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by ja30278 17y ago
Regarding "a": I don't see a refutation of the idea anywhere in your response. Regarding "b: No. But driving the competitor out of business assumes that you're doing the same task more efficiently (with fewer people), which is theoretically
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by ja30278 17y ago
The 'usual bugaboo' is 'entitlements', which includes Medicare and Social Security, and is roughly $1.6 trillion. I don't agree with the money we're pissing away in the Middle East either, but you can't honestly call social services a 'tiny
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by ja30278 17y ago
There may not be tons of excess profits, but there are certainly tons of efficiencies to be gained by eliminating the print/ship/warehouse model of distribution. I simply don't accept the argument that ebooks can't be sold drastically more
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by ja30278 17y ago
Do you think that cost of labor has any connection to prices, which , in aggregate, creates the cost of living in any particular place? In other words: higher minimum wage = higher prices = higher 'cost of living' As a thought experiment, w
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by ja30278 17y ago
silly aside, but did anyone else notice that the following sentence appears twice? "Veteran observers of trade between the countries suggest that Google, and the U.S. generally, has little leverage to press China to back down on Internet ce
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by ja30278 17y ago
sshhh..remember the first rule of usenet
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by ja30278 17y ago
Especially when they are trivially easy to create. [shameless plug] I created an appengine variant ( http://symlinkd.com ) in about a day, including a simple update api and per-handle history [/shameless plug]
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by ja30278 17y ago
I think the underlying point of his comment was that it was silly to consider the dog an officer...having a silly idea enshrined in law doesn't make it less silly.
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by ja30278 17y ago
Can you name 3 profitable, growing, unionized industries? Not to mention the paternalistic relationship it implies. If I don't care for the terms of an employment contract, I won't work under it. If no business in my industry offers terms I
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by ja30278 17y ago
It's odd, but as I've gotten older I've _really_ started to hate graffiti...for every undiscovered artistic genius practicing art 'outside the mainstream', there are 5000 ignorant 'X was here' messages uglify-ing the landscape. Paper is che
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by ja30278 17y ago
It's a reference to the old roach motel slogan: "Roaches check in, but they can't check out". In this case, referring to the fact that Facebook doesn't exactly go out of their way to provide you with the ability to 'take your data and leave
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by ja30278 17y ago
It's been taken up by a new maintainer, and works remarkably well (though I'm not sure I'd trust 'real' data to it). I've run it on a media server at home for the better part of a year, across hardware upgrades and linux installs, and so fa
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by ja30278 17y ago
I'm sure I'll be in the minority here, but doesn't that seem to stretch the meaning of 'your own property'? I mean, if you can't even cut the trees down, what exactly makes it 'yours'? (aside from the privilege of paying takes on it)
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by ja30278 18y ago
I like CSS, but every time I see an article bragging about a new technique for accomplishing something that _should_ be simple, I lose the faith a little bit. Can't we just give up and add '<tabset>' and '<tab>' tags to html
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by ja30278 18y ago
in a word: no. Rights and responsibility are 2 sides of the same coin. Since there isn't really a good test for responsibility (unless you're willing to have marriage or land ownership be qualifications for voting), then age is all we've go