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Or where Facebook sells fake likes...

Or just install XFCE. I'm continually confused when people recommend different operating systems to change the window manager.

Yep. I wouldn't be much of a technologist if not for computer games (to get me onto the computer), and vast quantities of unsupervised and unfiltered internet at a formative age.

To take this even further, look at OCaml's strong, inferred typing.

You just described a VPS, not a seedbox. Seedboxes are turn-key operations, login and link/upload torrent file: tada.

As an aside: I'm pretty mind blown that I've never once considered immutability as "making time explicit". That's an extremely apt comparison.

I don't think the user 'owns' it at all. I mean, it's pretty obvious that you're just laying claim to some set of bits in somebody else's system. I'm not confused about that :)

I just don't quite see how a username is 'owed' to other people who would use it more, either.

I'm a very casual and infrequent tweeter, and I can't fathom how that makes my username 'up for grabs'. Sorry you have such a twisted view of username ownership :/

Personally, sure. Institutionally, not so much.

I'm sympathetic, I just don't see what place Yale has in this.

And good for them. Well, not good for them, but it's certainly not their place to be surrogate parents.

This whole debate sounds as if they'd just invented gentrification. I'm having a hard time mustering outrage for anyone involved.

Your business being easily copyable is not a 'wrong' that should be righted by the legal system. That's a really, really nutty notion.

Cutthroats aren't a thing, and muggers are desperately impoverished. It's classism.

It's both fraud, and unethical.

In all fairness, Coinbase doesn't accept credit cards because that same consumer protection can be abused into defrauding them. Which, seems reasonable :)

Are you sure that's the case, or could it have been ACH or reporting weirdness?

It would have been worse^. Throttle response is far from instantaneous (jets spool relatively slowly), and any speed that they did manage to gain contributed greatly to lift and almost certainly lessened the force of the impact.

Throttling up a plane for a go around is not at all analogous to stepping on the gas while crashing into a brick wall.

^ total speculation

It's not unbelievable using idle thrust in the air. It's inexcusable to not watch your air speed though.

There's literally no excuse for not watching your airspeed when you land an airplane, of any make. It's one of the two 'oh-hey-my-life-really-directly-depends-on-this-number' factors.

I really don't like the tone that so many post-accident discussions take regarding automation, Boeing v. Airbus, etc. -- when the plain facts of the incidents (specifically this, and Air France 447) boil down to one small, really important bit willful negligence.

I don't see anything in common between the two linked articles save the thesis.

To some people! :)

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I hadn't heard of SnapChat until this acquisition story broke. I guess I'm out of touch or something?

Anyway, no revenue and no real hope of revenue = $0. VC can blow smoke up your ass until they collapse, blue in the face, but it's not a winning proposition.

It's a shame that TC carries any weight. Let's stop beating around that bush...

I've noticed this with Skype. It's pretty funny: you'll not hear much for a few seconds, and then hear the other party speak really quickly, with all the pauses between words dropped out.

Absolutely, I have much love for OCaml.

Same here. With the caveat that C# + F# are crazy awesome, not that I'm jumping at the bit to work with them again...

Except for when uninstall doesn't work. Which is often.

A remote controlled aircraft is not a 'drone'. At least not in the breathless sensationalist sense we're supposed to read into that title.

Can you elucidate on your point about Zerocoin? I'm really fascinated by what I've read about it, but admittedly don't have much of a basis to evaluate on.