zekevermillion

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by zekevermillion 10y ago
I generally agree. But I do have some doubts as to how copyleft licensing would work without copyright protection. We can't enforce free licensing of contributions to GPL works, for example, without having the copyright in the first pl
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
There is naturally going to be competition as long as there are choices. That said, I do not think our system serves us well in the USA. It imposes a great deal of distortion on how young people choose to spend their time -- ie, on window d
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
One should have a strong bias against signing an NDA, or indeed anything at all, as a condition of hearing about a possible gig. Most clients, especially individual clients, should be able to describe what they need in a non-confidential wa
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
I'm going to take your suggestion! I was joking about google, they are pretty amazing. But I need more power, and if I can get it for a few bucks a month it's well worth it.
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
I could probably afford to drink one fewer craft brew per month.
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
OK, if they still support XMPP for Gvoice then I am an idiot and I take back my comment. There was a threat awhile back that they would remove XMPP support for Gvoice (and thus I would have to pay for a service to use with my obihai). But t
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Seriously, Google owes me $50 for my obihai router I bought solely for free google integration. This is the problem with building anything on top of Gsuite -- they will screw you over at a random moment and deprecate whatever service you ma
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Contracts theoretically could be protected by copyright. However, we reuse so much of the functional language that it would be difficult to prove that a given contract is sufficiently transformative to merit protection. One exception is tha
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Yeah, I was also really surprised. My comment was somewhat off-topic in this thread, but I couldn't resist the excuse to put the link out on HN and see if anyone else thought it was amazing.
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
What about their music? I wonder if any common history, as Goergian music is quite unique. https://stallman.org/RMSGeorgianMusicWUOG.ogg
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
LLC's are also passthrough by default, though you can elect another tax treatment easily enough. The problem with s-corps is that a valid s-election requires that all stockholders are humans. The presence of a business entity stockhold
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
There does not appear to be genuine contrition, that is for sure...
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
If Uber tries to use employee covenants to silence Ms. Fowler, what do you think the reaction is going to be? This is just the beginning. If the problems are as systemic as alleged by Ms. Fowler, the litigation will be working its way throu
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Disagree. Speaking up about Uber's conduct is a personal risk that Ms. Fowler has apparently decided to take, perhaps for reasons of personal integrity. A good lawyer would advise her of the scope and magnitude of risk, and then suppor
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Hopefully not together in the same investment!
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Needs a GUI to be useful for any non-enthusiast users. Does urbit need any non-enthusiast users at this point, though?
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
That is the tragedy of win10. It's actually a great OS but the lack of respect for user preferences around privacy and updates ruins it for power users. I have to think that the engineers who did the work to make win10 as efficient and
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
This is the best I could find on the web. Unfortunately Galanter published in an era when everything was paywalled. I've had a lot of trouble finding blog-worthy writing of his, although his lecture is one of the few that I remember fr
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
I took intro to psych from Eugene Galanter in 2000 or 2001. He liked to lecture on how the only point of taking an MBA is to unlearn the natural tendency to perceive magnitde as a log fn of magnitude. Now we are teaching MBAs the opposite,
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Impressive. 2/5 reduction is a lot of lives saved.
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
I'd like to see more of the concept art from episode 3! Less talk, more art please! Anyway, Valve can always do another sequel, I don't think age will make that any worse an opportunity.
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Fairness is not apropos, the idea of skin in the game is a heuristic to identify decision-makers who are likely (or not) to expose others to harmful risks. If anything, the skin in the game should be even more than proportional. The system
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Stallman is not above critique, but I don't think you have hit on the more interesting parts of his philosophy to question. If I could eat Chinese with RMS, I would want to ask him about when free hardware will become relevant, and wha
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Different rights behave differently. Work-for-hire doctrine pertains to copyright only. An employee who produces "work-for-hire" never owns the copyrights to his creative work. Whereas with patentable inventions, all inventors mu
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
My old law partner liked to harp on this point as well, and it is a valid one. However, as a matter of practice most well-drafted work-for-hire agreements also contain a backup assignment clause something like "to the extent the work i
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Stallman has compromised in some ways, even when it comes to using proprietary software. For example, before there was grub I believe he made an exception and used non-free bios. Ultiamtely, even RMS seems to suggest a convenience standard.
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
RMS' personal choices are important. I could not live with the same ethical purity myself when it comes to software choices (or for that matter, much of anything else). But I have been personally influenced by reading his essays on eth
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
If you spend money on an ebook to learn about bitcoin, you are truly befuddled. However, the book will not reverse this state of affairs.
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
That is true. As a heuristic, I think the hype cycle is useful just to stand for the idea that "important work gets done often times when the market has given up". It is not useful to say "[insert your asset here] has recover
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by zekevermillion 10y ago
Analogies are dangerous, but I don't think we have seen either the "peak of inflated expectations" or the "trough of sorry" yet when it comes to bitcoin.

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