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by jpwatts 8y ago
Decisio Health | Senior Engineer | Houston, Texas | Full-time | On site | https://www.decisiohealth.com/ Decisio is hiring a senior engineer to join the team responsible for building, validating, and operating the clinical
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by jpwatts 15y ago
If you want to ensure that your new hire will stay with the company for four years, you put that in the contract. You then negotiate a compensation package that factors in the opportunity cost to the employee of granting you an exclusive ri
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by jpwatts 16y ago
"Fair" enough.
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by jpwatts 16y ago
There are two places where one might take a position: "are the laws being fairly applied in this case?" and "are the laws themselves fair?". Clearly it would be unfair to treat Arrington differently than the law requires. I think the charit
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by jpwatts 16y ago
The State has the right to determine what is legal; I reserve for myself the right to determine what is fair. I encourage you to do the same.
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by jpwatts 16y ago
I'm not taking a position on Arrington. I just object to the idea that legality implies fairness, by definition.
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by jpwatts 16y ago
You seem to be confusing what is "fair" with what is "legal."
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by jpwatts 16y ago
What you're describing reminds me of the Mathic system in Neal Stephenson's book Anathem . The characters are sequestered in groups defined by the interval at which they interact with the outside world. There's a good summary of Mathic li
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by jpwatts 16y ago
Regarding your point #3: how would "scrub" work with interconnected user data? Comment threads like this one are a good example; my comment is dependent on yours for context. Should you be able to delete your data and leave my comment dan
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by jpwatts 17y ago
That's most definitely incorrect. And it's not just a technicality; copyright law is the legal foundation of free/open source software.
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by jpwatts 17y ago
They claim to be generating the revenue, only to have it stolen by Google and others. If this was the case, /robots.txt could go a long way towards preventing billions of dollars from "leak[ing] onto the Internet" each year.
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by jpwatts 17y ago
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. That 97% only indicates that most people don't change the defaults; it says nothing about what Twitter users want. In this case it's particularly misleading, since we're talking about an option to turn off