beeneto

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by beeneto 13y ago
> Snowden most likely defected to the Chinese government I keep reading this hypothesis Am I right in thinking that it still has no evidence to support it whatsoever, excluding the fact that he announced his identity while in a Hong Kong
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by beeneto 13y ago
I can't link to it now because the site is down, but lingscars has a PDF of 'web design tips' where she explains the design and gives tips on website design. She's obviously got an eccentric public image, and the design
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by beeneto 13y ago
> While anybody can built partial web-browsers, they can't build competitive alternatives to those sanctioned by DRM-vendors. That's true, but it's not connected to the w3c inclusion in the spec. People hosing DRM encrypted video could
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by beeneto 13y ago
The proposal is to have a standard for a way the browser communicates with non-standards compliant DRM encumbered (essentially encrypted) video. Anyone is still free to write a client which consumes the standards-compliant parts of the page
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by beeneto 13y ago
I don't think so. People posting overly-wordy comments is already a problem here, I assume because it makes the comment seem more "in depth". I think a minimum length would make that problem worse. The redditification problem comes up every
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by beeneto 13y ago
I don't think it's worth talking on a blog post or in a technical forum just for social reasons (e.g. I don't think reddit's meme or pun threads would be valuable on hn for their social effect), but I agree with you because I don't think a
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by beeneto 13y ago
Comments sections improve blogs because they are a place where readers can point out errors in the parent article. Sending an email or tweeting the correction is more difficult than making an anonymous comment, and would then need the autho
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by beeneto 14y ago
I agree with your parent, and think you're trying to read it in an over-specific way, it's like saying "You can't compare writing and programming, because writing doesn't have comments." The parent was making the point that, like writing, g
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by beeneto 14y ago
Don't burst a vein arguing over the definition of a profession. The litmus test is whether or not an occupation has a policing organisation who dictates who is allowed to practice it. Lawyers, doctors, civil engineers are professions. Homeo
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by beeneto 14y ago
It also seems likely that if you're in the kind of fey, excited mood that leads to impulse purchases then you'll be more prone to rage quitting the browser when something annoys you.
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by beeneto 14y ago
Relax, I just thought it was an ironic that some people think "You are enlightened!" is an insult. There are several definitions for scientism in the article, they are all different, some are conflicting. My comment was about the definition
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by beeneto 14y ago
But in the definition I quoted, Michael Schermer defined scientism in part as embracing reason. There's nothing rational about embracing reason!?
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by beeneto 14y ago
> You have so called "social sciences", but they are pretty much useless otherwise there would be someone paying them a lots of money to figure out what will happen next for example in the Middle East. It doesn't follow from "nobody pay
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by beeneto 14y ago
"Michael Shermer ... defines scientism as a worldview that encompasses natural explanations, eschews supernatural and paranormal speculations, and embraces empiricism and reason." I'd consider widespread adoption of that worldview to be the
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by beeneto 14y ago
I think evolution is the right word. When I was little I often played a game where I would imagine I'd found a genie who would grant me three wishes, and I'd try to think of what to wish for. Most often, two of those wishes would be to be a
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by beeneto 14y ago
I theorise that the post gave the hackers of the community an opportunity to vent their latent dislike of superficial or even detrimental UI changes. Note though that the 'vitriol' was mostly sarcasm and scoffing. If we use 1 torvalds as a
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by beeneto 14y ago
Since I can't believe that someone linked a Daily Mail article on HN for the content, I assume this was posted as an example of how incompetent reporting can lead to the spread of ignorance? It is quite an interesting example of that.
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by beeneto 14y ago
People are mentioning Fluid and Prism, but nobody is mentioning HTML Applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application . It still works on Windows, just rename a .html file .hta. You get the appearance of a real application and sp
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by beeneto 14y ago
Ah okay, so when he says "I would consider proposing some clarifications to ACTA" he's just blowing smoke - talking about making cosmetic statements about ACTA which would encourage parliament to ratify it, but wouldn't actually fix the abu
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by beeneto 14y ago
He didn't say he'd ignore court rulings. He told the trade committee (which isn't a court AFAIK) that advising against ACTA wouldn't stop the European court of justice from investigating its legality.
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by beeneto 14y ago
Since I know techdirt always reports aggressively in favour of internet freedom I read the direct quotes first and the techdirt commentary afterwards. From just the quotes, Karel De Gucht doesn't seem to be saying anything underhanded, just
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by beeneto 14y ago
I'm starting to wonder if the patronage model would work for modern music. A band could record a few songs as a sample of their work, maybe sell them on bandcamp or distribute under the donate model, then have a kickstarter for their next a
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by beeneto 14y ago
I have never considered your point of view and I am curious about it. Can you explain why you think his ideology is poisonous? Also how can it be possible that he's hurting the free software movement, when I thought he CREATED the free soft
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by beeneto 14y ago
Please read this http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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by beeneto 14y ago
Whether or not a pacemaker is running free open source software is independant of whether or not a person can flash their own version of the software to it. If it were open source you, or anyone who was fitted with the pacemaker could look