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So what was the terrible B2C idea?

That's not the only reason why Omega 3 is prescribed.

>4) Most "software" patents (which can't even be cleanly categorized as such) are not crappy, at least with respect to all other patents. There are studies presenting this view [2,…

The supplements he listed (D3, Omega 3, Iodine) actually all have huge amounts of empirical data from a diversity of sources over a long period of time associating them with positi…

Why is it hard to see the value in making a product that competes in an existing profitable and developed market space, but does so better/cheaper/more conveniently? Isn't that a s…

>Addressing fellow scientists, he dismissed the singularity as “a bunch of hot air,” and went on further to declare that “the brain is not computable and no engineering can reprodu…

A workaround? As opposed to simply switching registrars with something decent?

The pricing model is also something from another era. It's an incredibly unattractive option for small teams just starting out, especially when compared to all the reasonably price…

Could you expand on what specific qualities a high quality engineer would have to have that would you make you turn them down? Is it something obvious like they are rude/disrespect…

You don't even need formal qualifications for those, just the actual skill, and then it's up to people to asses if you have them.

Unfortunately we can't make the modern technology-driven world simpler for people like Carmen Ortiz. The advice at the end by the author is that we (the tech community) should demy…

Because the metric is excellence. Realistically, you can't expect a 14 year old to produce something of the quality from someone with a decade more experience, all else being equal…

This really is the key question. When installing an app, a user should just be able to breeze through the install wizard and not waste time on every screen reading to see if it may…

And realistically, what could the owners of the motel have done to curb illicit activity in their rooms? I mean specifically, what could they have done, that would have actually cu…

That applies to any diet though, if the advice is good, but people don't follow it, it's not the fault of the diet. The point is he is singling out low carb diets as if it's the di…

I can't speak for the rest of the article, but this guy's take on low carb diets is a bit...odd: >Unfortunately, it’s an approach [Low carb diets] that leaves the vast majority of …

#8 is an opinion/partisan analysis and has no place with the rest of the list. This list is valuable because it otherwise lists encyclopedic facts which are eye-opening in nature; …

It was known well in advance of that thread asking for help on HN that Aaron was facing major prison time from the prosecution by the feds, and we also knew a fairly detailed descr…

The feds going after a 20-something idealistic activist, who we all knew was completely harmless, and hadn't committed a real crime? That can't be anything other than a severe and …

1.) We're reading TOS now? Is that against the law? 2.) Irrelevant, could be a simple traffic reduction block. 3.) Too flimsy to rest the entire charge on.

It's his intent that matters, who's computer he supposedly was trying to gain property from only matters once you prove he was using false pretenses. IP/MAC spoofing is not intrins…

>When done deliberately to circumvent blocks The blocks weren't necessarily to prevent fraud. Swartz's actions took place in the "open" culture of MIT, and that context matters and…

That's the point, the spoofing of the IP/MAC addresses in themselves prove nothing, and yet Kerr is assessing it as such. The guy with a fake mustache could be a method actor prepa…

How can spoofing IP/MAC addresses be considered "false pretenses" if these are considered, by nature of how computer networks and management thereof have evolved, to be transient o…