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by tolmasky 11y ago
> I can see the author's point of view, but this is a rare case (for me personally) that I am not in support of more government oversight. This seems to be a trend, when people know about a certain field well, they are against the
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by tolmasky 11y ago
> if you understand it Someday we'll figure out that this is the problem with most features.
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by tolmasky 11y ago
A lot of problems look this way. If you want to really start thinking about this: ask yourself whether we should be focusing on obesity and heart disease at all. What greater rich person problem than too much food . You could argue that we
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by tolmasky 11y ago
> Content providers need to get paid just as much as taxi drivers, taxi drivers even moreso. Content providers can take advantage of the zero marginal cost of them distributing their product, taxi drivers are stuck working at an hourly
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by tolmasky 11y ago
> but I am supportive of regulations that permit people to have an acceptable quality of life. This is the same reasoning as DMCA btw. I'm curious, have you NEVER gotten ahold of media illegally? Even if you haven't, if artis
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Basic income will probably result in even more antagonism towards immigrants. As Milton Friedman said, "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state". I feel immigration to the US is too restrict
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by tolmasky 11y ago
The problem isn't that there isn't any impactful work, its that impactful work is hard to identify at the outset. We've allowed narratives to shape our view of how "impact" gets made: the aha moment when a scientist
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by tolmasky 11y ago
But this IS kind of what happened! Ignoring temporarily the very good points below of this not being a good analogy (you'd have to take into account one app at a time, streaming, etc), this is essentially what happened "naturally&
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by tolmasky 11y ago
> Because huge corporations are not loyal to their workers, so fuck them. They have to pay up front. I think you mistook what I was saying. I meant, the calls to patriotism seem to disappear when the government deals with corporations
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by tolmasky 11y ago
No one is "owed" anything, I'm simply pointing out two things: 1. Be skeptical of offerings that are below market rate in exchange for intangibles, like being "part of something". You often discover that there are c
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by tolmasky 11y ago
There's no excuse for not giving people what they're owed -- never trust anyone that wants to exploit your skills. Whether its by "changing the world" in a startup or being patriotic for the government. > The fact th
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Many disclaimers: 1. This clearly took A LOT of work, and I have not finished reading it. I intend to, but as another comment calculated below, that will take around 127 minutes. This comment is simply about the beginning. 2. I'm not 1
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by tolmasky 11y ago
I believe you showed in one of your demonstrations (or someone else showing ramda), a very simple elegant example: > sum = reduce(add, 0) > sum([1,10,20]) With something like trine, composition can only happen really happ
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Theres tons of successes, we just refuse to count them. Photoshop (as hinted in the article), is a super special purpose language for doing image operations. It no longer "looks" like coding, so we don't count it as coding fo
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Its a deeply interrelated issue. Personally, "copyright owners need to be able to control the distribution of their IP" is far more frightening to hear to me than anything about ads. Every "advancement" made for IP hol
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Are we really to the point where a company explicitly stating that you need their hardware/software to view a stream, and requiring steps that normal people would be completely unaware of to circumvent is considered "equivalent&qu
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by tolmasky 11y ago
It's unclear whether this is true or not. Prior to literacy bring widespread, it may have been looked at similarly: "I'm good at tailoring, you can't expect me to learn to read and write like a monk". But as it turn
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by tolmasky 11y ago
> Why would I upgrade to Windows 7 on an old laptop, I would rather just buy another one where OS X is free. Are you saying "why would I spend 150 on a Windows 7 upgrade instead of paying $1299 for a Mac laptop where OS X is free?
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by tolmasky 11y ago
1. Here you go, first result from Google search: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4408578?start=0&tstart=... . Problem starts in 2012, still going end of 2014. 50,000 views. My current issue with iMessages is th
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by tolmasky 11y ago
You just listed a bunch of broken products that do nothing but make me skeptical of apple even being able to properly store my data, let alone analyze it. imessages is notorious for not even being able to deliver messages in order many time
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Yes, but this time it is disappointing. If the website was a tool for learning logic gates, it would be perfectly acceptable and quite clever. However, since the website is saying that it has implemented logic gates in CSS, a natural, if
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by tolmasky 11y ago
For all practical purposes, this is IE - nobody would choose to use it, but because it will come bundled Where is this conclusion coming from? If a new engine won't make it not "IE", then what will?
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by tolmasky 12y ago
The question of slavery seems quite orthogonal to government. It was, after all, the United States government that codified and made slavery law in the first place. It was, after all, the southern governments that subsidized slave owners co
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> but I think Apple sees what I see in that weight and battery life are more important than number of ports. The review specifically talks about the disappointing battery life. If Apple cared about battery life, they would have opted t
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by tolmasky 12y ago
It was certainly 1) mentioned in the article and 2) a part of my critique (that I specifically quoted). And since Palantir is a "point-by-point" counterargument of my critique, I suppose it should at least be somewhat important. P
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I'm relatively certain that despite not seeking an IPO, Palantir is not a nonprofit organization (a key part of the proposal in this article). Maybe I missed that memo though, can you point to their page so I can make a tax-deductible
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by tolmasky 12y ago
> Start it as a non-profit or an intentionally unprofitable corporation. > Hire better people. You’ll be able to compete with top startups for talent, because your startup work environment combined with the mission of making this c
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by tolmasky 12y ago
Chromebook can now run Android apps (a few now, more as time goes on). That means soon people will be able to play their android games on them, including Minecraft pocket?
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by tolmasky 12y ago
False dichotomy. You said "Monopolies are okay when the the good in question only exists because of the monopolist." I was asking if, given their existence, it would really be "OK" to have one person control it. You came
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by tolmasky 12y ago
I think most times its worth the "redundancy" in cost of multiple parties discovering the same thing, because then at least they can use it. The way things stand now, plenty of biotech companies just shelve patented things and the

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