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by binarybits 15y ago
The Supreme Court's rule against software patents was a matter of statutory interpretation, not constitutional law. And software patents were created by a lower court (the Federal Circuit) in the first place, so it would be perfectly approp
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by binarybits 15y ago
The rules of the web are changing constantly. All you have to do to change the web is convince Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla to go along with it.
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by binarybits 15y ago
Except that that post addresses a different problem than the one I raise.
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by binarybits 16y ago
There's also a countervailing bias that I suspect is far more important: most wrongly-convicted defendants have no way to prove their innocence, and so we never learn that they were wrongly convicted. Many criminal defendants are not sophis
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by binarybits 16y ago
You're way off-base about this. Lots of good schools are in college towns that have "not a whole lot there." This has absolutely nothing to do with what causes a handful of people to commit suicide. And Bill's suicide note gives no indicati
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by binarybits 16y ago
Because the people you want most aren't going to waste a ton of time jumping through hoops? The nice thing about puzzles is that they're self-contained and can be understood and solved in a few hours. When I was applying for a Facebook inte
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by binarybits 16y ago
Why improve the bill when it's not obvious there's a problem here that requires Congressional action to solve?
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by binarybits 16y ago
Um, the Commerce Clause didn't unilaterally impose ObamaCare on the country. It simply (arguably) authorized Congress to pass legislation regulating health care. What we're arguing about is whether Congress should exercise its power under t
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by binarybits 16y ago
Um, you realize that newspapers generated billions of dollars in profits over more than a century by "tricking people" into using coupons, right? Coupons are about helping businesses attract customers they wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Th
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by binarybits 16y ago
My point is that the specific incident I pointed to--pulling the guy off his plane at the last minute and giving him a pat-down--doesn't seem to be connected to any sort of legitimate policing activity. He's not suspected of a violent crime
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by binarybits 16y ago
Notice the part where the TSA randomly pulls him off a plane to give him an extra pat-down. Even if the government believes Marlinspike is somehow involved in the Wikileaks controversy, and even if you think the government is fully justifie
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by binarybits 16y ago
This for example: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-conf...
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by binarybits 16y ago
I don't think this is quite right. The problem is that the TSA's incentives are all screwed up. Any time some idiot manages to sneak a weapon onto an airplane, the TSA leadership gets attacked for it, whether or not they could have reasonab
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by binarybits 16y ago
I'd put it a little more strongly: while the example of scripting languages is a new one to me, none of the reasoning here is new or surprising to someone who's read Christensen.
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by binarybits 16y ago
"In 10 years you'll barely remember any of the message boards that are so important to you now." I couldn't disagree more. The majority of my closest friendships and professional opportunities have come from time spent on the Internet. I'm
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by binarybits 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_surplus "Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and father of Monetarism, argued that many of the fears of trade deficits are unfair criticisms in an attempt to push macroeconomic policies fa
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by binarybits 19y ago
I agree with davidw--you've already lost me (a Mac user) as a customer. Unless there's some special feature I'm missing, there's no reason this shouldn't be a web-based application.
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by binarybits 19y ago
Huh, I guess asterisks have special meaning in the site markup. I was trying to make a bulleted list, but instead I got every other point italicized.
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by binarybits 19y ago
This is a very slick little application! Some random thoughts: It wasn't obvious to me that the anagram clues were anagrams. Woul it really kill you to spell out "anagram?" Maybe even put "Anagram:" before the clue instead of putting it i
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by binarybits 19y ago
From looking at the site, I gather you're doing photo hosting, but that's about all I gather. What I think you should be thinking about is "How am I different than flickr?" As far as I can see, none of the "other features" differentiates yo