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by dpatru 15y ago
A criminal defense lawyer once told me that he was convinced that certain police officers had a personal mission to make sure that every black boy in certain neighborhoods has a criminal record by the time he is an adult.
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You're implying that the Wall Street Journal, the businessman's newspaper, is trying to foment revolution. Things must be bad indeed.
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> 'Current law provides a range of options to protect society, he says. "It would be horrible if they started repealing laws and taking those options away."' This quote also disturbed me, but for a slightly different reason: The prosecu
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> I think I disagree with you and find it even more ludicrous that the antagonist actually wants to incarcerate people. To what end? The point is not to incarcerate people, but rather to gain leverage by being able to credibly threaten
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In a free society, everything is permissible unless it is forbidden. In a non-free society, everything is forbidden unless it is permitted. When the laws are so numerous and complicated that the ordinary person does not know what is forbidd
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TaskRabbit Turns Grunt Work Into a Game (wired.com)
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Presumably Allen & Co (the "mediator" in the deal where AOL overpaid by $550M) is an investment bank.
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This is a bit off-topic, but what struck me in this article was the fact that AOL overpaid for Bebo by $550 million. Why isn't there an eBay for companies? The bidding for Bebo was mediated by Allen & Co. “They just ran circles around
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Given how broad these claims are, I think the patent office should reexamine the patent. If claim 1 stands, Apple could shut down not just the mobile phone industry, but all vendors of computers with browsers. Note that there is no limitati
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Per the claim chart in Florian Mueller's blog post, http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/these-tables-show-ho... , it seems than any vendor selling a computer with a web browser on it infringes Apple's patent. Claims Accused HTC Android
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JQuery is single file too and that's a big part of it's attraction. Simplicity is a huge plus, not only for users, but also for the developer who is forced to be disciplined. I haven't used bottle yet (just starting), but I'm very impressed
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Bottle: Single-File Python Web Framework(bottlepy.org)
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Software is a relatively new field that doesn't have a lot of regulation associated with it. Advertising is somewhat protected from regulation by the Constitution. So naturally marketing software has a lot of innovation. Government is respo
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Patents are just one of many ways that government destroys and prevents wealth. Government is increasingly a net loss when it grows beyond providing basic protections from physical violence and a trustworthy, competent judiciary. Long-term,
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Yes please. Address in about.
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Most people don't read the terms of service, but they do read the marketing copy. If the marketing copy contradicts the terms of service, the contract should be based on the marketing copy. The terms of service should not be a license to ma
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HN is a way to find interesting stuff. This includes older material. If people don't find it interesting, they won't vote it up.
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Hazlitt is an exceptionally good writer. His "Economics in One Lesson" is a classic.
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The Way to Will Power - Henry Hazlitt(mises.org)
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I've found that focusing on the present is also the best way to run long distances. If I over-think the run, how much I've gone, how much I have to go, etc., I'm likely to quit early.
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The Chicago School versus the Austrian School(mises.org)
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Internet Software Patents(philip.greenspun.com)
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> Effectiveness of Science Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVtCO84MDj8 The biggest flaw in the "Effectiveness of Science" (EoS) video is that it criticizes khanacademy videos by showing that vastly inferior videos don't work. Kh
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The Pentegon is not under market pressure to be efficient or turn a profit. They don't even get audited.
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MIT TechTV Machine Shop Videos(machinistblog.com)
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Meaningful Play: Getting Gamification Right (Google Tech Talk)(youtube.com)
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Besides the net score, I would like to see some indication of the gross number of votes to see which comments were controversial. A comment with 1 upvote is a lot different than a comment with 101 upvotes and 100 downvotes. The score could
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by dpatru 15y ago
> do we really need "tl;dr" type comments here on Hacker News Yes we do. They serve to save people time.
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Interesting quote on PowerPoint: Tufte dissected NASA’s PowerPoint slides on his Web site, showing that the program didn’t allow engineers to write in scientific notation and replaced complex quantitative measurement with imprecise words l
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Why can't the new shares sell in a uniform price auction the way treasuries are sold? Per wikipedia (article on auctions): Debt auctions, in which governments sell debt instruments, such as bonds, to investors. The auction is usually seale

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