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These were my thoughts exactly. There's nothing incongruous about saying "I think Jews are dirty and evil but I respect your right to believe otherwise." He implies that hate speech infringes on the free speech of others in some way, which is a leap I don't feel is backed up.

I find his living room analogy to be not only a poor fit, but a dangerous idea. "Would we, for the sake of free speech, allow this person to remain in our living room?" Replace "living room" with "country" and you've got a common anti-dissent argument.
someone just asked Michael Arrington (see the comments):

Jeff: Hey Michael! You are Jew right ?
Michael: I am a human being.
The 1st generation phone spoke what is classified as a 2.5 generation wireless protocol. So you have to pick from 1G and 2.5G to describe your device. ;-)

But I agree with you wholeheartedly. I still have the 1st generation phone and, long after the honeymoon ended, the quality of my life remained higher.
From your link, I see that your extension would look up a page in the Google cache. I used to use something else for this, but it, too, died. More recently, I found extension Resurrect Pages.

Note that while its name specifies "Pages" and it adds a menu to error responses, if you right click on a link, the context menu gives options for invoking the extension on the link without first navigating to the linked page or the corresponding error response.

As for Resurrect Pages, I just wish the resurrection options / sites were customizable (without hacking).

Resurrect Pages

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570
Some solid tips here. Community Manager used to be such an offbeat title, but more and more it's come to describe online public relations, customer service and lots more.
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There are many different forms of online writing assignments which web content producers take on these days. Ranging anywhere from one page articles to academic papers of 100 pages or more, there is a wealth of opportunities available to web content writers.
$80,000 per song... That is fucked up (pardon my language), but that is fucked up.

Edit: Isn't the law supposed to protect against ridiculous punishments like these?
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Not all documents that contain text can easily be turned into HTML documents that preserve the original formatting and are readable. That is certainly true for the vast majority of people outside the readers of Hacker News. Actually, it's probably true for many of the people who _do_ read Hacker News. Scribd clearly serves a purpose here. If you don't like the presentation (Flash), then don't go to Scribd links off of Google. In fact, you could probably write yourself a Greasemonkey plugin that removes Scribd results from your Google results in 10 minutes!

Edit: Alternatively, there's probably another startup in here that does exactly what Scribd does but instead of using Flash just uses HTML and CSS. Then you'd have the best of both worlds, in theory, if it matters that much to the user.
Maybe it also has something to do with the Rubber Duck method: http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0211/msg00174....
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Marketing may be important, but content is way more than 10%. How many sites have you ever visited? How many do you return to frequently, and tell others about?

Now, what makes the difference, marketing, or your experience at that site?

This guy has famously boasted that his page was ranked higher than those of companies with billion-dollar advertising budgets, without him ever promoting it. Why? Because it was funny. And that's all it took.
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i wonder how the Chinese government is viewing the technology empowered protests in Iran. both governments have invested a great deal in censoring all media. and now with so many tools to go around these filters and essentially create leader-less protest movement, i'd imagine they're more worried than they were the same time last week.
>Without a sales tax, a state has to have higher income tax or property tax levels. Both can do more to drive away high-value industry than broad-based consumption taxes.

Of course you have to raise other taxes or cut spending if you do away with sales tax. TAANSTAFL.

>But if a non-regressive tax system is your goal, let's analyze Amazon's loophole for its progressivity <snip>

Only in the presence of state sales tax. No sales tax = no advantage for Amazon.
Isn't this what a convertible note is? Admittedly that's restricted to qualified investors, and is not tradeable on the open market, but this doesn't sound too unusual.
Sometimes I wish hell were real so that the lawyers working double time to make sure a woman goes bankrupt over 24 songs could go there. It just doesn't make sense to have "damages" like that.
I'm guessing CNN.com or some other victim of a online poll precision strike.
From what I've read the crux of the issue is that there:

- Are laws in the US regulating "adult" content

- Are not laws in the US regulating holocaust denial

As such Facebook is required to police adult content, whereas they'd risk losing their status as a host (and become a publisher) if they were to apply editorial scrutiny, making them, among other things, liable for copyright violations, libel and whatnot on their platform.
There are any number of processes that will occur easily in one direction, but can have... dramatic... results in the other direction. Consider, by analogy, breaking H2O into hydrogen and oxygen, vs. recombining them. Or, for more fun, consider a girl wearing a skirt, jumping on a trampoline. The process of going up is ordinary, but what happens on the way down is quite a bit different.

