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by fossuser 6y ago
If I had to guess (without reading the case specifically), it's probably because Microsoft screwed up by forcing OEMs to not install netscape in order to crush them. It's hard to differentiate 'crapware' from competition
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by fossuser 6y ago
This makes more sense to me, I was wondering how that would have gotten set by a clueless user. The answer turns out to be that old dell machines shipped some shitty avatar software (along with lots of other stuff) that defaulted to on. The
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by fossuser 6y ago
My SO wrote a blog post that touched on the fraternal birth order effect which I thought was great (though I am biased): https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2021/01/27/bayes.... She expands o
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by fossuser 6y ago
Sample size of one, but I eventually changed my habits because I care about trying to reduce unnecessary suffering. For years I knew I was inconsistent - I thought it was wrong to eat meat, but I did so anyway because I like hamburgers and
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by fossuser 6y ago
It was a great learning experience for me too. It's just not user friendly. It was my first experience with linux in 2003, going through some 80 page wiki to get things configured and built. Learning how to configure an fstab file. Hos
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by fossuser 6y ago
Gentoo is probably the most user hostile Linux distribution I can think of other than ones purposely austere for learning (LFS) or parody (Suicide Linux). If Mac Ports requires that level of knowledge to be user friendly it’s no surprise th
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by fossuser 6y ago
> It's proper risk sharing. If someone defaults on their loan the bank gets nothing. If someone takes a loan and builds a successful business, the bank only gets the small agreed to percent return. What you consider 'proper&#x2
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by fossuser 6y ago
That seems fine on net since the public benefits massively. If it turns out 5 isn't enough time to incentivize people to actually write books or make movies then maybe back to the original 14. I don't know the specific policy answ
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by fossuser 6y ago
> "But we are not. That's shifting goalposts fallacy." I address this in the next sentence. > "That is why the very first line I am admitting that my position is out of pure lazyness calculation." Sure, but th
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah I understand where you're coming from, I just find that argument doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. For example, if instead of piracy we were talking about stealing from a brick and mortar store it wouldn't be right to
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by fossuser 6y ago
I regret saying stupid, too abrasive and I didn't intend it as a personal attack. My comment links to my actual argument.
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by fossuser 6y ago
A problem better solved by life insurance than copyright. That said, you'd still have the 5yr or whatever amount of time. I don't think tying it to the life of the author makes sense. It was just an example of how the spirit of th
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by fossuser 6y ago
The OPs argument is bad/stupid, but there is a real argument to be made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028392
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by fossuser 6y ago
This is hard to get into without context. Copyright (and patents) exist "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Di
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by fossuser 6y ago
You mentioned accelerators - usually they operate by investing for a percentage of the company. > “ Yep, the one that guarantees women the rights to inheritance” From the link: “As for women of whom you fear rebellion, convince them, and
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, I really enjoyed it even though there were some slower parts like the slugs (and I found the Holden character irritating). Somewhat tangential, it's wild to me that Devs was suggested alongside The Expanse in that Clubhouse Elon
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by fossuser 6y ago
You just state it’s destructive for ideological reasons because of religious law, that’s not a good argument and it ignores contrary evidence. Why is taking a percentage of someone’s company better? If anything that’s more exploitive. On
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by fossuser 6y ago
> "Not all forms of payment are ethical or moral" Ok sure, but interest is fine. > "This is why Islam has Zakat laws to ensure the poor are lifted out of poverty." Charity isn't as good as letting people get a
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, I think Cook and Apple are doing well. Google is doing poorly, but they have a monopoly on web advertising. If they lose that they'd be in trouble. They also weren't doing better when lead by Page (Google+ era). Microsoft wa
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by fossuser 6y ago
It sounds like we probably agree on most things and use fidelity in roughly the same way. I’d argue Craigslist’s design is ugly, but quite good - it’s dense/high bandwidth, does exactly what people want without fluff. It’s fast. They a
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by fossuser 6y ago
The lender is paid for the service of lending money out (which incurs risk). You want to incentivize this behavior. Without interest, it would be harder for people to get loans. Lots of financial services wouldn’t exist (or would demand som
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by fossuser 6y ago
Worse than disincentivizing people from working, it disincentivizes people from risking money on growth (building companies, doing startups, angel investing). Interest isn’t predatory, it encourages growth and investment in building busines
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah - options are taxed on exercise, not on grant (that’s the dispute with your original comment). Also, you’re taxed on the spread at exercise between the strike price and the fair market value at the time of exercise. If you’re able to
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by fossuser 6y ago
I use Fidelity - the app sucks. It may be 'excellent' relative to competitors in "shitty old financial company app" space, but it is in no way excellent compared to a high quality phone app. Robinhood is successful becau
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think you pass the point of not having to work somewhere prior to 130B net worth. I'm worried about what happens to Amazon with Bezos gone. A good outcome would be something like Apple and Tim Cook. A bad one would be Microsoft and B
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by fossuser 6y ago
Apple's mice have always been form over function (with some rationalized nonsense to try and pretend that it's actually about function). That was directly from Steve Jobs who supposedly mistook an unfinished mock as a mouse with n
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by fossuser 6y ago
This is my position too - I’m pretty skeptical of the “ADHD people have a different response to stimulants”. Stimulants help everyone focus, it’s why people drink coffee. Everyone would perform better on a low dose Ritalin. I think people j
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by fossuser 6y ago
I watched some of the US congressional testimony last year during the impeachment, that was the first time 3.5+ was worth it for me.
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by fossuser 6y ago
They do sometimes do that, Loon 'graduated' to become its own company that issued its own shares and has since died. Waymo is another spin off company. The structure of Alphabet exists for this purpose.
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by fossuser 6y ago
The doc told him he wouldn’t continue it because it wasn’t helping outside of the therapy session (and each session was quite expensive).

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