william42

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by william42 15y ago
It's the developers who flood with angry complaints. And yes, they did. It's called Netscape.
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by william42 15y ago
Apple doesn't control the Internet, and while HTML5 has its own limitations, you could still probably port Logo to it, especially since Logo isn't all that complicated.
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by william42 15y ago
Given that unelected judges often seem to have more respect for liberty than elected Congressmen, I'm not so sure.
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by william42 15y ago
But that's because there weren't full-length feature films for Mac+.
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by william42 15y ago
Monsanto is one of the biggest pushers for and beneficiaries of corn subsidies, and corn subsidies are one of the biggest examples of corporate welfare in existence.
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by william42 15y ago
Does Microsoft still run their sites on Akamai? I know Facebook does.
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by william42 15y ago
In theory, it is, but in practice, the Green Revolution hybrid(very carefully cross-bred) seeds required you to get new seeds every year, because the seeds you'd get from your harvest would be cross-pollinated improperly. GMO could possibl
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by william42 15y ago
Actually, Monsanto also sells most "conventional"(non-GMO) seeds. It's very difficult not to deal with them, as they have a near-monopoly. If you're going to look for evil, look there .
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by william42 15y ago
But heavy usage of robots and large-scale food growing are exactly what conventional agriculture is about, and small-scale, local, human labor-based growing is the goal of the organic movement. Not saying that undercutting Monsanto is imp
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by william42 15y ago
If I have to choose between "plant one seed, save some of the harvest, and replant the seeds for next year" and saving the lives of a billion(10^9) people from starvation , I'm picking the latter. this is what the Green Revolution did.
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by william42 15y ago
Which boxes does it actually check?
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by william42 15y ago
Yeah, it'd be much better to plunge the economy back into the apartheid-era embargo days* and let AIDS ravage the country even more. *It was "cowardice" in the face of economic reprisal that was responsible for the end of apartheid, I might
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by william42 15y ago
I wonder what their response would be if you kept calling in each month to get the free month...
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by william42 15y ago
Isn't Erlang the oldest language out of the ones we're talking about?
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by william42 15y ago
Apple's internal design was a mess pre-OSX though. Still kind of is. Apple's praised for end-user interface design.
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by william42 15y ago
It strikes me as unfortunate that someone would have to force payment on their users just to be compensated for their work developing an application.
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by william42 15y ago
Would you bother to donate? Or are you only willing to give money to musicians in the form of buying music?
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by william42 15y ago
Who here has seen the webcomic world? Quite a few webcomic artists make enough money to support themselves through donations and the selling of merchandise.
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Valve: Are games too expensive?(next-gen.biz)
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by william42 15y ago
But Jobs took credit for the work of others(Wozniak) too.
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by william42 15y ago
I think he means that the design of the site is better if you have a not-so-good connection, as HN is much lighter in the HTML department.
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by william42 15y ago
You're missing the fact that it's about music piracy.
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by william42 15y ago
I want the federal government to fund the school system; I'm neutral towards federal standards, although we already have those in the form of NCLB. The current system ensures that the people who need the most help get the least.
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by william42 15y ago
The answer is to stop funding schools locally. Until that's done, nothing we do education-wise matters.
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by william42 15y ago
Can you elaborate more on the circumstances in which it happened?
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by william42 15y ago
Flashblock is a wonderful thing.
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by william42 15y ago
Chromium is open-source just like Firefox is.
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by william42 15y ago
It screams "Gradius" to me.
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by william42 15y ago
Seems buggy to me; it doesn't register my like and unlike very well.
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by william42 15y ago
I dislike this. It gives me no actual information.

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