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by karzeem 16y ago
All good points, and you're a good example of a lawyer who gets it. As you say, prices have dropped even as laws continue to restrict the development of cheaper alternatives. I wonder how close we are to the lowest prices achievable witho
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by karzeem 16y ago
This all seems like great advice, but the hurdle is that wherever the advice comes to do something that involves a lawyer, my brain parses it as "spend thousands of dollars on x, spend thousands of dollars on y". That's the minimum ante fo
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by karzeem 16y ago
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/court-self-i... That page has a link to the District Court ruling in Boucher .
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by karzeem 16y ago
There's a subtle distinction to be made here between providing the key and providing access. Courts have ruled that the Constitution permits the government to compel you to provide access to the relevant information (e.g. to open the safe)
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by karzeem 16y ago
This is perfect. By far my biggest complaint about Instapaper is that I can't find enough content to save to it — anything shorter than a few thousand words feels too insignificant to save for later. A couple suggestions: I think the front
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by karzeem 17y ago
From the headline, I thought this meant that making all comments harder to see will increase quality. In fact, the proposition is that rewarding good commenters with higher visibility will increase quality. Makes sense, and it's nice to se
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by karzeem 17y ago
Impressing (or at least not disappointing) PG was definitely a big incentive early on, and it lingers to a degree. I think, though, that PG's role in that has been replaced by the community at large. People are civil and thoughtful becaus
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by karzeem 17y ago
I didn't mean to imply that he doesn't have huge natural skill. He does, certainly. But what pushed him from a great runner to the greatest runner is a lot of focused training on his technique, and I'm sure that was arduous.
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by karzeem 17y ago
It's an interesting article, but this type of piece bugs me. It means to suggest that Bolt is not that hard a worker. Now, to the reader, that means grabbing a bag of Fritos and heading directly to YouTube. To Bolt, I'd be willing to bet, i
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by karzeem 17y ago
It seems like every few months, John Gruber hits another clout milestone. Now Steve Jobs's own statements are a self-described tl;dr of Gruber's posts? Not too shabby. Anyway, the puzzling thing here is that as Greg says, most iPhone OS a
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by karzeem 17y ago
When you have a seat in the Aeron, you won't think, "Wow, this is incredibly comfortable." It's fine, definitely comfortable, but not mindblowing. Where it earns its price is after you've been sitting for, say, six hours and realize that yo
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by karzeem 17y ago
Reimbursement for prosthetics can vary a lot depending on the patient population you're talking about. An elderly diabetic who rarely leaves home and loses a leg would be lucky to get something halfway wearable. But for young, active people
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by karzeem 17y ago
I'm with him on this thought experiment all the way up to the last paragraph: "I can't think of any imaginary situation in which long term happiness could come from other people. The best you can hope for is that other people won't thwart y
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by karzeem 17y ago
This whole saga is probably the best thing that could happen to WikiLeaks. Huge increase for their visibility, which in turn increases the value of the role they play.
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by karzeem 17y ago
Indeed. I'm increasingly struck by how much of what people do is driven by the desire to be liked/loved. So do Japanese workers get a much bigger percentage of their income in non-cash forms?
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by karzeem 17y ago
I'm reminded of a tip I heard once. If you want to get phenomenal service in a restaurant, when your waiter's at the table loudly compliment him/her just as the manager walks by. People respond really well to anything that will make them m
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by karzeem 17y ago
It's interesting that in 1994, Steve Jobs considered it a foregone conclusion that video rental stores would get killed by the internet. He says it so blithely that it seems like it was conventional wisdom. The interesting part is that a)
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by karzeem 17y ago
Ah, I didn't know that.
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by karzeem 17y ago
It makes sense; there's no real reason for the government to own and operate a spaceflight company. The exciting stuff in aerospace is happening in private companies, and especially in smaller ones. Manned spaceflight doesn't have many goo
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by karzeem 17y ago
By listing only negative effects, you can make anything sound bad (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax ). It doesn't seem crazy to think that there's such a thing as too much exercise, but there are a couple problems
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Steve Jobs giving an in-house speech at Apple, circa 1997(youtube.com)
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by karzeem 17y ago
There are plenty of developers who'd rather work on Android, since it's much more open than iPhone OS. But I'd bet there are equally many developers who'd rather work on iPhone OS because they feel it's the better OS. Apple gets the develo
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by karzeem 17y ago
True, but Apple doesn't make any special claims that it's not evil. I think if people smell bullshit in "don't be evil", it's because looking at all companies, they see no correlation between claiming not to be evil and actually not being
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by karzeem 17y ago
I like the author's honesty; he seems to hate decision-free computing but acknowledges that it's what most people prefer. If his main objection is that (like everyone's saying) abstractions are sad because they make tinkering harder, then I
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by karzeem 17y ago
"Don't be evil" clearly is bullshit to the extent that you can always rationalize an evil action, and three words aren't going to stop you from doing what you want. On the other hand, though, a mantra like that can help entrench a culture t
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by karzeem 17y ago
Indeed. Were it not for the government subsidy of entrenched agribusiness interests, local food might actually be objectively cheap. When you're growing food sustainably, you don't get as much of the kinds of economies of scale that give
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by karzeem 17y ago
The smart thing about this list is that at least to some extent, it frames local business as a tangible net positive for the consumer. It bugs me when people suggest that you should shop at local businesses as an act of altruism or stick
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by karzeem 17y ago
Here's David Attenborough narrating a modern-day persistence hunt. It's fascinating stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpo_mA5RP8
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by karzeem 17y ago
I think one element is probably that as a social signal, shoelessness is a big sign over your head that says "I'm poor." That's unpleasant, obviously, so people buy shoes.
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by karzeem 17y ago
If you're the movie studio, revenue is your concern, so then it only really makes sense to adjust for inflation. But yeah, if you want to gauge the popularity of the movie, the best measure is probably something along the lines of tickets s

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