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by indrax 14y ago
What I'm hearing is that there was a lengthy render time to convert out of the proprietary format.
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by indrax 14y ago
>I see the debate as being whether Amazon, Apple, etc. should be allowed to try to lock down their products. That's not really on the table. The very big players might get some monopolist/consumer protection heat for certain things, but
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by indrax 14y ago
The traditional market solution to that is to lease or rent phones to people. That's openly admitting that you're retaining ownership of the device, and would also bring to bear [overly] powerful laws to prevent running unauthorized softwar
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by indrax 14y ago
>I was very naive and looking back at some of the things I did and the way I wrote emails or thought about building the startup leaves me feeling grateful for how much I’ve been able to learn in the last few years. One of the things I j
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by indrax 14y ago
This is a human trafficking story. Clearly this is not remotely as horrific as the usual connotations, but the structure of bait-and-switch coercion is very similar.
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by indrax 14y ago
Correct, the people who destroyed Megaupload have not lost anything.
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by indrax 14y ago
There was recently a ruling on this in Iceland. I think this explains the timing. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/18/wikilea...
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by indrax 14y ago
What apple did wrong was suing instead of competing.
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by indrax 14y ago
It's probably wise for him not to write about those particular moments, especially given that he's dealing with the laws of a foreign country. If it could remotely possibly matter what was said, then he needs to filter that through a lawyer
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by indrax 14y ago
Remaining a global corporate tax haven.
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by indrax 14y ago
What would Linux be good for if Tim Berners-Lee didn't invent the Web to make CERN more effective?
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by indrax 14y ago
Perhaps there should be a competitive genre where the goal is not brevity or obfuscation, but being good.
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by indrax 14y ago
Just because some people copy and think they're stealing doesn't mean that the people who think copying is moral are rationalizing. This assumes the correctness of copyright and dumps the arguments against it as rationalization, without pro
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by indrax 14y ago
In each of these examples, the credit is obscured. In Cushman's examples, credit is preserved. Perhaps the outrage is really about lying.
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by indrax 14y ago
Does anyone think that CSS scrolling effects will be seen as good design in 5 years? I think it will be seen as a horrendous fashion.</blink>
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by indrax 14y ago
I'm not disagreeing, but I think one important thing here is to set up the perception of learning, even if the lesson isn't technically right. Few lessons are harder to unlearn than 'I can't learn this.' (though these inaccuracies should be
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by indrax 15y ago
I'd say don't be turned off by that. It used to be quite common to name a company after the founders (though usually last name. Sometimes this is the result of the natural evolution of the product. (craigslist) Add in namespace collision (b
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by indrax 15y ago
This person needs to finish reading the sequences.
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by indrax 15y ago
26. Get a cookie and do science to it.
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by indrax 15y ago
I had this exact idea for my [expected future] children. I'm glad to have at least anecdotal evidence that it works.
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by indrax 15y ago
What this misses is that the 'attack' is really just code for 'vigorously outcompete', so all of his points reduce to 'please think of the buggy whip makers'. This makes it extra silly to talk about aspiring actors and the Art. It's unlikel
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by indrax 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/304/
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by indrax 15y ago
From a speech on a copyright extension law, 1841 >Just as the absurd acts which prohibited the sale of game were virtually repealed by the poacher, just as many absurd revenue acts have been virtually repealed by the smuggler, so will t
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by indrax 15y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/v2/prices_or_bindings/ Found from http://lesswrong.com/lw/6w/degrees_of_radical_honesty/
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by indrax 15y ago
Before anyone points out that fuck is the most versatile word, I'd like to point out that 'blog' can serve all the same functions.
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by indrax 15y ago
I'm not saying anything about the validity of this technology, but it's a mistake to lump this in with things that violate the laws of thermodynamics. The energy is supposed to come from fusion of a cheap fuel. Though there may be other rea
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by indrax 15y ago
One of the things markets are supposed to do in theory is to route resources to where they are needed, and financially punish people who move resources in stupid ways. The technical analysis I've seen here seems to hover around the question
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by indrax 15y ago
Every major Utpoia has been thought through fairly well. Including Utpoia. Idealistic movements fail because either they are generally unpersuasive, lack a viable transition, or just don't work when implemented. Modern democracy solved thes
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by indrax 15y ago
I think it was relevant in that he was starting from scratch with a new audience.
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by indrax 15y ago
http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker/ http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/

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