anonymous246

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by anonymous246 15y ago
WHOA! And I lose respect for another Internet legend. :(
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Interesting. I can't see the upvotes but your comment didn't go gray on my downvote. I guess the YC/Airbnb/"laws don't apply on the Internet" fanboys are out in force just like I expected.
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Nice spin: he's been charged for "excessive downloading". Way to ignore the physical break-in to install a computer directly on a network switch. I, for one, hope that he gets a criminal record at the very least (plea deal). This really put
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Hmm, so Gmail showing you ads based on the email you're currently reading is unlawful? I think you have a weird (i.e., excessively narrow) definition of "target advertising to inviduals".
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by anonymous246 15y ago
I liked fun things like this. Within reason. And this is within reason.
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by anonymous246 15y ago
No, imho it's not bias. For wild fish, the US enforces the quantity of fish that can be taken much more effectively, than, say China/Japan. Second, the regulations/practices on the environmental impact of fish farms on the nearby sea are pr
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Give your taste buds a break. You would rather buy fruit shipped halfway across the world (i.e., fruit designed for survive storage rather than taste good) rather than visit the local farmer's market? WTF. I make it a point to not buy fruit
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Holy crap: "routinely have Netflix playing in the background as they sit at home during the day". How wasteful! No wonder ISPs want metered usage etc.
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Are you sure there's no "permananent storage"? Who has verified that? Second thing: there have been numerous instances of TSA workers leering at the scanner screens as people (esp attractive women) walk through. There have definitely been
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by anonymous246 15y ago
You're acting wealthy. I hope you are. :)
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by anonymous246 15y ago
I think you're missing the conflict between allowing reasonable search and the right against self-incrimination when the thing being searched is an encrypted laptop. At least agree that there is a conflict here; otherwise you're just being
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by anonymous246 15y ago
I'm highly unconvinced by your statement that #1 is taking people for a ride. If anything the pushover (#2) is the one doing so: he gets to be people's friend thereby gaining a certain amount of protection from the consequences of his actio
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Interesting experiment which suffers from the problem that all psychology experiments have: based upon observations of college students. I've been around the block a few times and I definitely don't now perceive respectful people as weak.
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by anonymous246 15y ago
I think he's talking about the repeated rebuffs to the calls for audits of the supposed gold at Fort Knox by people such as Ron Paul ( http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/31/rep-paul-calls-fo... ) The "conspiracy" theory goes that this
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Holy cow. This thing is even better than PwdHash (ability to avoid special chars in particular, and multiple platforms supported, and it's actually being maintained). Thanks!
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Yeah, nobody can prevent a leaked password from being used to the site from which it was leaked. This extension is helpful because people reuse passwords: a leaked password cannot be used to causes damage on other sites. Obviously, I ag
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Obligatory post I make on these stories: Use PwdHash for Firefox and Chrome. It's very low overhead and provides and extra layer of protection from lazy programmers.
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Yes, I was aware of that quote. Baio's article is (intentionally?) vague on when he offered to license the art. Once you cross a certain threshold, emotions take over and the artist might have just felt violated and decided to "take his bal
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by anonymous246 15y ago
I, for one, was glad to see an Internet celebrity whacked by an individual artist. As somebody else pointed out, the $32.5k he got probably went straight to the artist's lawyers. It was pretty telling that Baio licensed the music but not th
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by anonymous246 15y ago
So your point being that to the service the same population it costs more if the population is concentrated in a smaller area like in a city, rather than dispersed in suburbs? I hope I am reading you correctly. I'd submit that the experienc
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Which of these "costs" do not exist in suburbs? (except subway, the analog of which is highways to the suburbs). All of those are present in suburbs too.
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Sorry about the wrong info.
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by anonymous246 15y ago
AFAIK, no. Anybody can pay LinkedIn to see any profile's extended data. They have rate limits and things like that to maximize revenue and prevent abuse. This startup somehow convinced LinkedIn to let its users get at a subset of this data
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by anonymous246 15y ago
My cynical take on the law: the purpose of the law is to settle disputes nonviolently , not necessarily justly. The only consolation is things would be even more expensive if it was a "Gangs of New York"-style world today.
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Off topic/meta: In the days when comment scores used to be shown, I could do the HN-equivalent of saying "hear, hear!" [or as the Internet says it: "here, here" :)] by upvoting a "thank you" note like the above. Now, if I really want to l
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by anonymous246 15y ago
See my previous point. Patent cases pay for themselves too. But the federal govt. is so strapped for money that it takes money from these depts. And Congress is notorious for passing unfunded mandates. Unless you address specifics like th
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by anonymous246 15y ago
Although I disagree with you, I applaud you for your eloquence. AFAIK, immigrants (whether legal or illegal) are in a gray area wrt constitutional protections. For example, on entry all aliens (including perm. residents) are fingerprinted w
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by anonymous246 15y ago
There's a finite amount of bandwidth any society can spend on immigration, not an infinite amount (and hint: it's negligible). At the moment, so-called liberals whatever reason are more concerned about ILLEGAL immigrants than legal immigr
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by anonymous246 15y ago
The "anyone can make it" part is true: lots of LEGAL immigrants and their children have done far better than their peers in their home countries (facetious example: Obama, but there are many many unknown people like that). For all it faul
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by anonymous246 15y ago
1) Was the US a welfare state when that poem was written? From seeing "Gangs of New York", I think not. :) 2) You do realize that Asians were excluded from immigrating to the US until very recently, right? http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

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