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by mseebach 9y ago
The OPs forecast is predicated on an understanding of companies like Google and Amazon being so big and powerful that they are immune to the ebb and flow that define normal market conditions and allow new entrants to prosper and old compani
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Amazon and Google A couple of weeks ago, your list would have included Facebook. The future is a lot less deterministic than you think.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Both London and Copenhagen, the cities I have a bit of first hand experience with, may not have ridiculous zoning rules, but heritage listings are ubiquitous and seems to be very broadly applied. One place I worked, a low-level listed build
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by mseebach 9y ago
The roulette ball is still moving. Word is getting hammered by lightweight, online, mobile-available, collaboration-first tools, such as Google Docs and Quip.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The point is that when declaring "this time it's different", you have to explain away all the many, many things that are exactly the same, and not just point out the one thing that's a little different. The Facebook&#x2F
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by mseebach 9y ago
MySpace didn't suddenly disappear, it fizzled out over a long time. Also, the relevant metric isn't the total number of users -- this is a massive parallellisable process -- it's the average network-effect lock-in per user. F
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by mseebach 9y ago
But isn't the point of a hardware entropy source that you don't quite trust /dev/urandom?
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by mseebach 9y ago
> The entire purpose of Cannes is to showcase films which need distribution This seems like one of these things that were probably nominally true all along, but that everybody were very happy to forget as Cannes became a super-prestigiou
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by mseebach 9y ago
It seems that all of those features are Git-features. The missing piece is a "git-aware" markdown editor, as in, an editor that knows about git branches, and can commit/push and be mildy helpful if there's a conflict.
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's a rose-tinted view of things. There's plenty of dirt-cheap land just outside all but the biggest American towns, but no drive-ins on them. Seriously, without knowing you, chances are you and a couple of friends could pool y
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, you can't tell if a given cigarette being smoked is contraband or not, but buying a pack of smuggled cigarettes is a very different experience from buying a legal pack. When all brothels (escort services etc) are illegal, operators
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by mseebach 9y ago
> In defense of the "scorched earth approach or nothing" folks: from my perspective... it's a completely and totally human response to faceless, blameless, unapproachable (from their perspective) perpetrators and facilitat
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by mseebach 9y ago
If you have loads of credit for a cloud? That cloud. If you need to spread out risk? All of them.
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by mseebach 9y ago
But a bank will just hand over money for an LBO without taking collateral?
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by mseebach 9y ago
If you can buy a company with the sum of money you can raise by mortgaging the real estate it occupies, the implication is that the company is worth less than this real estate. Considering the kind of real estate Toys-R-Us shops occupied, t
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by mseebach 9y ago
Unless the acquired company is obviously healthy enough to service the debt through to maturity, or the bank is really stupid, the acquiring company has to put up non-trivial collateral. Or put another way, if the acquiring company has no r
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's just like a mortgage. Even though it's you buying the house, it's in a way the house that ends up owning the mortgage (in many jurisdictions, you can walk away from the house and mortgage, and the bank had no leverage ag
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by mseebach 9y ago
Thanks!
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by mseebach 9y ago
I tried to click around on Lytro's website, but it left me pretty baffled. What the f... is it?
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by mseebach 9y ago
Depends. There could be a reference in the main contract listing execution of the non-compete as a condition of the validity of the contract.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, I agree that this policy provides reasonable guards against someone introducing AGPL by accident, or even maliciously. But I took GP's point to imply a hypothetical where Google decides to more or less actively flaunt the restrict
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, that's the point of AGPL. It extends rights to users of a hosted application, as well a users of hosted applications linked to it. As the linked motivation states, "Even if you think you aren’t linking to anything important, i
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's pretty hard for someone externally to discover this, but Google has 20k+ software engineers, and I believe they all have access to the monorepo. All it takes is a single person with a grudge to leak a single screenshot to the righ
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by mseebach 9y ago
Can't speak for the romans, but his seems legit enough, and predates the romans by quite a bit: Hammurabi's code: > If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built
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by mseebach 9y ago
No. I think you're overestimating how much bad press Facebook is actually getting outside the tech bubble. Facebook is going to get done in by the fact that the younger generation doesn't like it, but that process has been underwa
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, but there's a certain futility in spending 30 minutes repairing a $5 widget when the $8 widget wouldn't have broken in the first place.
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by mseebach 9y ago
>> Generally, the more thoughtful believers will recognise that the concept of God is something that exists outside the realm of things humans can assign probabilities to
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by mseebach 9y ago
You do both. You come up with a test, yes, and you come up with an idea of what it will mean if the test either confirms or rejects the hypothesis. And no, promise can mean exactly what I said it can mean. https://en.oxforddic
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think you're splitting hairs now. Once you have a hypothesis, you can come up with a promise. IF there are (or are not) more supersymmetric particles at higher energies, THEN we can leverage X plus this to move towards possibly curin
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by mseebach 9y ago
I am going the solipsistic route, because it's the relevant one in getting to the bottom of what these fundamental things actually mean. The point is, love is something that can only exist inside our individual minds (what is a mind, e

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