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by sheepleherd 10y ago
I'm not an expert but I believe the industry gets paid a chunk for "radio play" in general (and things like radio play) on a per station/location basis, and then that chunk gets divided up not on the basis of what was ac
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
the math is amazing. Convolution integral, Laplace transform, Z transform, frequency domain, impulse response, step response, digital filters... it's all amazing.
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
So, you think that hiring smart people is a good idea, and you think that people who do well on IQ tests are smart, and you think that people who are not smart do poorly on IQ tests, but you are adding that there are some additional smart p
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
sorry if I offended you, I was making a point in debate-style, I wasn't attacking you. I also sense that you are not a native speaker of English: so, just mentioning, what you wrote comes across in English as very "there is only o
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
you sound like a libertarian invoking libertarian principles which I don't agree with so I don't see the "obviousness" of it that you see. Even if Blizzard hired Howard Roark himself as their architect, seems to me I sho
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
nice try, Nathan. Intellectual Ventures charges money for licensing, nothing free about it. I'm not saying they should be free, just saying they aren't.
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
he quotes Frost, but I don't see why he thinks "remaining a programmer" is "the road less taken". In most hierarchical promotion systems, one is chosen to lead many... leadership is always the road less taken, even
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
um, no? they raided his house because of child pornography. that he had a Tor node and that fact got him off the hook is the part that needs more analysis. How do we know he doesn't operate the node for the very purpose of watching kid
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
per capita, NYC has the smallest carbon footprint in the country. increasing the population density of existing cities is the most responsible thing we could do, and beyond that, yes, more cities.
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
It is sad (to me) that your comment has kicked off such spirited reply discussion, and it's all of limited value in evaluating the point made by the Economist article. It's just not true that cash on a balance sheet is idle. Corpo
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
You are not coming close to understanding what I'm saying. I don't think it's instructive to compare public broadcasting with McDonalds (a for profit company), I'd compare them to Wikipedia. Wikipedia goes to great pains
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
again, I am NOT and never was making an argument about federal funding. You are. I'm talking about the public who is according to public broadcasting the biggest portion of their support.
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
You are making a strawman argument, I didn't say "the public" meant taxpayers, I was talking about the "the public" in National "public" Radio and the "public" Broadcasting System, and the federa
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
If the public pays for NPR, why doesn't the public own the output? ie, why no Creative Commons licensing? Plenty of stuff on the internet is free; NPR is not free, we ALREADY paid for it. I would appreciate comments about the Creative
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
Don't want to go all academic on you all, but what they taught us in school is: "marketing" entails every aspect of interaction with customers, so if customers hear about your product, that's marketing. If you have a pro
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by sheepleherd 11y ago
I frankly never believed Jobs's story about "auditing" the typography class. Back in the day, there was a lot of worry in the computer industry about getting sued for copying "look and feel" of software developed el