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by cwp 14y ago
Apparently I did. How silly of me.
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by cwp 14y ago
Well, our best understanding of what generates wealth is that it comes from trade. Trade involves two parties exchanging resources for their mutual benefit. Adam Smith was one of the first to write about this, and yes, he thought that trade
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by cwp 14y ago
It's only related insofar as both problems stem from the Harper governments general disinterest in, and declination to fund, accurate data collection and analysis.
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by cwp 14y ago
> It's mostly about making money Those things go hand in hand. Ideally, you can't make money without improving human life in exchange. Sure, any political system will include a bit of corruption and rent-seeking, but by-and-large, it'
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by cwp 14y ago
"development for development's sake"? Development doesn't happen for its own sake. It's about improving the quality of human life and alleviating suffering. If you had to carry water a few miles each day, or gather firewood to keep you warm
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by cwp 14y ago
Nonsense. If you don't want to work, then don't. Close your laptop, turn off your phone. If you can't do that, you need to learn to set boundaries (see #6 in the article). Personally, I find this the best aspect of working future-style. R
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For the food movement, overhauling patent law is more important than labelling(slate.com)
1 points by cwp 14y ago|0 comments
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by cwp 14y ago
Ok, I've upvoted two articles. This link ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4944163 ) gives me a blank page. Also, I'll note that the second article is also pretty faint praise. It's the travel agency industry association praising a TSA
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by cwp 14y ago
That. Or, perhaps, the TSA is objectively awful. Tell you what. Post an article that sings the praises of the TSA and I'll upvote it. Then we can have a discussion about bias.
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by cwp 14y ago
This article gives me an idea. Theoretically, problem with trolls is that they can't be counter-sued because they're non-practicing entities, ie. they're not technology companies. But build.com isn't a technology company either, they just h
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by cwp 14y ago
Not true. Placing yourself in the jurisdiction of a competing government is just a matter of going there. People do it all the time.
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BangDB(iqlect.com)
2 points by cwp 14y ago|0 comments
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by cwp 14y ago
Well, Dan Ingalls did something a like that. He implemented a Squeak VM in Java. It's six years old, and even then it didn't run a current Squeak image, but it works pretty well. Announcement here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/piperma
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by cwp 14y ago
This is the single most significant difference between Smalltalk and other languages. Several Smalltalk dialects use images that were last bootstrapped from scratch sometime in the late 70s. If you insist on using git for version control, y
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by cwp 14y ago
Of course it would have. It was pretty much inevitable once Internet access became wide-spread.
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by cwp 14y ago
Interesting, but it's reading an awful lot into a single tweet.
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by cwp 14y ago
David Brooks, David Frum, Bill Kristol. Not talk-show guys, 'cause I don't watch much TV.
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by cwp 14y ago
So, you're saying that you don't distinguish between MegaUpload and YouTube. I commend your consistency.
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by cwp 14y ago
True. But note that the matrix isn't a binary "good/bad". If you know the concepts that underly dynamic programming and can look it up when needed, great. If you have used it before and can bang out an implementation without looking it up,
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by cwp 14y ago
When Amazon came out with DNS-based load-balancing, we thought about switching, but it'd be a downgrade from what we've got already. We direct traffic to the server that's showing the lowest latency right now and switch to another server
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by cwp 14y ago
We do this at instandomainsearch.com too. Our domain database is relatively small and changes slowly, so we do daily updates and distribute snapshots to all the servers. We have copies in 4 different AWS regions, and all the load-balancing
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by cwp 14y ago
That's awesome. In my mind, that lets a lot of air out of the pharmaceutical argument for patents.
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Why the iPhone 5 is too radical(cultofmac.com)
32 points by cwp 14y ago|44 comments
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by cwp 14y ago
Not quite. A patent is granted for the invention of a drug, not the testing. If the monopoly were tied to the approval process, it would be limited to the country where the approval was granted. So shepherding a drug through the FDA approva
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by cwp 14y ago
None. And that's the point . The idea here is to stop granting monopoly on on these areas. But that won't affect, for example, authors, musicians or marketers. It won't allow anyone to start screening movies without paying royalties, or a
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by cwp 14y ago
I suppose you could sue for the right to break the gag order, while still supplying the information, but I'm not a legal expert.
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by cwp 14y ago
In the case of a national security letter, you have to sue the U.S. government. It's rare, but possible. The Internet Archive did it, and won. http://archive.org/post/192021/fbi-gag-order-against-the-int...
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by cwp 14y ago
It's not position data that Apple needs, it's bug reports. Regardless of how much work you put into map data, at some point the only way to know if it's correct or not is to go there and see what things look like on the ground. Crowd sourci
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by cwp 14y ago
I've started using the older term "monopoly" instead of "property". Respect for property rights is so deeply ingrained in our culture that it's really hard to argue against it without sounding like some crazed hippie. Arguing against monopo
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by cwp 14y ago
You seem to equate "foundation" with knowledge that's not immediately applicable. There's some truth to that, but I think it misses the forest for the trees. Knowledge is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to excellence in software d

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