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David Brin on the History of Class Warfare and it's Relevance to Today(davidbrin.blogspot.com)
3 points by dbingham 15y ago|0 comments
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by dbingham 15y ago
This would be one of the reasons why the language needs to be fixed. I don't think there was any doubt in the minds of those who signed what it was asking. And the new language just removes my messy "let's-just-throw-text-in-this-textbox"
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by dbingham 15y ago
It basically says the same thing. Just with out the grammatical mess. Most of the signatures of come from either here or reddit and I've posted the suggested update text in both places to similar reactions.
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by dbingham 15y ago
Yes, this is a dupe from earlier today. I posted the damned thing by accident while learning the system in a half awake stupor. And, because I was in an half awake stupor, decided it was a good idea to share it with the world after accide
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by dbingham 15y ago
I seem to have lost edit ability, so here's revision 3: The US Patent system is badly broken with respect to software patents. Patents are being issued to companies for “inventions” that are, in fact, common knowledge included in any intro
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by dbingham 15y ago
By all means, jump in and post a better execution. Or if you know someone with semi-serious writing experience, bring them in!
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by dbingham 15y ago
Yeah, I can't log back in right now. It looks like they had a failed update to the system. It might also just be overloaded.
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by dbingham 15y ago
Done, all but that last one ;)
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by dbingham 15y ago
If I had been actually writing with the intention of publishing, it might have looked something more like this. So here's my suggestion for new language, rip it apart! "Direct the US Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents The US P
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by dbingham 15y ago
Please write a proper one and submit it. I'll sign it and delete the links to mine. Mine was never really meant to "the" petition for this. It was me fooling with the system and when I realized I'd clicked one page too far, I ran with it.
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by dbingham 15y ago
Yeah, I'm begging them to take it down at this point. I do think wiki editing with notifications would be one way to do edits of something people signed. But yeah, still not practical. They did have a "review before publish" page that I
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by dbingham 15y ago
Why don't we work together to come up with language for a new one? Then once we've settled on good language someone can enter it into the system and we can all go sign it.
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by dbingham 15y ago
I agree. What was I drunk? If someone can create a petition with coherent grammar, I fully support moving to that one. And I'll send feedback asking them to remove mine. I've already begged them for editing ability, but I doubt we'll see
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by dbingham 15y ago
Yeah, I know, sorry about that. I was really just playing with the system to see it could do in a late at night "trying to fall back to sleep" period. I didn't know at what point I'd lose editing ability, or that I wouldn't be able to del
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Petition: Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents(wwws.whitehouse.gov)
194 points by dbingham 15y ago|39 comments
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by dbingham 15y ago
That discussion of Science Fiction heavily disappointed me because it lacked any mention of some books that are full to overflowing of amazing ideas and insights. And well written to boot. The Uplift Trilogy (the first one) by David Brin
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by dbingham 15y ago
I believe I was using the definition of value gleaned from the post above which pretty strongly linked value with getting paid for your work. Call it what you will, my point is that the economy is focused on producing something that people
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by dbingham 15y ago
We need to leave behind the concept of "value". Value was created by scarcity. But scarcity is decreasing and, in some cases, disappearing entirely. If it costs me nothing to make a copy of something, then I have no incentive at all to pa
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by dbingham 15y ago
This stems at least partly from a culture which disparages knowledge and education. And the people promoting that culture are often the very same people promoting a free market approach to education.
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by dbingham 15y ago
By that I mean more that, they go by so fast, often with out much visual confirmation of what just happened, that it's very easy for me to not know even how far back I have to undo. I don't know what I've just done! In a visual IDE, that'
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by dbingham 15y ago
My problem with using Vim, and the source of my hesitation to learn it more, is that I'm a fairly haphazard typist. I type fast, but messily. I've never really been able to clean it up. I'm just naturally a little clumsy. In my IDE, this
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by dbingham 15y ago
The choice isn't there. I have AT&T for a cable connection. My other option is Comcast, which is just as bad. And Comcast only recently moved into the neighborhood. I know many people who's only choice, literally, is AT&T for an
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by dbingham 15y ago
When I've encountered that sort of outsourcing in the past it was called "collaboration" and it was between two individual researchers at the respective institutions. There was no exchange of money and they would both have their names on a
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by dbingham 15y ago
I'd be interested to see how much traction Science Exchange[1] is going to get. As someone who grew up in a family of scientists and who has been involved in the scientific community for a long time, I've got to say, my gut reaction is rev
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by dbingham 15y ago
So why don't you go post a better answer?
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by dbingham 15y ago
I think my favorite part is that they've finally added an auto-update feature. If you open about Firefox, it checks to determine whether or not you're up to date. Especially if they're going to be bringing out frequent releases, I don't w
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by dbingham 15y ago
Only if you take into account the marginal rates and ignore the many, many breaks and loopholes.
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by dbingham 15y ago
The problem is that usually that same subset of people are just doing it to prove that it can be done and therefor the programs "aren't sustainable". They form a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by dbingham 15y ago
I don't see anyone in my contacts list who I'm not friended with and who isn't already sharing their number in their profile in a way I can see it. Maybe he just hit a bug in the list?
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by dbingham 15y ago
Looks like we're back.

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