You know, nowadays opening a random one-time email account takes less than 5 minutes. Just go to hotmail and register as oks03wsdjf. You can do that and find out how you can donate.
I think you miss the point. I don't want to communicate with anyone in order to donate anything to them. There are plently other options out there than Paypal so why are they not offered.
Dude, I'm just another HN reader who decided to support this cause. If you made a point in your original message, I most certainly did miss it. You have issues with paypal and email? That's your prerogative. Maybe Geohot didn't expect people to have both these problems.
Obviously you can't read(you keep mentioning email when i've already adressed it entire issue in my second post) so I see no point in continuing this discussion.
downvote away if it makes you feel like a bigger man.
Please leave the childish insults at the door. Misunderstandings happen, but insulting someone for it is wrong.
> so I see no point in continuing this discussion.
If the only thing in your comment is an insult, a statement about ending the discussion, and karma, it's a poor comment and you should just not write it.
> downvote away if it makes you feel like a bigger man.
This comment should be down voted. It's a poor comment by any standard. It offers nothing to the conversation, is rude, and far below HN standards.
You're new here, so I just wanted to take the time to explain why these types of comments are bad for HN and to try and help you improve. I hope it does. =)
You're new here, so I just wanted to take the time to explain why these types of comments are bad for HN and to try and help you improve. I hope it does.
Yes we are nice to each other here, it is kind of the golden rule. There are plenty of sites for technical dogma battles and less than civil discourse. HN is not one of those sites. It is what makes it what it is, and we are kind of fanatics about it staying that way. There are too many of the other sites and HN is kind of different, we like it that way and want it to stay that way.
Try working on your briething. I've never run very far let alone a marathon(though I have played football non-stop for several hours many times when I was younger)... but 've found that by taking deep breathes while I run/jog means I can go for longer and without discumfort(until I stop) as opposed to when almost panting like a dog, it's as-if it has physchological effect and my body just refuses to work.
Well, it's probably just me but Netbeans support for Ruby was as good as Eclipse(PyDev) support for Python i.e it kinda worked but it left a little to be desired, I for one am not gonna miss it.
Not sure why OP is getting downvoted like it's Reddit but whatever...
I just wanted to point that this isn't a perfect world where every copy of every article share the (exact) same title which means a lot of times the same article isn't found by that search. Removing the quotes often time don't help either because you're them swamped irrelevant results.
It's pretty close; few people even bother to change the title. If you follow up by searching for anything about the article's content, you can do a pretty good job of determining with 95% certainty whether or not it's a duplicate.
I personally don't think it's too much to expect someone to spend five minutes of time before publishing a post to tens of thousands of people, but I may be in a minority.
Also not quite sure why I've been downvoted - but - as I said above, in my opinion, the whole thread has a nasty tone to it. So I probably shouldn't be shocked. (Was it in retaliation for something? Honestly, I don't get it)
If I were more concerned about Karma than discussion I'd have just kept my head down and STFU (or is that meant to be "TITS or GTFO"?).
The cost of an article submission is LOW, there are thousands of visitors to HN per day who can choose to vote things up or not as appropriate. An volunteer "mechanical turk" separating the wheat from the chaff in terms of finding articles of value for reading on the front page.
Why then should we worry in any way if something gets submitted a second time? Why imply anyone's done anything wrong by participating in the community or attempting to bring something of value to the table?
The "Here's the list, now stop submitting anything on it" sentiment from the headline comes across with a tremendous chip on it's shoulder.
Is really just me that is getting that?
It is my strong opinion that this place (Hacker News) should be a little more humble than that. Oh, and a whole lot nicer.
Before we can begin to discuss "what exists" we must first discuss "what".
That is to say. We must first discuss what is talent? What counts as talent? What doesn't? because until then I feel that many of our ideas are going to be based on our own slight understanding and ideas about talent.
For me, I have no idea what talent is the same way i have no idea what a skill is because it all seems so arbitrary.
I have the same feeling. There's another comment that says "[Usain Bolt] has little talent, and his success is almost purely a combination genetics and hard work (eating + training)." To me, once you take out genetics, eating, and training, there's nothing left.
There's more to support than standards. Curretly and in the past Opera has given more grief from the users' POV because of it's iffy rendering. Right now I push a few thousand elements into the page at runtime, this works perfectly fine everywhere else including IE6 yet Opera decides that it needs not redraw the whole page(or something) and when I scroll it causes ink smudges(?) it's rather entertaining to look at because it's as-if Opera thinks it's some kind of photo editor. Keeping the parent div hidden and then showing it after I've done pushing the elemements seems to work around that bug but I now have a visible lag everywhere. What do I do?
That analogy doesn't apply because it's not the same thing. If I take some of your oil you lose some of your oil. Now if I went out and cloned it that's not stealing under the stated definition. This is the same nonsense the GPL tries to shove down peoples throats and I don't know why so many people are buying it. It's not about wrong right in this case so there's no need to bring pre-concevied biases into it.
The works of Shakespeare (died 1616) were written without copyright protection (Statue of Anne 1709). It can be argued, based on the amount of copying from previous authors, that they could only be written because there was their sources were not subject to copyright.
Although copyright is one mechanism to create incentives for creative activity, it is far from the only mechanism.
It used to be hard to copy. This greatly limited the effect of copying. For example in the 18th and 19th centuries, books made almost all of their money on the first print run. By the time a copier could get a copy out, there wasn't much money left to be made from the book, and so it was hard for the copier to recoup his copying costs.
Justice Breyer, back when he was a law professor, not a Supreme Court justice, wrote an interesting article about this, arguing that copyright throughout most of its history was in fact unnecessary because of the delay and costs of copying.
From the latter half of the 20th century onward, copying technology has gotten cheaper and faster. That has shifted the balance. The copier can now, especially with digital goods, get their copy out to the market fast enough to reduce or eliminate the sales of the original.
There certainly was less creative production, but history was different. Until recently copying and distributing something wasn't free and effortless. So it used to be that you could still make a decent living out of something even if somebody else copied you. This is no longer the case.
As a result many software companies are turning to server based applications, where they can physically enforce artificial scarcity. Now consumers are not only disallowed from copying and distributing the software, but (1) they are no longer even able to (2) they often lose control of their own data (3) they lose control over their usage of the software: the company can suspend their account at any time. Is this a good thing? In my opinion it is not.
Well, it was an article for our users and our audience about the danger of DNS hijacking. It was not intended as a full explanation of the issue and I didn't even submit to HN (which I only do for our better posts :)).
Last year? I downloaded a pirated copy of the movie Ink. I wasn't ever going to go to the cinema nor was(and won't) I going to buy it on DVD. I did however buy 2 copies totally about $30 IIRC from the creator directly. This is just one case from one person. Many people who pirate movies also buy the ones they think are worth their money. The think most people like you don't realise is that most of the people who don't pay for any of it in any form wasn't going to do so even if it wasn't available for free. And I too can just blanket everything under a misguided and biased argument; No it's actually more expensive to shoplift because if you were walked out with enough you'd very very likely get caught and you're likely to face some legall challenges not to metion the fact that many people won't hire you unless they have to. That doesn't even take into account the other point you so conveniently misse: it's harder. That point is actually more important than the cost as shown in my case of buying Ink for $30 which is at least 3 times more than it would have cost me to go to the cinema.
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