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Would something like this be considered bold and praiseworthy? Or would most people complain about the cost?

It's fun, and perhaps praiseworthy for a kid... but as an adult you look a bit silly claiming the design is something real.

In fact, I see it as outright praiseworthy. When the hell did Hacker News get filled with bean counters who tut-tut about municipal regulations?

It's especially praiseworthy due the fact it's not a case of "look how 'diverse' we are" but more of a "let's openly discuss these numbers".

It's great to see Gruber praising it like this: it is very praiseworthy. Also, it's easy to forget that Gruber is first-and-foremost a design geek.

And obviously they remain DRM-free and work with publishers to convince them to release their games without any DRM junk attached, which is praiseworthy. It's good that they are attempting to compete with Steam more - we need that.

Even according to Wikipedia which waps was citing: "The Qur'an and Hadith, the primary Islamic texts, make it a praiseworthy act for masters to set their slaves free." goes against his/her claims.

It's easy to forget that there are more praiseworthy goals in the world than having a successful social network when that's what everyone actually praises.

But implementing it in Basic doesn't seem especially praiseworthy.

However, I'm confused by the blog post implying that the solution to unbricking the apps was somehow novel or praiseworthy. This is pretty much textbook for an auto-update system.

But that would be manipulative and shortsighted, and it is hard to see how it could possibly be a praiseworthy method for achieving social change." I am incredibly nave about politics and I like being abused, please keep doing it!

However, every effort for bringing Smalltalk back to life - or rather back to mainstream - is praiseworthy and I'm very glad such effort are undertaken.

Standing by while people are taken advantage of and robbed should not be praiseworthy in anyone's book. > Essentially on discovering I had the power to stop this illegal act without causing any harm, I felt morally obliged to do it.

"X is a billion-dollar industry" is not equivalent to "X is praiseworthy," so it's not really relevant. There are lots of billion-dollar industries that are positively sleazy.

But that would be manipulative and shortsighted, and it is hard to see how it could possibly be a praiseworthy method for achieving social change. Lessig's immediate, political response to Aaron's death took him down a significant notch in my view.

Many of these are praiseworthy things, productive things, but they are also exactly what we mean by "politics", and they're not what we do on Hacker News. They are what Facebook, mailing lists, political blogs, newspaper editorial pages and comment sections, and most of the rest of the web is for.

Donating 5% of your net worth to charity is praiseworthy, but it's not really anything special, particularly for people in that range of disposable income. He could probably release another boxed set of the original trilogy and make the entire amount back.

Your prodigious propagandization of your paymaster is praiseworthy, but you don't need to take michaelochurch seriously to perceive this isn't a perfect picture of paradise.

Sentiment on that board is that people should pay their debts, which is closer to my personal feeling than creditboards' prevailing sentiment that getting advantage on a debt collector or creditor is always justified and praiseworthy.

Since QoS/ToS is a primarly unenforceable contract meant for a global market, a service that points out the different kinds of unenforceable contracts is a praiseworthy service, but with somewhat limited use. >You cannot get away from a contract by simply not reading it Well, in Swedish law, quite a lot weight is given to the circumstances around the contract, and if it was made in good faith.