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by glesica 14y ago
That has nothing to do with anything. The point is that he appears to highlight the positive effects of oil drilling but not the negative effects (environmental degradation, etc.).
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by glesica 14y ago
Why would you ever believe a company that says it exists to make you happy? Companies exist to make money, that is literally true. There is no other purpose. It just so happens that making people happy is often a reasonable way to make mone
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by glesica 14y ago
Thank you! Dissecting arguments and playing lawyer is fun sometimes, but not when the stakes are real. Even if legal precedent comes down for Monsanto, that just means that the legal precedent is wrong or incomplete, so who cares what the p
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by glesica 14y ago
Sounds pretty obvious to me. I get my pet supplies delivered in exactly this manner by Petflow. I have to assume that their ordering system is implemented using a computer...
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by glesica 14y ago
But even an innovative cell phone is covered by thousands of existing patents, many of them unknown until someone sues. That's the problem. There is no such thing as "pure" innovation. All new technology somehow involves older technology, a
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by glesica 14y ago
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen posted in this forum. I can't tell if you're genuinely ignorant or just trolling. You're saying that the reason patents covering a given product are so difficult to identify is that nobody kno
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by glesica 14y ago
Who cares? With so many patents issued in the US there is basically no disclosure anyway, at least as far as a small company or individual is concerned. In addition, many modern inventions are so complex that it is almost impossible to iden
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by glesica 14y ago
Oh come on, you can't seriously be using Africa as an example here. Most African countries lack basic infrastructure and many haven't had a peaceful decade in the last 50 years. IP is a type of law, so countries with weak rule of law probab
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by glesica 14y ago
Office is their business. If people are going to switch to Linux anyway, might as well sell them a subscription to Office still. It is starting to matter less and less which OS is running as things move to the browser and "cloud". The W
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by glesica 14y ago
So sticking the taxpayers with a huge load of debt they incurred to fund the pensions is better? Also, I see no evidence that USPS will ever cease to exist. Perhaps shrink in size and scope, but not cease to exist. At some point people need
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by glesica 14y ago
It seems that certain factions within Congress are actively trying to kill the USPS, hence the pension requirement. Eliminating Saturday delivery reduces the services that USPS offers, so perhaps it has a better chance of passing...
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by glesica 14y ago
I agree with you that acquisition isn't necessarily any better than IPO as a target. On the other hand, there is a certain amount of money floating around out there and it has to go somewhere. Maybe the total volume of VC money would go dow
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by glesica 14y ago
But what exactly is good about a large number of IPOs? It will change how companies are funded, but why do you assume things will be worse? It seems to me that a somewhat more thoughtful system of investing might be a good thing. In some se
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by glesica 14y ago
Yeah, but so is EVE and other games like it. I have never played EVE for any significant amount of time, but I did play WoW for awhile and there were tons of things that people would sink time into for purely social reasons. I imagine EVE i
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by glesica 14y ago
Same reason people spend hours tending their farmville farms...
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by glesica 14y ago
Fine, then the felony should be hacking the bots, not the DDoS.
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by glesica 14y ago
It's different in the technical details, but the aim is exactly and completely identical: to deny service to other customers as a way to punish the proprietor of a business. Sitting at a lunch counter is legal, sending an HTTP request to a
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by glesica 14y ago
I love the non-lawyerly language... "screw them, seriously, screw them". So refreshing to hear a corporate guy speak like a human being instead of a highly trained PR bot.
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by glesica 14y ago
This comment is basically nonsense. Not saying I agree or disagree, it just makes no sense as a response to my comment. I was making a factual correction. The GP suggested that LibreCAD change their license. I pointed out that doing so is n
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by glesica 14y ago
I never said the FSF should change its principles. I was just pointing out that the GP's suggestion wasn't possible.
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by glesica 14y ago
LibreCAD doesn't hold the copyright, so they can't change the license. The copyright is held by a private company with no particular incentive to make the Free product better, especially since the paid product wouldn't be able to use the Li
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by glesica 14y ago
To launch a Facebook clone you sign up for Heroku or AWS, push some Rails code, and start promoting yourself. To launch a medical device you spend years cutting through regulation and red tape, negotiating with and marketing to an industry
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by glesica 14y ago
Maybe because it is something HN readers worry about. Seems like a pretty reasonable explanation...
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by glesica 14y ago
It's really sad to see how selfish people are (or have become). I wonder if it is a subtle result of the seemingly permanently-lousy economy. This is a problem for all of us and we should solve it as a group, in a way that hurts as few peop
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by glesica 14y ago
About $750 billion per year? What portion of that did they save previously by paying into the system? Why is it that productivity has skyrocketed since the social security system was introduced, which should account for the longer lifespans
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by glesica 14y ago
Merrill Lynch hardly failed in a free market manner. It was bought out based on guarantees from the taxpayers IIRC. GS also got help from the SEC in the form of a temporary ban on shorting. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that you've over
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by glesica 14y ago
Yeah, and that's fine. What I'm saying is that when the computer is a primary mode of delivering course material or is otherwise absolutely necessary for the curriculum, malfunctions, whether caused by user error or otherwise, are unaccepta
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by glesica 14y ago
Students have never been allowed to "tinker" with school-owned computers. I have been involved in educational programs that relied on school-owned laptops at the college level. In my experience having a locked-down machine is really the onl
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by glesica 14y ago
I spent about 60 seconds trying to figure out how to clear the modal that comes up after clicking on "Button Builder". The "X" to close the dialog is so thin that I literally couldn't see it. That isn't good design. Once I figured it out, n
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by glesica 14y ago
Treat the situation more delicately. Instead of ball-busting the shit out of him, show a little compassion. That doesn't necessarily mean dropping any charges or "going easy" on him, just showing a little compassion and attempting to make t

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