dantheman

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   by dantheman 15y ago

   In many municipalities cable companies are granted a monopoly. http://www.fff.org/freedom/0598d.asp http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/cable-franchise-ref...
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   by dantheman 15y ago

   I think it'd be better to advocate that we remove the government granted monopolies and handouts than try to add piles of red tape to the internet, and open it up for censorship and other controls by special interests.
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   by dantheman 15y ago

   I don't understand how people can see the complete disgrace that is SOPA, NDAA, and the myriad of other broken laws and think that getting the government more involved in the internet is a good thing. Especially when the problem doesn't ex
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   by dantheman 15y ago

   I completely disagree, recorded lectures are nowhere as nice as the stuff that kahn and stanford are pushing out.
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   by dantheman 15y ago

   "the bottom line is you don't mess around with safety. " The TSA fails at Safety, this is just bullshit security theater. If I could, I'd fly with absolutely no security screening before the flight. I'll take my chances instead of slowly l
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   by dantheman 15y ago

   Exactly, perhaps a little bit of history, Bastiat's essay: A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally o
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   by dantheman 15y ago

   I have a good understanding of what Lessig has been arguing; when I saw your comment, I figured that I must of missed something so I watched the video and it's exactly what I thought it would be. I'm a fan of his in a lot of ways, but I of
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   by dantheman 15y ago

   But Lessig is fighting the wrong battle, as long as the government is doling out piles of money, picking winners and losers through regulations and bailouts it will make sense to try and influence them, and there is no way to stop "corrupti
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   by dantheman 15y ago

   I believe that if the law is immoral then there is something wrong with a company pushing hard to use the law to "protect" it's business. How do you feel about companies dumping toxic waste in poor countries where the law says its fine?
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    I'm not familiar with the elephant hunts with regard to godaddy @ all, does anyone have a link? But I've heard that a lot of the wild game hunt trips in Africa actually cause animals to be raised, so the net result is an actual increase in
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    We need try and start to route around companies that are damaging the internet; and start figuring out who their collaborators are and route around them. This is a great first start, but we need to get companies like google to refuse to al
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    I liked that he posted a screenshot of the paypal account, it makes it a lot more personal.
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    I think the point is that your product by definition breaks the browser by interrupting the users workflow. You product adds no benefit to the user of the website, and most people don't like it. If you made it opt in, those who enjoy what
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    Hell it allowed the government to block the release of an independently produced film, by the group Citizens United. It's crazy that anyone could think that's ok.
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    Just to be clear, I was in no way trying to tie them to a brutal dictatorship. But I think it's important to understand the political structure of the country, not just the current economic/civil environment. For the political structure m
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    Singapore is a dictatorship, and I think one should always consider the political and legal frameworks of a country in case one runs afoul of the law. I don't know about Singapore, but in some countries merely criticizing the government ca
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    We need to have the states start to challenge the power congress has, and reduce the power that congress has by electing people who will start to reduce the size of the government. As long as the government is handing out trillions of doll
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    Or the business model changes, perhaps we revert back to patronage. Or they make money by touring and through merchandising; isn't that how most artists earn money anyway?. Or better yet, their fans still buy their stuff even though they
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    I'd love to see a Scala/Akka/Play 2.0 stack.
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    There are lots of loans that shouldn't be issued due to no fault on the person being invested in. For instance, I've been working on opening an icecream shop for weeks and need a loan to finish the preparations and a bigger better icecream
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    I'm going to have to disagree. When depositors decide to save and defer consumption, entrepreneurs notice this (due to interest rate decreases) and can invest it to increase production. In general when the savings rate goes up, interest r
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    Selecting qualified people for loans is a valid industry that promotes growth. The goal is to loan the right amount and that the person will pay it back. If you can do that accurately and loan to people who would fail normal tests then yo
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    Ideally it'd work where they generate a URL for you that works for 24 hours or something like that, or they give you a one time url, but you can generate as many as you'd like for 24 hours. If for instance they see someone generate 100 or
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    I think you're reading into my comment, I was merely stating why UPS and FedEX don't deliver mail and why comparisons between them and USPS are difficult to do. Though for completeness there have been people who've competed with USPS in th
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    I'm really glad he did this. I picked up a copy, and in fact am quite glad when I can actually purchase DRM free content. I take a principled position against intellectual property, but that doesn't mean I don't support artists - I just d
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    The only reason FedEx and UPS don't deliver mails is because it's illegal to compete with the mail service.
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    It wouldn't be unconstitutional for private contracts, i.e. you can make any private agreement restricting your speech - but as a condition of being in public office.
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    Patents are anti-freemarket - they are restrictions on what one can actually do to their own property. They are government granted monopolies, that's about as anti-freemarket as you can get.
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    Does clojure use maven for shipping source around?
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    by dantheman 15y ago

    That is true, but the times can be shifted if the car can drive back after dropping you off. For example: 1. Drive to work 2. Drive home 3. Drive to school 4. Drive home 5. Drive to store ... Many parents already drop their kids off @ schoo