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by hxa7241 15y ago
Well, yes, disavowal is too strong: the USA will just try to reduce (international) IP. The main point is the turnaround.
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by hxa7241 15y ago
The USA will find the weapon of IP law etc. it has been building all over the world turned against it. One would expect China and India to follow USA commercial practice and use the established structures of IP. But USA-IP is not intended t
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by hxa7241 15y ago
Calling it a 'dump' seems rather downbeat (a dump is "a site for depositing garbage"). Something like idea corner' would be more encouraging.
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by hxa7241 15y ago
I have a comparison too: a rather different kind, but no less reasonable for this sort of game, and with all source available -- http://www.hxa.name/minilight/#comparison It says that languages do not vary by factors of 10. Considered as
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by hxa7241 15y ago
As for philosophy, the pedigree is certainly there. Philosophy gave rise to, and helped develop, logic, and logic, in the early 20th century did rather give rise to programming. You could easily make an unbroken line of thought. So there ce
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by hxa7241 15y ago
They want to emphasise a point. But think of what is indispensible. If the program was unreadable -- maybe the source is lost -- you still have a running, useful, device. But if you do not have execution, you do not really have software any
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by hxa7241 15y ago
No, it is not really. To adapt a related note http://www.hxa.name/notes/note-hxa7241-20101218T2158Z.html from a while ago: What makes writing writing is what it is used for . Writing is used for communicating between humans. It only work
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by hxa7241 15y ago
No, this is quite right. Classical music is as bloated, heavy-handed, and decadent as Java. Good music is found in the 16th century and earlier, and in the 20th century and later. We can see this maps to software: good ideas are to be found
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by hxa7241 15y ago
> In a way, using tests to check code is like designing two trucks and having them pull against each other; if nothing breaks, you know they both work. ('bad metaphorical thinking' Dijkstra alert) This is wrong. If the tests pass, it is
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by hxa7241 15y ago
> Humans didn't evolve with 'information' in the sense that we're using it now. What information we did have (e.g. where the enemy is, how to cut stone and build bridges) was guarded either by force or by complexity of replication. That
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by hxa7241 15y ago
How about educating these corporations about changing business models to suit changed circumstances? The economic -- i.e. overall -- effects of piracy are quite likely good for the public.
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by hxa7241 15y ago
You are not thinking of the harmful effects of copyright. The mechanism of copyright, by definition, is to restrict the flow of information. This is exactly what you do not want in an information economy. First, because the cost of that r
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by hxa7241 15y ago
There is a feedback aspect that this article does not seem to get. > After all, the material hasn't changed (much), so if the calculators were good enough for us 10 or 15 years ago, they are still good enough to solve the math problem
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by hxa7241 15y ago
To be a little more speculative . . . if it is on GPU, is there some way of using rendering operations? The 'hidden-surface problem' in graphics has been described as basically a sorting problem: so represent each number as a triangle Z . .
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by hxa7241 15y ago
There is a big confusion here between personal credit and objective physical properties. Software is 'eating the world' because it is the most super-efficient building material ever invented. You could say the wheel 'ate the world', but not
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by hxa7241 15y ago
I would think you need some kind of content strategy, more than tricks. Get stimulus from various or particular kinds of things and respond to it. That is probably the best source I can think of. Maybe keep notes of many/any ideas and add t
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by hxa7241 15y ago
> [disclosure is] an important way the patent system encourages innovation, actually: it forces inventors to build alternative ways to do things Are you sure it is not just a way of forcing people to waste effort making something differ
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by hxa7241 15y ago
> Patents are a good idea. That is overstating it. They are a reasonable idea, but it does not seem at all clear that anyone has ever proven them to be actually a good idea -- i.e. that they have a net benefit, even if they were properl
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by hxa7241 15y ago
'Lua bytecode' does not really exist -- i.e. it has no public definition -- the developers can change it in any way at any time -- only the Lua language itself is 'defined'.
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by hxa7241 15y ago
It is not entirely clear that patents would help much in that. If it is not possible to keep something secret, patents would only help if people otherwise really would keep inventions secret. But there are ways to gain even without secrec
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by hxa7241 15y ago
It is, I believe, fairly well compressible: down to about 200MB (from about 800MB). (I think I got this from the book 'Genomes' by Brown, 2002.)
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by hxa7241 15y ago
This is a way of expressing what Kant said about lying and morality. A liar presumes the existence and practice of a moral rule against lying, but makes an exception of themself -- that is the only way their action makes sense and is profit
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by hxa7241 15y ago
Here is a good quote for you: "Economic analysis has come up short of providing either theoretical or empirical grounds for assessing the overall effect of intellectual property law on economic welfare." -- 'The economic structure of intell
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by hxa7241 15y ago
Yes, but let's face the hard questions, but right questions, in favour of doing the obviously wrong thing just because it looks easy.
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by hxa7241 15y ago
Here is the ideal: we pay people for the time/effort/resources to create, then we all copy and use that product freely and unrestrictedly. Everyone gets compensated for any loss, and everyone has freedom to access all gain. The idea of prop
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by hxa7241 15y ago
It is not about 'nature' as some mystical attribute. It is about the basic physical limitations of reality. The restrictions instituted by normal property are grounded in the actual restrictions of physical reality. The restrictions institu
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by hxa7241 15y ago
The point is not quite that. The point is not: they are not natural therefore they are wrong. It is: they are not natural, therefore they are not simply, automatically right -- they can have only a practical justification.
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by hxa7241 15y ago
Surely something more like: int lorem( char* ipsum, int dolor ) { float amet = 0.0; for( int i = 0; i < eiusmod; ++i ) { int consectetur = adipisicing( amet ); tempor[ i ] += elit; }
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by hxa7241 15y ago
> Technically, "monopoly" is a misnomer when applied to IP Whatever the technical rectitude of non-monopoly assertions, they really ought to sound fairly shady when one considers the very intent and mechanism of IP: to increase profits
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by hxa7241 15y ago
Yes, that is wrong -- it seems covered by the ethics of lying/truth-telling (from Kant, it is contradictory: if lying were a universal rule, it would destroy the possibility of communication in general). But IP is about more than just clear

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