It's easy to dream up scenarios in the environment that might work this way. Algal blooms that have been pushed along by increased CO2 will affect the equilibrium between other types of sea life -- plankton up the line through large predatory fish. Moving up the food chain, creatures use input food less efficiently (carnivores need to kill much more food by mass than bunnies). So the algae enables plankton, which in turn feeds mackerel which in turn enable more sharks, but turning it around, as the algae recedes, the mackerel are pressured by the already-larger shark population, so they may well be decimated by the CO2 decrease. (I don't know if this specific example is correct -- it’s certainly oversimplified -- but the concept is certainly conceivable).

Reiterating: it’s very complex, we don’t really know.
If you don't go full time and don't take a job offering health insurance, you may want to take a course or two, enough to continue to qualify under your parents' health insurance plan (assuming you are in the U.S. and are currently covered in such a fashion.) Just the other week, I met the niece of a friend who is 20 or 21 and doing exactly that; she mentioned specifically taking a course so that she would continue to qualify as a student.

You may feel young and immortal. Take my recommendation: Whatever you decide, try to arrange it so that you continue to have health insurance. I fell off my parents' coverage after college and unfortunately suffered a serious injury before finding my own coverage. I paid dearly for that, not just in dollars but in long term outcome.
Wow.

Referring to my kid's behaviour as "unusual" and "grotesque" based on a single snapshot of his life is over the line.
I quite agree.

This is a very poor discussion of the ideas and concepts at hand. Its not even an 'introductory' level discussion; most of it is just plain uninformed.

Personally, my first reading has led me to find the conclusions quite distasteful. I'm not sure a common carrier like Facebook should go taking sides, as the author seems to be suggesting. I consider there to be a significant difference between institutions (i.e. Facebook) taking sides and people (i.e. a host of a party).

The internet, with a little searching, can supply far better arguments about free speech than this.
I'd love to see a discussion here about one topic from that post in particular: what are best practices for changing direction as a company.
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This is much, much better than the cliche title suggests.
I don't know enough about the field to know how much of Kuhn's research was truly new, but the book is meritorious solely because it gained such widespread recognition both in and out of the scientific community. The previous challenges to Popper's falsifiability (if there were any) failed to launch.
Who decides what hate speech is?
I listened to the audio tape version all the way through.

The small nuggets I did find of value were few and far from original. Read David Allen, Thoreau, or the book of Ecclesiastes.
I really liked Scribd when it started out. Not so any more.

Typical Scribd experience: Search for a document via Google. Google result links to Scribd site. Go to Scribd. Realize the Scribd doesn't actually have that document despite exactly matching title. Get annoyed.
Indeed. I do most of my Kindle reading on my couch.

Of course, it's also nice to have the same ability on an airplane, too. And it's nice that the battery doesn't die in an hour like my phone would.

I wouldn't want a Kindle if my phone could magically shape-shift to be the size of a book and if it had unlimited battery life. But in the real world, you have to compromise.
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Are there any iPhone game developers here that want to share how they're going to make use of the 3GS? What's your plan? Dump the older models, only use the older API's or hack something together for both?
>Only exception is Livingston's F@W

So you've read (even a review of) every single one of these books?
Wait, what? Do I need to retitle it?
I'm vaguely shocked that you can evade the interior frame's frame-busting capabilities.
Yes, the display is very expensive. You've got it exactly right.

Look at all the other vendors of eInk devices. Those devices are also expensive. If they could massively undercut Amazon, they probably would.
The future is annoying.
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The e-ink on that motorola phone is very different. It could only display fixed images, much like an old-style seven-segment display (like on a microwave). The e-ink on the Kindle is like a computer monitor; it can display smooth text and arbitrary images.

The Kindle DX has nearly 1-million 16 color pixels. That motorola phone has literally a handful of one-color pixels. Hence the price difference.
Would you steal a purse? If getting caught cost me $80,000 then probably not... So much for reasonable punishments.
You know this isn't Reddit, right? Just saying something 100 times doesn't make it true.
My favorite restaurant died as a result of this.

