yoyar

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by yoyar 16y ago
MS has a long history of stealing and sabotage. This doesn't surprise me one bit.
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by yoyar 16y ago
The difference between the government owning and the government not owning but controlling a corporate entity(s) are irrelevant to me. If anything, the government sets up the conditions for monopolies and oligopolies to exist. > If it w
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by yoyar 16y ago
I was referring to the hardware. Not the set of supplier corporations that are intertwined with the state.
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by yoyar 16y ago
If there is an Oligopoly, then how has this occurred? What entity is there providing the conditions for the Oligopoly to exist and persist? If there were not government interference via the CRTC we would have open competition. But we don't
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by yoyar 16y ago
Corporatism.
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by yoyar 16y ago
This is why I wrote the comment in the manner that I did. There is an ongoing confusion about what is the free market and what is corporatism/fascism. The free market provides for free competition between individuals where all transactions
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by yoyar 16y ago
Seems like the CRTC needs to find a way to remain relevant. This is central planning, socialist style. I hope everyone enjoys it.
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by yoyar 16y ago
It isn't sensible to think that any system can eliminate fraud entirely. If you want a system that gets it right most of the time then you can look to ebay.
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by yoyar 16y ago
Reputation for purchasers and sellers is a solved problem. Eg, ebay.
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by yoyar 16y ago
Hello World is there to validate that you can setup, compile and run a program in your new language of choice. Complicating that process by trying to write something non-trivial defeats the purpose of the exercise. I call BS on this article
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by yoyar 16y ago
Assange is poking at the illusion of democracy and it makes people damn uncomfortable as far as I can see. I think most people know that they are ruled by rulers and that the idea of the state as benefactor is dead, but to admit it is anoth
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by yoyar 16y ago
If there is a significant enough demand, it will eventually be produced.
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by yoyar 16y ago
<canadian-pedantic>A kayak is longer and thinner and lower to the water and is often covered. A kayak is typically paddled using a double ended paddle. In Canada, the boat in the article is a kayak; I don't think anyone here would c
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by yoyar 16y ago
<pedantic> It's an amazing project but that's a kayak, not a canoe. </pedantic>
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by yoyar 16y ago
As someone who's written tons of Java/J2EE etc... and who's been writing PHP for several years, I don't get all the PHP bashing. I've seen tons of garbage code in Java, and in PHP. And I've seen amazing things done with both. It's a poor ca
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Bragging about being one of the best Lotus Notes devs
4 points by yoyar 16y ago|1 comments
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by yoyar 16y ago
It's isn't a chance that Gov't involvement will cause more hard than good, it is a certainty.