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by nimble 13y ago
While empowering patent examiners to say "no" will probably help, it's not going to fix patents. Changes I would make to fix patents: - Get rid of license negotiation before the fact and replace it with attribution after the
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by nimble 13y ago
Over 3 billion devices run java
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by nimble 13y ago
That was sarcasm. My point was that if this level of critical thinking deficiency is really present, then there is something seriously wrong with the way kids are being taught, and calls that you hear for extra funding to pay for things li
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by nimble 13y ago
This would never happen if there was a laptop in every classroom. (EDIT: Sarcasm alert -- see my response below before you downvote me) EDIT: Just watched the video. Scary.
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by nimble 13y ago
> An extra banker produces a lot of value. For some value of "value". (Also, the example of two superheros isn't a good one - they will probably collude and get something much closer to their full value)
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by nimble 13y ago
That is if they're not paying him for it.
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by nimble 13y ago
And is that policy billed as a "zero tolerance for drinking and driving policy" or a "zero tolerance for drunk driving" policy? There is a law against drunk driving that mentions a 0.08 threshold. There is a law against
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by nimble 13y ago
You're sort of right. If he'd said "we have zero tolerance for anyone going over 10 mph," it certainly wouldn't have been as funny. Instead, he proclaimed proudly that "we have a zero tolerance policy" a
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by nimble 13y ago
Once when I was riding passenger with a friend, a cop pulled him over and told him that he was getting a ticket as part of their new "zero tolerance" policy: anyone caught exceeding the posted limit by more than 10 mph was going t
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by nimble 13y ago
My point was that learning that they leave most frequently in the first three months might not be the Eureka moment the post implies.
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by nimble 13y ago
> Essentially this means that if we can make a customer stick with us longer than three months, they will stay. This isn't true (try making your service free for the first three months and see what happens!) and is the wrong way to
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by nimble 13y ago
This seems to muddle cardinality. First he defines cardinality as "number of elements" and notes that infinite sets have infinite cardinality, but doesn't explain what that might mean. Then he introduces "same cardinal
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by nimble 13y ago
Actually, 3-5 years sounds pretty reasonable. If you think about it, you should be glad that she didn't get a crazy "send a message" punishment of 20 years or life in prison. She'll never work in that capacity again, so
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by nimble 13y ago
Do you agree that everyone deserves a fair share of the natural resources of the earth?
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by nimble 13y ago
> outstanding innovations Which proposal from your first paragraph is going to ensure outstanding-ness of inventions? I recall company lawyers making the rounds asking us to write down any possible inventions among the things we'd
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by nimble 13y ago
Shouldn't there be at least one option for people working less than 40 hours a week?
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by nimble 13y ago
Basic income is a good idea but you have the rationale wrong. The right theory for a basic income should be that all people deserve a stake in the accumulated knowledge and technology of mankind, just as they deserve equal stake in the land
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by nimble 13y ago
Maybe they detected fraud
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by nimble 13y ago
Bigger nit: If lisps just have expressions (and not statements), then they clearly have a separation between the two :).
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by nimble 13y ago
Clever use of bomb threats.
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by nimble 13y ago
> Governments can't do anything well because they are bureaucratic nightmares. And what's the difference between a government and a large corporation? "No government can do anything well" is lazy thinking.
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by nimble 13y ago
No, it isn't. Unless you mean that governments don't relinquish power unless they're designed to, but that's a big difference. Nor is it true that governments can't due anything well by virtue of being governments
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by nimble 13y ago
Thinking about this more, I don't understand the importance of your fair-weather mining idea. If the parties collaborating on the ES attack are willing to betray each other, then isn't a much simpler form of betrayal to steal the
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by nimble 13y ago
It's not clear to me that Felten's response you've linked to identifies a fatal flaw in the ES attack, because the ES attackers aren't limited to following just the bitcoin protocol. The ES attackers could follow a prot
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by nimble 13y ago
Can someone explain why, if I change the slider to indicate that I have only one friend, the number of "friends of friends" is 163? Is my only friend really so popular?
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by nimble 13y ago
> Why don't physical property rights expire? No, but real (dirt) property rights are usually taxed. How about an escalating tax on older copyrights?
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by nimble 13y ago
This idea reminds me of the ones I used to get from my boss for how we should change the software system I was building for him when it wasn't working the way he expected. His solutions would (usually) fix the immediate problem he was
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by nimble 13y ago
For some reason I read their name as "Intellectual Vampires."
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by nimble 13y ago
Yeah, I had the same idea while reading the title of the post, having only seen MRI machines on TV. So yeah, this isn't rocket science. They're just not focused on that aspect.
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by nimble 13y ago
Shouldn't the control group have had a non-apology comment about the weather or something? Instead of comparing, "Sorry for the weather. May I use your phone?" to "May I use your phone?", it would seem much prefer

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