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by krichman 14y ago
Yes that acts just like purchasing an insurance policy! I guess I was imagining the case where you short and then the price doubles when you need to buy, and not considering that you could buy an option and only use it if the price falls. T
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by krichman 14y ago
How does the ability to short protect you? Genuinely curious, I don't know anything about markets beyond traditional buy and sell.
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by krichman 14y ago
In many ways yes. But there is also the fact that they are protecting you in method similar to a dry country protecting you from alcohol, many apps that should be a choice are simply unavailable.
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by krichman 14y ago
I don't know if breaking a contract or EULA is strictly illegal.
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by krichman 14y ago
Yep, just like uploading the entire contacts list. Everyone did it until they got caught.
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by krichman 14y ago
I think the rest of the points are good suggestions but "use short variable names" is a terrible suggestion. "incident_tb" is one of the worst possible names that could be used while still being relevant to the data represented. It's 2013,
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by krichman 14y ago
That's a good point. It's actually hard for me to recognise when it is bad code and when I am just feeling NIH syndrome.
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by krichman 14y ago
And he was formerly involved in a Ponzi scheme. Why is it so hard for these people to make an honest living?
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by krichman 14y ago
I feel obliged to do business with Newegg and now Rackspace whenever I am looking for something they provide. Maybe their prices are higher than some other companies. If that's the cost of defending against patent trolls, well it's minuscul
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by krichman 14y ago
It's because earlier, unless I misremembered, someone used the name to create a work that wasn't up to Zed's standards and he told them to cut it out. He can be abrasive but he's a net win for free software. Most people angry with him are a
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by krichman 14y ago
This is felony computer tampering on a worse level than accessing a URL that is accidentally public but nobody will be fined or imprisoned for it.
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by krichman 14y ago
That's true. I should have wrote "continue to improve".
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by krichman 14y ago
I avoid reading all patents for this reason, even ones that are linked to by HN for being absurd.
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by krichman 14y ago
Is the government going to see a return on those? Or is it an investment because you think they are going to be a net improvement for society? To be honest if I had a choice I would give most tax dollars to the EFF and ACLU, but if Tesla ca
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by krichman 14y ago
How is that demurrage any different from inflation, though? I have to invest my cash in things just to get it to maintain the value it has now.
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by krichman 14y ago
I didn't say I don't like rich people. You are being intellectually dishonest now.
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by krichman 14y ago
I didn't claim that, so that's an irrelevant question. I claimed that prosperity is not a foregone conclusion after having rich people. That is trivially provable by observing certain countries.
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by krichman 14y ago
This sounds like an interesting viewpoint. Could you elaborate on the properties of this pyramid?
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by krichman 14y ago
As I wrote, I think rich people are a form of concentration of power, and this could be used to create factories that make products that increase our standard of living or it could also easily be used to, e.g., lobby congress to create stri
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by krichman 14y ago
Yes, exactly. That's why claiming the salary has anything to do with productivity is absurd. It's a combined measurement of how badly the company wants your skillset and how well you can negotiate.
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by krichman 14y ago
> And, anyway, whether or not the CEO is 100x more productive, her output is worth 100x more. How do we know? Because that's what she's being paid. He's only 100x more if you measure productivity entirely in money. I'm not implying corr
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by krichman 14y ago
> But I have no trouble imagining that one person could be 100 times as productive as another. This is a smokescreen. I believe it too, that one person could be 100 times as productive as one other. But what the salaries are saying is t
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by krichman 14y ago
1. Create computer virus 2. Spread computer virus 3. Sue victims for copyright infringement
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by krichman 14y ago
Sounds too good to be true, but I signed up due to curiosity.
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by krichman 14y ago
I always thought the chips on the RAM stick would do one-bit error correction transparently and just fail to correct two-bit errors. But, it appears that the motherboard has to support it and you might need to enable it. There's an overview
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by krichman 14y ago
This is spot on. I'm certain this 17-year-old is incredibly clever, but you could hire an entire think tank of clever people to do nothing but innovative R&D for $30M. Hell, I'd take a significant pay cut if I could transition from codi
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by krichman 14y ago
I agree with your analysis and even if I didn't it seems to me that the news article at most made an exaggeration. It's ridiculous that Gruber would complain about an exaggeration because the only thing he's ever been able to do is exaggera
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by krichman 14y ago
I was expecting someone to give some standard "value is what people pay for it" or "making the product more visible adds value". But the things you listed actually do add value and seem like a win-win for the reseller and the customer. Than
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We fully know about that.
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by krichman 14y ago
I surely hope so. It was such a derivation from the topic at hand (rags to riches vs. complaining servants) that, if it was satire or irony, I don't get what the joke or lesson was supposed to be. Edit: Perhaps the lesson it that they are t

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