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by turc1656 9y ago
It's just a starting point for negotiation. Same way people slip in a store and sue for $1M, even though they end up settling for 50k.
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by turc1656 9y ago
This doesn't shock me at all. I recall a while back reading how Spotify allegedly started their service with downloads from The Pirate Bay: https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...
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by turc1656 9y ago
$1,000 a day?! $400 an hour for overtime on the weekend?! Holy shit, what a corrupt scam machine. The politicians that signed off on these projects at these costs after receiving generous donations should be flayed alive.
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yup. I was thinking the same thing. They could easily remove 2-3 rows of seating, giving everyone extra room. It really doesn't have to be much room, even 2 inches makes a huge different with the way they have designed planes. It&#
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by turc1656 9y ago
Right, I think we're talking about two different things. Yes, they can choose to not prioritize the VPN traffic. But they won't be able to, for example, slow down Netflix because they have a competing on-demand service because th
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by turc1656 9y ago
i don't believe that's true. they won't be able to see what you are accessing other than the VPN as long as you are routing all traffic through it (which you should be). so it's all or nothing for them. They can'
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by turc1656 9y ago
they can see encrypted traffic and that it is being sent to an IP associated with VPN services without too much difficulty, but they won't have granular control/access over your data/bandwidth. Meaning they won't be abl
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by turc1656 9y ago
yeah but all your internet traffic would then be throttled. Not just certain services. Using a VPN essentially takes away everything from them and reduces their only tool to a hammer and forcing everything to look like a nail. There is n
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by turc1656 9y ago
Or fixing an already solved problem. Using a VPN addresses basically everything they are trying to fix.
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yep. Beat me to making the comment. This is already a solved problem. A VPN solves this problem quite well. Only exception I see is overall bandwidth usage. They'll obviously still see the total amount of traffic going across their
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by turc1656 9y ago
"Spirituality and Religion are not quite the same thing." Exactly. I've been saying this for years to anyone who asks me if I'm religious. I say "no, but I am spiritual". I reject the notion that God takes
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by turc1656 9y ago
One of the best comedies ever.
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by turc1656 9y ago
This article is catnip for the HN community. Talk of algorithms and institutional bias? And a way to improve humanity using Silicon Valley machine learning technology? Many of you probably needed a change of pants. This article is tryi
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by turc1656 9y ago
I was recently burned out due not so much from work but work + side projects + long commute + kids + etc. It may sound obvious but the best way to recover from burnout is to go an a genuinely relaxing vacation. The key is "genuinely
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by turc1656 9y ago
You're being far too kind. I don't mind if people become filthy rich as long as they do it legally. It's supposedly illegal to not quote people prices before providing services, or to have discriminatory pricing. Yet hos
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by turc1656 9y ago
My point was more that it's not the issue of difficulty or whether or not it could be done, but rather that each property holder has different wishes, and many times their wishes don't conform to the model which you are suggesting
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by turc1656 9y ago
Because property rights exist to allow the owners of intellectual property a wide ability to legally control the (re)distribution, ownership, and/or licensing of their creation.
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by turc1656 9y ago
That comic is on point.
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by turc1656 9y ago
As it so happens, I just created a brand new company. We have no idea what we're going to do, or how we're going to monetize it. But we're definitely going to use blockchain technology. If you are having any doubts, we are
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by turc1656 9y ago
I was aware of that when making the comment. I still find it surprising, though. The statistics are just much higher than I expected, even for Detroit.
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by turc1656 9y ago
I think the most disturbing thing about this is that there are even 800 serial rapists in one single county, even if it's over a 30-35 year period. That's around 25 serial rapists a year in that one county, which is kind of extra
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by turc1656 9y ago
The article explores the consequences of our reluctance to break from habit, rather than explaining why we find this hard to do. My thoughts exactly. I hate this practice with a passion. Looks like the author's answer is basically
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by turc1656 9y ago
No, that's not what I'm claiming. I'm claiming that pharmaceutical companies wanted a way to increase profits. They concluded that if they raised prices that would be bad PR because of the poorer nations that couldn't
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by turc1656 9y ago
What the article leaves out is that the real reason is that there are laws that were specifically passed to make import of drugs nearly impossible and illegal in most cases. The system is tightly controlled such that no price arbitrage can
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by turc1656 9y ago
Yeah but in fairness, the other candidate was someone who was also a proven liar, had the Benghazi scandal under her belt, and had the FBI declare publicly that she violated laws related to the handling of classified information. As South P
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by turc1656 9y ago
Net neutrality was a band-aid from the start for a larger problem that was unaddressed. ISP's, big telecom, etc. are/were committing acts that are illegal under existing law. For example, they were blocking certain sites/se
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by turc1656 9y ago
Obama still made the decision to nominate him. Plain and simple. And Trump did renominate him for another 5 years. Yes, he elevated him to chairman, but he still gets the same 1 vote, so it doesn't matter. Not quite sure what point
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by turc1656 9y ago
In this instance, it's working as intended. Based on the election results, this is pretty much expected. I suspect it's more that all the people of significance who have stated their opposition also share the same core political
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by turc1656 9y ago
The structure is such that people elect representatives and those representatives sometimes appoint other people to roles because it's not feasible for people to elect 10's or 100's of thousands of public employees with decis
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by turc1656 9y ago
That's not true. He was appointed in 2012 by Obama and confirmed unanimously by the Senate. Trump merely renominated him to keep the position for another 5 year term.

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