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kenesom1
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kenesom1
12y ago
> But I'm at a loss what to do about it. Is there a way to disassociate enforcement from penalizing? One way is jury nullification. If a small fraction of the jury pool refused to let the state prosecute these cases, that could be a
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kenesom1
12y ago
Indeed - prohibiting individual use because it might morph into interstate commerce is an illegal type of "pre-crime restraint" [1]. In which case everyone's rights are violated on the mere possibility that a victimless act t
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kenesom1
13y ago
Nest is worth every penny. As for why Google specifically acquired them? Possibly because a general partner at KPCB (Nest's biggest investor and one of Google's early investors) also holds a seat on Google's board. Nest was o
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kenesom1
13y ago
Bummer, they should've listened to you... Some companies are using internal prediction markets, where employees can speculate on various initiatives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market#Use_by_corpor...