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by emmett 18y ago
Restitution can indeed be part of a criminal suit. However, copyright cases are generally not tried as criminal suits; they're RIAA vs. Joe Schmoe. Thievery cases are tried as criminal cases. Different standards are applied in each case.
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by emmett 18y ago
You're obviously not working at companies dominated by engineering (cough, Justin.tv, cough).
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by emmett 18y ago
If the grocer was suing the thief in civil court for restitution, that's exactly the kind of calculation the court would have to do. However, in our court system, thieves are generally tried in criminal court, not sued for restitution. Th
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by emmett 18y ago
From later in the article: "Mr. Aso’s comment would have stayed inside the room had a political reporter not been eavesdropping at the door — a common practice in Japan." Is this really common? It brings to mind a pretty hilarious image.
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by emmett 18y ago
Why do you tip at restaurants? Because it's the socially responsible thing to do. This allows a similar social enforcement mechanism to start improving the environment. That's a good thing, and much better than the alternative of government
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by emmett 18y ago
There's certainly that argument to be had, as to whether reducing carbon emissions is a worthwhile goal at all. If it's not, CO2stats is clearly worthless. However, many many people (including myself) believe that it's a real problem that w
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by emmett 18y ago
If you run the math, you'll realize that's not even close to true.
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by emmett 18y ago
While it would be interesting to compare online access to offline access, CO2stats is providing a service that could really change things moving forward. You can't buy carbon credits from Blockbuster for the total cost of shopping there; CO
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by emmett 18y ago
Ad companies would probably like that anyway...they wouldn't be wasting their money advertising to people who were not interested in their ads.
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by emmett 18y ago
Just another anecdote, but I never found that pressure existed in college. In fact, heterodox "surprising" papers tended to do better than average.
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by emmett 18y ago
I find the opposite is true. At a big company I could always tell myself "In the end, you're not making the decisions. It's not on your head if it doesn't work". Working at a startup, either I succeed or I fail, but there aren't any excuses
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by emmett 18y ago
I've seen it before. Sometimes it's actually not bad at all (person A takes over posting to person B's mailing list), and sometimes it's horrible (selling the email addresses for your webapp to spammers).
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by emmett 18y ago
There are two possibilities when you pick door 1: either you've picked a door with the prize behind it (33%) or you've picked a door with a goat behind it (67%). Assume you stick. In that case, you have a 33% chance you've picked the right
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by emmett 18y ago
Presume for a moment that you believe global warm is a real and present danger. Then a carbon tax makes perfect sense. I agree if you think that global warming is uncertain, or that perhaps we actually want to increase CO2 in the atmosphere
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by emmett 18y ago
What makes you think I'd be against externalities taxes on all of the above? I think it makes much more sense to tax those things, which we don't want more of in our society, rather than say capital gains, which we do want.
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by emmett 18y ago
Including me :-). We took off about 3 months in between when we decided to close down kiko and when we moved on to Justin.tv, although that's fuzzy because kiko wound down over a month or two and Justin.tv took a few months to ramp up to fu
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by emmett 18y ago
We didn't; I'm not sure what we would have done with it if we did.
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by emmett 18y ago
You wouldn't have the 1,000 paying customers without the 1,000,000 eyeballs to get them with then. It's not like it costs Weebly much to run those websites, and they essentially act as free SEO for their pay service.
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by emmett 18y ago
It depends. Sometimes it's just mothballed/destroyed. Sometimes the acquirer keeps running the service as-is (that's what happened with kiko.com). Sometimes the user data is sold off to the highest bidder.
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by emmett 18y ago
I don't think that's so. For example, a tax on fossil fuels based on carbon output would be simple and easy to enforce (importer/extracter pays the tax). It would cause all goods to reflect their true carbon cost. Why would that be worse th
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One of the most interesting new languages I've seen...and it's on geocities?(geocities.com)
14 points by emmett 18y ago|8 comments
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by emmett 18y ago
I've had to independently discover many of these observations by hand while doing jtv stats as we've scaled...this is an excellent overview I wish I'd read 6 months ago.
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Animated Map of the Imperial History of the Middle East(mapsofwar.com)
1 points by emmett 18y ago|0 comments
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by emmett 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L...
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by emmett 18y ago
Speaking as someone who owns a .tv, anything other than .com is just a bad idea. People just don't understand there are things other than .com.
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by emmett 18y ago
I like backtype, but searching for "justin.tv" gives it fits. It keeps giving me things about random "Justin"s, or about "TV"s, which is not what I'm looking for.
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by emmett 18y ago
You've reinvented Lisp macros in PHP. I did the same thing Rails for caching; this is a classic example of something macros make easy and natural.
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Entrepreneurs are not overconfident (academic study)(overcomingbias.com)
6 points by emmett 18y ago|2 comments
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by emmett 18y ago
Scribd is all about turning documents into public URLs. The new google service is about sending documents to people or small groups.
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by emmett 18y ago
I track conversations I'm involved in through the Threads link at the top (which is quite useful). I'd like to be able to have a one click add-this-conversation-I'm-not-involved-in-to-my-Threads-list button. 1 point by emmett 1 hour ago | l

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