ZachPruckowski

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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
Generally I think it's a sort of two-step the patent/trademark trolls do. They go to USPTO and apply for IP based around a narrow reading of their application, and then they attempt to enforce based on a broad reading of their IP
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
Wait, but most of the competing diamonds are from Canada, Russia, or Australia, right? Wouldn't those be conflict-free more or less automatically? If De Beers tried to set prices at which you could sell certified diamonds, couldn&#x2
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
There aren't many barriers to entry in this field though. It's not a situation like a utility/ISP where you can only feasibly have one last-mile connection due to permits or limited radio spectrum. It's not even someth
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
They grow out of playing video games perhaps, but there's a whole world of content for folks who still like video games but don't play them as much anymore.
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
>Perhaps if FF had Chrome's current marketshare, they would have been in a position to say no It still would have accomplished nothing, because websites would just have a "this site doesn't work in Firefox, try switching t
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
The problem is not that there's no DRM-free alternative, it's that major content owners would prefer no HTML5 solution to a DRM-free HTML5 solution. There is literally nothing Mozilla can do about that. People who want to do DRM
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
Well if you're talking about stuff that's used at physical checkout counters, you need really fast transactions. Nobody wants to sit there for an extra 20-30 seconds holding up the line. Even if customers can tolerate it, busine
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
$200,000 for 5% of the company is only a $4M valuation (assuming not contract hijinks).
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
Assuming its a constant linear progression, which it's probably not. We could see speed ups as we go, or breakthroughs. I'm not suggesting someone'll have a Eureka moment tonight and we'll have Skynet next week, but it
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
A majority of the people who can pick ISPs (37% of the country) have only two choices. I'd bet in most cases those two choices are Comcast and Verizon. The odds you'll have a neutral ISP as an option are pretty tiny.
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
There are two issues with this. There are also MASSIVE incentive issues with this (lobbying, etc) but in this comment I'll only discuss legal issues: The first is that a legislature can't easily bind its future self - laws passed
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by ZachPruckowski 12y ago
The problem with that is that the only folks qualified for these jobs are folks with some sort of recent related experience, and the only future job that this is revenue-boosting for is in related domains.
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Most likely, your kid's startup you dropped $120K into is going to fail. Make sure you consider that case very carefully - what are his chances like at 26 with a less prestigious degree and a failed startup under his belt compared to
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
I'd say that a prevalence of rich kids is alarming, and not from an equality perspective or anything. It's alarming because an advanced and specialized economy like ours is at its most efficient when people are doing the jobs the
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
I don't have experience with BPMN/BPML but I'd still be interested in helping out if you get something started. I'd recommend targeting the folks with relatively simple taxes (salaried/wage employees with limited an
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Maybe you could sell it to a smaller/medium player who does mostly corporate work as a way of undercutting his larger competitors who do consumer and corporate taxes. Plus it'd be a heck of a branding opportunity.
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Why wouldn't you call it recruiting?
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Well Feinstein's not up until 2018 (if she runs again, I guess), so you have time. But really trying to run for Senate is a multi-year process. You ultimately have to convince hundreds or thousands of people to volunteer for you, and
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Once you've got all 3 town employees, the police force/posse and half-to-all of the town council in on it, it's not like it's impossible to get a particular judge elected. Get an extreme hard-ass, a crook, or just someo
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Have they solved the "you need the whole blockchain" bit? Like do blockchain-based apps still require you to download the whole she-bang to participate? I know for bitcoin the blockchain is like 14GB or so, and that's for (
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
No, because nobody knows for sure. The most common theories are stupidity, fraud, and theft (or some combination thereof).
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
I'd be fairly impressed if they survived - they seemed like they were already on the ropes in terms of solvency with it taking months to payout for BTC after the US government froze their accounts or fined them or whatever in May. I&#
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Sometimes they do - for instance money used in stings and busts by law enforcement might have its serial numbers recorded. If you're subsequently searched and found to have money used in a drug bust, there are gonna be some tough ques
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Productivity increases (including robotization/automation) mean that the US economy can produce the same goods with less work or more goods with the same work. If we're in a situation where the prospect of being able to produce m
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
The CEO in the linked piece didn't need to get down into the weeds of the accounting laws, he just needs to know to get a second (outside/unbiased) opinion on anything that smells even faintly and remotely fishy that he's sig
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Fundamentally you as CEO are quite literally signing your name to a heck of a lot of policies and financial statements. You don't need to know the exact details of a situation to want to get a second opinion before signing your name o
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
I think it varies in terms of what a given viewer is looking for, but generally having a voice I can listen to for long stretches, some amount of humor, and competence at the game you're playing. You also need to be able to commentate
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
A lot of that is passive time though - it takes a year to train the skills, but if you've already bought the skill books that just means logging on every few days to rotate the skill you're training according to an optimized plan
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
>Only the largest and most powerful organizations in the game, alliances, can actually build or fly titans, and they tend to jealously guard them. That really underscores just how big a loss 75 of them is. Such losses cause tectonic shif
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by ZachPruckowski 13y ago
Well Time Dilation only matters in fights with hundreds or thousands of people which would have otherwise been so laggy that skill was irrelevant anyhow. The "in-the-moment" skill that matters in EVE isn't accuracy (FPSes) or

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