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by shingen 15y ago
I think the issue is getting them to look under the rug to see what has been swept under there. That's the reason why an investigation is needed. You don't lobby that much money over that length of time without breaking a zillion laws. As i
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The tech industry is harmed by piracy a zillion times greater than Hollywood ever has been or ever could be. Microsoft alone is pirated more than Hollywood in dollar terms. Yet the tech industry hasn't spent the last ten years trying to get
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The things the parties champion are what they can always most easily intrude upon because their bases ignore it (they buy the jargon and assume their party stands for what they claim). For example, it wasn't Clinton that doubled the size of
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12 years ago, and more meaningful today than ever. Fortunately musicians are starting to (finally) get a few more options to escape The Cartel. Much like Universal attacked MegaUpload regarding their self produced YouTube video, I have to w
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Green Peace is also using this, not sure whether the German Pirate Party ripped it off from them or vice versa. http://greenpeace.org
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No it wasn't, that's a lefty myth recently invented. The word "corporatism" didn't exist back then. Mussolini referred to corporativismo, which he defined as a large number of people working together, not specific to the modern corporation.
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You can't disrupt Yahoo as a random 22 year old geek starting a company. The revenue streams and traffic base of Yahoo is extremely diverse. Unless you plan to simultaneously disrupt web email, search, financial portals, sports, news, gener
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Says the fact that he was on the board of directors of the corporation (emphasis on the fact that it's a public corporation consisting of shareholders). Legally, in his role, his responsibility was to the shareholders first.
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It's about time to actually begin punishing Hollywood for the evil shit they're doing. It's not enough to just respond in defense when they try, time and time again, to destroy the Internet. It's time for a boycott, along with a large campa
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What is wrong with you? What does her death have to do with you? That was one of the most disgusting, least human, comments I've ever seen written on HN.
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I'm always fascinated when writers use the phrase "defeat terrorism." It would be equally stupid to say: defeat murder. It's the kind of jingoistic bull that led to the Patriot Act and Homeland Security. If someone told you the price for li
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Is there a good reason why he isn't the intense focus of technology dedicated to reading brain signals to action results through a computer + display? There are already functional systems that paralyzed people have used to communicate throu
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Is that why the NHS is collapsing and has been forced to begin privatizing itself?
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Both, ads that make money while asking for money. This plea brought to you by Encyclopedia Britannica, please support Wikipedia with a donation.
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Given the standard by which they're now defining super computers, the reality is Google has the world's most powerful super compute system. If you spin up all of Amazon's compute power it would also be beyond 10 petaflops.
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The son will clearly not be able to retain power, so now it's a question of whether they get a military dictatorship or the system implodes and they get a chance to start anew.
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It's awesome that 17 years later I can properly browse that site with its ancient markup (not to mention the specs it was designed for back then). Job well done internets.
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Quite frankly they don't even know how a normal economy works, how manufacturing works, what generates real middle class job growth, how wealth is created (hint: not from insider deals via political connections). They're like captains of a
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He is a billionaire these days. He owns 1/3 of Tesla, which has a market cap of $3 billion. His ownership stake in SpaceX is also without a doubt worth a nice chunk of change.