Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
> The US has a messed up system that ends with annoying, over-self-indulged, entitled children and adults. [citation needed]
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by Cushman 14y ago
But an invention is obviously a kind of idea. Patents and copyright both protect kinds of ideas; that's why we call them intellectual property.
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by Cushman 14y ago
That's not totally true; in the case of software, an implementation is code, which is copyrightable. The idea, the functioning of the code, is not copyrightable, but it may be patentable, because a patent is a more restricted protection on
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by Cushman 14y ago
Er, no, they're asserting the opinion of the author of the article. That's not neutral at all.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Hmm... I only have an iPad simulator with me, but it works just pasting in what I wrote above. Maybe something in your data URI is getting munged? Keyup is used here rather than keypress (which fires only once for each down-up event) since
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think I like it because of how weirdly constrained it is. Especially when you're writing something that will overwrite the handler itself, it's easy to get yourself stuck in a loop or a strange dead end.
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by Cushman 14y ago
It took me a few goes to figure out I could just click OK.
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by Cushman 14y ago
For even more fun, turn your notepad into an interactive JavaScript environment: data:text/html, <html contenteditable onkeyup="eval(this.innerText)"> Then you can upgrade it by pasting in something like this: this.onkeyu
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Old John Carmack at Id Software took one look at that trash and said, "Screw that!" and decided to write towards another API: OpenGL. "Old John Carmack" makes me think he's some sort of half-myth crazy coot mountain man, which made me
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by Cushman 14y ago
It is by far the most dangerous activity (in an accidental death sense) that most Americans participate in. Is it more dangerous than a lot of things most Americans don't do? No, but that doesn't make it not really, really dangerous.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, my prediction in that scenario is we would see less nominal growth, but more actual innovation in the things people care about.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> You can't get San Francisco running efficiently, because that would require large numbers of unionized city workers to willingly admit their redundancy and wastefulness. Inefficiency pays their salaries. I predict we will all have thi
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by Cushman 14y ago
My experience -- admittedly not parental, and certainly skewed towards highly functional families -- has been that young children tend to be about as responsible as they need to be to get what they want. Not to say that we're going to obsol
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by Cushman 14y ago
> That's way beyond driverless car, that's a global optimization problem. If it were possible, you wouldn't even need driverless cars to implement it. System-to-car communication and slightly more complicated street lights would be enou
555.
by Cushman 14y ago
Then slap an anklet on him and make him say sorry once a week until you're satisfied. "You violated our property rights, so we're going to feed, clothe, and house you for the next twenty years and resent you for it" is something a crazy per
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by Cushman 14y ago
Why not a semi-autonomous trailer? Hitch it to any car for charging. You can leave it on the site, arrange for it to meet you somewhere you're walking, even loan your kit to a colleague across town with the push of a button-- and still get
557.
by Cushman 14y ago
What do you make of the idea that you should mix to sound good the way your audience will listen to it?
558.
by Cushman 14y ago
That's a great question, and my trivial answer is: Because people want to sleep in a different place from where they spend the day. Now, is it good for us, abstracting out travel time, for those to be in very different places? That's a whol
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by Cushman 14y ago
> And I have to wait for my car to come back if I have any immediate need to use it during the day? Of course you don't have to; you can pay ten times as much for a dedicated vehicle if that's a feature you need. Everyone can do their o
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yes, you too will benefit from robotic cars! You may have to pay your service some premium for a toddler-safe vehicle, but only when you need to take the kid; and what you'll get is a way more expensive vehicle than you could otherwise af
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by Cushman 14y ago
Well, there's no force that makes traffic "rise to fill roads"; there's externalities to having increased traffic capacity that may cause transportation needs to increase. We still have a lot of underutilized roads. The main difference in t
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by Cushman 14y ago
Having a project is not having a self-driving car. How many miles of fully autonomous driving on public roads do each of those companies have?
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by Cushman 14y ago
People used to make friends with horses-- and many of those who can afford to still do. But the massive economic incentive to sharing a car will make this not a choice for any but the very wealthy.
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by Cushman 14y ago
This reads to me like arguing for your right to fire guns into the air. You think driving is fun? So do I. I also think it's the most likely way I'm going to die right now, and that thought terrifies me every time I get into a car. (And how
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by Cushman 14y ago
I've been saying this to anyone who will listen for years. I really believe this technology will touch everything . Real estate markets will shift dramatically as the average commute time halves or quarters. Transport costs will plummet,
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by Cushman 14y ago
Perhaps we should instead use the term negligent assholery, so as not to ignore fault.
567.
by Cushman 14y ago
You're glossing over a subtle tautology, I think: "Deserving" is a weak form of property, socially but not legally compelling. When we say, "They deserve to have it because it's theirs," we are saying that we somewhat feel they should have
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by Cushman 14y ago
Just to be clear, by "script" here do we mean "Dude, check this out, you can just change /accounts?id=12345 to /accounts?id=12346"?
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by Cushman 14y ago
I've said it before, but: What's the deal with 404 pages? If the content has moved, I should get a 30x redirect. If the server has a way of guessing what I wanted, I should get 300 Multiple Choices. If the server knows that what I'm looking
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think you might find this line of inquiry more productive if you roll back on ethics, and don't give up either of "deserve" or "have" for free. Start by tabooing "property" and assuming consequentialism. We have a monetary system that abs

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