Incidentally, if anyone knows where to find good Shakshuka (like at Rachels, from Grove St in Jersey City), let me know.
A lot of people are missing the point of the anti-college position.

Imagine a car which gets 8 MPG and breaks down every day. Now, you know this car sucks, so you criticize it constantly. But then the car manufacturer hits back: "Cars are necessary. Cars help you get places faster. Cars are comfortable and private."

Of course, you know all this. You're not opposed to the idea of using a vehicle for fast transportation; you're just opposed to what passes for a car today.

And so it is with college. I oppose the standard model for universities which prevails in today's world (largely due to state support): four years, classes, lectures, A-F grades, rigid structure, and so on.

I do NOT oppose learning, education, networking, socializing, relaxing, and having fun. In fact, I think all of those things can be done better with a radically different school system. So please don't keep telling me college provides all this. Some of us do think today's colleges do such a bad job that you're better off not going even if you miss out on some things. But that doesn't mean we actually want everyone to miss out on these experiences as an ideal.
Honestly, she didn't have much of a leg to stand on in terms of defence, but a song is NOT worth $80,000. Ever.
Uh, so?

A user that wants a thin device doesn't care why the device is thin. Netbooks aren't as thin as a Kindle, period.
What you say or write down also tends to be more strongly remembered than what you just think. (This is the basis for writing down your ideas whenever you get them (speaking them aloud is helpful if you can't stop to write).)
"hate speech directly attacks free speech"

No, it doesn't, but it might attack the aims of granting free speech. It may make people feel less free, or less safe, but it doesn't take away their ability to have their own say.

I think anybody should be allowed to say anything, and then people can resolve problems on their own. Rational people limit what they say based upon the environment. If someone asked me about my sexual identity in Alabama, I'd be unlikely come right out and say I am queer.

A much more convicing argument for Tenner's point of view is:

Hate speech should be illegal because it impairs others' freedom. If a group of workers in a male-dominated environment put up porn on the walls of the changing rooms, it may make the few women feel uncomfortable.

In the case of the living room with the person spouting racist remarks, there is a distinction between public and private places. In public: anything goes. (There, it might be useful to incorporate sgrove's idea of ideas vs just words.) In private, people have a right to control their own environment.
"With all due respect, what are 99 percent of people gaining from a book on, say, convex optimization?"

The headline doesn't say "reading list for 99% of people." It says "Highly recommended reading list for those who love to learn." If you love to learn, then (I haven't read the book, so grain of salt) you're getting a well-written introduction to an interesting field of study.
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Currently, I'm all but feeling young and immortal. Time goes by so quickly...
How many times have you heard the words "I'll release the code when I've had some time to clean it up", implying it was developed in private.

How many abandoned projects are there on Sourceforge and Freshmeat?
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I wasn't using this handle anywhere at that time, so you're thinking of someone else. What does this have to do with Adobe working to oppose an open web?

You're trying to emphasize the uncertainties of HTML5; I get it. They'll be worked out. We already know the features that are coming. What then?
Not only that, but the whole living room analogy is unillumating. Whose living room is Facebook? Mine? The Nazis'? The founders'?

The real issue is this: we have traded many of our public spaces for commercial spaces, and then we are surprised to find that we can't do whatever we want in them. For example, you cannot hold a political protest in a mall (or, as in the well-known case, even wear a political t-shirt in a mall). Your mall might act like the town square used to be in your town; but it is a completely different beast legally.

The reality is that online speech, where that happens on commercial/private entities like Facebook or Twitter or whatever is not like speech in your town square. Facebook is a private entity and they have the right to allow or not allow whatever they feel like on their systems. If they want to ban breastfeeding pics and allow skinhead pics, that is their business.

There's no point pretending that they owe you something just because you use their site. The first amendment and similar protections where they exist in other countries protect you from the government. They don't have anything to say about commercial Internet entities.

[Edit following TrevorJ's comments below: To be fair, the law is starting to struggle with some of these issues, see for example some suggestions raised here:

http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v7n3/sichok73.html

In this context I am pretty sure that constitutionally, Facebook is no different than a mall - if we could resolve the issues of free v. commercial and controlled speech in malls, sponsored public events etc., I am sure that Internet-based activities would be fall into that quite neatly]
Actually, the ink itself was high-resolution. It was the driving mechanism behind it that was so-so. There is a lot being done in the driver side of the e-ink displays to improve refresh times. OTOH, I don't see that much being done to improve resolution.
How's the new title? ;-)
Tell that to the husband/wife team behind Flickr (and now Hunch).
When cross-referencing e.g. with reference materials, yes.
No, but I'd like to not be distracted by switching back and forth between virtual desktops if I can instead see at the same time all 6 Emacs windows & 10 terminals holding various aspects of my debugging state.

