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by tc 17y ago
In the real world, how likely is it that such an ActiveX tactic would go unpunished by Google's competitors and browser vendors? Microsoft would just stand idly by? There are benefits to being good that exist outside of the law ( http://w
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by tc 17y ago
Basically the equation you are advocating goes as follows: 1. Larry creates something immensely valuable for the world. 2. Through innovation, Larry is able to sell it for a fraction of its earlier price, or even to give it away for free. 3
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by tc 17y ago
So far it appears that you and I are swimming against a wave of populism on HN. Oh well, this too shall pass...
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by tc 17y ago
They did this until they were the only 2 left. The Standard Oil case you reference is widely misunderstood. Standard Oil's market share was dropping for a decade before the anti-trust case. And at the time of the case, 1911, there wer
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by tc 17y ago
It's irrelevant to me too, so I sympathize with this view. Objectively speaking though, BitTorrent seems to have lots of users. And speaking more generally, I do believe there is a sense of trust that is broken when a customer realizes tha
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by tc 17y ago
This is good news for Google Android and the Android Market, if Apple decides to further pursue this policy. Can you imagine how secure Google's position in search would be if their competitors censored search results tangentially related
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by tc 17y ago
A combination, of course. Let's say, "skimming with awareness of what I'm leaving on the page." If you've never seriously tried it, you might be amazed just how far you can push your reading speed on low-density material while still retai
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by tc 17y ago
I find that I compensate by varying my reading speed. You have to slow down to read Feynman, but you can often take the New Yorker at a few thousand words a minute.
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by tc 17y ago
I would agree with that. So here's what Lessig doesn't get now: he thinks that the money going into politics is the problem. It's not, it's just a symptom. The immense centralized power that Congress has to pick winners and losers, a
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by tc 17y ago
Summary: What Lessig wants is mostly right, but by refusing to trust the market to get there, Lessig is willing to give power to DC politicians at the expense of property rights and individual choice. Historically that seems like a bad rec
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by tc 17y ago
Being a political ally would work as well. Seek out the controlling faction, show up at their social and political events, and offer to help on campaigns. Of course, when you find that doing that works to your benefit, you might feel dirt
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by tc 17y ago
I still cling to the notion that flags are for spam, rather than for even aggressive cases of the false dilemma, otherwise I would join you.
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by tc 17y ago
Mu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)
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by tc 17y ago
I'm convinced that most people would be well served to care more about the keyboard they use. While I've yet to try a Kinesis keyboard, I can attest that TypeMatrix ( http://typematrix.com/ ) keyboards are superb (~ $120). Once you try one
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by tc 17y ago
Do you really think people need Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, or John Boehner to command them from on-high in Washington DC on how to morally conduct commerce? Fraud is a crime. Cities have been dealing with it for a long time. People don't
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by tc 17y ago
Without living in the UK myself, it is difficult for me to separate the exceptional cases from the general trend. What I can say is that in America, things that would have seemed exceptional ten and twenty years ago have become depressingl
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by tc 17y ago
That unwavering respect for individual liberty and personal sovereignty is superior to all other systems by which man can relate to man. That no end can be moral if the means to that end require using violence and force against a peaceful i
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by tc 17y ago
Unlike a prudent household or business, when times are good governments spend every penny, and commit themselves to future spending as if growth will continue without interruption forever. Invariably then, when the downturn hits, rather th
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by tc 17y ago
Before anyone complains or flags, let me say that I debated whether or not to submit this, as HN has been especially touchy about government-oriented posts lately. I decided to submit it anyway because 1) the piece is careful, non-hysteric
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Thought police muscle up in Britain, soft totalitarianism arrives(theaustralian.news.com.au)
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by tc 17y ago
Not to change the terms of the debate, but you know, at the end of the day, it's a bit tyrannical that a person should be expected to consult anything from Washington DC to hold a yard sale.
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by tc 17y ago
My understanding is that, while you are technically correct about some details, the larger point is that the law presumes your goods to be dangerous until you do testing to prove those goods to NOT have the characteristics described above.
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by tc 17y ago
If you've never come across it before, you should really read Joel Salatin's "Everything I Want to Do is Illegal," a farmer's perspective on how regulations crowd out local and organic farmers, destroy farming communities, favor industriali
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by tc 17y ago
Who are we? I'm speaking to the US audience. Do we? Yes. I don't have rigorous data in front in me, but as a society we've become wealthier over, say, the last 60 years. In every community I've every been a part of, talked with others
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by tc 17y ago
Interesting fact that, despite spending more money on public schools every year, we get steadily declining results.
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by tc 17y ago
I have no idea how different your implementation needs to be to be safe from the patent, though. Neither does anyone else until you put it before a jury. That's a large part of the problem.
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by tc 17y ago
If a stranger (carefully) picked the lock to your home, then proceeded to vacuum-clean your carpets, mop your floors, and wash your windows, would you not call that breaking and entering? (I'm assuming here that the original advertisements
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by tc 17y ago
From the video: We're trying to make a point here that the public should be the ones using the public space and not commercial and private interests. This guy lives in a different world. Equivocation aside, those 'public' spaces are priv
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by tc 17y ago
My own recommendation is that a company should lose its rights to a patent if there is not at least one product released by the company in x years. Why bother? It would be trivial to game.
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by tc 17y ago
This paragraph struck me: "That means that if we want to achieve our ideal of equal salaries for men and women, we may need to legislate the principle of equal pay for less work. Personally, I support that principle. But I recognize it's

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