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by uiri 15y ago
The thing is that nontechnical people want to use the same OS at home and at work. This is because of the differences between OSes and applications which trip them up. Microsoft is simply putting up consumer computing as a first line of def
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by uiri 15y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbXgsMxOPtI A quick google revealed this which seems to be the video in question (or relevant to "saying no to science" by invoking God, at least.)
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by uiri 15y ago
It would be helpful if impossible points were the background colour (for example, 60/50 or 50/60, 40/70 or 70/40, etc) so that the big mass of whitespace is less distracting and it is more evident when neutral people shifted to one opinion
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by uiri 15y ago
I thought that cartel implies that sellers collude to artificially raise prices and limit competition. If this is the natural result of a free market, it seems that it is therefore not a cartel, just that given competitor price information,
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by uiri 15y ago
I have been thinking about solving this since https://www.xkcd.com/949/ and one thing which I think most file services get wrong is that they practically require you to write down (or email to yourself) the link to the file. I don't want
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by uiri 15y ago
Just wondering, what exactly is wrong with plain CGI?
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by uiri 15y ago
Look into the marginal cost of raising a child. Children are a bigger expense for upper-middle class people who expect to send their children to a private school, pay for them to go to an expensive college, want each kid to have their own r
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by uiri 15y ago
It just seems unlikely that every single state will require the actual owner of the LLC to be in public records. If that is the case, good luck finding the owners. Ideally the slumlord will have a different registered agent (person in the r
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by uiri 15y ago
I think the distinction isn't whether one changes the world and the other doesn't, it is whether one changes people and the other doesn't. Jake didn't change his customers. He predicted what they would do next. The demand for his product
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by uiri 15y ago
All I can think of is xkcd 927 ( http://xkcd.com/927/ ) There are already lots of calendars if one cares to look. Why bother with a 7 day week other than the biblical mandate? Why not use a lunar calendar? It would certainly simplify 'cal
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by uiri 15y ago
I don't think it is that unrealistic to expect a shift away from TVs. In fact, number of households with a TV set is starting a downward trend which is accelerating. http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/11/30/tv-ownership-declines/ It is certainly
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by uiri 15y ago
By discouraging one 50%, they are encouraging the other 50%. If the increase by encouraging the latter 50% offset the decrease by discouraging the former 50%, they get a net increase in profits. It is a lot easier to market to either boys o
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by uiri 15y ago
If you have more money in the bank than you have more freedom than someone else because you may be able to stay on your soap box for days on end while said someone else would have to go to work everyday or do other things in order to earn e
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by uiri 15y ago
The current model is rather indirect. The author spends x amount of time developing the app and then they release it. Not until he has y downloads will he have recouped his initial development costs and he will continue to earn money well p
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by uiri 15y ago
I think it is just because the rant is in response to a strawman who is asking the question. They haven't really looked into free software as an alternative to proprietary software and it really is a shift in thinking about software. It is
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by uiri 15y ago
Do inkjet printed pages produce similar watermarks? Or is it just laser ones?
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by uiri 15y ago
Or use fetchmail to receive it and just use the smtp of whatever mail account provider you fetch from. Get your mail under Fourth Amendment protection and get around the port 25 blocking.
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by uiri 15y ago
Torvalds uses the best tool for the job. The only reason git was even created was because some Linux developers refused to use BitKeeper. The message of Torvalds is "use the best available to you" while the message of Stallman is "use the l
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by uiri 15y ago
If there is something in your news feed which you don't want to be there, you can click the down-pointing arrow. If it is created by an app, you can even hide all posts from that particular app. A hide from all apps would be nice, but I thi
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by uiri 15y ago
Did anyone really trust it anyways? I mean, with fake certs floating around, in order for it to really be secure you need to guarantee that the cert you got is the real cert anyways, which most people (read: average users) don't bother with
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by uiri 15y ago
I don't understand how you would be handing it over to your competitors: 1) if it is proprietary software, just add a clause which forbids reverse engineering. If it really is as complex as you describe however, I doubt reverse engineering