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by lzw 16y ago
It sounds like that experiment is flawed, but the article doesn't go into detail about what the participants are told. At any rate, you can't draw the conclusion it does from that experiment as given and then extrapolate it to the outside
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by lzw 16y ago
In doing so, Lessig is reviewing the film he wishes was made about the internet, rather than reviewing this film based on the story it chose to tell. (Which is a compelling story.) This violates the first rule of movie reviewers-- we don't
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by lzw 16y ago
Well, that explains that! Thanks.
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by lzw 16y ago
Some good points there, but I will say one thing, and its not even original, I'm going to paraphrase Warren Buffett: Its really easy to win the game when the other players don't show up. Put another way, it is easy to make a killing in sto
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by lzw 16y ago
You're such a douche that I am beginning to suspect that OpenDNS is not trustworthy.
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by lzw 16y ago
All of them are better designed than everyDNS.
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by lzw 16y ago
I thought it was a very well made movie, and Fincher has a way with these kind of scripts that lack a traditional story arc that leaves them compelling anyway. It is kinda funny that Sean Fanning's name in the movie is Sean Parker. Or was
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by lzw 16y ago
At least give the guy some examples or explanation to back up the judgement you just passed on him.
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by lzw 16y ago
The dock connector, started back in the days when the iPod was firewire* and since the iPod charged over firewire on Macs but firewire ports on PCs were often unpowered, Apple needed to provide a way for one iPod model to be plugged into bo
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by lzw 16y ago
When they first opened the site to non-college students, it was distinguished from myspace by being private by default as opposed to myspace's public by default. This is why I joined. Since then, they are increasingly making things public
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by lzw 16y ago
The enumerated powers clause of the constitution does not give the government the power to mandate standards for communication. Further, the first amendment makes it clear that such a law is a violatiin of rights. Finally, it is worth not
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by lzw 16y ago
What are the open source problems they seem so concerned about? I'm presuming all startups these days are building on open source. If your company happens to be an app built on rails, microsft won't buy it?
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by lzw 16y ago
Compared to bank charges, payday loans are cheap... Bounced checks involve no loan and you still get the high fee. And of course, these fees add up very fast. It really sucks to pay $35 on a $2 check that bounces. Many poor people don't h
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by lzw 16y ago
They bought suns business. They will probably replace engineers and continue projects they like, they will lose engineers focused in products that are cut. I think part of suns problem was engineering that was going in for engineering sake
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by lzw 16y ago
I love how "tax the rich" types seem to presume that leaving the taxes where they are now is "drastically cutting revenue". Actually it would be maintaining the status quo. A major tax hike, on top of the deficit sending and resulting infla
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by lzw 16y ago
If you look at history, this has been the case ever since the founding of the Federal Reserve. This is not a failure of will, this is the way the system is designed. The system is designed to fail, because this maximizes profits for the b
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by lzw 16y ago
In practice, the reserve ratio has continued to decline, and in fact, via the fraudulent FDIC underwriting practices massive moral hazard has been created in the banking sector. In short, banks can leverage as much as they want, and the FDI
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by lzw 16y ago
Of course I was glossing over details because I was not attempting to point fingers at any specific administration or make it a partisan debate. Historically, deficit spending with the rationalization that it is stimulative has been done b
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by lzw 16y ago
They are able to do this because the amount of balance on the card, and the features of the card (not certain which ones) allow them to operate this card as a gift card, rather than a "Bank Account" which is what the PATRIOT ACT defines the
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by lzw 16y ago
Processes (or threads) are not the problem, it is shared state / memory / side effects. Erlang has solved this pretty well, and I love the way it works, but do not find myself looking forward to the syntax. Either choice means that the cod
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by lzw 16y ago
It seems computer world and pc world are trying to reignite the glory days of ghe Mac vs pc wars with these sensationalist headlines and nonsense stories. Ill save you the time: in a survey of people using a cross platform development tool,
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by lzw 16y ago
Everyone in our house gets to read all the iPad books.... First off most of them are drm free books from orielly and pragmatic programmers or PDFs that can be emailed. But even the ones from the AppStore are just in iTunes and itunes sync
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by lzw 16y ago
This is standard neo Keynesianism (neo because nowadays governments just roll over the debt while Keynes advocated repayment in full at the end of the recession.) The counter argument to it is very simple: this spending is spending money th
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by lzw 16y ago
My concern about node.js is that it seems difficult to write server code that is readable later.... Since you're constantly creating handlers, it is kinda like programming the movie inception to me. Maybe a higher level abstraction on top
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by lzw 16y ago
If you're happy, then you don't need to look at it now. It could be argued that one is better than the other, but node.js despite seeming to be the anointed one, is not yet at the "you get fired for not using it" stage. It is still the e
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by lzw 16y ago
Good question, and this is an issue I'm thinking about, though due to the needs of the project was leaning toward option 1. Was thinking about doing it in a way that no text editing was possible, but that users would have a wide variety of
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by lzw 16y ago
I could put that amount in at the end of the period, not the beginning, and accredation requires either a higher salary than i have, or a net worth over a million, which I don't have. If preventing little old ladies was all that was needed,
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by lzw 16y ago
Intel makes chips in many such countries, like costa rica and Malaysia. There are many countries around the world with good standards of living and lower taxes and lower overall regulatory burden. Plus with Internet businesses and the easy
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by lzw 16y ago
This kind of math is the origin of the so called "bush tax cuts forth rich". Bush proposed cutting the tax rate for the lowest bracket in half giving the poorest the biggest benefit, but that didn't make it past the democrats. In e end, t
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by lzw 16y ago
I hate how you were down voted for pointing out a simple truth. Every industry government gets involved in, it passes laws making competition illegal. We had a thriving and quickly growing mail industry in this country before government to

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