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by sosborn 11y ago
> I don't know about abolishing copyright but charging $10 for a digital album is ridiculous. A buck for 10 songs sounds about right to me. I hate this argument so much. It assumes that the value of the work is simply in the physica
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by sosborn 11y ago
> They can pretty much turn any type of talent into bankable star. For all of their successes they have many, many failures.
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by sosborn 11y ago
Just a note - they didn't write either of the two songs you cited.
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by sosborn 11y ago
> allow the American government to continue wholesale slaughter of millions You sure about those numbers?
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by sosborn 11y ago
You can actually load whatever you want into a UIWebView. You could do the request, manipulate the response and display your modified HTML. Adblocking is of course now integrated into the OS.
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by sosborn 11y ago
It takes more than money to create quality software.
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by sosborn 11y ago
UIWebView and Safari are different things. Yes, Safari uses (essentially) UIWebView, but a browser is much more than its rendering engine.
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by sosborn 11y ago
> It asks for my password literally every 15-20 seconds. This hasn't been my experience at all. I wonder what's going on because that sounds super annoying.
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by sosborn 11y ago
I would watch a movie featuring scenes of Santa smiting evil-doers.
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by sosborn 11y ago
> And MongoDB used for something, for no good reason. Well, how else are you going to store the results before you print them to screen?
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by sosborn 11y ago
> Basically, the French security system has been revealed as completely ineffective. How can a country possibly prevent these things while still maintaining a free society?
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by sosborn 11y ago
The difference is that one of these examples is outlandish, and the other is a near certainty to happen within the next couple of years.
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by sosborn 11y ago
It is more about gauging public sentiment. If Prop F passed Expedia would have been wise to reconsider the deal. The last thing you want to do is spend all that money into an industry headed for heavy regulation that was voted in by citizen
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by sosborn 11y ago
Nope, that is the total price including the battery.
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by sosborn 11y ago
I can see how people think this, but once you live here you see the reality. There are sectors though where Japan is still pretty damn advanced, but you don't necessarily notice it in daily life. A great example is precision manufactur
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by sosborn 11y ago
> I always think of Japan as being so technologically advanced. Ask anyone who has lived in Japan for a sufficient period of time and they will laugh at this statement, especially as it relates to programming.
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by sosborn 11y ago
I think people confuse having the technical ability to read any email with the ability to actually read all emails.
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by sosborn 11y ago
Just because it isn't happening now does not mean it won't happen in the future.
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by sosborn 11y ago
> It's a rape of your mind. This is perhaps the most ridiculous comment I have read this afternoon.
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by sosborn 11y ago
>As much as I hate advertising, how exactly would you reconcile such a ban with the first amendment in the US? This article has a nice explanation about that: http://nsglc.olemiss.edu/SandBar/SandBar5/5.2adverti
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by sosborn 11y ago
> If it's made-up, it's a trite and rather artless attempt to yank at your heartstrings. Should we consider all fiction works in this way?
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by sosborn 11y ago
Lived there for 10 years with two young children and I completely agree with your first point. The sense of community and shared responsibility is much greater there IMO.
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by sosborn 11y ago
> Students could live at home The most valuable part of my college education was the experience I got living away from home.
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by sosborn 11y ago
> Humans were not responsible Well, yes and no: "TEPCO, that operated the station, had been warned their seawall was insufficient to withstand a powerful tsunami, but the seawall height was not raised in response." https:&#x2F
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by sosborn 11y ago
> been known to break stuff pretty frequently Apple is really good about giving developers a heads up before deprecating anything.
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by sosborn 11y ago
I live in Hawai‘i so yes, please do this :)
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by sosborn 11y ago
That's on the parents.
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by sosborn 11y ago
Is it greedy to want to keep the lights on?
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by sosborn 11y ago
Here is one example: http://engineering.flipboard.com/2015/02/mobile-web/
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by sosborn 11y ago
>Donald Trump is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate Not really. Those numbers are for the Republican Primary and you better believe they are being pushed up by Democrats. Democrats would love nothing better than for the Re

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