snickerbockers

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by snickerbockers 10y ago
> How about making your argument without shifting it to the other side of the globe. Because most lifeforms are capable of observational learning. > The brand new regulations that have been fought by the same people introducing this b
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
Here's net neutrality preventing millions of people in a developing nation from accessing the internet: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/08/india-fac... > HN is a community with a
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
They don't deserve net neutrality if they choose to do business with an ISP that doesn't give it to them. You say that they don't have a choice because there's no competition; I say there's no competition because g
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
I've been to rural areas, I'm well aware that millions of people live without reliable high-speed internet connections all over the United States, and those regulations you support haven't fixed it. Meanwhile, there are poor
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
Then don't do business with terrible companies that invade your privacy.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
Does anybody else think that "Juicero" sounds like a great name for a company that sells steroids?
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
If there's one company I won't let into my brain, it's Facebook.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
Wow, those avatars actually look more obnoxious than the Nintendo Miis.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
There are no unsafe languages, only unsafe coders.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
Good, maybe this will cause people to reconsider these stupid personal-assistant devices.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
In 2001 there weren't high-resolution cameras pointed everywhere 24/7 like there are today. Nobody had a camera in their phone, the police didn't have red-light cameras at every intersection, we weren't all terrified of
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
It was strewn about in tiny pieces after it hit the ground at 600MPH.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
A lot of people oppose government regulation on general principle.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
OP, your alternatives to DD are more complicated, not less complicated. I shouldn't need to pipeline two commands together just to cut off the first 100MB of a file.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
I guess I'm a little out of the loop here, what has Uber done to become unpopular? Last I checked they were Silicon Valley's favorite darling.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
Just because one party was predominantly targeted doesn't mean they were sponsored by a foreign geopolitical interest. This could mean that guccifer 2.0 was a partisian (in America or abroad) acting on his own beliefs, or it could als
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
Could this come back to bite Zen Arbitrage in the ass if they get sued for damages caused by providing false data with the intention of sabotaging another company? I understand why they don't like Textbook Money scraping their database
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: you can't apply Silicon Valley disruption to every industry because most software has a failure-rate that would be considered appalling in any real engineering discipline. And buil
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
> Producing food without following proper hygiene regulations? Disrupting the medicine-industry by testing your headache-pills on your customers (those regulations are only slowing us down!)? It would have been even worse than that becau
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
Banks refuse to hire people on the basis that they don't charge enough ? Sounds like bad logic coming from a financial institution.
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by snickerbockers 10y ago
The problem is that they (Silicon Valley) think the reason their startups move so fast is that they are some sort of new meritocracy, and that other industries move slowly because they're held back by a "good old boys' club&q