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Paying for Channels You Never Watch [2010](isegoria.net)
1 points by czr80 13y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 13y ago
Well, scientists do share information for free - they can, and do, just post it to their websites or a preprint archive like ArXiv.
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by czr80 13y ago
Actually, probably some journals could survive from advertising. But I'm a bit biased by thinking of mathematics journals, and trust me, you can't make that much advertising to mathematicians.
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by czr80 13y ago
The "markets" are too niche - ad supported works for mass market sites, not for specialist journals read by a few tens of people.
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by czr80 13y ago
Well, scientists still need a means to communicate with each other - I wouldn't want to mix the needs of professional communication with that of popular communication.
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Why markets can't cure healthcare [2009](krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by czr80 13y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 13y ago
Impossible to enforce - companies are free to shift things around internally to produce any numbers they want, as long as the totals are correct.
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by czr80 13y ago
Sure, just like December is the tenth month of the year.
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I was right: Congress’s attack on the NSF widens(scottaaronson.com)
4 points by czr80 13y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
As part of the war reparations, the Weimar republic had to pay back debt demoninated in gold and foreign currency. Same problem as Greece (or Argentina, to pick another case). Wikipedia has a good write up.
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by czr80 14y ago
Comparing the US, a huge resource-rich country with its own currency , to a tiny resource-poor european country that does not control its own currency is complete and utter nonsense. To pay back its debt all the US government needs is do
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Bitcoin Will Spiral Up and Down Forever(slate.com)
13 points by czr80 14y ago|10 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded"
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Didn’t do the reading? With digital textbooks, your professor can prove it(arstechnica.com)
2 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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Technological Conservatism(hypercritical.co)
53 points by czr80 14y ago|22 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
One example, there are many: These guys certainly knew their stuff, and they also had a system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
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by czr80 14y ago
I can confidently predict that no, you won't make 15-20 percent as a long term average, though you may well manage a number of good years in a row. Save while the going is good.
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by czr80 14y ago
Aspire to solve problems.
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The Third User(asktog.com)
2 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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Will We Get a Second-Hand Market for Digital Goods?(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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Is Google Rethinking Shutting Down Google Reader?(the-digital-reader.com)
1 points by czr80 14y ago|0 comments
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by czr80 14y ago
It's interesting to note that choosing not to worry about those things ("privacy, authentication, authenticity") were very much design choices - perhaps the most consequential design choices ever?
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by czr80 14y ago
What white men never get, and this is just an observation, I have no sides or deep interest in this mess, is a comment like: "this makes me re-think hiring white men, they're not worth the drama". I've seen a few of those around the place r
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by czr80 14y ago
You're right, the marginal cost argument is wrong, and yet there is something different going on here and I think I know what it is: The fundamental change here is that customers own the means of reproducing the product and reproduction c
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by czr80 14y ago
That may be true as the reason, but I cannot believe they could misjudge the importance of Reader to its users - they have all the logs and know exactly what the usage is. They just decided they didn't care enough, and could accept the nega
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by czr80 14y ago
Not really true - it's relatively easy to make the diamonds colorless. Biggest difference is that the diamonds tend to have crystal structures that are a little rare in natural diamonds, since they grow very quickly compared to natural diam
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by czr80 14y ago
Yeah, they should spend money on something sensible, like a Porsche.
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by czr80 14y ago
What a fascinating comment: "expensive time of advanced users"? As if knowing what, say, SSL 3.0 means is somehow a marker of a more valuable person, more worthy of not having their time wasted. It might be good for you to remember that tho
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by czr80 14y ago
That's an interesting comparison... it actually strikes me that Google Reader is much harder for me to replace than Google search. Switching to Bing would be easy, whereas Reader was something I'd integrated into my life, and which I'd cura
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by czr80 14y ago
This is Google Sets, and I recall Google making a big splash about that, seemingly as a way to respond to Wolfram Alpha, which had just launched.

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