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by trhtrsh 14y ago
For example, they could offer to buy the patent from the current holder, and finance an attack on their competitors. But they chose a higher road.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Are you being satirical? https://www.google.com/search?q=valve+layoffs&#38 ;
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Do they send all their employees home at 5:30? Or are they hypocritical?
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Do you have kids? Having a 4-year-old in the office all day while people are working is negligent child care, except in cases of temporary emergency. Dogs can nap on the floor for 8 hours and be happy and not bother anyone.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Living off the land in a small unit is an incredibly inefficient way to produce value.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
because they are forced into a series of incremental trades that are not globally optimal across a lifetim, and cannot do things like borrow now and pay back later at mutually profitable rates, due to lender uncertainty.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Once you concede that it might be Pareto efficient, you've already lost. In the real world that's never the case. No one is (a) so spiteful that they will scuttle their supposed productivity because they are limited to $X Billion instead o
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
yummyfajitas certainly does. Check his extensive posting history on this topic.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
People care, they are just too lazy to do any research or return crappy products to the store. They just pay their money, hate the product, and be miserable, and forget the whole thing next time they buy from the ad or the salesperson at th
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
The example you picked, Vizio, is the lowest-end brand on the market. Nothing wrong with cheap, for the price you pay, but the whole point is that it cuts corners and isn't as good as the name brands.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Let's worry about that case after we've handled the 99% of cases where omnivorance is not supported by ethical practices.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Right, and that's why this lawmaking behavior is so wrong.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
"Professional" is bad enough. "Criminal" is far worse.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Sure, but we have obvious "chilling effects" when a law is explicitly written to combat a specific recently witnessed fact pattern, and the law is unconstitutional not only in some theoretical future fact pattern, but also in its well-docum
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Why do you need a law to ban something that is already illegal, or something that is intentionally protected by law? Trespassing and violating private legal activity is already illegal, and whistleblowing on criminal activity is protected
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
also http://pascalcula.blogspot.com/2011/10/setting-up-linux-on-w...
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Google's early success was much about the supportive environment for founding a company, not the academics: networking with investors and early hires, getting recommendations from influential professors, than it was about the "PhD project"
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Where the heck would anyone find a corpus of text to study that phrase? Oh, https://www.google.com/search?q=faces+life+after (Incidentally, Google's de-duplication logic fails horribly on that query. 6 of the top 10 results are the same b
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
A musician might. There aren't that many professions were a decent piece of work that makes one person happy can scale up to make a million people happy with minimal marginal effort.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
currency is a medium of exchange, a token representing a store of value (durable good) elsewhere. Gold coins are a store of value, since the coin itself can be melted down and used as a good (but these days gold has a pile of speculative bu
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
It has nothing to do with "comfortable folks producing for the government" and everything to do with coordinating production and consumption. If everyone produces for 20 years and accumulates money, and there is no inflation for 20 years, a
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
> sum total of money available is equal to the sum total of value in the world. This part is not completely accurate when you consider that money changes hands over time as value is created. (Multipliers) If the someone produces 1 widge
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Is it "inflation" if each new IOU is accompanied by a corresponding unit of production? I thought not, but I am no expert.
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
Once Alice has all the coupons, nobody can get any babysitting because they have consumed babysitting without producing anything. Either they need to start babysitting for Alice, or find something else valuable to sell to Alice, or decline
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
From the paper: ('ff' letters missing due to PDF copy/paste weirdness) =============== Due to the way bitcoins can be repeatedly moved to fresh addresses, some of which can be very recent, we can not claim that all these bitcoins are out of
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
One of the paper authors is Adi Shamir, the S in RSA, not just any "PHD holder".
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
why is gold more reliable than BTC? If the USA collapses, bullets may become the new currency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Paintballs
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
and bitcoin has entertainment value, like a movie DVD. no one would spending $1000/oz on the world's supply of gold for semiconductance -- only a small amount on the margin would satisfy all industrial demand. >90% The price of gold is
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
What happens if you want to send me a $1, but your only coin is $100, and I try to steal the change by not sending you the change, sending my own address the change instead? Is it equivalent to me just running off with a $100 bill of yours
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by trhtrsh 14y ago
When an 'anonymous' purchase gets mailed to your house, that creates evidence that you are the anonymous person.

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