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by netcan 5y ago
It's very readable.
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by netcan 5y ago
Erm... correction then. This is the episode I was referencing. 100-something Ronald Coase
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by netcan 5y ago
No, strictly. EG, the ECB recently "loaned" EU member states quite a lot of euros. They do this every year, with the amount determined by public deficits. The amount is not determined by the amount of savings in ECB savings accoun
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by netcan 5y ago
In college, I studied Ronald Coase's famous 1920s papers. The major application ATT was infrastructure stuff. Coase's argument was that "given 0 transaction costs," it doesn't matter who owns what property or right.
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by netcan 5y ago
>>I think people who spend all of their time on one or two centralised platforms are bizarre. I think you are missing the point. The rhetorical does not dictate what will actually happen. Crypto is a step ahead of regulators, in much
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by netcan 5y ago
Sure. That wasn't a criticism of crypto. Whether one of those properties is "freedom from regulation" is yet to be seen. I personally quite doubt it.
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by netcan 5y ago
Who's point? The whole point of Google, to some people at Google, might have been " don't be evil " at one point in time. Decentralisation was the whole point of the WWW. Different people have different goals. Largely, i
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by netcan 5y ago
I agree with most of this, but I suggest a 2nd look at the concept of free market. Free from what? Geographic locality? It's notable that Adam Smith's free market seems to have been free also of monopolies and cartels. In any case
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by netcan 5y ago
>>Who the hell cares about territory status versus actual military capability? Literally everyone. Welcome to the martial history of earth. Remember 9/11?
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by netcan 5y ago
The difference is the expected reaction, probabilities, etc. An attack on US forces in Saudi Arabia today would still be treated severely, but not the same as an attack on Virginia. FDR had to decide how to characterize it. He decided to tr
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by netcan 5y ago
Also, the Japanese didn't really know they were attacking the US soil, so to speak. Hawaii was, ATT, legally similar to the Philippines. Considering Hawaii american soil and the Philippines something else was a retcon.
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by netcan 5y ago
I guess criticising journalism is hack at this point, but these little examples still flabbergast me. It's a long article, but it's mostly an article about the person. Almost no information about the actual issue at hand. Where is
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by netcan 5y ago
I see. So this statute requires a contract clause. Are there other such statutes, requiring certain clauses as boilerplate?
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by netcan 5y ago
It's increasingly hard to tell one from the other. The mechanism here appears to be (the article itself is light on facts) a contract, same as would be with a private entity. The entity on the other end of the contract could be private
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by netcan 5y ago
I'm kind of confused. It's not the first article that I have encountered on this, but they all seem very light on specifics. What/where is the "particular legal clause? This article veers from there into a personal biogr
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by netcan 5y ago
Practical Comparisons Web 2.0 censors people on Twitter | VS | Web 3.0 won't do this Web 2.0 servers can fail | VS | Web 3.0 servers won't fail Web 2.0 reality | VS | Web 3.0 ideals Circa 2004, when web 2.0 was insp
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by netcan 5y ago
Agreed. Web 2.0 was also supposed to be democratizing. Blogging, user participation. A web the dissolves the user/webmaster dichotomy. Less gatekeepers, barriers to entry, etc. Walled gardens, gatekeepers, centralization and monopoly
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by netcan 5y ago
I disagree. Not with any particular detail, but with the "all told..." I think it's incorrect to the of crypto-currencies/etc as heading towards some sort of equilibrium. >> "Check out meme stocks a few years
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by netcan 5y ago
Russia was courting investors to invest as a way of mitigating unemployment. I don't think it quite worked out this way, but that was the idea.
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by netcan 5y ago
Sure, and from here on out complexity and alternative might have beens make it unresolveable. That said, the idea that countries/government perpetually need companies to invest and "make jobs" is ridiculous rhetoric. It descr
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by netcan 5y ago
Retail, as an employment sector, exists with or without amazon/walmart... and generally also employs low income people. Calling that a service is a bit much.
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No, but if fines are the mechanism for punishment/restitution, they may as well be marked to market cap.
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't see the contradiction. Yes, Romans referred to the region as Syria and that also reflected the cultural/political scape for much of the time. Assyria did span the entire region, and even during the Roman era their dialect
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by netcan 5y ago
Undisputed is saying a lot. The Talmud, not by coincidence, light on a lot of political (and religious) detail from this period. The political turmoil leading (in Talmudic text) to the temple's destruction are somewhat taboo. Anyway...
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by netcan 5y ago
Technically/semantically correct. OTOH, this mentality reliably leads to these kinds of features, bugs, policies or whatever you like to call them. The software works perfectly. It's the spec that's broken. I'm going hom
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I recently listened to the OG radio version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with some added commentary about the early 80s. Vogon bureaucracy jokes were of the time in England. Everyone had little adventures & run-ins with com
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This is the kind of statement that leads to this kind of a feature.
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So... An eInk laptop wouldn't be for media. It'd be a different product with different pros/cons. Easier on the eyes. Better in sunlight. Easier on battery. Quite usable for reading, emails, code and any "mostly text&q
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by netcan 5y ago
Imo, the net benefit of copyright and patent law is dubious broadly. For a developing country signing up to an IP system under which most of the important IP assets are foreign... I find it hard to see an argument.
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If you're describing an equity structure, you're unpacking the definition of the word "ownership." Saying "the city owns it" or "no one owns it" is just a naming thing. Ownership is just a bunch of ri

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