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by evunveot 12y ago
> One is that you have to raise all of your capital from your members, rather than relying on outside investment. Actually, it is possible to raise outside capital. One way is a traditional bank loan, though that usually requires collate
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by evunveot 12y ago
For drugs, you could allow the product maker to opt into having a greater percentage going to patent holders. ( Edit: Sorry, I see what you're saying. You couldn't keep another drug company from copying the drug and only paying 5
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by evunveot 12y ago
We could apply a kind of value-added tax to every good sold that might possibly be encumbered by patents, say 5%, put that money in a pool overseen by a special court, then let patent-holders file with the court to claim a portion of the mo
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by evunveot 13y ago
By the way, here [1] is a very good resource on cooperatives in general. Don't be put off by the title ( The Cooperative Solution: How the United States can tame recessions, reduce inequality, and protect the environment ) -- it's
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by evunveot 13y ago
I think you're saying that the core problem we face is that productivity per capita has gotten too high. One cause of increased productivity is that businesses are incentivized to compress their workforce as much as possible because la
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by evunveot 13y ago
In general, the idea comes out of the Rochdale Principles [1], which most co-ops use as a sort of guide. The specific idea of giving preferential treatment to other cooperatives as clients/customers -- I don't know, that may have
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by evunveot 13y ago
I'm extremely pessimistic about any proposed solution that involves politics (changes to the tax code, basic income, etc), especially in the US. The populace at large doesn't have the interest or imagination to consider changing t
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by evunveot 13y ago
> To Google, these images aren’t on your site, they are on - wpengine.netdna-cdn.com I'm curious why the OP thinks that matters. The only thing I can think of is that you don't necessarily benefit if another site links to or
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by evunveot 13y ago
A reductive ontology of the world emerges, containing aspects both obvious and dubious. Now I'm contemplating what an opposite-of-reductive ontology would look like (if that even makes semantic sense). An ontology that enriches rathe
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by evunveot 13y ago
So finding a way to mitigate computer mistakes, to make them milder, is every bit as important as eliminating them entirely - a potentially impossible task. Seems like they should run multiple instances against different but overlapping c
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Alive in the Sunshine(jacobinmag.com)
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by evunveot 13y ago
This kind of work has been a large part of my job for a long time, and I definitely recognize all of those frustrations. This may be obvious, but the problem is usually not a lack of communication but rather that the designer/client&#x
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by evunveot 13y ago
Reminds me of my favorite webcomic Opplopolis http://www.opplopolis.com both in the sales model and the theme, except that Opplopolis is free-to-read online with a higher-quality paid download option, and it takes a while befo
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by evunveot 13y ago
Looking at my 2012 tax return: my taxable income last year was $x and the sum of my federal and state taxes (including all FICA, or in my case, "self-employment tax") was $0.39x. Including local taxes and fees it would definitely
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by evunveot 13y ago
HN commenters in general seem to be fairly dismissive when discussions about IQ come up. (I imagine it comes from a place of humility, because many people here know that they personally have high IQs.) I thought I understood what an IQ was
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by evunveot 13y ago
After digging around on their website, it actually sounds like they see the current internet as P2P and they want to replace it (or at least have an alternative) that's concerned with routing between sources of information rather than
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by evunveot 13y ago
The linked article is obviously really vague and not technical enough for the HN audience. It looks like the real details of the project are here: http://www.fp7-pursuit.eu/PursuitWeb/?page_id=158 There's obviousl
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by evunveot 13y ago
Unsurprisingly, the headline's "new" teaching method isn't particularly new (as the timeline sidebar in the article itself makes somewhat apparent). For example, the Sudbury Valley School [1] has been around since 1968 a
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by evunveot 13y ago
Even if all the voters hate the surveillance state and want it gone, what do you do when the anti-NSA candidate in your district disagrees with you on war or abortion or monetary policy or...? Every informed voter has to weigh all of a cand
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At the altar of the Big Green Egg: How a product becomes a cult(qz.com)
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by evunveot 13y ago
From the ACSM article: "Although HICT can be an efficient means by which to improve health and decrease body fat, it may be inferior to [sic] creating absolute strength and power, specific endurance, and other specific performance variable
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by evunveot 14y ago
They started doing "blackout tests" [1] last month and are switching it off completely on May 7 [2]. (The public RSS feeds are a part of API v1.) [1] https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-retirement-update [2] https://dev.twitter.com/blo