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by jlcx 15y ago
I think it's interesting that this was covered by Reason and that liberty/oppression is apparently part of the theory now. I wondered why it wasn't mentioned when I first encountered Haidt's ideas, because it seemed to me that would leave
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by jlcx 15y ago
The usefulness of versioning and other successful models in other fields/contexts is an interesting thing to think about. It could be that some applications of these models are not solving existing problems so much as creating new opportun
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by jlcx 15y ago
It seems to me that the issue with this is the potential deception. If you know that two companies have this agreement, and you work for one of them, you will know that trying to switch between them won't get you anything good, so you'll l
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by jlcx 15y ago
"Abuse of power," say the people who are bribing politicians to break the Internet in an attempt to preserve their outdated business model.
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by jlcx 15y ago
Not important, but there is a mildly amusing error on judiciary.house.gov: If you go here, you see the list without GoDaddy: http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rogue%20Websites/List%20of... If you go to the original misspelled URL that som
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by jlcx 15y ago
There's no good place to say this, but that URL bothers me every time I see it. What the hell are "Rouge Websites?" I think they meant something else. :-P
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by jlcx 15y ago
If people own their organs, then why can't they sell them? In any case, this seems to be a step in the right direction.
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by jlcx 15y ago
I think "B" might be closest, though I don't know if I would have phrased it that way. If a certain good becomes accessible to more people, it no longer has the same signalling effect, so a replacement good must be found. I don't know if
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by jlcx 15y ago
Right. This article isn't about who's "winning"; it's just a reminder that the benefit of hardware choice means that information is needed to make a good choice. Longer-term reliability information is more difficult to obtain than basic s
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by jlcx 15y ago
This is a very common argument, and it may have some merit. In the current economic situation, however, with high and increasing college costs, it is probably advisable to find a less expensive way to obtain the benefits of a liberal arts e