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by njs12345 14y ago
It's worth noting that AirBnB's reputation system might be effective for reducing the externality in question.
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From the Mark Lemley paper quoted elsewhere on this page: Economic theory offers no justification for awarding creators anything beyond what is necessary to recover their average fixed costs. I think I'm fairly happy putting my faith in
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I don't think that's necessarily true. For example, if, as self-confessed pirates have frequently argued on sites like Slashdot, the advertising side-effect of sharing works freely ultimately generates more revenue for the creator than cop
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Interesting paper, although the author disagrees with that interpretation pretty heavily. I suppose the issue isn't as clear cut as I thought.
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Can you provide a citation for your opposing view? Here's a more recent quote from the Supreme Court: Creative work is to be encouraged and rewarded, but private motivation must ultimately serve the cause of promoting broad public availabi
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Can you explain why a patronage model is unable to solve these problems?
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That's a fair point, but it's not a counter to my argument. There is nothing whatsoever about today's copyright law that stops someone from funding completely new works using alternative business models and giving those works away such tha
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Copyright isn't about incentivizing innovation. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." -- United State
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That 2% figure is quite interesting (and the study beautifully typeset), but I can't read Swedish. Can anyone find a translation anywhere?
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You might want to check the zoning laws for your area too, that's another potential legal problem for this kind of thing.
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Please explain how (1) is relevant to the complaint at hand.
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6 IQ points is a bigger deal, but for any of the other groups, the effects are certainly fairly minor..
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Spacechem might be a game with a similar theme: http://spacechemthegame.com/
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IANAL, but it looks like in the US it really depends on state, but often the waiver only protects against negligence, not gross negligence. In the UK, on the other hand, I don't think they're enforceable at all.
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Defense budget..
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Unemployment is not pleasant in the US. I'm inclined to believe that most people from a Western nation would up and leave willingly if they weren't having much success, and that people from less developed nations would too if they weren't a
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There are pretty easy ways around this e.g. require new immigrants to put enough money in escrow to cover a trip back to their home country and prevent them from claiming any sort of state benefits for a certain period. Regardless, I don't
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With the important difference that a truly independent reimplementation is not covered. It also provides no recourse against third parties. What if someone reverse engineers the design from one of Samsung's products? This is not theoretica
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Contract law is perfectly adequate in that situation - Samsung signs a contract with ARM which specifies the exact terms under which they can use ARM's designs.
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I think it does, although not precisely as described in the SO post above: in SPDY the request headers are compressed separately before any TLS compression would apply, so the attacker would have to put her guess of the cookie in the reques
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Trust me, the UK model works well compared to what the rest of the US gets..
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So the two are different because awk's call to read() is effectively the same as a read directly from a file, whereas copying is taking place through the pipe with the pipeline approach?
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Perhaps a better solution would be to tie it to the Google account on the phone? This could be done without requiring the user to remember any details as most people already have an account tied in.
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Really? I've done it once or twice, not hard at all with smali: http://code.google.com/p/smali/
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I would imagine this is a plus for them, sadly. It's probably easier to extract revenue from a walled garden than an equally user-friendly XMPP client.
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I use it to talk to my friends back home because: - it's free (or inexpensive compared to international SMS) - it doesn't require any technical expertise whatsoever - it's cross platform - it already has traction I can't think of any altern
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A bit like an inline footnote?
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The US federal government spent more on healthcare last year than the UK government did, despite the fact that federal programs in the US cover 27.8% of the population compared to 100% coverage by the NHS in the UK.
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I suspect the 77% is skewed towards the poor - in most European states only the fairly well off would ever go to a private hospital in the first place.
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This is not quite true. They can offer a discount when paying in cash, but they can't charge an extra fee when a credit card is used after the agreement to purchase. Source: http://usa.visa.com/personal/using_visa/checkout_fees/index....

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