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by stvswn 8y ago
Then why pass a law? If what you say is true, the publishers could enter alliances with each other and block Google with robots.txt until Google agrees to pay. I believe the answer is that some MEPs don't really care if it "wo
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by stvswn 8y ago
He did a lot in his life, wheelchair and all. He off to a great career in medicine (chief psychiatry resident at Massachussetts General) before he became a policy adviser to the Carter administration and then later a speechwriter for Monda
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by stvswn 8y ago
An iPhone is only as good as an ecosystem of apps. In your hypothetical, the only apps launched on iPhone would be those that are either paid apps or which have significant gating via in-app purchases. Many apps would just not develop for
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by stvswn 8y ago
Can you name an example of a Google product that you invested time in and then was later deprecated, without saying Google Reader?
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by stvswn 8y ago
I see from a different branch of this thread that the other answer is "XMPP support for Hangouts," which seems like a pretty specific feature to carry all this water.
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by stvswn 8y ago
If Google deprecates something = HN complains they deprecate everything If Google launches something = HN complains they deprecate everything I Google migrates, renames, merges, spins off, sells = HN complains they deprecate everything Goog
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by stvswn 8y ago
Sales is, by definition, revenue. In this context, sales=revenue (although there is non-sales revenue, which is why the two words mean two different things). I think you're getting at what is sometimes called "cost of revenue&quo
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by stvswn 8y ago
Yes, it should be reversed! Maybe a reeducation program?
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by stvswn 8y ago
I'm not so sure about the idea that education is important for its own sake, the way you framed it -- that somehow if we make everyone go to more schooling we'll have a better citizenry. They may learn the wrong things, they may
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by stvswn 8y ago
Just because college may be a great choice for social mobility at the individual level doesn't mean it can scale to everyone. I believe that anyone who gets into Harvard should finance it with as much debt as they like, regardless of
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by stvswn 8y ago
A lot of people are downvoting, I think, because they believe that you are representing that this is the state of the law, when it's really not so cut and dry. I think one could say that one's "duty" is more about what i
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by stvswn 8y ago
Are you really asking if it's possible to forbid information? It's possible because they have people with guns who will physically take you to jail. But maybe you mean: is it just? I'm generally libertarian-leaning, but th
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by stvswn 9y ago
Google does not use the content of your emails to target ads: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603 Ads where? Do you just mean display ads on the web? If so, your browser likely ended up on a list for dia
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by stvswn 9y ago
Google shows ads on Gmail under the Promotions tab. It does not scan emails to target ads. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603
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by stvswn 9y ago
Competition is a feature, not a bug -- you're recalling a trope that has been a reactionary criticism to Adam Smith for centuries now, and was a core tenet of Marx's ideas -- that with a little central planning, there wouldn'
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by stvswn 9y ago
I think this is a useful point, but the lived experience of a lot of us is that you can sleep relatively soundly at night knowing that your salary is negotiated and paid in U.S. Dollars or Euros or other currencies that are backed by stable
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by stvswn 9y ago
I'm critical of BTC but I think this is true. It is a technological breakthrough in this regard. I'm not entirely sure that the transaction costs are so low that most people would prefer to do it via BTC and not through a third
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by stvswn 9y ago
This criticism is not meant to say that each BTC will become practically too expensive to buy; we all understand that there are granular subdivisions. It's meant to say that a fixed money supply means that as usage of a currency expan
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by stvswn 9y ago
I'll probably get some of this wrong, but I read up on these arguments back when Piketty was in the news w/ his book: Yes, it can go on forever -- the rates of retun in the stock market are based, theoretically, on the changing ex
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by stvswn 9y ago
No, it's under the jurisdiction of the Santa Clara County sheriff (poster above is thus being very pedantic).
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by stvswn 9y ago
The Court believes it is stifling, yes. The question here is: can the Government engage in viewpoint discrimination? One situation where the Government can engage in viewpoint discrimination is when the Government itself is speaking. In
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by stvswn 9y ago
Your framing begs the question. The court ruled that the government does not, in fact, "provide IP coverage." You have a right to IP coverage. It is not the government's speech, it is your own. From the opinion: "If p
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by stvswn 9y ago
That was the government's argument and the Court's decision addressed it. Trademarks are not "government speech," they existed before the government -- both at the state level and in Common Law. Your trademark is prote
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by stvswn 9y ago
Judges asking questions like this don't give previews of their thinking necessarily. Often it's because they want a lawyer to make a particular argument in open court, so that they can take that argument into consideration. They
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by stvswn 9y ago
I love this part: >"But the S&P 500 defied the odds and rewarded investors with a historically normal 7.1 percent nine-year annualized return." He must know that 7% is something of a magic number, it's what Jeremy Sie
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by stvswn 9y ago
The skilled trades are very highly regarded among many, many people -- just not the same people who go to four year research universities. I was an officer and platoon leader in the Army, the endgame for a lot of my soldiers was to use thei
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by stvswn 10y ago
Google targets ads to signed-out users (if they consent, have cookies enabled, etc.), but they are careful not to join the fingerprint of a signed-out user with the fingerprint of a signed-in user. In other words, when you're signed ou
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by stvswn 10y ago
I'm not sure if you mean to be hitting on old Marxist tropes on purpose or if you've just absorbed some of the talking points, but I highly doubt that any poll of people who lived outside of "western standards of affluence&qu
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by stvswn 10y ago
What makes you jump to the conclusion that technology investment, or capitalism, or whatever you think is "bad" is "at the expense of others?" Currently, about 10% of the world's population lives in extreme poverty.
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by stvswn 10y ago
My best attempt at explaining, although this particular issue isn't one I feel all that strongly about: It's not that we're against the practical idea of a national ID card, it's that we're against giving the federa

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