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by whichfawkes 11y ago
That female co-founder is the founder of Bumble, the subject of this article. I'd argue that Tinder doesn't work, and this probably won't either.
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
They don't even have an Android app! I don't know how they expect to be taken seriously. They're doing a bunch of PR like this and appearing on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, but it doesn't seem like they're act
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
Interesting. I'd like to see someone grab all this data and then do some analysis and come up with a list of addresses that may be under surveillance. You could probably even come up with probability data per address, based on how lik
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
The most impressive new technology is often the result of massive spending by entities far more powerful than myself. Guns are technology which can directly kill me, but I'm not too worried about guns, or even must gun owners. But whe
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
I know exactly what you mean. Perhaps it has something to do with decades of TV being available over the air, and over different varying cable packages. People are used to the idea that if you don't pay for cable you can watch a subse
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
I'd argue that they make it easier for individuals to exercise rights they should have. They're merely centralized listings that make it easy to connect buyers and sellers of services in transport/lodging markets. Fundamen
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
What's so bad about a household owning more than one car? Suppose I work 20 miles North of where I live, and my SO works 20 miles South of where we live. Should we really carpool that? If you're talking about individual traffic
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
I'd be perfectly happy to pay for music streaming like I pay for Netflix: unlimited access for a flat monthly fee. However, I'm not willing to pay for a monthly service from every individual record label I want to listen to, and
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
How are those services trampling on anyone's rights? Despite loving Grooveshark, I tend to agree that copyright has some meaning and purpose. I don't think taxi companies have a right to business just because they were there firs
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
Without commenting on whether I think "gutsy" is good or accurate in this instance, it's worth saying that copyright is a civil issue, not a criminal issue. AFAIK, the people at Grooveshark haven't been threatening to b
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
Does anyone have a good sense for how hard it would be to operate a service like this in a vaguely legal way? I understand that Grooveshark's own employees were instructed to download music and upload it to Grooveshark. If this had no
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
Just like the drug market with all its weird research chemicals that are technically legal, I'm pretty sure the piracy scene can move faster than draconian measures can take them down. It's hard to compete with free. At the momen
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
Obviously they just need taller buildings with deeper basements. Same square footage, different elevation.
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by whichfawkes 11y ago
Suppose he gets some wealthy folks (especially from Serbia/Croatia) to keep their assets there. I doubt it would happen (chicken/egg problem, right?), but I could see a territory like that persisting without international recogni
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
If you like half-baked conspiracy theories, what do you have to say about the removal of microSD cards from Android phones? I think that's far more damning.
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
Does NPR actually make money from their radio broadcasts?
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
Find something you enjoy more than reddit, and which entices you to spend your free time more meaningfully. I used to browse reddit excessively, but then I realized how much more I like HN, and started reading some more books and getting mo
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
I would say that a more plausible solution (than somehow making businesses pay for the education of the people they want to hire) is to push actual accreditation off onto 3rd parties. Imagine there's a trusted business who makes the te
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
Yeah, if any one person decides that they don't want to end up in front of a grand jury, then obviously they shouldn't commit a crime. However, treating the accused fairly is an important aspect of our society. Suppose 10-jacket
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
I may be misunderstanding, but that sounds a little off. Suppose that Some Guy has been arrested for having some marijuana, and at the time of his arrest, he also had a plastic ziplock bag in his possession. This case gets taken to the Gra
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
What exactly do you mean by: > allocating less money to capitalists, and more to workers ? Where are those ratios coming from, who's allocating this money, and how would you change the ratio?
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
He could very well have written 120k lines, but there's only 80k in source control. 40k lines being written could be replacing other lines.
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
Not to mention the fact that somebody would just go ahead and implement them (security be damned), defeating the whole purpose.
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
We just have to accept the trade-offs of functionality. Things like airplane autopilot systems and medical equipment are probably pretty close to perfect, but that level of correctness in your browser, much less your operating system, much
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
Maybe his acquaintance has a blog?
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
It's easier still for a business to pay for a support contract, contributing to Canonical's revenue. Perhaps they could send a small fraction of that money to projects like GPG.
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
Cool stats. I wonder when I'll be able to use my ECDSA key...
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
Agreed. I think my perspective on cost may be a little skewed because I'm using it for a University CS Club with over 100 members and we can't pay $500/month for it. I have less incentive to introduce it for the startup I wo
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by whichfawkes 12y ago
I like Slack, because I can rely on non-technical people to use it, but if I'm working with people who actually know what they're doing, I don't see the advantage over IRC. For free, it's a great service. For $5/mo

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