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How the Volokh Conspiracy blog led the debate over the Health Care Mandate(theatlantic.com)
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by jerrya 15y ago
That's a wonderful story; wonderfully written. If you don't mind, it reminds me of an Asimov story I've always loved, "Profession". http://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html
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by jerrya 15y ago
Congratulations. Um, can one get their video out of socialcam yet? When last I tried it, it was a trap. Videos were uploaded, removed (iirc) from my device, and there was no way to get them back.
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by jerrya 15y ago
Interesting, has carsabi partnered with Craigslist? I always thought Craigslist didn't like scrapers and did their best to discourage and prevent them. Has that changed?
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by jerrya 15y ago
YourMechanic should provide some idea off the bat as to where they are providing service at this time, and perhaps a timeline as to when they expect to expand. A simple, YourMechanic is currently providing service to the San Francisco Bay A
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by jerrya 15y ago
You're right about that, and I had forgotten that. The interface seems different, the dropbox versioning appears to part of its file system, the google versioning as part of the application. So for me, dropbox versions some blobs (truecrypt
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by jerrya 15y ago
Yes, I'm very happy with the storage I pay for at Google. Hard to beat $5 for 20Gb. I hope their prices stay that low. That said, with Dropbox's versioning of files, I can see Dropbox arguing each Gb you have there can really be much many
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by jerrya 15y ago
I don't use root for much, but there are several programs that I find indispensable that require them, including TitaniumBackup, and Virtual Button Bar. I would like to to see Android get a well known, official way to get root, a way to ins
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by jerrya 15y ago
What is the point of an oversight hearing if you refuse to let your top critics testify?
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Airbags and "degloving" -- it's time to do away with steering wheels as UI(bottomline.msnbc.msn.com)
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by jerrya 15y ago
This is something weird that I've discovered too. I am now on T-Mobile (from AT&T) and there are all sorts of T-Mobile features that may or may not work depending on what SIM card you have in your phone. And if they don't work you have
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by jerrya 15y ago
This was my thought exactly, along with, with respect to Erin the Chief Privacy Officer, I won't believe it unless Zuckerberg co-signs this. Sort of a corollary of Sagan's law: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Critical c
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by jerrya 15y ago
"but how is letting just about anyone into the game bad?" Some params are good, some params are bad. It's not that letting anyone into the game is bad per se, it's that some params are bad and will try to defraud small unsophisticated inves
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by jerrya 15y ago
No, I belive it was previously illegal. Investors had to be qualified in any number of ways and you couldn't accept money, especially small amounts of money as you would in crowdfunded companies, from anyone less than a sophisticated invest
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by jerrya 15y ago
I went to a presentation about this Tuesday. What became apparent is not just that crowdfunding will open up all sorts of revenue to startups, but that it will also create opportunities for new services dedicated to the crowdfunded startup
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by jerrya 15y ago
It literally starts out in its first sentence by undermining itself. It's first sentence is "Hi everyone." Is that the sentence you feel undermines itself? It's second sentence is "We never meant to offend any person and are very sorry a
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Woman considers removal of paralyzed hand for bionic replacement(bbc.co.uk)
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Woz supports Mike Daisey's message and says you should too(news.cnet.com)
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by jerrya 15y ago
I was expecting/hoping for an article about a Toyota sourced library that introduced real-time, or safety, or testing features into C++. I thought that having learned something about 6 sigma and the Toyota way, it would be natural to expect
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by jerrya 15y ago
I agree. In the Star Trek economy (afaik), the inwention of the replicator was key to the end of money and the end of a scarcity based economy. Well, we already have a replicator for much of the economy $ cp And it looks as though
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by jerrya 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era is a non-fiction book by American economist Jeremy Rifkin, published in 1995 by Putnam Publishing Gro
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by jerrya 15y ago
How do many or most women feel about women's fashions and how they fit on the average woman? Is that a problem with cotton? How do most people feel about battery life on an iPad compared to an iPhone or droid? Is that a problem with batteri
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by jerrya 15y ago
A better title would be "Mysterious countdown at site WITH LOUD AUTOPLAY AUDIO"
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by jerrya 15y ago
You need to add a c) data liberation and this is/was Posterous' long time problem, and tellingly so. Would raganwald be writing his essay if he owned his data and could easily export it from Posterous? Or would he have just exported his dat
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by jerrya 15y ago
With self-driving cars, a lot of parking lot hassles should (might?) go away. A self-driving car can drop you off at the door, and then go park itself wherever the best location for cars is in the area, and probably have no problem reservin
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by jerrya 15y ago
So what would the right approach be, and who would be best to approach Twitter, to convince Twitter to open source the Posterous code?
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Ask HN: What blogging services support blogging via emailed markdown?
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by jerrya 15y ago
That's not the claim I made, and you didn't address the claim I made. I said: the consumer cannot just walk away. If I am buying a stereo, my choice is between a) do I need a stereo or not, and b) where do I buy it. The purchaser of law s
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by jerrya 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market#Overview Adam Smith believed that an economy should be free of monopoly rents If I can keep you from switching lawyers, if I can keep you from interviewing other lawyers, if I know your choice is
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by jerrya 15y ago
This may not apply to the world of corporate lawyers the answer seems to be about, but at a smaller level, there are enormous switching costs involved in moving away from, and training a new lawyer. And it's not a free market. In a free mar

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