LLWM

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by LLWM 11y ago
Easy. We don't "allow" things to happen. Things happen. Nobody went around the room and asked everyone if they could give money to facebook.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Outcome 1 is not a bad thing, it's incredibly good.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Uber wants to replace their drivers with self-driving cars. They've always been very open about this.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Which are by definition, the areas that matter to most people.
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by LLWM 11y ago
That's how patent licensing works (albeit a comically overaggressive caricature). Do you fundamentally oppose the concept of patents or do you think Microsoft is doing something else wrong by asking to be paid license fees by competito
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by LLWM 11y ago
Most of us don't see any reason to continue doing interesting things beyond making ourselves look appealing during courtship.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Twitter and Linkedin are huge competitors.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Sounds identical to the arguments MS used back in the 90s. They lost.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Conversely, you old people grew up in a disconnected, technologically backwards society and you've learned your whole lives that electronic communication is something to be feared. The simpsons has a famous quote for people like you.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Because the people who do it don't think of it as giving up privacy and personal space. If your partner moved in with you, would you call that "giving up half your house"?
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by LLWM 11y ago
I think you have a twisted, corporate definition of "good".
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by LLWM 11y ago
If you see the appeal as only "looking for content," we are glad you stay out.
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by LLWM 11y ago
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
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by LLWM 11y ago
No, people think that because it's bigger than everything else put together, the fountainhead of the site's culture, and is the source of virtually everything notable that's ever happened there.
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by LLWM 11y ago
There certainly aren't many good ones. And even if you don't care about the quality of comedy, any layman can compare the comedy industry to another industry that does have such protections, like, say, film or software, and see a
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by LLWM 11y ago
I don't feel deprived of comedy in general because anyone can redistribute some list of a few hundred jokes without repercussion. Good comedy, however, is hard to come by. I've heard it all before and now I need to look for niche
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by LLWM 11y ago
They are very much needed - just ask anyone who tries to go without. If they wouldn't be interested in doing business without the legal framework that currently exists, why is that an invalid argument? The "talent" is not the
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by LLWM 11y ago
Not even close. Trains would be quite useless if they did not have a lot of mass and kinetic energy. People should already strive to not be bigots regardless of what google does or doesn't do.
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by LLWM 11y ago
No. It's not google's fault people are bigots.
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by LLWM 11y ago
One factor was an attempt to counter the GIFT ( http://www.penny-arcade.com/S=0/comic/2004/03/19 ) by preventing anonymity.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Interestingly enough, in aviation you do see checklists with dozens or even hundreds of items that need to be "clicked" every time, and incredibly complicated UIs that take a huge amount of training to be able to use effectively.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Contrarianism is a bit strong. I'd say bullshit detector. It's a natural response to the original author blindly praising one method while ignoring all its flaws.
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by LLWM 11y ago
That's the whole point of open source. If a developer abandons a project, someone else can pick it up and keep it going. And if you disagree with some of the developer's choices, you can fork the project and make your own version.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Why not? Someone whose mother died giving birth to them can still believe murder is wrong. Heck, even someone who has consciously murdered another person as an adult can believe that. Humans are rarely capable of perfectly following their o
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by LLWM 11y ago
As long as you don't manually revoke the app's permission to know about your location after you send it, what would stop them from building that map?
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by LLWM 11y ago
Since each app has to request your permission to access your location info, it sounds like you're happy with the status quo then.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Then it's a good thing Facebook came through with the more accurate information.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Where "skewed views" primarily means "opposing the idea of a universal basic income based on the moral principle that people should earn what they receive"? Because that's what I got out of his comment.
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by LLWM 11y ago
OverheardInNewYork has been doing this for over a decade and a half, except with transcripts instead of audio recordings.
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by LLWM 11y ago
That's definitely not the message you send when you start interrogating someone about their background like that.

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