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by wissler 13y ago
I was about to say the same thing -- glad to see I'm not the only one who recognizes the real reason why there will be no more competition in this space.
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by wissler 13y ago
It comes down to whether you think it's moral that one person filing paperwork with a bureaucrat grants him the right to haul other people who independently think the same thing he did into court, trying to take their property. Patents
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by wissler 13y ago
Patents are morally reprehensible in principle, the result in practice is therefore inevitable. There is no middle road or way around this: patents must be abolished.
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by wissler 13y ago
Evidently you're not familiar with moral philosophy, but there is a difference between taking an action that you know will kill random people vs. not taking the action and leaving things to accident. Also, there is a problem with the h
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by wissler 13y ago
"if vaccines killed one person for every ten saved it would still be worthwhile" Why?
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by wissler 13y ago
Of course it is completely ideologically bankrupt, but so is virtually everything else about our political and cultural institutions. Not a whole lot has changed on this front since Galileo was thrown into prison, at least not in terms of i
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by wissler 13y ago
Fallout from the recently enacted and ironically titled "America Invents Act": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...
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by wissler 13y ago
It's clearly not as simple as that, since there is such a thing as tyranny and perversion of justice. Now, you may be the kind of person who would approve of what his government does, whatever it does, and you may even be in the majori
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by wissler 13y ago
People should be able to knowingly enter into whatever contract they want. Glad you agree. Should a company should be able to... Contract theory is far more rich a subject than you realize. In your example, a rational theory of contract
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by wissler 13y ago
Considering the fact that we know 99.9% of people blindly click through agreements, this is the way it should be. This is just a bald-faced non-sequitur.
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by wissler 13y ago
Of course it's punishment. You have to pay an extraordinary amount of time and money under threat of violence. And even when you do comply, from then on you have to start judging whether or not the next feature you add is worth the cos
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by wissler 13y ago
In our era, it doesn't matter if two consenting parties agree, what matters is whether the judge or regulatory agency approves of the agreement.
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by wissler 13y ago
No, you stop advocating that the rights of innocents are violated for the sake of cases where there is evidence of fraud. Instead, advocate that cases of fraud are actually followed up on. Be an upstanding citizen, not part of the ignorant
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by wissler 13y ago
It is good to know of real-world misdiagnoses made via 23andMe. Now, can we see some real-world statistics by the government-licensed medical profession? I wonder what a side-by-side analysis of the errors 23andMe has made vs. those the med
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by wissler 13y ago
It's just a trivial statement of cause and effect. If the causes in operation are in operation, then ceteris paribus the effect will occur.
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by wissler 13y ago
Actually, the "aka" is: "I fully realize that most people have been indoctrinated to ignore the obvious, but here's the obvious."
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by wissler 13y ago
Make no mistake -- after having stomped on this "not little guy", any new little guy that comes along is definitely going to get stomped on. Which of course means that no new little guys are going to come along. This is the proces
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by wissler 13y ago
Fact check: libertarians think fraud is a rights violation, a crime that is properly punished. On the other hand, governance by the FDA is tantamount to punishing for a crime not committed. It'd be like putting cameras in your home bec
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by wissler 13y ago
As if the FDA were qualified to make such determinations.
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by wissler 13y ago
http://www.quora.com/Elon-Musk/Is-Elon-Musk-the-next-Steve-J...
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by wissler 13y ago
The problem with this isn't OO, it's a misuse of OO, which isn't supposed to be about metaphors but programming by difference.
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by wissler 13y ago
I think there's a straw man here. I don't think any sensible person from any paradigm would have objected to the code as it was originally written. The substantive arguments between paradigms happen at larger scales of code organi
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by wissler 13y ago
What will Bitcoin clones do to the value of Bitcoin? In principle you could have an unlimited number of them, it's not as if Bitcoin is the only possible instantiation of a cryptocurrency.
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by wissler 13y ago
Regarding the EE bashing, there's an element of truth but overall it is an unfair characterization. I think the true source of the problem lies not in the EE degree or lack of a CS degree, but in a specific, weird distrust of abstracti
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by wissler 13y ago
Is there a reason why something so fundamental as throttle control/braking ought to be governed by a computer, instead of by foolproof old-fashioned hardware?
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by wissler 13y ago
The fact that we regard it as "civilized" discourse to treat people with respect regardless of how barbaric their remarks are is one of the problems with our present state of civilization.
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by wissler 13y ago
People like you are why things just keep getting worse.
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by wissler 13y ago
If most people don't have trouble believing it -- then that's not the real problem.
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by wissler 13y ago
It is not just about these cops, these doctors, or this judge. It is about institutional rot, a rot so wide and deep that to point it out will get you scorn and ridicule in most quarters.
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by wissler 13y ago
That is a presumptuous attitude, completely wrongheaded. I have a ton of music and that's what I put on the microSD. If I lose it, no big deal, but it's really nice to be able to have all my music there.

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