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by king07828 8y ago
If they wanted to monetize it, why not patent the new features, demand royalties from AWS, set royalty rates of $0 for small to mid size businesses, and keep it open source? Or customize the patent so that it's only enforceable against
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by king07828 8y ago
Patents weren't the issue. As I recall, Shkreli's company had the exclusive right to market the drug in the US, regardless of patent protection. For example, the FDA provides regulatory exclusivity that prevents generics from ente
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by king07828 8y ago
When Shkreli got vilified, he missed out on one of the biggest opportunities to push for meaningful change. Media and Congress were "not kind" to his price increases. Well, who passed the laws that allowed for those price increase
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by king07828 8y ago
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry. Two people had to recommend it to me independently before I finally read it. Reading and deeply contemplating this book dramatically increased my ability to understand and predict emotionally
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by king07828 8y ago
> Market share tax just results in companies redefining their industry. Do you have a specific example?
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by king07828 8y ago
But how to "Fragment the market legally"? Breakups lead to more monopolies [1]. Could the tax code be manipulated to achieve the desired effect? A market share tax could tax revenue of large corporations (revenue >= $1B [2]) on
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by king07828 8y ago
Gender provides close to a 50-50 split, which is not provided by all demographics. But if you want to use height or any other demographic to analyze the proposal of two seats per political office, then please go ahead and analyze it that wa
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by king07828 8y ago
Alternatively, make each elected office require a man and a woman to be independently elected to that office. Have the decision making power split equally between the two 50-50 so that both must agree before taking action (e.g., signing or
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by king07828 8y ago
Could the Monero system be modified to create a voting system that maintains the secret ballot? From an engineering perspective, It seems like the currency and monetization aspects be pulled out/minimized and the untraceable transactio
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by king07828 8y ago
Could the Monero system be modified to create a voting system that maintains the secret ballot? I.e., pull out the currency aspect and use the untraceable transactions aspect to record votes.
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by king07828 8y ago
As the Devil's Advocate, one can argue that the fraud was perpetrated at the peon level of the loan originators, who originated loans to people that could not afford the loans. The executives hands were washed clean by the ratings agen
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by king07828 8y ago
Frustration comes from laws and punishments that are optimized for less than 100% enforcement (i.e., harsh punishments for those who actually get caught) being enforced 100% of the time. Laws and punishments should be updated to account for
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by king07828 8y ago
An additional alternative to fellowships: 1) start a cryptocurrency that is tied to the Project 2) each project release pays N coins to developers/maintainers based on merit (e.g., lines of code) 3) third parties can purchase coins to
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by king07828 8y ago
Imprisonment doesn't always rehabilitate and is perhaps linked to not properly weighting the reactions of others and long-term consequences that are in response to one's own actions. I wonder what the effects would be of requiring
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by king07828 8y ago
Agreed that without any constraints, it could become a Sisyphean task. The exercise then becomes one of finding the minimal constraints needed to achieve the desired results. Please correct if needed, but looking at the Dota 2 neural networ
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by king07828 8y ago
Agreed. One of the next significant moments could be taking the current Dota 2 algorithm and massaging it to use human style inputs and outputs. Please correct if needed, but the current Dota 2 algorithm boils down to (1) a fully connected
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by king07828 8y ago
Agreed that the strategy is an interesting part. Another interesting part will be creating an AI / neural network that can utilize inputs that are closer to human level inputs (e.g., using the frame buffer and audio out as input to the
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by king07828 8y ago
> how it could possibly be useful 1 create a GPU friendly cryptocurrency where the payload includes a two dimensional data set (or image) that is processed with a standardized neural network model 2 let programmers pay a mining fee to ex
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by king07828 8y ago
What is the problem? Patents allowed Google (page rank) to get a toehold in its respective market that was dominated by other players. This is a 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater' issue. Change the patent system too much,
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by king07828 8y ago
To those who voted this down simply because of the opinion that judges shouldn't make law, please read up on common law [1]. The US is a mix of common law (judge made law) and civil law (statute based law) [2]. [1] https://
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by king07828 9y ago
Agreed. Looking forward to when voice assistants can be taught new tricks by regular device users instead of having the new tricks be programmed by developers.
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by king07828 9y ago
Why did the parent get downvoted?
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by king07828 9y ago
Seems like getting a Linux kernel and a LAMP stack running on this would be a good first step. The technical challenge of doing it sounds fun and interesting. The real payoff may be when a billing and payment system is able to consolidate
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by king07828 9y ago
Cannot agree enough. Listen to your body and and make sure to pull back when it tells you to. I like to lift mild weights at night and do mild yoga in the morning (focussing on deep stretches). Helps to keep balance in mind and body.
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by king07828 9y ago
Agreed that top-down solutions will likely be opposed by those who are already at the top. And this is exactly the reason why the comment was posted. I.e., the debate about how to help laborers transition to different types of labor may not
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by king07828 9y ago
Instead, why not transition from a labor based system of resource acquisition for the masses to an investor based system of resource acquisition for the masses? Assuming that the labor economy is dying, then all laborers (truck drivers and
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by king07828 9y ago
Information asymmetry is a key concern that you have hit upon. Will a manager release truthful aggregate information, such as averages and standard deviations so that individuals can see for themselves how they stack up against the group? W
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by king07828 9y ago
Tariffs = bad, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot–Hawley_Tariff_Act 1 Business lobbies to get oppressive tariffs promising it will spur innovation 2 Tariff passes, business market value rises because of reduced
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by king07828 9y ago
Cool, thanks for the heads up. After wiki-ing around, it looks like current whitespace technology is hobbled by forcing the broadcast device to get permission from an FCC database in order to transmit. With that constraint, I am not surpri
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by king07828 9y ago
The mirror image of your argument is just as applicable: Law enforcement has already been seen to act adversarial to private interests, remotely logging out of computers is utilized to try and limit law enforcement's ability to obtain

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