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by dschobel 16y ago
I think the more controversial part of his statement was the claim that every class has had 1-2 big wins. I don't believe that's been borne out yet.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Assuming a modicum of technical sophistication on behalf of the legal people (which may be an invalid assumption), I think the fact that git/github is centered on the forking/sharing of code with an explicit graph to walk would just incur t
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by dschobel 16y ago
Either they do have a good set of advisors and they're just being thorough by asking HN (free advice from smart people, what's not to like?) or you have a new datapoint about the necessity of advisors.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Excellent point, you could infringing on copyrights with the click of a button and the code never hitting your machine or another server.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Per http://help.github.com/dmca/ it is up to the user to make the counter claim. Fighting your legal battles is not a feature of Github. At least not of any of the advertised service levels.
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by dschobel 16y ago
It's too late after the DMCA request has arrived, you'll just get a 404. I imagine they have to lock / disable all forks beyond what the notice mentions as well, unless Sony, et al don't understand how git/github works.
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by dschobel 16y ago
ditto on Chrome 9 on OS X.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Every emacs and vi user here just went down your checklist and said to themselves "I can do that" (okay, I'll cede the "initial theme" point) Seriously folks, just learn one of those two, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to
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by dschobel 16y ago
He explained why-- he got the feeling that the professionals are trying to sell him a bill of goods, perhaps independently of an actual need, so he's coming here for a second opinion.
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by dschobel 16y ago
It still has value according to the two-step HN algorithm of fact-finding. step 1. Someone posts something (anything will do) on a blog step 2. HN tears it apart and reconstitutes it with some decent approximation of truth and usually a fai
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by dschobel 16y ago
Pithy but Google won the day because its search quality beat the holy hell out yahoo, altavista, et al.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Whether you place your trust in a multibillion dollar company, a one man shop, or just use an anonymizing proxy, the issues are the same. The billboard is just noise and you are technically sophisticated enough to know better.
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by dschobel 16y ago
But how is it spying if you use the service voluntarily, they tell you exactly that they collect and often (always?) let you opt out of the collection. That's a really diluted standard for "spying".
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by dschobel 16y ago
The simple answer is wherever they have operations. I don't think it is unreasonable to say that if you are going to run ops within a country you implicitly have to follow the law of the land. That being said, thinking they shouldn't be in
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by dschobel 16y ago
"spying on people" is a really unfair way to describe what happens when you voluntarily share your information with a third party who is in turn subpoenaed. You should be taking issue with the governments demanding the records rather than e
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by dschobel 16y ago
He had a job as a stock broker and changed it for a $12 /hr part time job, which is what the board took issue with. Honestly, it's neither that interesting nor that well written of an article.
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by dschobel 16y ago
missing option: inversely proportional to the expected happiness yield of my next task
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by dschobel 16y ago
We want to believe success is more probable than it is, that it’s the result of a process we can wrap our heads around. That’s why we’re drawn to prophets, especially the ones who get one big thing right. We want to believe that someone, s
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by dschobel 16y ago
How can the individual investor compete with that? A: Don't try. Holding stocks a long amount of time insulates you from the market-timing nonsense where the day traders are fighting tooth and nail for fractions of a percentage point of p
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by dschobel 16y ago
As a caveat, I remember some techno-illiterate judge ruling that having the data in memory constituted a record with the implication that by not persisting the record/document you were intentionally destroying it. I'll try to find the link.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Index investing isn't predicated on 10% returns nor was it ever a guarantee of such returns. Index investing is simply the theory that the markets are efficient and reflect all possible information on a security and that you're not smarter
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by dschobel 16y ago
The whole point of the exercise is that people underestimate what is possible in any given situation and misjudge their opportunities.
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by dschobel 16y ago
How you conclude "a severe lack of idealism and social responsibility" for Zuckerberg, a guy who turned down $1.4B in the early days of FB and has already pledged to give away the majority of his fortune, is beyond me.
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by dschobel 16y ago
When you have an economy on the scale of China's you can afford to lag the cutting edge. A captive market of 1.3B people makes up for a lot of inefficiencies.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Excellent, you take care of the citizens who value security over personal freedom and I'll handle the politicians willing to exploit that fear and we'll have this problem all wrapped up in a neat little package.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Found this gem referenced on the Heaven's Gate wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction_insurance
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by dschobel 16y ago
Libby never received a pardon from Bush, only a commutation of the jail time. He still has a felony conviction on his record. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby#Presidential_Comm...
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by dschobel 16y ago
Just because progress or achievement necessarily occurs in some social context does not mean it comes about as a result of it. The fact that your criticism can be levied against any result in the world should give you a hint as to just ho
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by dschobel 16y ago
http://crossfit.com/ Run, jump, lift heavy things. It's fun as hell and your body will thank you.
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by dschobel 16y ago
You can talk about the privatization of the penal system as yielding degenerate incentives but ultimately it's up to the police on the streets to get them into the system. If there's no dead body, damaged/missing property or even an aggriev

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