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by htf 12y ago
As a user, before I click a link to a file with a .gifv extension, I know in advance that there won't be any audio. I like that.
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by htf 12y ago
I love this. One question: how much emphasis was put on security? Can I safely let the users of my website input any string and feed it directly to the render function?
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by htf 13y ago
These better work conditions would come at a cost. The money has to come from somewhere. You can't just complain that Amazon doesn't treat their employees well enough without explaining where you would get the money to improve the
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by htf 13y ago
Then I assume you mean that one party is better off and the other party is worse off (taken advantage of). Sure, that can happen. But in the case of Amazon, the workers are better off or they wouldn't work there.
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by htf 13y ago
A contract is not a zero-sum game. The expected outcome of a contract is that both parties take advantage of each other and they both win.
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by htf 13y ago
Better work conditions would mean higher costs to Amazon.
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by htf 13y ago
This is funny. Voting on generated titles is a great idea. If you allowed users to post comments, just like on HN or reddit, that would enable people to play along. Also, I would get rid of classification (Entertainment, Games, Opinion, Red
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SpaceX Grasshopper Divert (13 Aug 2013)(youtube.com)
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by htf 13y ago
The chart you give for discretionary spending goes from 1992 ($803) to 2012 ($1289). It shows an overall 60% increase in discretionary spending in only the last 20 years. Not exactly a trend of decline.
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by htf 13y ago
Let's say that Thailand has a king and that publishing a caricature of the king on the Internet is punishable by death. Meanwhile, I'm an American and I make a website in the Unites States that I call kingofthailand.com that shows nothing b
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by htf 14y ago
Yeah they did some things wrong apparently. I don't even know enough to pass judgment.
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by htf 14y ago
It looks like they know what they're doing. I was especially curious about deduplication. The way they do it sounds perfectly reasonable: > MEGA indeed uses deduplication, but it does so based on the entire file post-encryption rather t
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by htf 14y ago
To be fair, if there's any chance that your password is the same as someone else's, then you have a terrible password.
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by htf 14y ago
You're right. For many branded products (especially clothes and shoes), consumers would indeed prefer to buy cheaper replicas good enough to fool their social circle. If they had the freedom to do so, then yes, Nike would lose much of their
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by htf 14y ago
Yeah, I understand the value of a brand. I was thinking that, without trademark, there could still be ways to ascertain the authenticity of a product. For example, tiffanys.com could list their physical stores on their website. A fake store
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by htf 14y ago
I wonder how much advertising depends on trademark law. I suppose that, without trademarks, companies would advertise their domain name instead of their company name.
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by htf 14y ago
Yes! Trademark creates huge freedom concerns. For what it's worth, I don't think there's anything shady about an extension that replaces the ads in your browser. Web users can already install AdBlock. Or they can hide the ads with post-it n
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by htf 14y ago
I guess it depends on one's opinion about copyright law.
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by htf 14y ago
Thanks again!
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by htf 14y ago
If I may ask a second question: what do you think of emissions trading as a solution instead of bans on specific sources like leaded gasoline?
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by htf 14y ago
Very informative, thanks.
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by htf 14y ago
Your profile says you're a lawyer. I have a question for you. Why did they need to ban leaded gasoline specifically? Wasn't it already illegal for anyone to spread poison in the air? Why was new regulation needed? Or, by "regulatory success
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by htf 14y ago
But then one has to wonder why NASA's technology has not improved during the 37 years that came after 1975 despite a budget of over 10 billion dollars a year.
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by htf 14y ago
That's easy to say for someone living in a rich country. Before you advocate the murder of poachers, remember that they are most quite likely not evil, but rather ordinary poor people just trying to survive. The world is rarely that simple.
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by htf 14y ago
It seems you're trying to rationalize the situation. Taxis don't need to be regulated any more than other services. The reason these restrictions still exist is because politicians are afraid of the potential retaliation from the incumbents
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by htf 14y ago
> Those companies have aggressively lobbied the TLC not to permit apps that they feel would break down the existing ban on “prearrangement” of rides between yellow cab drivers and customers, saying that to do so could severely threaten
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by htf 14y ago
> there's actually little empirical evidence that minimum wages, at least at the level contemplated in the U.S., actually do have an impact on unemployment in the world world, except on part-time work by teenagers. There are unemployed
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by htf 14y ago
I wonder how much this move was precipitated by Google's purchase of Motorola. Google produced each generation of nexus phone with a different manufacturer. This allows Google to learn the best practices of each of them. But eventually Goog
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by htf 14y ago
Thanks, that's a good list. However, one would be hard pressed to convince people to voluntarily fund this to the tune of 20 billion dollars a year.
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by htf 14y ago
The reasons are likely more political than scientific. The rovers keep the money flowing. Rovers have a high chance of success and they are some of the last few remaining tangible results that NASA can point to to justify their budget in th

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