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by wstrange 11y ago
Most of the extreme wealth comes from rent seeking.
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by wstrange 11y ago
I never heard the theory that they broke up because of the tax rates. Thought it had something to do with Yoko :-) Tax avoidance is a significant issue that will require some international coordination - but I do think it is a solvable prob
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by wstrange 11y ago
It's a double edge sword. Yes, Walmart helped to lower costs for the poor, but they also drove a lot of small businesses under and have fought hard to suppress wages and benefits. Overall, I'm not sure it is a net win.
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by wstrange 11y ago
A lot of those lavish benefits would inject money into to the system instead of sitting in an offshore account. That helps everyone. As Paul Krugman says, "your spending is my income", and visa-versa
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by wstrange 11y ago
Exactly. Warren Buffet has said an increased tax rate would not make him work any less hard. The desire to change the world is a more powerful motivator than money.
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by wstrange 11y ago
How is Kreb's at fault? Talk about blaming the victim!
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by wstrange 11y ago
As an artist, you should be so lucky that people want to copy your art. It is the best way to ensure your relevance. Think of a band like U2 - probably the most copied "art" in the world. From memory, their last tour grossed over
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by wstrange 11y ago
True -the system does need reform. But certain companies behave much more badly than others. We should call them out on it.
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by wstrange 11y ago
Why is that ridiculous? If the Coke bottle has a superior shape, why not use that design? That is quite different than trademark . Consumers should be able to clearly understand if their beverage is a genuine Coke or a Pepsi. In this parti
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by wstrange 11y ago
Except for the part where Microsoft wants 100% of Corel's profits. Does that sound even remotely reasonable?
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by wstrange 11y ago
What is interesting to me is that industry has conditioned us to view copying as a bad thing. Is there any invention that did not benefit from copying ideas that came before it? We all stand on the shoulders of giants. We need more copying,
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by wstrange 11y ago
Just want to second this book recommendation. They cite examples of industries that have prospered without patent protection. Outside of pharma, the pro-patent position seems quite weak. And even for pharma there may be better models (lotte
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by wstrange 11y ago
If you have an interest in distributed computing "The End of Protocols" is a great read: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~keith/classes/ubicomplexity/pdfs/i... The whole RPC vs. REST thing is not a us
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by wstrange 11y ago
It is technical. Show me a general purpose program that can navigate, interpret and comprehend a variety of media types and I will show you an AI.
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by wstrange 11y ago
Sorry - the whole "REST is just like websites" thing drives me nuts. With the web, it is not the browser doing the navigation; It is very advanced AI wetware. It is hard to find widespread examples of machine to machine interactio
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Rsync.net: ZFS Replication to the cloud is here and fast(arstechnica.com)
125 points by wstrange 11y ago|54 comments
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by wstrange 11y ago
Perhaps send the robots first to prepare for humans later.
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by wstrange 11y ago
I use Slack often, and yes I know about the search feature. How do I find the answer to a question that was posted two months ago, for an open source project that is not paying to keep more than 10K messages? History vanishes with Slack. I
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by wstrange 11y ago
They are not - this is exactly the problem I am alluding to.
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by wstrange 11y ago
As a kitesurfer - this is awesome! Really well done.
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by wstrange 11y ago
I see Google using Slack for things like the Dart and Kubernetes projects. I understand the ease of use aspect (Slack is quite nice) - but one thing that concerns me is that the discussion that happens is no longer (easily) searchable. Mail
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by wstrange 11y ago
I think the challenge is that markets in Africa are quite fluid. The car's don't get sold directly to ISIS - they get sold to a broker, who then sells them to another dealer, and so on..
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Google Cloud CDN(cloud.google.com)
2 points by wstrange 11y ago|1 comments
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by wstrange 11y ago
Yep - the suggestion from Microsoft was to downgrade to 8.1 - but that did not help.
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by wstrange 11y ago
Now that you mention it, the Microsoft support dude did have a very smooth voice.
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by wstrange 11y ago
I bought my wife a Surface Pro 3 last year. We debated very hard over the SP vs. a macbook. She does a lot of work with MS Office - so it seemed like a good choice. The bluetooth and wifi are now non functional (looks like a hardware issue)
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by wstrange 11y ago
I actually don't get the attraction of running Go on Android. I see it as a systems language. IMHO, Dart is a much more interesting applications language. And it will soon run on iOS (see http://flutter.io )
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by wstrange 11y ago
I think the modern equivalent is called Twitter
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by wstrange 11y ago
Hydro Dams cause immense catastrophe when they fail. They have killed far more people than Nuclear power. According to Wikipedia, the failure of a single Dam in China caused: 26,000 dead from flooding, 145,000 dead from subsequent famine an
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by wstrange 11y ago
As per my comment down thread, I believe these technologies are complimentary (CM tools are not going anywhere) - but I totally get your point. The linked project uses CM tools to get ELK running in a vagrant image. That alone is not terrib

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