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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
It's a problem with no ideal answers. On the one hand, without any regulation it will be wild west rules- you can do whatever you're able to do. On the other hand, it's territory outside the ownership of any nation on Earth
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
I believe it was Newt Gingrich who pushed the Thomas project, the initiative to put the text of all congressional bills online.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Based on the past, in 2 years Google will have shut down their Uber-esque project. Meanwhile, Uber will be spending money researching their core business and will keep pressing on with shipping, consumer-focused products.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Reading his actual post on the topic, it seems that he misunderstood (-stands) what evolution is. But he does so in ways that many, many people do, including many people who consider themselves scientifically literate on the topic. What he
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
The only way the law and technology are going to get further along is by companies pushing it forward. It's not going to happen by itself.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Vanderbilt. Rockefeller. Morgan. All of them took amazingly large risks with massive amounts of capital in pursuit of visions well into the latter halves of their lives.
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Cuaron wasn't super-famous in 2000. He basically had one mid-budget feature under his belt. Add in the fact that writers usually get left out of the loop on that part of the dealmaking and it's not hard to imagine he was more atta
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Writing and story credits are determined by the producers (based on union guidelines), and arbitrated by the Writers Guild if there's a dispute. That arbitration process is a nightmare from all accounts, but it's what everyone agr
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
"They seem to speak with a single voice" This is something that even casual observation of the real world as opposed to rhetoric will show you that it's not true.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
I used to joke you could set up webcams watching the freight rail lines out of ports, count the train cars and types with computer vision software, and sell the data to hedge funds.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
It's the same in Los Angeles. But people still know that, for example, Warren Beatty has owned property for 40 years. There are no mysteries.
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‘Hotel 22’(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
A surprising number of homes in my LA neighborhood are owned by trusts. I used to assume they were trusts for the people living in them, but then I noticed many of the trusts own a number of properties. There's probably an interesting
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
A key difference is that the actual City Of Los Angeles is quite sprawling and surrounds many of the areas that are incorporated as their own municipalities.
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Instagram too, apparently. Are they sharing crucial infrastructure?
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That's exactly what I have in mind. And it's entirely possible to do. That fact that it's slow and expensive is only an issue because it conflicts with YouTube's business model. Frankly, that's YouTube's proble
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Of course there is. It's just slower and more cumbersome than YouTube would like to deal with, for the sake of their business model.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
I didn't say anything about ethicality. But I would certainly object to calling a Starbucks purchase a "negotiation". It is not.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
YouTube chooses to only guess who the creator is, because that's convenient for their business model. There are other choices available to them, they weren't forced into this one. They chose it because it's easy for them, a
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
It's certainly not a "negotiation". It's take it or leave it terms. Very different animal.
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What's changed is the Benefit side of Cost/Benefit. Now the leading Benefit is "not having embarrassing company documents on the front page of newspapers every day for a month". That's quite a "new" Benefi
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
I imagine that realistically that information remains confidential for the five minutes it takes attendees to email to their inner circles, and it spreads from there.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Project Blue Book itself was based out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which is outside Dayton, Ohio.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
"Rest of the world" is a bit of an overstatement, and even then it's only within certain zones. Inter-zone transfer on the global level is still slow and costly, where ever you are.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Possible it's just the easiest model for establishment investors to understand. Doesn't necessarily imply anything about future bitcoin business models, or even current ones that still fly beneath the mainstream investor radars.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
The night time quality of my phone camera is awful. I could record a full moon and you couldn't tell what it was. Maybe in a few years.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Are drones stealth? After all, they're now doing much of the day-to-day work that used to be done by piloted craft. From my very casual outsider view, it looks like manned platforms are indeed becoming more expensive, but unmanned pla
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
It's my favorite part of programming, by a very long stretch. For me it's often a chance to really dig into understanding exactly how all the gears click together, which is my true joy. On a couple of teams I fell into the role of
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Animator Transforms Nintendo Power Glove into Stop-Motion Animation Tool(pastemagazine.com)
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
There was a fundamental change in Hollywood in the late 60 early 70s, when a new generation of filmmakers came up through indie cinema and the studios. Those filmmakers changed the technique, style, and values of the studio system pretty dr

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