rprasad

14 ms·

91.
by rprasad 14y ago
Let me get this straight: you want to contact a group of judges and prosecutors and "let them know you don't approve of her actions." What exactly do you hope to accomplish by this? Federal judges and prosecutors already get this every d
92.
by rprasad 14y ago
This is quite possibly the worst idea ever. Let's not just go after one person, let's go after everyone she ever knows, even if they have no involvement in this particular incident? Are you going to suggest we tar, feather, and lynch them t
93.
by rprasad 14y ago
Prosecutors are self-selected to be zealous defenders of the rule of law as it is written. (Quite frequently, people who believe in the rule of law as it is intended choose to go into defense work.) Thus, they need no financial or social i
94.
by rprasad 14y ago
The problem is not that Aaron accessed the information; it is that he abused the public resources used to maintain the store of information, and further that he did so in such an egregious matter. He would not have been prosecuted if he ha
95.
by rprasad 14y ago
The issue is that deciding not to pay your taxes means that the dogs are set on you. This is not a free society, unfortunately. Perhaps bitcoin will change all of this. I've been contemplating the idea of a shadow economy where people work
96.
by rprasad 14y ago
It's not a matter of restricting access to public knowledge; it's a matter of Aaron draining the village pool. Information shares all of the downsides of the public commons: because it is freely available, no one wants to pay for the mainte
97.
by rprasad 14y ago
JSTOR is a non-profit created to store scholarly articles and maintain archives of scholarly work for future access. JSTOR is and was a driving force behind the digitalization of scholarly works and most academic journals. JSTOR's sole fu
98.
by rprasad 14y ago
European club soccer is much closer to this model and it both creates really strong competition at the top end and a large spread between the top and bottom teams in a league. It is also very difficult to move from the bottom to the top wi
99.
by rprasad 14y ago
That's an inventive take on the owners demanding the players give up 15% of their profit stake on top of 10-35% cuts to salaries, contract rights, health benefits, and licensing rights. The owners started with a ridiculous offer and maintai
100.
by rprasad 14y ago
B. Movies at the Star Wars level (i.e., blockbusters) cost about 200x as much as a single one-hour episode yet are only about twice as long. A TV show would also double as extended brand advertising. Every episode would renew interest in,
101.
by rprasad 14y ago
Apple is so secretive with its development process for the same reason bank robbers are paranoid about other people stealing their money; it's how they got where they are and they can't imagine that there's any other way to do it. Pretty mu
102.
by rprasad 14y ago
Unless they made significant changes to BART after 2007, L.A.'s Metro is better than BART--it has better coverage of most locations that people actually want to go or come from (except for the airports, as litigation has held up those exten
103.
by rprasad 14y ago
Gold is inherently useful as a tangible object with exploitable physical properties. Gold, for example, has good conductivity and is used to plate electrical connections. Gold is also useful for its rust-resistance. Thus, on this basis, l
104.
by rprasad 14y ago
FDIC insurance applies if the bank goes bankrupt (and has since the 1930s), ergo, I would still get my money back. It is not a matter of arbitration; banks have gone bust frequently enough that there is a settled procedure for issuing ins
105.
by rprasad 14y ago
Yes. There is enough evidence of this that NYC created an entirely new beauracracy just to handle these issues. Numerous papers have published articles describing fraudulent or deceptive AirBnB listings, the guests' lack of resource, AirB
106.
by rprasad 14y ago
A secure bitcoin service provider should never manipulate the wallet directly, or in realtime. Transactions should be handled transparently, logged, and then actuall excuted on the offline wallet later after fraud and loss mitigation routi
107.
by rprasad 14y ago
All the problems they've had have come from the regulatory authorities, except for those one or two bad incidents on AirBNB which are pretty much unavoidable in a business like that. Atlantic, Wired, the NY Times, Chicago Tribune, and the
108.
by rprasad 14y ago
Note how free market works great in this case: the organization costs people their lost money and will most likely go out of business. Unlike big banks. That sounds horrible. If a bank gets hacked and "loses" my money, they owe me that
109.
by rprasad 14y ago
I disagree 100% with your non-Bitcoin factual assertions because they are demonstrably false but I do not have the time to address them point-by-point. But I will address this one major factual error: Legitimate banks don't get hacked beca
110.
by rprasad 14y ago
The Bitcoin economy is learning, repeatedly, the hard way, that financial systems security is one of the most difficult, intransigent problems that any business will face. The goal posts are constantly moving, and there are always people t
111.
by rprasad 14y ago
No, but my industry is license-based, and acquiring the license requires a degree and a very expensive test. The problem for most jobs that "require" a degree is that a degree signifies a minimum knowledge base and experience with the subje
112.
by rprasad 14y ago
This is a niche market and Flights with Friends does not address the primary pain point of group traveling: getting everyone to commit to the trip and pay . Organizing what to do and where to stay is the easy part.
113.
by rprasad 14y ago
No. The second sentence indicates that althrough most group travel happens primarily offline through agents, it still represents a small portion overall of each travel agent's business. Non-group travel represents the bulk of most travel
114.
by rprasad 14y ago
Yes. If you read the terms of service for the Opera Mini browser, they disclose that HTTPS sessions are not end-to-end.
115.
by rprasad 14y ago
I assume the title is a play on the Erland grammar/syntax and not a lame attempt to be ghetto cool? It's cool that the book is available online. I may need to spend some time learning Erlang.
116.
by rprasad 14y ago
Damn that Zuckerberg! If only he hadn't donated that money, it would magically have appeared out of the aether so that the Newark school district could attempt this experiment which, if successful, could restructure teacher compensation an
117.
by rprasad 14y ago
In contrast, I'd rather be unemployed in California than earn $100k in Cleveland. Why? At the end of the day, I'd be living in Cleveland, and no amount of money could make up for that. A large part of the reason that California and NYC ar
118.
by rprasad 14y ago
The difference between marginal tax rates and effective tax rates is the difference between night and day. After all, on a marginal-rate basis, the U.S. has the highest corporate income tax rate in the world. On an effective-rate basis, th
119.
by rprasad 14y ago
Yes, I read the article. Pushing basic functionality to a plugin is not a solution, as themes would still need to be rewritten to use the plugin. Putting basic functionality in a plugin works with RoR because developers are used to it, but
120.
by rprasad 14y ago
Issues with private health care: 1) Private health insurers haven't been able to run anything efficiently as long as I've been alive. My premiums go up by double digit percentages every year because "costs" keep increasing, but at the same

More ›