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JC001··on Elon Musk's Data Doesn't Back Up His Claims of New York Times Fakery
For Argument 2 and 3, why would he not slow down and turn down the temperature earlier (such as when he claimed to have turned them down).

If you already know you don't have sufficient range, why would you not try to be more efficient to extend your range as soon as you can? He knew what to do to make the car more efficient, he just chose not to until he could get the result he desired.

I don't fully trust Musk and his counter claims, but this article and the other NYT pieces are obviously very Top Gear in their formulas... Which is very unfortunate for the EC revolution.

JC001··on Show HN: GoodGrapes – Discover Wines You'll Love
It would be great if there were ways to sort the results when you look in the big list of wines, such as by price, year, name, vineyard. Also, when there is more than one page of results, having the pages separated by something related to the sorting criteria is a lot more intuitive in order to browse through to find what one is looking for. For example, sorting by vineyard could do A-C, D-E, F-H or A, B, C. Either are lot easier to understand than page 1, page 2, page 3.
JC001··on Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads
Strange, on my machine this file only contains the URL from when I installed Firefox and a bunch of URLs for Adium updates. Not any of the many other things I've downloaded...

Is it only listing things downloaded through Safari?

JC001··on How to set up a safe and secure Web server
Small comment as I agree with your statement in general. Ease of deployment has never been an issue as they are all very straightforward.

The A in WAMP/LAMP is for Apache, so that does not apply here. I'm not sure what the acronym is for Windows/IIS/<database>/.NET.

JC001··on Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All
Are we talking about "freedom of information" or are we talking about music, movies, tv shows, software and other content that was created for the sole purpose of economic income?

"Information" to me sounds like you're talking about something more fundamental, I'm just not sure what. But sharing copyrighted material should by no means be considered something that is a social principle.

JC001··on Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All
The argument isn't over whether it's a physical token that won't be available for sale. Even without a physical token it's still stealing.

If everyone were to just take digital content without paying for it, would this still be ok?

If so, why would anyone produce the digital content knowing they won't receive compensation?

And how does this apply to other non-digital marketplaces:

If you went to a dentist to have your teeth cleaned, would it be ok to never pay the dentist? After all, the dentist is still able to clean other teeth?

If you had your car towed to a mechanic, does the tow truck driver have to be paid?