sorbus

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721.
by sorbus 16y ago
"A reasonable reader, given the overall context of the posts, simply would not believe ... that having contracted sexually transmitted diseases in such manner she morphed into the devil." So yes.
722.
by sorbus 16y ago
Standard password security, basically. At that point, there's a lot more danger from social engineering or people writing down the (long, non-obvious) passwords.
723.
by sorbus 16y ago
The title twists his meaning a bit by removing context; his next sentence clarifies the statement: "That is, the term will become meaningless, as all games will become social."
724.
by sorbus 16y ago
... it's not the most horrific scat on the net. Not even close[1]. Also, fun fact: they used chocolate for most of it. [1] See the Encyclopedia Dramatica article on Shock Sites, if you must. Or the Pain Series, if you're feeling really brav
725.
by sorbus 16y ago
Probably looking at demographics on HN, to get a feel for the community.
726.
by sorbus 16y ago
It's not like they said that it would cure cancer, yes. But false advertising has to be dealt with on a really small and technical scale to prevent us from getting to that point. Still nowhere as bad as the article a few days ago with someo
727.
by sorbus 16y ago
Using morse code, perhaps? With only one button, there isn't really any other way to write (I presume that if you were using speech recognition, you would have said "saying" or "speaking," not "writing"). (Yes, I know that you meant you're
728.
by sorbus 16y ago
But if they're competent, they don't need the money, because they'll be able to work up to the point where they have as much as he did - according to the article, he started off as a "poor street hawker," so his belief that his children cou
729.
by sorbus 16y ago
Titles are generally considered secondary to the article, and are often used to grab attention (in the style of newspaper headlines). And expecting a title (a single sentence, at most!) to explain why there are so many people behind bars is
730.
by sorbus 16y ago
So what is your answer, then?
731.
by sorbus 16y ago
Admitted by Americans visiting Europe, or claimed by Europeans?
732.
by sorbus 16y ago
That was what I was thinking too. Either a hacker-space with some special purpose, or a distributed online hackerspace, probably with some integration of video-chat, IRC, and git repositories.
733.
by sorbus 16y ago
Yes, that was why I thought I was being downvoted, and as a comparison it could have been better - no one likes being insulted. So, an individual human is more mentally unique than an individual, say, mouse, and that makes us more valuable
734.
by sorbus 16y ago
Social Graph is (or graphs in general are) the buzzword of the day, or perhaps year. It's not surprising that everything is being phrased in terms of it.
735.
by sorbus 16y ago
Precipitating crises as a way to spur innovation? Could work; it certainly has in the past. However, you're phrasing overpopulation as something for the future; it's already here. The world's population is nearing 7 billion, and, according
736.
by sorbus 16y ago
That's a good point. Eliminating the need for resources to fight one issue would allow for overpopulation to be mitigated (more education, and more resources poured into increasing available food and standards of living). Reducing the amoun
737.
by sorbus 16y ago
Overpopulation is a drawback, and a pretty major one.
738.
by sorbus 16y ago
Humans are not necessarily more important than anything else. It's a common delusion that, because one is human, humans are the most important species. Basically a more grown-up form of the common belief of children that they are the center
739.
by sorbus 16y ago
Wouldn't every conventional operating system be using the wild-west model? Windows, OSX, even Linux[1][2]: if you need a program, you go out onto the internet and look for it. [1] At least, it can be used that way. It fits the Janitor model
740.
by sorbus 16y ago
Adding services without the knowledge or consent of users, and making the process to remove them needlessly complex or impossible? It's generally considered to be criminal to charge someone for something they don't want (and haven't asked f
741.
by sorbus 16y ago
A 4.3-inch display is a bit excessive for a phone, I think. Still, with the right usage pattern (using it for access to the internet and similar things), it could be useful - and, for the right user, the larger screen and presumable better
742.
by sorbus 16y ago
That's sort of the point, isn't it? As it's continuously changing the URL ... I could see this used to make it difficult or impossible for people to leave sites, except by closing the window.
743.
by sorbus 16y ago
So the average user spends 1,400 minutes on facebook each month - about 23 hours and 20 minutes, or about 45 minutes a day. This figure could be really skewed if it tracks log-in time, not actual eyeball time (although that seems unlikely t
744.
by sorbus 16y ago
So if you think about money, you enjoy chocolate less and you eat it faster, or at least so the second study mentioned says. An alternative theory: people, when confronted with money, realize that they will not be able to enjoy more chocola
745.
by sorbus 16y ago
Sufficiently polished, anyways. Underlying technologies are getting less important than polish and interfaces, at least to the average user.
746.
by sorbus 16y ago
It's just the fanboys; try to ignore them. They downvote anyone who expresses an opinion which they disagree with, or which they think is anti-apple. When the more sane users get to these comments, you'll regain at least a bit of your karma
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by sorbus 16y ago
... yes, it seems that I did. Too late for me to edit it, too, so I can't retract the statement and remove any potential confusion (and my own embarrassment). My apologies.
748.
by sorbus 16y ago
There are some things it makes sense for; flagging submissions, downvotes, and perhaps a few other things being karma-restricted removes some issues associated with people trolling. It's also useful for identifying comments which lots of pe
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by sorbus 16y ago
That was the intention of copyright, anyways. It's gotten a bit beyond that, to the point that an idea can be copyrighted if phrased correctly. Requiring a working model to be submitted with every application would go a good way towards fix
750.
by sorbus 16y ago
For science?

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