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But states can be wrong. That's why it makes no sense.

Agreed. As you realized, though, the point is that copyrighted work should not be used without compensating the creator.

This makes no sense. Imagine that SpaceX took a photograph on the moon, and then a university freely used the image in its marketing materials. Would that make sense? Would it make…

> "you guys" I don't know what group you're imagining me to be a part of, but you have no idea who I am, clearly. That's fine.

Both you and pdog have made interesting observations, I suppose, but as I said, neither book described our reality accurately. Our reality is far more complicated. As you point out…

1984, followed directly by Brave New World. Our world resembles a lot from each of these books. Much like in 1984, we have devices and companies constantly monitoring us (iOS, Andr…

After just now hearing about Amazon Echo, I positively, absolutely cannot be the only person who immediately thought of this show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Humans Also kno…

view-source: https://news.ycombinator.com

Got it streaming on the Mac now. Was not working on Win8, laughably.

Thanks. Still waiting for the live broadcast online at 9:50

Is anyone seeing the live broadcast? I am not, as of 9:44

From the terms, here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

Related: http://www.quora.com/Do-my-heirs-inherit-my-Kindle-ebooks-or...

If this ever actually happens, delivery theft will be rampant.

Agreed.

"Amazon should hire a world-class book designer to serve as product manager for the Kindle." I think this comment is just about right. The Kindle team really needs to focus on maki…

Encouraging young people is essential--even/especially when their ideas are incredible. The reply letter was just right.

I did the same and feel the same. Even DuckDuckGo does better than Bing when it comes to indexing my site.

In addition to deserving that huge apology, Dixon deserves monetary compensation from Josh Linkner. Words don't write themselves, and so Linkner had to realize he was using someone…

See "I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account."

Yeah, I got to hear a really sweet Alanis Morissette tune. :) :/ :(