jaekwon

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by jaekwon 15y ago
All consumers are publishers now, so there appears to be room for a phase transition. We collectively have a choice, like two Nash equilibria. IP vs Free. I imagine we would save a lot of man-hours from defining and fighting man-made statut
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by jaekwon 15y ago
Consider me in, since 2012-01-02.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
From the "Right to Read" 1997-02... "Dan had learned that each book had a copyright monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing." -> Streaming content, DMCA tech "It was also possible to bypas
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by jaekwon 15y ago
Oh I get it -- you're trying to show that Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem applies to humans. Haha. * All consistent axiomatic formulations of semantic arguments include self-unaware bigotry. You are brilliant, sir.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
I meant to ask something about your general intelligence, but I redacted it.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
The constructor doesn't need one, and there is a small performance hit for binding =>. Mixins... Can you show me an example? Times when you need a reference to a canonical function object, like with $.proxy and $.unbind. (CoffeeScript c
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by jaekwon 15y ago
The arguments you use against CoffeeScript are actually the reasons why I love CoffeeScript and the fat arrow. To see what scope the fat arrow is bound to, all you need to do is scan up the parent scope in the file and look for a thin arrow
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by jaekwon 15y ago
i guess, without loop detection.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
By 'right of repurchase', are you referring to the right of the company to purchase your vested shares, should you choose to sell them? If so, it's not related to this issue.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
That's true, but the alternative that we're already familiar with is simply firing the employee, which is not any better. If we're OK with being fired, shouldn't we be OK with this?
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by jaekwon 15y ago
On a related note, I just created a bookmarklet to collapse comments. http://jaekwon.net/hncollapse.html
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by jaekwon 15y ago
Someone crazy enough to try to own all land, is crazy enough to do nothing with it.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
I'm talking about cornering markets. The money received for land sold can be can still sucked out of the economy. It is possible for one entity to own all land.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
All true, but then the problem is how the distribute the money being printed. Giving everyone X dollars seems more fair than what the Fed is currently doing, but you may disagree. Also, investing is not the same as spending. Investing, then
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by jaekwon 15y ago
No, the text in that link is also flawed. You're assuming that owners of efficient machines actually spend their money. What if they don't? What if they invest their money in privatized land, IP patents, TBonds, cornering the food futures m
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by jaekwon 15y ago
it's back up.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
Does a URL shortener violate HTTP when it offers analytics on GET links to the public? I think the OP should understand that HTTP is a leaky abstraction. GET requests always have some side effect, either on the server end or the client end.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
I'm an entrepreneur and inventor. I want to make a record here that I have no fucking idea whether publishing my invention is enough to have Prior Art, or whether I need to state the use of the invention in my business case, or whether I ne
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by jaekwon 15y ago
it looks like all the magic happens with the U combinator, where "recursion" is avoided by finding F = f(f), and passing f as a parameter such that F can be reconstructed. which still smells like recursion, a type of recursion where the rec
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by jaekwon 15y ago
I take that back. If people don't understand the natural laws of the Internet, it may stand to reason that blocking widgets is a matter of national security. However, I think a better approach is to educate each other on how the Internet wo
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by jaekwon 15y ago
It's the visitor's choice to visit a webpage. It's the developer's choice to choose widgets. Do you really think it's fair to say, "I want to use your widget, FB, which happens through your servers, and I want to use them my way without yo
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by jaekwon 15y ago
there's an art to writing readable and reusable code, but you have to start by understanding the problem. when you really understand the problem, the problem and surrounding use-cases become obvious. when this happens, writing readable code
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by jaekwon 15y ago
who's John Galt?
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by jaekwon 15y ago
I definitely feel what Rob feels, that there is work left to be done. The question is, what more can be done? How can we bring more of the community together into a flexible system?
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by jaekwon 15y ago
meta hockeystick, anyone? http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:OLR9M7vEA...
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by jaekwon 15y ago
wtf
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by jaekwon 15y ago
1) used to be true. 2) proper taxation and trimming the fat.
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by jaekwon 15y ago
Face palm. Yes, let's have the business of government be exactly that of venture capital / angel investment. The government is bankrupt because special interests and incompetence makes it an unprofitable business. I'm actually glad that t
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by jaekwon 15y ago
how long before a man gets caught flying to the moon?

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