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by tc 17y ago
Online stores group products by who sells them. One of the challenges of abstracting this layer is that who sells the product still adds or subtracts value from the purchasing experience because of those mundane details (shipping speed,
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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning(steveblank.com)
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Five Netbooks Microsoft Has Crushed(networkworld.com)
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Markdown redux, and walking the AST to generate (statically) valid XHTML(eigenclass.org)
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Credit Card Debt Correlates with Small Business Failure(businessweek.com)
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Allen Andersson loses $300M fortune (and had a blast doing it)(washingtonpost.com)
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Things are still getting worse for the advertising industry(economist.com)
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by tc 17y ago
He does reveal quite a bit about his own biases, but he walked away with the realization that the things he would criticize most about America are also what make America possible.
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by tc 17y ago
That piece resonated with me. In the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America), sometimes it takes a fascinated outsider to draw a properly nuanced picture of what it really means to be an American.
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by tc 17y ago
I don't believe that is necessarily the deontological response. Remember that morality is mostly a tool for exclusion; more than one moral choice often remains. A deontological person can still practice triage. Without more information (s
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by tc 17y ago
Please also consider the role of mutual consent in your world view -- it's important! The servers and cooks work in that restaurant because they want to as compared to their other options for using their time. We could speculate about h
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by tc 17y ago
Aaron, I believe you're getting confused because you haven't established for yourself a clear notion of basic morality or ethics. Many philosophers have covered what it means to act morally -- Aristotle, Socrates, Kant, and even Jefferson
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by tc 17y ago
Would we really be any better off if they never had? Even considering the App Store policies which are objectionable to some?
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by tc 17y ago
Corporations are just collections of people (except for the grant of limited liability, which is really an abuse). Too often, I think, we judge 'harmful' by the impossible standard of "could I imagine things being better if I could force ot
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by tc 17y ago
That example discusses a naturally competitive situation and how that wasn't apparently optimal. No one was worse off for the companies existing, and they weren't even monopolies, making it irrelevant to our discussion here. The example c
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by tc 17y ago
Please provide an example of where this has ever been the case. That is, where a company without a government grant of exclusivity (or other sorts of government favoritism) in a market has been able to 1) sustain that monopoly for more tha
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by tc 17y ago
We're quibbling about terms, and I always fear at this point in a thread that the need to be right might overwhelm continued reading comprehension. But in economic parlance, if (let's say) a power company came to be a dominant monopoly in
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by tc 17y ago
The section you reference deals with regulation as a solution to mitigating the perceived harms of an existing natural monopoly.
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by tc 17y ago
I don't want to quibble about this forever, but you're still missing my point. I said there wasn't anything natural about a government-granted monopoly because government-granted monopolies are not "natural monopolies" (in the academic eco
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by tc 17y ago
Monopoly? Last I checked there were multiple competing mobile carriers. You do have to put a lot of capital at risk though to be a national carrier. Which is exactly the point, really. Someone put a lot of capital at risk, and now
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by tc 17y ago
Please identify whether a "sweetheart municipal franchise agreement" is a "natural monopoly" or a "coercive monopoly." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_monopoly [Edited]
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by tc 17y ago
These are natural monopolies we're dealing with. There is nothing natural about a monopoly (or in this case, oligopoly ) ordained by government. And that is the problem that should be addressed directly. Current government policies cre
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by tc 17y ago
You are being over-broad with the scary word collusion. Collusion would be AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc. agreeing to keep voice revenues for the industry high by crippling mobile data. Nothing in a carrier's agreement with a
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by tc 17y ago
That's nice and all, but no one is forcing developers to support Apple and AT&T either. Apple was never really thrilled with the idea of having third-party developers. Let's not be too patronizing to AppStore developers -- they all kn
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by tc 17y ago
This can't end well. At the end of the day, Apple and AT&T have the right (or should have the right) to make any agreements they find necessary, and customers obviously have the power to reject the iPhone and AT&T if this matters
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by tc 17y ago
«Que l'on me donne six lignes écrite de la main de l'homme le plus honnête, et je trouverai de quoi le faire pendre !» ("Give me six lines from the hand of the most honest man, and I will find in them a reason to hang him!") -- Cardinal de
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by tc 17y ago
I recognize what he's talking about too, but having given both sides a serious whirl, my life is still definitely better for free software. Years ago Linux desktop usage was a bit of a drag. But at the time, Windows servers were so much wo
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by tc 17y ago
In a twisted way, the US government, via its reckless spending, actually provides a service to foreign governments [1]. By selling an unlimited supply of debt abroad and being a black hole of unlimited consumption at home, the US allows
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by tc 17y ago
The process he went through is so obvious that someone must have done this already [1], right? Right? If this really is a new discovery, what would astound me is how easily everyone else must have given up. [1] Not that it would take anyt
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by tc 17y ago
Saying, "epoll is already enabled in [the] most recent kernel[s], but some strange distributions (which will remain nameless) have this feature disabled," is cute, but it would be more useful if you named the distributions so people know if

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