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What if he does? Would it be such a bad thing? V8 Javascript isn't slow.

What if replies to a progressively hellbanned user were themselves affected by the ban (tainted)? That would address the fragmentation.

I would've thought that the widget/tile implementation technology would be Silverlight, not HTML5/Javascript. Didn't we also see a playing down of Silverlight at MIX11? Has Silverlight fallen out of favor?

If it comes to be that a significant majority of the book market is locked by DRM schemes, then no, Amazon ought not have the right to do as they please, and a regulatory agency should be established to ensure fair and equitable access to the materials.

Education, water, electricity, communication, and healthcare are all fine and proper examples of what happens when incumbents reach "escape velocity" and their past innovations turn into today's rent seeking.

Hmm, might be interesting to see the results of numbers presented in a ring, equidistant from the cursor...

Perhaps, but you don't turn around and give the shampoo producer intimate details of your life. Instead, you probably forget that you have the sample and end up throwing it out 6 months later.

They're different businesses, I'm not sure that you're comparing apples to apples.

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2348156

tl;dr:

A->B: "pickles is the new word for f-r-e-e s-p-e-e-c-h. free speech."

<forbidden word detected: free speech. call terminated>

B->A: "So, we were talking about pickles... "

Looking over IRCCloud's subscription plans, why would I want to pay for features that have been offered free forever? Is the idea that since I can't run an IRC client on my iPhone that I'd pay for this? I don't get it.