(and I only need one coffee cup at a time. Keep your refills within arms length!)
Neat concept.
They would only undercut Amazon if they could secure supplies for a proportionately larger number of units. If parts supplies are short, the best strategy is not to undercut your competitor and gain market share, but enjoy higher profit margins while the part shortage lasts.

And, of course, as long as market share is not a huge concern.

It is also unwise to enter a price war with a competitor with deeper pockets than you.
After I posted the link, I noticed how dirty my screens were and cleaned them :)
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There are some pretty convincing arguments that directly repudiate the points in this article in a book called Defending the Undefendable by Walter Block. For example, there's a chapter called "The Person Who Yells Fire in a Crowded Theatre" and one called "The Slanderer or Libeler."

You can get it free from Mises here: http://mises.org/books/defending.pdf
I think it would narcissistic to say that I like it better. But I'm glad you like the post. Thanks for posting it here.
I'm really glad that Palm is making the tarballs available without requiring some stupid developer login on yet another site - a lot of places could learn from this good example.

Hopefully they do a better job of maintaining their developer community this time around - if they do, they could grow into a wonderful force for open source good.
I don't care that much for iPhone (here in Brazil telcos have legal obligation to unlock devices if the owner asks for it), but if that allows Palm to quickly release an unlocked GSM Pre, I am in.
Being able to say such things with a straight face is a job requirement for a second-tier senior executive.

Note that the "I believe" is also useful when you have to say something under oath - you can always be wrong about what you believe.
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Thanks for the pointer -- I hadn't read Dilemma yet, thinking it contained much the same as the later Solution, but you've given me reason to read it.

I enjoyed Surowiecki as well.
I don't think the tone of the article was that "it's bad to start a company when you're young", so much as "it's okay to start a company when you're old."
Cisco, IIRC
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Your post surprises me, because just a couple of days ago you told me you were a libertarian, and that suggests you would oppose all forms of slavery. Of course, you later added that you were a utilitarian, and you're certainly not the first utilitarian to favor some type of slavery. But I don't see how you can square this with the "libertarian" label.
uh, no not at all. A security firm.

So not evil at all :)
From the beginning, it has been very similar to the expertsexchange.com site for me. It's always in google results, I'm always annoyed when I click on one of their links and immediately close the tab.

If I do look at the page in desperation, the phrase I searched for in google, using double quotes, is never actually in the document. I don't see that very often with any other sites and this is also highly annoying. I suppose it is effective for their page views and adsense. Does google have a way to down-vote results?

It might be great for some people, but I'm not one of them.
I see this for $69 in amazon.
Have you ever asked a question and had the answer solution occur to you while you are describing the question? I believe that may be similar. I've heard it said that an explanation for this scenario (speaking to another as a catalyst) may be due to the fact that speaking engages different brain functionality. Both the motor skills of speaking, and the effort to compose the idea and question into a well-composed, meaningful expression.

Separately, with regard to writing, does anyone else notice a difference between writing longhand and typing? For me, whether it's a kinesthetic difference, or that long hand slows me down a bit more so that my thoughts have longer to percolate before being recorded, I find myself more concise and frequently more eloquent when writing long hand. For important things, I'll still sometimes write them out long hand even if their eventual destination is a computer.
I can't really see how this is even remotely proportionate, by any stretch of the imagination. What were these 24 tracks? A bunch of obscure Swedish Death Metal by all accounts. Is it likely that collecting these damages would make more profit than the sales of the tracks ever would? Maybe.
But, as she pointed out, she hasn't got $2m anyway, so they can't collect - it seems likely that the RIAA will just use the damages as a sledgehammer to bludgeon her into settling 'out of court' and out of the glare of publicity.
It makes me wonder what the jurors were thinking - awarding life destroying damages against a fellow citizen who is, presumably, an ordinary person, just like them. I don't think that I could do that, personally.
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