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by jhancock 17y ago
Would be interesting to see Netflix data on this. Does is look the same as YouTube? If not, why?
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by jhancock 17y ago
"Wireless service doesn’t need regulation, AT&T argued, as it is a very competitive market....Wireless networks “are facing incredible bandwidth strains,” the company wrote, and “require continued private investment at very high levels,
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by jhancock 17y ago
"For the F.C.C. to now place such requirements on that spectrum so soon after the auction creates the impression of a ‘bait and switch,’ and could raise questions about the fairness and integrity of the auction process itself." I would love
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by jhancock 17y ago
This is a more effective explanation. It will be interesting to see how stats evolve for "IT startups". On one hand, we have loads of unemployed well educated young people right now that can afford to risk their time. These may be more li
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by jhancock 17y ago
How do you mean "losing intelligence cred"? Do you mean that when CIA agents go to a spy conference, the Russians and Chinese look down at them? The story is interesting history. I don't see any reason why having this information availabl
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by jhancock 17y ago
Here is an interesting narrative on how the FCC used to operate: http://books.google.com/books?id=GOvTxS-txFMC&pg=PA214&#...
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by jhancock 17y ago
Best news in a long time!! At first glance it would seem this policy effects ATT more than Apple. The devil is in the details. It will be very interesting to see how this pans out.
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by jhancock 17y ago
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has notable safe-harbor provisions which protect Internet service providers from the consequences of their users' actions." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor Every legal opinion I've ever re
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by jhancock 17y ago
A year or two ago I explained to my mother, a lawyer of 30 years, how web sites like YouTube work. I explained that some people figured out that a provision in the DMCA implied these practices were ok and case-law seems to uphold this. Sh
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by jhancock 17y ago
This one threw me: "couldn’t be arsed to specify" That's an entirely new way of using arse for me, not that as an American, I ever use it much, but...
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by jhancock 17y ago
All I can tell you is I was being pretty careful, as I always am in my online transactions, and I feel I was both misled and that Amazon did not provide value to the transaction. I am absolutely certain each item I put in my shopping cart s
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by jhancock 17y ago
This little tidbit about Buffet is hard to confirm, as Jason admits in his post. However, I can confirm something like this is common behavior in China. I first experienced it when going to China in 2000 to meet with banks. My job was to
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by jhancock 17y ago
To me it reads like the current operating guide for just about every politician I've ever met ;)
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by jhancock 17y ago
This has been a healthy debate. I only harp on the HC issue because I think its symptomatic of the community not thinking outside the box enough. I don't think its the only issue or possibly the largest one. Usually, the weekend posts on
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by jhancock 17y ago
The article shows an Amazon which is exactly the opposite of what I experienced 3 weeks ago. I needed several items for my wife's birthday. We are on extended stay in the U.S., away from our home in Shanghai. I wanted some Chinese comfor
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by jhancock 17y ago
one of the most effective pieces of feedback I've seen in a long time!!
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by jhancock 17y ago
nah, not a problem, if you only have 4 grandparents, 2 parents, 1 child, you simply have to put more pressure on the 1 child to get into Harvard. Problem solved ;)
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by jhancock 17y ago
"Are they lying or incompetent?" If this ever gets in front a Senate committee, hopefully they will have to disclose hard numbers so we can find out. I don't see why they don't go ahead and publish their data right now if they want encoura
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by jhancock 17y ago
I have heard from a few investors that immigration issues caused problems. When I query about what percent of founders this applies to, I hear numbers like 10% or 20%. What numbers are you hearing? Unfortunately your challenge is flawed o
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by jhancock 17y ago
Your right, it would be great to fix both health care and immigration. But this founders visa plan doesn't do either. It attempts to create a new category of immigration to fix one issue that certain investors have. If you really want to
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by jhancock 17y ago
If I were an immigrant from China or India under this new visa program, the first thing I would do in hiring programmers is fly back home and crank up a top quality, low cost team. As things progressed, I would take it further: anything no
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by jhancock 17y ago
Well said, if something like this actually got passed, which I doubt, it wouldn't be one of the many things that I "fire" my representative for come election time.
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by jhancock 17y ago
The topic is a visa proposal which proposes to "hack our economy". Although I don't completely agree with likhd2, bringing up health care is of relevance if fixing certain of those issues would create more jobs and startups than this visa
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by jhancock 17y ago
Comments from joe_the_user and sachinag do a good job of summarizing some issues previously discussed on HN. I do believe that affordable health care attached to employers is a huge problem for enjoying a larger pool of U.S. entrepreneurs o
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by jhancock 17y ago
There is now, but barely. The vast majority of cell users don't know about it and most people I have talked to that moved their number said it wasn't that easy. Google may both make it easier and certainly raise awareness.
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm confused by your previous two comments. You seem to be advocating that government's failure to regulate/enforce effectively in the past implies that it should continue to do so. If Apple ends up being the one hit first, so be it. I ex
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by jhancock 17y ago
sorry, my example wasn't meant to mirror too much the AppStore. I was only using the Apple names as satire. My point is to show what can happen when products are sold as services and/or when a product or service can be controlled after th
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by jhancock 17y ago
I may be crazy in that I don't think the gov should see this as protecting Google, but as using the case to clarify consumer rights. I'm obviously a huge fan of "I bought it, its mine, stay out of my way". Additionally, as a fan of the po
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by jhancock 17y ago
exactly. Commoditization happens and we should remove some barriers that keep it from happening. I beleive that things becoming commodity and becoming subsumed into our social/economic fabric are critical to evolution.
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by jhancock 17y ago
You and idm both make good arguments, they don't seem exactly the same. Both are reasonable. I'll throw in a third. Although "Being arbitrary and protective about what products you allow people to build onto your own products is not inhe

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