jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Once again they paid for a finite duration of your time and labor not the contents of your brain." + Absolutely false. Whenever you work for a company, you will gain knowledge that is their property - almost always. It doesn&#x27
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Your comments about NDA's are not quite right. NDA's do not capture a lot of the essential issue. Pragmatically speaking, it's nary impossible to work in some fields, and then move to a competing firm without passing on know
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"It doesn't matter how much R&D was created. That's the role of patents to deal with that thing." I'm beginning to think none of you have ever worked in companies that actually produce IP. First off - that'
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Bullshit, that's what NDAs are for." Totally false and completely naive. Most knowledge and know-how is not explicit - they are often learned. For example - suppose you worked at Nuance, and helped develop their new AI/
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"If a company wants to keep me from working they should pay for the privilege." They are paying you. You join the company on those terms. If you don't want to join, then don't join. What they don't want you dong is
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
From your comments I gather you might not understand the problem. Were Soft Engs simply to do 'work' then you would be absolutely right. But in a world of IP ... it's a different story. Company ABC brings you in, trains you o
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Wait, Python, Perl and PHP are 'new' programming languages? Ha ...
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"You give me money, I don't shoot you" That's not capitalism by any definition. That's extortion and it was a well known practice thousands of years before we invented (or at least understood) capitalism. I'd a
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I don't believe that his commitment to his supposed ideals is in any way 'moral'. I'd refer to his position that 'only free software is ethical' as simply wrong - and arrogant. Yes - we can admire his tenacity,
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Less extreme wealth, less extreme poverty, more extreme weather :)
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
It is not 'making a deal with the devil' to take other people's money on the basis that you'll return a certain amount of profit - and then not do so. The 'devil' it would seem are the Twitter founders, who too
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
You seem to fail to grasp even basic common sense: most products and service increase in value over time, and though it's difficult sometimes to measure that value, it's not 'arbitrary'. For example - as Farmers improve
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
You articulation of the reasoning for 2% inflation targets by Central Banks is completely and utterly false.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Can you recommend any references for a non-economist to learn about this theory?" It's not a theory, it's armchair cynicism. Some high growth startups are kind of like Ponzi schemes, in the sense that some investors kno
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Fix the fucking educational system and stop wasting people's time." America spends more % of it's GDP and more $ / capita than any nation on earth. America graduates far more people from college than any European c
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Despite your claims about socialization of higher education - which is perfectly true - America actually graduates a lot more people out of college than European countries. A lot more. There is a better 'safety net' in most Europe
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"America is doing quite poorly in terms of social mobility, compared to other top-tier countries." I think this is a myth. Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland all do pretty well on the 'gini coefficient' - but they are tiny, re
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
No, the 'biggest influence' that parents have on their kids are the values, attitudes, the disposition, the care, the temperament, the focus, the self restraint and self discipline , and all the other behaviours they instil in the
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I worked at a Fortune 50 and we hired a lot of interns. After I left, I thought back on the kids we hired, how talented they were, and what they went off to do afterwards. The 'rich kids' were better prepared, more responsible, be
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Large corps may produce mediocrity, but the issue for MS is not so much that - they have talent, and are operationally effective. I think large corps fail to grasp industry pivots - and they keep doing 'more of same' - failing to
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Designers are ruining software in general" Designers and Engineers collaborate to make products. Some suck, some are great. Blame bad design on bad designers, bad software on bad engs. Don't blame design or eng for existing.
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Internet becoming unreadable due to lighter and thinner fonts(telegraph.co.uk)
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
There is no such thing as 'peak oil' because we keep figuring out ways to find more. Think Oil Sands: massive amounts of Oil in Alberta and Venezuela was not considered in reserves just a decade ago because it was not economically
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Does anyone have any benchmarks for this?
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I agree there are some smart Econ things here, but when there's a tech article that wavers into Econ elements, I find it all to be lacking, generally. My point: HN folks are not thinking about market power, value chains, supply chains,
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Europe is not an open market for agriculture - and the Walloons are defending their agriculture here. Also, it's not as open a market as you would think. If it was there would be massive banking, energy and telecoms consolidation, and
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"Yet HN comments are vastly inferior to Reddit's when regarding anything to do with economics." I find that HN is pretty weak on economics. But it's a tech blog, so ... And I'm not so sure that 'business ideas&
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
I agree - the Musk delirium is strong with these ones. You have to take HN with a dose of salty optimism. The Valley depends on a little bit of irrational koolaid thinking.
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
There is not that much opposition to these trade deals - the opposition is usually from minority (i.e. political) or special interest group (i.e. an industry that would be disrupted, like agriculture). Case and point - it's the Walloon
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
"I wonder why governments subsidize production of commercial airliners so much. There are no network effects or lock-in" Huge lock-in :) Aircraft manufacturers are all semi-nationalized they are 'too big' even for privat

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