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by Prophasi 14y ago
That's not what zero-sum implies; you don't have to run two browsers, or two OSes, to refute it. The marketshare numbers you see are percentages. Say Netscape has 80% of the market of 1M people, and IE4 is popular enough that NS's share dwi
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by Prophasi 14y ago
As I recall, IE3 was passable, not laughable. IE4 was better than usable; as much as I clung to my Netscape Communicator 4, it was better than NS's offering. In fact, another current HN article right now details all that IE4 innovated: htt
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by Prophasi 14y ago
The market wasn't then, and isn't now, zero-sum. Microsoft's domination was achieved by making passable-to-excellent browsers in the beginning and putting them on the desktop, which made the web more accessible to millions of people, booste
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by Prophasi 14y ago
Fair. What resources did the average Republican take advantage of that s/he now wants to kibosh? Axing roads and bridges is nowhere present in the public discussion. Of Warren's cited examples, schools are the only plausible answer. To say
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by Prophasi 14y ago
Sure. But now you're contrasting the philosophy with what politicians actually do in office. If your argument is that politicians engage in lying and hypocrisy, I don't think you'll find many takers. But I sincerely hope you'd assert the sa
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by Prophasi 14y ago
The Republicans have given their vision of how we build our future—they've said, 'I got mine, the rest of you are on your own'. Which is, in turn, a poor job of paraphrasing the actual small-government view, which would be better stated a
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by Prophasi 14y ago
Apropos citation. Would've been an even better one without the disclaimer. The money speech contains the essence of the overriding philosophy in the novel at large; I'm curious what you found ridiculous in the rest of the book that isn't st
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by Prophasi 14y ago
Oh, I don't mean swearing and eloquence are mutually exclusive. But eloquence isn't binary; it lives on a gradient. Where there's a common, monosyllabic, four-letter word, it could be displacing another with a fair likelihood of being more
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by Prophasi 14y ago
I'd take it to mean the size of one's vocabulary in practice, not just the words s/he knows. There's obviously still no necessary implication that a swearer's vocab usage is worse than that of a non-swearer. Strict logic aside, though, I've
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by Prophasi 14y ago
Eh, I still agree with the prejudiced guy.
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by Prophasi 14y ago
The infrastructural barriers to entry are nontrivial, to be sure. Further restrictions -- for example, kneecapping pricing structures that companies can use to differentiate themselves -- will only exacerbate that, though. Another thought i
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by Prophasi 14y ago
In the broadest sense, net neutrality's an abrogation of companies' rights to set terms for their products and allow consumers to agree or disagree. It limits the pricing and service dynamic. Specifically for the net, it's a concession that
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by Prophasi 14y ago
I'm not in the industry, so I'd expect your cynicism to be greater, I suppose. I get that. But to be accurate (if at the expense of nitpicking): "the end result is that we all wind up being treated as potential thieves" We all are potenti
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by Prophasi 14y ago
How so? Criminals are fined or arrested, not prompted to enter authentication information or sync devices via this approved route. Do you think locking your front door treats everyone else in the entire world as a criminal?
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by Prophasi 14y ago
I don't love DRM, but the hyperbole could be notched down. In particular, this cliche: "DRM starts from the premise that all readers are slimeballs and thieves." Such a dire pronouncement doesn't logically follow. DRM starts from the premis
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by Prophasi 14y ago
I haven't read debates about the content of the bill, but having read it directly, I'm not sure how to get from A to B (B being kids learning about creationism): "The teaching of some scientific subjects, including, but not limited to, biol
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by Prophasi 14y ago
From near the end: "Obama was right in bailing out the auto industry when GM and Chrysler were going bankrupt." It's myopic to equate GM and Chrysler with the American auto industry. My hope was that those tragically unfit companies and the
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by Prophasi 14y ago
Just look at that obnoxious period hanging out there slyly at the end of the non-sentence subject. It's full of "just a period here, not an exclamation point, but I'm pretty sure you're gonna be pretty ebullient anyway" faux-understatement.
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by Prophasi 14y ago
Downvoting was expected, as my post runs counter to the prevailing view on social services and opposition to capitalism "red in tooth and claw," but some commentary on why would be appreciated. My original post was relevant and not too infl
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by Prophasi 14y ago
Bone-headed HR move, particularly in light of the prevailing laws but quite apart from them, too. It's invasive and uncomfortable, and probably not a place I'd feel welcome as an employee. What it mostly reinforces to me, however, is just
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by Prophasi 14y ago
One potential reason the guys in the channel get irritated with it, apart from them being actually sexist and therefore uncomfortable/guilty, is that your starting assumption that they WERE sexist was wrong. To have a preachy bot post nomin
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by Prophasi 14y ago
I never took TWSS to be demeaning to women (i.e. sexist), rather that it's usually a generic boast about a guy's prowess. Would it make a woman more acutely feel in the minority through juxtaposition? Sure. And obviously jokes to do with se
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by Prophasi 15y ago
Some women are secure enough that it bounces off when stupid people act stupid. Some are making meta-jokes about sexism and how backward comments like that are. Some are comfortable with the prototypical 50s-style gender roles that you abho
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by Prophasi 15y ago
The lost concept in anecdotes like this is opportunity cost; he was rejected from all those art schools and found success -- by some definition -- in going to NYC. The implication in the story is that success is binary, that you achieve it
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by Prophasi 15y ago
I get the cynicism, but military != bad. The NEED for military is the bad thing. Don't mix them up. At its best, the military serves to protect citizens from foreign threats. Like with police, some people are bad and sometimes we have to ki
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by Prophasi 15y ago
Sure, and I've seen it, too; but for both of us, it's just anecdotal. It'll obviously depend on a lot of geo- and demo- and chronographic factors which one is worse.
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by Prophasi 15y ago
To address a few of the myths: Myth 1: Who is he to say how people feel about their neighborhood is nonsense? There are plenty where the neighbors know each other, their kids play, they have block parties and BBQs, and there's a strong fa
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by Prophasi 15y ago
Well... that's my point. I'm suggesting blendergasket does it, not me. That would be crazy.
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by Prophasi 15y ago
Why stationary?