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by jpollock 8y ago
That doesn't sound right to me. Do you have a link where he comes out as pro-DRM? That doesn't fit with my knowledge of Cory Doctorow's position. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/cory-doctorow-walkaway-sci
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by jpollock 8y ago
New Zealand has operated a country-wide content filter for years. It is primarily used to filter out "content depicting the sexual abuse or exploitation of children and young persons" [1]. Filtering of objectionable content is ent
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by jpollock 8y ago
Bank records aren't anonymous, and people are allowed to challenge their individual results, up to and including suing in court. The US requires that once you leave the polling station you must not be able to prove to anyone how you vo
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by jpollock 8y ago
NZ dairy farms seem to be doing o.k. I wonder how they compare (size/costs/distance to market) with US farms. I do know that NZ signed the CPTPP, which made markets for milk more open. https://www.tpp.mfat.govt.nz/
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by jpollock 8y ago
I had 1% of a company at seed time which eventually went public. The value peaked at USD$400k before I could sell, and quickly dropped down to USD$100k for 6+ years of work.
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by jpollock 8y ago
It kills the history in the version control system.
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by jpollock 8y ago
Nothing a society does is in every individual's best interest. The question tends to end up - are the costs and benefits diffuse or focused. Focused costs tend to be negatives (loud complaints from small groups), and diffuse benefits a
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by jpollock 8y ago
Taxis have cameras because passengers have a terrible habit of beating up and robbing drivers.
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by jpollock 8y ago
Google doesn't have to send your data to a third party to get advertising revenue. The advertiser creates and advertisement and passes it to Google with a selector, "We want to show this advertisement to men over the age of 35 in
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by jpollock 8y ago
Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - it changed how I approach teamwork and conversations. It made me aware of how my behaviour was limiting outcomes. :) Frankly, it made me aware that I was being an as
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by jpollock 8y ago
Yes, but that's not the paragraph in the article. If they had talked about cost reduction and competition in long-distance, then sure. However, that wouldn't support their thesis. Their thesis is that looking at consumer cost redu
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by jpollock 8y ago
Correct, that is what they are referring to. However, they are directly linking it to the 1984 breakup, which was not what allowed it. Thanks for the name of the decision [1], I had a hard time finding a reference. :) So, yes, it's an
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by jpollock 8y ago
"when AT&T was broken up in 1984, a torrent of new products came on the market, everything from the first answering machines to early ISPs." Since the RBOCs were local monopolies, it wasn't the breakup which resulted in t
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by jpollock 8y ago
New Zealand has this for grid attached water heaters. They can be placed on a lower tariff, but will be turned off during times of peak load. It is implemented by putting the stored heat device (water heater, air heater) onto a separate met
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by jpollock 8y ago
I've always wondered how I can write a specification in a language which is complex enough to cover the problem, clear enough to be verified by the customer, and not have it be as complex as writing the code.
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by jpollock 8y ago
In the Bay Area, you're looking at 3% of at least $1 million. Your annual property taxes (In San Jose) on that USD$1m will be on the order of $14,000. Your mortgage payment with a 10% mortgage will be another $4,255/month. That&#x
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by jpollock 8y ago
Frankly, if you're worried about 3% on the purchase price of the house, you can't afford that house, regardless of the amount of money. Particularly in expensive markets in the Bay Area, the real estate agent is there to tell you
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by jpollock 8y ago
The way this usually works, is there's an entrant into the market who decides it is cheaper to use the government to gain access to a network instead of building their own (Number Portability, Local Loop Unbundling). The government the
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by jpollock 8y ago
Technology won't help with this, regulation will. We have parallels from other platforms - specifically the fixed and mobile phone networks. There used to be monopolies in local phone service. There were new competitors, but to change
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by jpollock 8y ago
This is related to Huawei's CFO's arrest in Canada and pending hearing to decide if she will be extradited to the USA.
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by jpollock 8y ago
The purchaser factors the tax credit in, so the removal of the credit will have the same effect as an increase in price. The salesman will _definitely_ make the purchaser aware of the credit, in the same way that a mortgage broker makes you
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by jpollock 8y ago
From the primary source referenced by Wikipedia: “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages.
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by jpollock 8y ago
Software is hard, and backbones tend to be mono-cultures. This means that there will be bugs which only become apparent when the full fleet has been deployed. This is why large phone networks have really long rollout periods - to hopefully
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by jpollock 8y ago
I don't think Netflix makes money from views, but they do make buying decisions based on viewing numbers.
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by jpollock 8y ago
This was a silly product feature, it would have killed the quality of their viewership data. As soon as you reward someone for watching, they'll figure out how to script it. They'll load it up, set it going turn off the speaker an
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by jpollock 8y ago
A simpler reason would be that it is cheaper to change control and name of a company than it is to set one up. Then you have a market to rent the business.
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by jpollock 8y ago
A savings account with prize interest is still a tax on uneducated people. The "educated" person will look at the data, realize that they are paying for that prize with a lower interest rate, and switch to a different product. I k
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by jpollock 8y ago
This is fixed through tax legislation, where there are "bright line" tests for whether or not someone is an employee. When I was a contractor in New Zealand, I had an external office, my contract allowed me to subcontract, I used
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by jpollock 8y ago
When I was a contractor (in NZ), there were substantial tax benefits. Not only was my pay higher (to compensate for no-notice termination), I paid less income tax because many expenses were deductible (car, power, house, phone, computers, e
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by jpollock 8y ago
I'm not convinced by the journalism in the article. First, the journalist writes: "The Greater Dublin area is reckoned to have more than 30,000 properties that are completely empty, many of which are owned by the local council.&qu

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