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by jopt 13y ago
They sometimes do, even if you don't count shutting down the operations for a week every WWDC. Examples: * http://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_... * http://daringfireball.ne
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by jopt 13y ago
Or rather, to stop pretending we can put ourselves in other's shoes. Talking to eg. abortion opponents, I usually get the impression that they have done a few thought experiments. They, if you'll allow the straw man, assume&#x2
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by jopt 13y ago
My sentiment exactly. I cringed at the thought of an argument based entirely on that. The last part, however > George Bush famously proclaimed: “You’re either with us, or against us”. He asked foreigners the world over to choose. The who
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by jopt 13y ago
The second option (MITM through access to the public key server) is not comparable to the first. Targets would have to be singled out and surveilled in advance of the messages, which actually lends itself pretty well to the sort of due proc
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by jopt 13y ago
Take the lady that wants a fur coat a few sizes too big.
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by jopt 13y ago
> I just don't buy the ad hominem/smear angle when the things reported thus far have been rather banal facts that thus far have gone uncontested. In my view, neither the banality nor even the truth of the allegations are partic
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by jopt 13y ago
I agree these are interesting details, and I'm happier for knowing more about the people involved. However, I also believe that these facts are smears. They are being published not to inform but as ad hominem attacks on Snowden. When t
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by jopt 13y ago
"Most of the time, most people are not crying in public, but everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be atte
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by jopt 14y ago
Spam filter. It's disappointing someone seriously believes this is some sort of "objectionable content" censorship. Namely because that's easy enough to test: "barely legal teens" isn't delivered (edit: now does) "actually illegal teens" ar
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by jopt 14y ago
This isn't selective enforcement, just evaluating each case individually. Those enforcing a law are typically free to find different answers (punishments) to similar questions (crimes) as long as they can distinguish the case . The big dan
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by jopt 14y ago
> However you feel about copyright Hm. This makes it sound like your point stands regardless of personal ethics; as though > profitting off of the distribution of other peoples work, without their permission, is not something that s
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by jopt 14y ago
This just goes to show that the previously known as Metro look can be overdone just as badly as rich leather and linen.
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by jopt 14y ago
Well said. Furthermore, let's try to root out these beliefs early. It's easy for great power structures to form around them if left unchecked.
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by jopt 14y ago
It's probably not just a dollar figure; the terms have to be favourable concerning user data etc.
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by jopt 14y ago
Legally speaking (student, IANAL), product safety and advertising are separate areas of legislation. Advertising doesn't do much to the deal you enter into when you buy something, whereas the papers you sign are usually taken at close to fa
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by jopt 14y ago
What's the disclaimer for? If we keep doing disclaimers wrong like this nobody will ever pay them any attention.
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by jopt 14y ago
Wild speculation.
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by jopt 14y ago
More like reimplementing a shell from within a shell and running your program on the latter.
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by jopt 14y ago
That sounds like a great reason to improve the tools.
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by jopt 14y ago
Why? Is this how philosophy is or how it ought to be?
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by jopt 14y ago
Safari renders both sides as rgba(72, 72, 72, 1.0). I have no idea why. Perhaps (ironically) a dithering algorithm gone wrong. In chrome the divide is visible.
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by jopt 14y ago
I apologise for ever posting this trainwreck of statistical reasoning. I don't know what I was thinking.
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by jopt 14y ago
If access were all that mattered in a platform, you could make the leap from "less accessible platform" to "stupid". I'd personally probably look at a few more dimensions before concluding.
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by jopt 14y ago
If you really don't follow, he probably refers to the con hoc ergo propter hoc argument of "this means tablet-native journalism is impossible!" What else could it be? I get the feeling you're trying to be smug about something, but I don't r
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by jopt 14y ago
55% is just as close to 50% (coin toss) as 60%.
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by jopt 14y ago
This almost feels dated, like many recent articles making the same point about web development trends. Unfortunately, a lot of this is still news to a lot of practicing professionals. When it comes to coding in general, and especially web,
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by jopt 14y ago
Right. As broken as the patent system is, this author doesn't really seem to know what he's talking about. Almost as if he/she knows it's cool to hate on patents, but not why or how.
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by jopt 14y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. The present trend of prefixing everything with "full disclosure" seems to me to misunderstand the whole issue, and dilutes the legitimate cases where disclosure is needed.
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by jopt 14y ago
And a separate subway, with just the billboards and no travelers!
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by jopt 14y ago
This isn't /g/

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