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by aeturnum 5y ago
It seems like a slightly weaker patent system where the holder only retains the right to share in the profits on a piece of technology would solve most of the problems. Like, once you publish a patent, anyone who uses it needs to pay you a
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I'm not a copyright expert but I wonder about an implication of two of this author's points: - Reading and remembering-about (like reading a book yourself) things does not infringe on copyright. - Copyright does not apply to the o
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by aeturnum 5y ago
If Audacity branded itself as as an "offline audio editing program" I would agree with you, but its headline is (and has been) "Free, open source, cross-platform audio software." I think using the internet to check for u
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think that package size is a useful gut check about how you're delivering your web app. It's hard to screw up delivering a 100kb package, but it's pretty easy to screw up delivering 5 megs. You can probably also deliver 5 m
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> the result is a very, very healthy investment economy in the US. There were some recent examples of this system creating perverse incentives for US investments that are worth considering. For instance, the repackaging of mortgage-bac
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Part of contract law is that the legal standard for enforceability is "reasonableness"[1]. If there is a clause in a contract that you want to exercise, but your counterparty claims they didn't understand it or intend it they
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This makes me think of the unofficial promise tracker which has been going for years: https://starcitizentracker.github.io/
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> What is your limit on how much money should be "sheltered" by a Roth IRA? This is what I am saying the article is raising! I'd limit it to $10m myself. Seems like that would be enough to retire on. Probably tie it to i
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Right, but like - if you later find a buffer overflow that the fuzzing missed - you'll fix it right?
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We have a progressive tax system, which generally taxes higher incomes at greater rates. Maybe we do want the Roth to be an unlimited shelter, but that has generally not been the approach we have taken. > The "problem" in this
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” I think there are about 4 billion billionaire-specific things Thiel is getting out of this arrangement
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> If they intended something else, then why didn't they write the rules to reflect "else"? If the web server didn't intend to allow a buffer overflow on POST requests, why did it improperly allocate memory? I agree
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I'm pretty open to the ethical version of this article omitting Thiel's name. I also think it would be interesting to talk about what it is in this reporting that materially harms Thiel. That he is a billionaire and that he owns P
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think you're missing the thrust of ProPublica's reporting. This is not an article claiming that laws have been broken. It is pointing out the difference in intent and reality for a part of our financial law. It is not that Thiel
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I feel like there are some obvious problems with celebrating successes without making room for what the person did to achieve that success. As an example: it would be odd to celebrate Amazon's financial success without mentioning their
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The trait that carried McAfee furthest was, in hindsight, his incredible talent as a hype man. He effectively created an image as a larger-than-life figure who those in power were afraid of and wished to stop. I have no trouble believing th
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think it's useful to decompose this dialectical into "material" and a "social" dimensions. The material dimension is about change in the world[1]: places are conquered, techniques are developed. We can acknowledge
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For a journalistic take I recommend[1], but if you would like to go right to the papers the wikipedia article has a good overview[2] [1] https://www.thecut.com/article/false-rape-accusations.html [2] https://
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think you point to the basic question here: is it fair to only judge him for the things he has apologized for and taken ownership of, or would it be moral to form and act on our own opinions? If you feel it's only appropriate to judg
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I believe he does have legal recourse against false accusations. Slander and libel law is pretty old and well-established. Also, outside of protected classes, we have a legal system that assumes people do not have a right to be hired. I thi
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I think this quote from the article is a good example: >I don’t think I can fully describe the heart-wrenching pain of seeing your life & career crumbling around you and feeling utterly powerless to stop it. I thought I was fast appr
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If you expect people to do things they don't feel comfortable doing, you will repeatedly be disappointed. If you are depending on coworkers to go outside their comfort zone, you will lose coworkers (and probably feel they are undependa
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Given that Amazon already makes a lot of money on AWS and that they have lots of cash on hand, I am very skeptical that they need more financial incentives to be able to develop new services. Like, this could happen, but it feels like the m
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I absolutely do! Thank you.
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This has real "company scrip" vibes that I am not crazy about. I'm sure it will be good in the short term for companies that are already using a lot of AWS services and have a lot of sales on the Amazon app store[1], but long
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Another classic on this subject is Shapin's "Pump and Circumstance" - which is also freely available: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shapin/files/shapin-pump_c...
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If you are interested in this I really recommend you look at writings from the fields that have descended from what was called "Laboratory Studies" and now variously calls itself "Science studies", or "science and t
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by aeturnum 5y ago
>All of these make it real hard to compare viewpoints with a proper reference frame and even treatment. The thing I look for in good political writing isn't objectivity, which is mostly fictional, but an honest centering of perspect
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One of the biggest disappointments to me about where we are with crypto is how the arc of the space supports the conventional wisdom about financial systems in general. There was this idea, back at the start, that crypto would bring a new e
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The FBI is used to situations where they can issue targeted takedown orders when groups publish illegal information, but blockchain setups complicate the situation. How does a company "providing" an immutable blockchain stop provi

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