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by gohbgl 7y ago
That does not take away from the fact that the double coincidence of wants is not a myth. A lot of card trades depended on both party having a card that the other party wanted when no monetary medium was used. I am not saying that this was
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by gohbgl 7y ago
When I was a child I used to trade Magic the Gathering cards with other people. I can assure you that the coincidence of wants is not a myth.
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by gohbgl 7y ago
The PS2 plug on my keyboard has a flat surface at the 12 o'clock position which makes it very easy so plug in without looking at the pins.
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by gohbgl 7y ago
These joke patents are relatively harmless. The real problem is the "good patents" which can actually be enforced and used to stifle competition.
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by gohbgl 7y ago
Nobody stole his million pound painting and sold it.
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by gohbgl 7y ago
Well over 100,000 utility patents get granted every year in the US alone [1]. Care to show me all the secrets we would been unable to reverse engineer or independently invent without the patent system? [1] https://www.uspto.gov&#
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by gohbgl 7y ago
Adding to pbhjpbhj's reply: The name "patent" goes back to letters patent which, among other things, was the practice of monarchs granting monopolies to favored cronies. This resulted in the Statue of Monopolies in England 16
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by gohbgl 7y ago
Patents are primarily about getting a limited time monopoly. Publicly disclosing the invention is just a direct consequence and not a virtue of the patent system. So please stop marketing it like that. In many cases it is completely irrelev
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by gohbgl 7y ago
What you wrote might be true for warehousing physical gold but not for (mostly digital) fiat money because the cost of digitally storing $1 and $10,000 is the same.
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by gohbgl 7y ago
As far as I know there is no evidence that the patent system as a whole is a net benefit to society. The negative effects are clearly visible like the formation of oligopolies, litigation costs, licensing costs and so on. So unless one can
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by gohbgl 7y ago
Everything they listed is also true for non-software patents. End all patents.
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by gohbgl 7y ago
Find a better business model. I could care less about people not being able to extract enough money from their monopoly rights.
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by gohbgl 8y ago
Goldmoney offers a gold debit card: https://support.goldmoney.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000526347... Of course when both parties are clients of Coinbase or Goldmoney respectively then the ownership of the bitc
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by gohbgl 8y ago
It's not like the man uses the overtime money to buy a new Porsche for himself and a new dust mop for his wife. Also nobody is forcing women to do household chores. It's just how many couples choose to organize things.
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by gohbgl 8y ago
I think that when you send fake data to a server to bypass a paywall (e.g. sending google UA) then you are using the server without the owner's permission, which makes it immoral. But in general I believe that being a journalist does n
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by gohbgl 8y ago
Why does the question of ownability even arise? In my mind the purpose of property rights is to resolve conflicts over scarce resources. So what is the conflict with Bitcoin?
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by gohbgl 8y ago
> Automation was always going to be involved sooner or later. This would just increase the rate of adoption. The rate of adoption is actually something that matters. If you automate too early you lose money as a business. Also, the mini
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by gohbgl 8y ago
> C) These white or blacklists are circumvented due to bad parsing The main problem is that the parsing is inconsistent between different subsystems, i.e. the parse function interprets the URL one way and the fetch function interprets th
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by gohbgl 8y ago
Airbags and seat belts were installed in cars long before they were required by regulators. The same goes for improvements in fuel efficiency. This all is driven by competing companies trying to make a profit.
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by gohbgl 8y ago
Besides retroactive copyright being absolutely ridiculous, there are no studies that clearly show that IP promotes science and arts.
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by gohbgl 8y ago
Having an implementation is not a requirement for getting a patent.
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by gohbgl 8y ago
Cars had been equipped with seat belts before it was required by law.
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by gohbgl 9y ago
This is empirically false as Boldrin & Levine describe in chapter 9 of their book Against Intellectual Monopoly that countries which had no patent protection for pharmaceuticals had a high innovation rate in this field. Link to chapter:
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by gohbgl 9y ago
The eu domain name is politically restricted. The UK is still part of the continent Europe.
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by gohbgl 9y ago
Undoubtedly, Laissez-Faire and socialist economies have different technology improvement rates.
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by gohbgl 9y ago
A bunch of racists who feel morally superior.
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by gohbgl 9y ago
First of all, the minimum wage is popular with the crow. So it's a good tool to win votes. Second, a high minimum wage drives out low skilled workers. So high skilled workers have less competition. Third, companies who already pay more
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by gohbgl 9y ago
The EU should force the other countries to lower their corporate tax instead.
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by gohbgl 9y ago
There are also tons of "good" patents that prevent startups from innovating.
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by gohbgl 9y ago
> as if you can make an informed market-based decision about which provider to use while in the back of a damn ambulance. That's a pretty bad straw man argument. Of course you have to pick an insurer before the accident happens othe

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