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by wissler 14y ago
At least Steve Jobs knew what the patent system was actually for.
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by wissler 14y ago
You don't need to be competent to destroy. As they say, it's far easier to destroy than it is to create. Government destroys incentive by threats, laws, regulations, direct appropriation, usurping the educational system, etc. etc. etc. You
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by wissler 14y ago
Too much government interference right now for that kind of thing to bear fruit. We need radical research not the slow meandering kind that the FDA allows us.
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by wissler 14y ago
Calling it "rage quitting" when someone is no longer interested in playing a game you want them to play is an intimidation tactic. It's really none of your business to tell someone what they must play and when and how. In more civilized tim
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by wissler 14y ago
This was created for comments like that: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
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by wissler 14y ago
Please don't underestimate #2. We in the software field have massive liberty compared to scientists trying to solve problems relating to human life and disease. And indeed, there are plenty of smart people who avoid this realm just because
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by wissler 14y ago
I agree with Raganwald's sentiment, and I think most of the posters here at HN lack vision and standards and are just fat dumb and happy with the status quo. Well the status quo is not good enough, and YOU need to raise your standards and e
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by wissler 14y ago
I'd like your analogy -- if Apple didn't get there in part by doing the same, e.g. attacking Samsung with ridiculous patent suits.
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by wissler 14y ago
It is only a step in the right direction if it's not thought to have solved the problem. If it is thought to have solved the problem, then it's a step in the wrong direction, even if it means that justice has been partly served. I.e., the r
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by wissler 14y ago
"At this point, the DOJ should apologize, investigate internally and fire those who were involved in Aaron's case." This is a bit naive. Certainly it would help the DOJ's image if they did this, and certainly firing those involved would be
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by wissler 14y ago
What a profound moral sense and courage. We need more people in the world like Lessig.
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by wissler 14y ago
You are a profoundly confused person.
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by wissler 14y ago
There's a huge difference between having the power of Ortiz -- in effect, a gun pointed at Aaron saying "come to jail peacefully or die resisting arrest, your choice" -- and Linus tossing off remarks he's obviously not going to implement. R
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by wissler 14y ago
Thank you for saying that.
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by wissler 14y ago
This will make your grandchildren happy with you: "When oil comes to the surface, it often brings natural gas with it, and according to North Dakota's Department of Mineral Resources, 29 percent of the natural gas now extracted in North Dak
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by wissler 14y ago
A litmus test of moral cowardice.
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by wissler 14y ago
Calling them completely ineffective is a stretch, at a minimum they create more opportunity for spreading news. Whether that has any effect is a function of the person who receives it.
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by wissler 14y ago
Wow. If you can't discern a principle when shown something of a different degree, then I really think you're a complete idiot.
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by wissler 14y ago
Doing her job? Please see the movie "Judgement at Nuremberg" regarding "I was just doing my job". Seriously, see this movie. And, "no less"? On the contrary, all prosecutors do substantially less. They don't actually apply the law most of t
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by wissler 14y ago
The only problem with your view is that the prosecutor has a wide degree of personal choice about how viciously to prosecute, and thus bears moral responsibility. It's the same as a soldier who chooses where to aim his gun -- there are mora
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by wissler 14y ago
Positioning? They are a "bad guy."
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by wissler 14y ago
To you. Ergo you ask questions, you don't insert your premises where you fail to comprehend mine.
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by wissler 14y ago
No, I'm not saying he needs to be "careful," I'm saying he needs to be just, and I think else everyone does too (including those who upvote unjust remarks). It's certainly not just him I'm talking about, and if it were only him who engaged
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by wissler 14y ago
I'm saying that IF you believe Ed's initial post was unjust, then you believe he's responsible for an unjust -- i.e. immoral -- action. And if you believe that his statement possibly led to removing moral (and financial!) sanction from Aaro
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by wissler 14y ago
It was, evidently, demoralization that killed Aaron. Ed took away moral support. So don't say he doesn't partly bear some responsibility. Whether you think he deserves a measure of blame or not depends on whether you think his original rema
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by wissler 14y ago
Our government is sick because our culture is sick, and our culture is sick because masses of individuals are sick, and few of them want to look in a mirror. And I am most definitely thinking about many of the posters here at HN.
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by wissler 14y ago
So, you're a philosophy buff, but you can't help yourself regarding ignorant presumption about another person's thoughts. I don't think philosophy has taught you much about being careful with ideas. That too is ironic. I shouldn't have to d
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by wissler 14y ago
What an ironic question. What do you think the rational purpose of philosophy is?
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by wissler 14y ago
No, I don't think that. If you think that I do based on so little evidence, then you're clearly out of touch with reality, a lot.
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by wissler 14y ago
Would you like the red or the blue pill?

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