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by jaekwon 13y ago
Ah I have a thought about this. I have noticed for some time that Lessig walks a strange line on the issue of IP (intellectual property) and freedom & privacy. Lessig believes IP is necessary & requires architectural changes to the
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by jaekwon 13y ago
It is all of those things; different facets of the same gem.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
If this guy had leaked that kind of information, he wouldn't be in the news like he is now. PRISM is not the kind of work that government has to do.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Yes, and I wonder if Nazi Germany had laws regarding Jews.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
woot. our numbers are swelling now.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Sen. Mark Udall cannot be held accountable. Look at how Bradley Manning is being treated for leaking classified documents.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
Perhaps what they really mean is, "I have nothing to lose".? If you have nothing to lose, then you only have information to gain by invading others' privacy.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
You think voting for Romney shows that you learned anything? Shame on you.
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by jaekwon 13y ago
No reason it couldn't. It's not the size of a government that determines its efficacy, esp with the right kind of private-sector support.
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by jaekwon 14y ago
Where do I find the paper that links GDP to sustainability or quality of life? You can have a compulsive debt driven society and still have strong economic activity, no? Or is "economic growth" really an indicator of economic sustainability
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by jaekwon 14y ago
There may be a job market crash.
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by jaekwon 14y ago
Yes, this is against "social norms". Fuck social norms.
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Jan 13th (Sunday) 1pm, Oakland Sudoroom: Aaron Swartz and Kopimism(kopimism.org)
4 points by jaekwon 14y ago|1 comments
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by jaekwon 14y ago
For those of you who don't know, Kopimism and Aaron Swartz's activism are well aligned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism
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Kopimism Hactivism Meetup Tomorrow (Sunday) in Oakland(kopimism.org)
11 points by jaekwon 14y ago|1 comments
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by jaekwon 14y ago
Eh, _this_ site is a funnel of valuable applicants (and proprietary candidate evaluation tool) for YCombinator. Not to mention the needs-to-be-secret voting-ring detection algos that surely exist by now, this site will likely never be a com
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by jaekwon 14y ago
We don't have to participate in this system. There are alternatives.
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by jaekwon 14y ago
I don't think it does.
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State, or local level.
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Awesome Kickstarter (Embedded) projects, expiring now, almost there
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by jaekwon 14y ago
related: http://lucysnoidblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/swedens-anti-cance...
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by jaekwon 14y ago
You're assuming that there exists some finite $X to develop some invention, as if you simply pour enough money into a problem, a solution will be found. This is faulty logic. There is no direct correlation between money spent to develop, an
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by jaekwon 14y ago
Any big company can pour any large amount of money to "innovate", which will probably help them bring the product to market sooner, but that isn't justification for a temporary monopoly grant. "Cheap to copy" sounds like something to be emb
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by jaekwon 14y ago
We'd probably have better and cheaper drugs without the patent system. If more companies can make and sell the same drug, more companies can also fund research. Patents should be categorically banned.
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by jaekwon 14y ago
Skimmed through it, but it seems that there is still an improvement with the bloom filter with a factor of 2~3. Is that correct? (estimated 6(?)ms once corrected with indices, vs 2ms with the bloom)
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by jaekwon 14y ago
This case is about the right to sell what is analogous to the movie theatre, the projector, and the camera. Apple found a good way to package them together, and Samsung imitated this, but offered something nevertheless different: a more ope
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by jaekwon 14y ago
Yes. Any entity can try to delay the deployment of a product that I try to sell to them. This entity can also try to reverse engineer my product. If Samsung and South Korea had such a tie, that's a problem for them and their citizens. To Ap
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by jaekwon 14y ago
You're right, but Apple would not have paid so handsomely, had Xerox already marketed their innovation. Apple paid for insider knowledge. Samsung built on public knowledge.
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by jaekwon 14y ago
>> They protect the small guy more than they do the big guy, for instance, though this is often ignored or the opposite is claimed What small guy benefited from the patent system in developing and marketing their invention?
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by jaekwon 14y ago
What's the difference between an invention, an innovation, and an idea?

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