Yes it does. You'd be shocked at how fast I've seen some people complain that IE was easier when they get the import favorites dialog during FF installation. They don't even bother to read it and see if it's easy, they just see it requires
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by rory096 18y ago
I like it (though I can't say I have much use for a digital whiteboard). It would be nice if it would automatically resize to your window size, though; the bottom is just under the bottom of my window and scrolling just for that little bit
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by rory096 18y ago
That's why Google would have failed completely if it required a monthly subscription (actually Google's a bad example since it was already a crowded market full of free search engines, but whatever).
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by rory096 18y ago
I don't see that as true- even tech savvy people seem to do it. I think it might have something to do with email sometimes being seen as a more formal type of online communication, as opposed to instant messaging, or even perhaps less forma