jgmmo

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   by jgmmo 11y ago

   Very torn as to whether star rankings, or any type of ranking, are helpful or not. What does 1 star mean? Never used that language before? once twice? What's 5 star? Expert? Would the inventor of a language get 5 stars? Then it doesn&#
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   by jgmmo 11y ago

   Seriously what kind of place do people work at that you can't have jokes about fork'ing and dongles?
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   by jgmmo 11y ago

   "Tax the income stream from automation" This should be covered by corporate income tax, no?
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   by jgmmo 11y ago

   "Support a $15 minimum wage, support the future!" https://www.facebook.com/Robots4MinimumWage
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   by jgmmo 11y ago

   Very neat, and funny article. I love the PG generator.
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   by jgmmo 11y ago

   looks like jekyll, or jinja
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   by jgmmo 11y ago

   The term for a patent is 20 years, according to my limited understanding. That's an enormous amount of time to be able to legally have a monopoly on something like 'playing video on the internet', 'in-app purchasing&#x27
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   by jgmmo 11y ago

   I only stopped at software due to the audience. I personally am not sure I believe the idea of intellectual property is defensible, at all. It's hard for me to imagine why someone, somewhere, should be allowed to dictate how I am or am
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   by jgmmo 11y ago

   It's marginally better for startups. Something that would be a big-win is the nullification of the entire idea of software patents.
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    by jgmmo 11y ago

    Hear hear, another Mises fan. *fixed, thank you kind sir
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    by jgmmo 11y ago

    full remote, flextime. salary, medical dental, incentive pay -> bonus / stock options / etc. Important to embrace work-life balance, and not expect people to go above and beyond working on nights/weekends (though imo, it s
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    They misunderstand the negative income tax. My understanding is it doesn't require work necessarily. In function, it's a guaranteed basic income. Milton Friedman on Negative Income Tax -- https://www.youtube.com/wa
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    Good for him. I hear what's he's saying about the physical contact, and the feeling of dominating the player in front of you. My high school football coach use to say, on the football field you could measure yourself. You could se
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    Organized labor getting everything they wanted is what led to basically all US auto companies going bankrupt.
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    For me, he was the face of GH.
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    I hear ya. Whats it worth to me. I'm just wondering what grey area exists, is it all or nothing (quit for my morals, vs helping them to file the patent and just hope it gets used only defensively, etc.)
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    So is this an argument that potentially being at the 'right-place right-time' is all that's needed, not necessarily the IP?
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    Thanks for the comment. I appreciate it.
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    I hear ya. "I'd probably say you don't think that the code can effective be protected by patents but you're not an expert and they may want to find an outside consultant." - good advice.
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    Ask HN: How do you deal with IP (when you don't believe in it)?

    2 points by jgmmo 12y ago|10 comments
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    ditto!
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    Ditto. For Xmas my wife and I bought republic wireless phones. My phone works great and costs 10 bucks a month. Works perfect because I'm surrounded by WiFi all the time.
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    Sounds great. Looking forward to trying it out. The rb_to_exe never worked that great for me. I also tried Ocra, which works ok -- but the packages end up enormous.
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    red tshirt guy?
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    Me too.
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    That second link is much better. Thanks Ah, ha! finally a question I can answer. History #8, compare Athens and Sparta
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    I did not even know about this feature; thanks for the tip.
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    Interesting article; no doubt there are some interesting things to learn about death from a mortician - however this article felt way too long.
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    Came here to say this. It really is awesome; and I hate Krugman! It's really an interesting situation; thinking about how there would no longer be an 'unambiguous' measure of time when we have faster than light travel.
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    by jgmmo 12y ago

    I think we both want to make this thing a reality. For them, I think they believe this will be the doorway to becoming a software company instead of a service one. I've told them a million times I am about building systems, and not tra