OstiaAntica

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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Actually, this is a barrier to innovation and small, disruptive newcomers. The richest corporations are using patents to lockup the marketplace and secure the status quo.
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As a web dev, seeing "eval" in a domain immediately makes me think of malware or javascript exploits.
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The problem is that these universities receive federal funding, and it is (rightly) unconstitutional to discriminate on the basis of race.
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You can't copyright or trademark a fashion pattern, like your friend's jeans. Fake products using a trademarked name is a different matter-- they are of inferior quality, and widespread distribution seriously damages the legitimate brand.
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I think the metaphor goes deeper. Knowing Latin (and Greek) opened doors to greater learning, providing access to classical writing and history. Indeed, the Renaissance was built on Latin and Greek study. It also was a common language tha
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A nation-state may move to adopt bitcoin (think Cayman Islands or similar) or it could operate outside of the old political regimes, like Sealand. We should cheer this development-- the nation-state historically is responsible for great mis
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It is a common tactic for people invested in a broken status quo to dismiss critics as "not understanding the complexities". Which insurance company or regulator do you work for? I've worked on health care policy professionally, I assure
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Education and health care are both dominated by government as the single largest player in the marketplace. The U.S. government actively sets the number of doctors, the types of procedures that can be covered by insurance, and dominates ma
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
FTC regs are backed by truth-in-advertising law.
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The lawyers (patent, copyright, Congress), not the MBAs, are at the heart of the problem.
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Private roads are very, very difficult to build in modern America. The biggest issue is that people traveling on a private road are not allowed by the government to sign away their right to sue, and the liability for the private road opera
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It can be effective to tweet, blog, and contact these companies and complain about their endorsement of SOPA, as reflected in their Business Software Alliance (BSA) membership. Associations like the BSA exist, in part, so that companies li
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"In other words, the Chinese military probably uses radar instruments to send signals down at the target from above, and determine how much radar bounces back to the instruments from the fighter jets..." I'm curious, what type of radar is u
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I've stopped flying, I've warned my friends and family, I've written Congress, and I've donated to support the EPIC lawsuit against TSA: http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Email works better, actually. All of Congress uses web forms that categorize and route the messages directly to their CRM systems. So it is easy for them to tally and respond. Mail, on the other hand, has to get irradiated for bioterror
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
I've used Google AdWords since it launched. In the past year, I've been locked in a death spiral with the service. The cost-per-click has sky-rocketed even as I dial back my bids and budget. I'm in a low traffic category so there's nothi
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Remarkable Trio of Young, African-American Chess Masters(nytimes.com)
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"Parasite" is unfair. You still need guys like him to agitate, to unsettle and disrupt the marketplace. Color was a pretty innovative idea, it was just terribly executed both in technology and marketing.
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You have an SSL certificate problem with heroku, getting a warning.
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I have a dog, which is great. Dogs are pretty good company, and it forces you to go for walks every 4 hours or so.
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If the startup is struggling or making a pivot, it might need to lay off employees who are performing fine. Of course, the reverse is true also. Employees can leave at any time for any reason as well. Overall, at-will employment keeps comp
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Your failure with the facts reveals that you are just an angry partisan. President Clinton cut capital gains rates further in 1997 than G.W. Bush did. Also, President Carter cut capital gains, while Bush senior made no change in capital ga
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
I disagree, struggling with your own bad code is an important part of learning the art.
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That's actually a sign of a healthy marketplace. Crappy schools that squander resources are denied more resources, and world class schools like Stanford are growing.
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by OstiaAntica 15y ago
Definitely let us know how it ended up!
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The problem isn't Wall Street greed. The problem is that the government rescued the banks with public bailouts, at a time when a true capitalist system would have put them out of business.
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Social Security is 6.2% employer, 6.2% employee...but most economists would say that the employee pays both halves, since the cost is directly related to a specific person's job. (this year there's a temporary cut in the employee half as a
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Fully 12.4% of nearly every American's income is going to Social Security, which is a national pension scheme. (er...national Ponzi scheme)
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This article is basically shooting the messenger. The roiling agricultural commodity prices in the last decade were largely the result of dollar currency devaluation by the Federal Reserve. The same patterns occurred across other global co
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The idea of "money on the sidelines" is also an economic fallacy. Money invested in land, futures, or TBonds still gets circulated into the economy. There's still another person on the other side of the trade. The landowner who sold will

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