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by wnight 15y ago
It's rational to recognize tradition - it's a huge millstone around the necks of those who engage in it and changing their minds will be much harder because of it. But tradition itself is only valuable to cult leaders.
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by wnight 15y ago
You work very hard at maintaining your irrational thoughts.
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by wnight 15y ago
So, if I can find ten people who claim to believe what you do but really say other random things, does it mean you no-longer have a message or merely that I've managed to distract from it? And who have I distracted, you? Unlikely. Just myse
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by wnight 15y ago
Why do you love GoDaddy? You're in an absolute tither about people exercising their right to deal with a merchant of their choice. As for your argument about censoring the censors, it's daft.
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by wnight 15y ago
I'm earning a very comfortable income and I want the people who've exploited our lax and corrupt laws to go to jail for doing so, along with the politicians involved in passing those laws and rubber-stamping their behavior. OWS isn't about
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by wnight 15y ago
> GoDaddy may be wrong on this issue but they're free to take whatever stand they want ... Just as free as the people who think they should lose business for it, in shifting to a more social responsible company. They are trying to enact
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by wnight 15y ago
> [OWS is] literally an expression of incoherent rage. You're clueless, likely intentionally so. Many Occupy members are very coherent. If you haven't looked far enough to find one you must be getting your news from a TV. And rage doesn
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by wnight 15y ago
Or, it will hold up and the government will have yet another inconsistently unenforced law to be used when it finds an innocent person who has done something politically inconvenient. Using encryption is already proof, in many people's eyes
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by wnight 15y ago
We don't need anything to observe the effect of 'mass'. We may need a multi-billion dollar machine to observe a tiny little thing happening at the middle of the effect so that we can better understand it. What you're saying is like "if this
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by wnight 15y ago
Nor does it mean the amendment would be effective or widespread enough.
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by wnight 15y ago
If it doesn't pass they'll come back in six months with an anti-kiddie porn bill that has all the same provisions but this time you'll be a monster who hates children if you speak out against it. This is how government works. They force cra
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by wnight 15y ago
This relies on the assumption that congress cares what the people think. As long as the people don't pay large campaign contributions their voices are thoroughly meaningless to their 'representatives'. As long as bribery is legal (by jumpin
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by wnight 15y ago
Sell the pain. Football isn't for babies. Speed up gameplay with UI improvements, etc, so that players can compete in more simultaneous (staggered) competitions, increasing their chance of a good score. Do you have a tunable AI to test play
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by wnight 15y ago
Some companies get it right. They post a fun challenge, not a rote test, and attract skilled programmers with it. Most companies seem to just pick the most annoying thing they've ever had to do (C with non-standard pointer use, etc), obfusc
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by wnight 15y ago
And amusingly, those fob systems increase the chance of a break-in to your apartment. In a building of 200-400 suites it'd be tedious to try found/stolen keys in every door. But in a system such as you describe you get on the elevator, wave
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by wnight 15y ago
The single-greatest reason to avoid Microsoft is that they're willing to sacrifice any and all partners (customers, retailers, developers, employees, etc) to attract more of the others. As a customer you can count on Microsoft adding DRM to
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by wnight 15y ago
But this is a symptom of one-size-fits-all solution the labels cram people into. Like VCs, they don't care at all about moderate success, anything less than phenomenal success is failure to them. So they'll burn your band/company out trying
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by wnight 15y ago
These people are already getting on wrong elevators. The example given has banks of elevators for different floors, marked by sign and by buttons for the specific floors covered. If they don't pay attention they'll get a short tour. If this
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by wnight 15y ago
Of course you have no god-given anything, that's ridiculous. And so is the concept of rights. But you do have a reasonable expectation as a citizen of a country that your common tax/output funded currency will be available to you on the sam
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by wnight 15y ago
I don't credit the creators of fire, and indoor heating, every time I turn the thermostat up. I similarly see no reason to try to credit the "original" speaker or author unless I'm using a sizable chunk of their work verbatim. Especially as
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by wnight 15y ago
And horseless carriages used to be less reliable than horses. The problem is the longstanding nature of the policy. They were paying a team of 6+ techs, surely they could afford a process-review/technical updating meeting once a year? And s
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by wnight 15y ago
Plagiarism? ROFL. Astroturf much? Small, thin, black, touch-screen devices with centered buttons. There's not a lot of room to vary, and no reason to disappoint consumers and make it thicker than need be, etc. Next you'll be telling us Star
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by wnight 15y ago
> there's a difference between negligence and malice. Initially, maybe. But when it keeps going on because it's profitable, it's malice.
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by wnight 15y ago
This seems like a bad attitude - that whatever sleazy thing people do is excused by them having over-spent their way to desperation.
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by wnight 15y ago
Or rather, not from a monopolistic company bent on calling users criminals for accessing their own devices. But yeah, if you agree that that describes Apple to a T, or maybe a P, then "Not Apple, (or Microsoft, or ...)".
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by wnight 15y ago
This is where you need to take small deliverables from what they say so that they actually get something usable at each step. It's almost impossible to have a consistent and useful goal that's years away. Expecting otherwise will just lead
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by wnight 15y ago
These companies wouldn't pay dues unless they were getting value from it. And I bet most have got an employee whose job it is to follow what these organizations are doing to make sure they're still worth the huge dues. So no. I imagine almo
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by wnight 15y ago
I've only done this within Canada, yet, but have lived in five cities in the last four years. It's fun, and not too much work aside from packing a bit more securely to move. It's surprisingly cheap to parcel-mail your belongings, if everyth
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by wnight 15y ago
What's the chance though, that the rich person in this scenario got rich way by doing what the poor person did but better/faster? Pretty low I think. Likely they applied for a patent on some obvious technology, or invested in a company that
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by wnight 15y ago
Which is why people in your position latch onto phrases like class warfare. As long as you can show one member of the class who doesn't participate you act like you've disproved the concept in general. If you need a cite for every sweet dea

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