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by sabat 16y ago
But California's counting on the tax revenue Says who? California is counting on the tax revenue generated by Facebook and Zynga? Seriously?
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by sabat 16y ago
most of the business ideas during the bubble were bad ideas Maybe not most, but a significant number of business ideas during the dot-com boom were ill-conceived. Profit and sustainability were things that would simply happen as if by mag
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by sabat 16y ago
Precisely: the people insisting that we're in yet another bubble cannot make the distinction between anecdotal and representative companies. Yes, there a handful of companies that may be overvalued. That is not going to take down the econom
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by sabat 16y ago
Treating the intangible as property was long established in common law Allowing copyright and patent monopoly was allowed, yes. That's not the same thing as "property," which is the point I'm making here. clause in the Constitution about
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by sabat 16y ago
We should rather call IP an intellectual monopoly privilege, than a right to a piece of property. I could not have said it better. It's not property, and no allowance for treating the intangible as property exists in the US constitution.
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by sabat 16y ago
From what I read, Steve had no chemo or radiation -- just an operation to remove the tumor.
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by sabat 16y ago
Their business model is vertical search. That's not a business model in the strict sense -- this guy's asking, "how does Stack Overflow make money?"
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by sabat 16y ago
On the positive side, Steve previously had a rare, treatable form of pancreatic cancer (see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/... ). If this is a recurrence of that, and they've caught it in time, then the odds ma
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by sabat 16y ago
It's just confirmation. The judgement from the (uninvolved) doctor that Jobs looks like he may have six weeks to live -- that's ominous. And probably not true, given that this guy's judging by someone's appearance in a photo.
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by sabat 16y ago
Present customs about taxation seem to derive mostly from tributes extracted by conquering tribes Tax money builds roads and other infrastructure in common. The origins of a system don't dictate its current reasons for existence -- it may
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by sabat 16y ago
What AT&T has done goes far beyond simplification -- it's downright dishonesty. Google does it more judiciously Comparing the two, that's an understatement.
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by sabat 16y ago
If the "solution" to paying taxes is privatizing everything, I'm all for living in the stone age.
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by sabat 16y ago
Six hours in the air as opposed to faster-than-sound flight or instant teleportation or virtual reality? Yes, we're still in the stone age.
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by sabat 16y ago
This is largely the result of cynical MBAs running companies. Can you imagine Google trying to water down terms to this degree? -- muchless just inventing buzzwords for "new technogies" out of whole cloth and cynically marketing them?
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by sabat 16y ago
IANAL, but I know there are existing cases. I confirmed it through a friend who's been doing HR here for years. So: either lawyers or HR people or both, I suppose.
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by sabat 16y ago
Literally laughing outloud at this.
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by sabat 16y ago
Regardless of the word used, this law does apply to copyrighted works in practice. "Invention" is used in the sense of "creations".
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by sabat 16y ago
The law specifically says that a company cannot claim to own your private work except under very specific conditions. If you, for instance, work for Zynga and develop a game that is very much modelled after a Zynga game, then Zynga has a ca
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by sabat 16y ago
Yes, Google does generally penalize that behavior, if the SEO companies cheat. Do what JC Penney apparently did -- use a load of unrelated sites to artificially boost its standing in search results -- and Google has a good reason to penaliz
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by sabat 16y ago
Not in California; we have a state law that specifically addresses (and forbids) this kind of behavior by companies. I'll let a poster over at the OP speak for me: California is one state where their policy is NOT enforceable as far as the
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by sabat 16y ago
AT&T has also been giving free mini-cells -- I have one. It's a little bigger than a typical wifi hub, and it connects to your local network and makes up for reception dead spots in your house. I wish they'd spend the money upgrading an
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by sabat 16y ago
I see it as just another well-thought and argued Chicken Little. Unsubstantiated speculation != a bubble.
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by sabat 16y ago
Often these startups sell services and products that reduce costs and save time for their customers.
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by sabat 16y ago
It's still small potatoes, though. This level of investing does not compare to the levels seen in 2000. That's what makes this post just another Chicken Little.
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by sabat 16y ago
That Groupon is probably a fad? Granted. That this automatically means there is some kind of "tech bubble"? That any startup related to the consumer space is going to implode and possibly take the whole tech sector with it? Blogga please.
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by sabat 16y ago
My local branch of the SF Peninsula library (Redwood Shores if you have to know) has a cafe with wifi and plenty of wall sockets. Nice place to work. As others noted, hacker work spaces are also good.
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by sabat 16y ago
It's a fad, nonetheless -- just a (currently) popular platform to be associated with.
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by sabat 16y ago
You're right, it caching won't help directly. But if every hit takes a tiny fraction of a second because it's (at least mostly) cached, it will take a lot more to overwhelm Apache. Caching Wordpress is not trivial, but it's not necessarily
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by sabat 16y ago
Rather than fuss over Apache settings, use some decent caching strategies and you won't need to worry about this at all. And BTW, nginx is not always faster than Apache, and not always the best choice for any app.
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by sabat 16y ago
A set of photographs of the tribe were indeed published by msnbc.com and others in May 2008. However, the images above - which were made available to the media for the first time yesterday - are not the same photographs. A Survival Interna

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