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by semiel 13y ago
This is an interesting take on that problem: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/tech-companie...
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by semiel 13y ago
Summary of this article: "There is some limited but direct evidence that Programmer Anarchy is effective, and as of yet no evidence that it is not. However, it confuses and scares me, so I will say many words about how it could never w
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by semiel 13y ago
I know you're kidding, but for the edification of anyone wondering why the normal route looks longer than the current route: Lines on maps are not accurate representations of the shortest distance between the points, because maps are 2
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by semiel 13y ago
That's a pretty silly strawman. It would obviously be a better idea to work fewer months out of the year, or weeks out of the month, or days out of the week. How long a single session of work is is probably the least important variable
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by semiel 13y ago
> Any less and a society can't function I disagree with this. There is simply less work to be done than there used to be, what with automated factories and powerful computers. We've somehow turned this into an "unemploymen
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by semiel 13y ago
The Supreme Court is nothing more (or less) than the final judicial authority in the United States. They can still only rule on specific cases that happen to get appealed far enough to make it to them. Courts can strike down unconstitutiona
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by semiel 13y ago
It's a cost-benefit analysis. As a completely entry-level developer, I could a lot of time trying to find a company whose product I believe in that will hire more, or I could spend that same time working for whoever will cut me a paych
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by semiel 13y ago
> It's almost a negative version of the Tragedy of the Commons / Public Goods Dilemma. If every small company stood up and said "no, we will not settle" then there would be far less incentive to pursue bogus infringem
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by semiel 13y ago
As someone active in the kink scene, the current legal situation seems to be: Sadomasochism is probably illegal in most states, but no prosecutor seems eager for the shitshow that would happen if they tried to prosecute something that was c
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by semiel 13y ago
Google+ has a very specific niche at the moment: Groups of specialized hobbyists who want a platform that's a hybrid between a microblog service and a message board. I know that it's currently the center of the indie tabletop RPG world, for
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by semiel 13y ago
Interesting! I actually get a slightly different answer: http://decode.org/?q=SbheYbatNggenpgvirPnanqvnaJbbqJevgvat No one you've tried it on has produced my version?