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15271.
by api 13y ago
What a stupid sensationalistic article. How about the Time Magazine doomsday clock?
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by api 13y ago
Why are there not more Elon Musks? Is someone with engineering skill, motivation, clarity of thinking, and execution ability that rare? Is it that rare in the circles of the very wealthy?
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by api 13y ago
I'm with Tesla here, but this headline is weirdly almost Orwellian. Car dealers are not a monopoly. They all have different owners! But they are a state-mandated middleman, something I do not support. The reason I'm with Tesla is
15274.
by api 13y ago
Why bother with encryption if you're going to do this?
15275.
by api 13y ago
"society's increased productivity allowed it to make more goods and services and thus employ more people than it did before." I agree, but only if we can solve our energy and resource problems. If we can't do that, suppl
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by api 13y ago
I think the real underlying problem is the jobs situation. I don't think this would be so much of an issue if jobs weren't so much of an issue. The concern that many people have is that technological disruption is replacing old in
15277.
by api 13y ago
Traction seems almost random on HN.
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by api 13y ago
"Who can access private company data, why, and for what reason?". But the cloud. The cloud!
15279.
by api 13y ago
http://www.redecentralize.org/
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by api 13y ago
Not really. You kind of missed my point. There is no DRM in my iTunes music, but I paid for it. Apple takes ~30% of iTunes though, so it still stinks, but at least the artist gets something. Part of why I use iTunes is that most of the rese
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by api 13y ago
Giving stuff away can be a fabulous way to garner publicity, and people have every right to do it. I'm just saying that if everything is free and always free, art becomes nothing more than a hobby. The trouble with that is that great a
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by api 13y ago
No, that's a false alternative. The third option is to invent something that has not been invented yet-- something neither DRM nor Popcorn Time. If I had the time to dedicate I would start with the idea that creative works are non-rand
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by api 13y ago
I've scanned this whole thread and there's not a single post that is at all critical of the intentions behind Popcorn Time. I guess you're all okay with a world where content creators don't eat. Or do you have a better i
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by api 13y ago
"But they also said the underlying technology may hold potential." That is exactly my position. The underlying technology is very compelling, but Bitcoin's present valuation is nutty. It's like the web. Pets.com and Floo
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by api 13y ago
I'm sure they'll get it eventually, but it is annoying.
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by api 13y ago
Welcome to the world of completely unregulated finance.
15287.
by api 13y ago
Is there any way to mitigate DDOS attacks systematically without sacrificing network neutrality?
15288.
by api 13y ago
Unfortunately not much yet, but you're helping make way for the future. I say unfortunately because IPv4's limitations are going to hurt more and more as the Internet gets more hosts online.
15289.
by api 13y ago
There's a few smaller ones out there like vultr.com that match DO's price. Not sure about their reliability. I've had good luck with DO in that department.
15290.
by api 13y ago
This is bizarre. Where to start... I think the real howler is the idea that there could ever be a level playing field between well-funded government and corporate intelligence operations and private citizens. Even if I had access to all t
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by api 13y ago
That's what I meant. I've done open source work on a donation-only basis before. I ended up with stuff that was used by tens of thousands of people and ended up earning the cost of a pizza and a six pack. You can't make a liv
15292.
by api 13y ago
"entertainment was not on a donation-only basis." So you're willing to do your work on a donation-only basis then? Have fun paying the rent, raising kids, getting health care, and saving for retirement.
15293.
by api 13y ago
"But please, the Publishing houses, Recording and Motion Picture Industries are hardly saints," True. But recording industries and publishing houses screw over artists and pay them shite, while piracy pays them nothing at all. Thi
15294.
by api 13y ago
"We have a commons for a reason." Changing the subject.
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by api 13y ago
"We should find another way of rewarding artists than fighting an uphill battle to constrain value." Trust me: if such a thing were found, every single artist would be all ears. Solve this problem and you're the next Zuckerbe
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by api 13y ago
I've thought this for a long time. Ultimately I think it's that private enterprises must have a low appetite for risk. The only time you see private enterprises investing in fundamental R&D or otherwise really exploring, it&#x
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by api 13y ago
If there were any easy way to unlock and start any car, it would sure be easier to just grab one off the lot than to go through the annoyingly slow lines at car rental agencies.
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by api 13y ago
Good. This isn't just a file sharing app... it's an app designed explicitly to make piracy convenient. That's its only real purpose. This is why people are throwing rocks at Google buses: the idea that computer technology is
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by api 13y ago
"fixing government, curing cancer, improving medicine, rebooting our space program, fixing education, etc." I think a big part of it is less pay. Important things pay very little compared to frivolous metoo.io apps and social adve
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SpaceX wants to send a positively massive rocket to Mars(motherboard.vice.com)
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