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by joshes 14y ago
As the video pointed out, only about half of government officials in Hong Kong are directly elected by the population. For the remainder, there is little pressure or incentive to get anything done in this regard.
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by joshes 14y ago
I'm not entirely sure, but he may have taken exception to the following from your piece: >Of course, you and I know that the latter is just a general form of the former, but somebody whose educational attainments have qualified them to
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Expired Groupons Are Valid Again(gizmodo.com)
2 points by joshes 14y ago|0 comments
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by joshes 14y ago
Could this be an April Fools gag? I wish I had screencapped it, but at one point I found myself in the middle of the screen, watching four swarm-like quadrants of fellow ships (top-left, top-right, bottom-left and bottom-right) all moving i
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Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers(gamespot.com)
199 points by joshes 15y ago|121 comments
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by joshes 15y ago
Admittedly I know nothing of the regulations surrounding such a proposal, but what of some sort of revenue sharing? Donating to the project guarantees you a share in the village's revenue, where your cut is relative to your investment size?
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by joshes 15y ago
It would be interesting to see a Kickstarter project devoted to this. It would need to get big fast (Friday deadline to submit an offer), and would need both the $440,000 minimum to purchase the village and ample money on top of that for re
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by joshes 15y ago
Dinosaur Comics has a nice one: http://qwantz.com/index.php
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by joshes 15y ago
Which of his statements do you find to be factually inaccurate?
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by joshes 15y ago
>Interestingly enough, Jobs himself was also considered for knighthood by the Queen of the United Kingdom, but the proposal was blocked by a former Prime Minister because Jobs declined to speak at a Labour Party conference. That's fasci
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by joshes 15y ago
I would imagine that the Washington DC Metro area (DC, Northern Virginia, Maryland) has a reasonably sized proportion of that "(Rest of the) United States" total. The startup scene, and tech scene in general (largely thanks to defense contr
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by joshes 15y ago
It would be helpful if you could enumerate the ways in which his/her statement was naive. It seems to be a relatively logical conclusion that being told or influenced not to say something is restrictive of innate freedom of speech, no matte
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by joshes 15y ago
This may be a tad tangential, but this reminds me a great deal (in terms of the higher level concept) of Imaginawesome: http://imaginawesome.com/ tl;dr: give this guy a child's drawing, and he sprinkles "awesome dust" on it.
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Australian Shopping Malls to Track Consumers by Mobile Phone(news.com.au)
1 points by joshes 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshes 15y ago
>I know a lot of you don’t understand why I can’t disclose all conflicts of interest. The answer is that if I did, not that many people would want to talk to me in the direct, honest way that I prefer. As a reader you must remain aware
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by joshes 15y ago
The parent comment never passed judgment on this self-image, just merely asserted that it was pervasive among Americans.
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by joshes 15y ago
I cannot really help this inescapable feeling that the new design is somewhat obnoxious. It's just... there's something about the design that I just cannot get past. This will only serve to further decrease my already declining viewership.
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by joshes 15y ago
tl;dr: Arrington discusses how he (and others who break news) usually first contact the subject of a news piece before publishing the story in order to inform them, get their side, or whatever else. Arrington says he apologized to the CEO o
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by joshes 15y ago
You managed to pack a great deal of trolling into this post. Kudos for this one.
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by joshes 15y ago
Could have something to do with the fact that you can be shot from quite a bit greater distance than you can be stabbed with a knife, hit with a hammer, struck with a steel bar or cut with a broken bottle.
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by joshes 15y ago
Exactly. Leave it to an executive of the MAFIAA (Michael O'Leary) to contort basic civic principles to slander anyone who stands up against their ridiculous, rights-trouncing mode of operation.
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by joshes 15y ago
Regardless of whether or not it is feasible to have 6,000 patent examiners perform this process, it still seems remarkably subjective: a given patent examiner, with all of his/her individual strengths, weaknesses, imperfections and idiosync
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by joshes 15y ago
I think this will smack of the Streisand Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect ) over time. Facebook trying to call attention to privacy concerns over Google will, inevitably, as this piece exemplifies, call attention to th
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by joshes 15y ago
Media coverage is not necessarily indicative of the effect on the world produced by a given individual or group. Especially for an individual who is hated by many people in high places, be it for good reason or otherwise. To comment that th
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by joshes 15y ago
It is still a tad vague to me. "As long as the hardware allows" seems like it provides some wiggle room for carriers to squirm out of any responsibilities to honor this. Additionally, it only says that the devices will receive the latest up
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by joshes 15y ago
The tl;dr of it all is that, according to at least one Anon, this "Ryan" fellow was a former moderator of the IRC and was the legal owner of the AnonOps.ru and AnonOps.net domains. Apparently, two others, "Nerdo" and "Owen" (whom you may re
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by joshes 15y ago
Agreed. The problem with politicians (in places where they are democratically elected) is that they are concerned only with short term solutions because they are only concerned with getting re-elected and scoring political points. So when n
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by joshes 15y ago
>“The Presidency of the LEWP presented its intention to propose concrete measures towards creating a single secure European cyberspace,” according to brief minutes of the meeting. The secure European cyberspace would have a "virtual Sch
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One Way Sound Walls Proven Possible(news.discovery.com)
4 points by joshes 15y ago|0 comments
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Sony was running unpatched Apache with no firewall for months before breach(consumerist.com)
188 points by joshes 15y ago|65 comments

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