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by zweep 7y ago
Only 300? That’s like $150 billion of orders.
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by zweep 7y ago
I think that’s more based on Zuckerberg’s terrible public image. If it was a Wyoming cabin dweller who said the same people would say “hear hear.”
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by zweep 7y ago
What makes software patents different from other patents? For example for things like the cotton gin.
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by zweep 7y ago
Well if you believe in the “promote the useful arts” logic (I do, to an extent) then having exclusive rights to things like “butter” smooth animations makes companies like Apple more willing to invest in them, which is in the consumer’s int
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by zweep 7y ago
I don’t like when patents get used by big companies against small ones, but I also don’t see why a company of Google’s size should be able to just freeload on Apple’s meticulously designed interactions (that the author praises effusively) i
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by zweep 7y ago
I remember hearing a story about Walmart founder Sam Walton at an annual vendors meeting. He walked up onto the stage and pulled his glasses out of his pocket and a bunch of his personal effects got pulled out and spilled on the floor and h
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by zweep 7y ago
Well garbage workers unions have ensured that the job is one of the best paying you can get without a degree or credential.
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by zweep 7y ago
I find myself playing the Leveling Game with cleaners, drivers, etc. and talking about the football team or similar. But it also feels the most preening kind of status assertion — like Harvard grads telling you they went to school “in Bosto
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by zweep 7y ago
Is Wikidata how, for example, when a particular football team wins the Super Bowl, its articles are updated, the articles about the Super Bowl are updated, the article about the list of teams that have won multiple Super Bowls is updated, e
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by zweep 7y ago
People exhibit such bot-like behavior in certain circumstances that the burden of proof for calling something a bot is extremely high. If you saw sports fans in a stadium you’d think they were bots authored by the team’s robotics division —
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by zweep 7y ago
The “cloud car” that Waymo and Uber promise is really cool... until you have kids. I think it will be big business for singles but as a parent I can’t imagine not owning a car. The car has the car seats, books, toys, snacks, diapers, etc in
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by zweep 7y ago
I feel like all of this IoT hardware should be rented rather than bought. If your piece of crap can suddenly stop working, I don't want to own it. Rent it to me and take it back when it's useless.
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by zweep 7y ago
All aluminum cans are coated or you'd get aluminum oxides into your food.
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by zweep 7y ago
The exact same can be said about “equality.” Any sensible system is a blend of the two.
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by zweep 7y ago
Sure, if you're a creative professional or Mac developer you are probably making at a minimum 20x the cost of this box. If you're in an office a rack mount helps save a lot of desk space, which more than pays for itself. Also lets
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by zweep 7y ago
I feel that the law needs to have more customization due to power imbalances than it does today. Google cloning a startup's product should be less legal than a startup cloning Google's. A low-level employee should have few restric
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by zweep 7y ago
Well yes, that is why there are laws for minimum wage and slumlords.
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by zweep 7y ago
When you sell your privacy you hurt all of us, and regulation is the tool for collective action problems. If you sell data to Walmart that lets them build a psychological profile of a shopper from their purchase history, they can use that t
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by zweep 7y ago
Yeah, Sims are normally owned and operated by airlines, but if I was a manufacturer whose flagship model had suddenly acquired a reputation as a deathtrap I would be spending every dollar I could to fix the problem, regardless of tradition,
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by zweep 7y ago
You may not go looking to participate in fights, but as a spectator event, fights certainly draw the largest viewerships, whether it's a fight on the street, or the Super Bowl, or a war.
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by zweep 7y ago
It's a hugely privileged point of view to think that people could pass up multiple dollars of discounts to preserve the rather abstract notion of their privacy. That's why this shit needs to be regulated with the force of law and
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by zweep 7y ago
Yes, but the Brazilian Constitution is basically a "suggestion" for Jair Bolsonaro, even more than the US Constitution is a suggestion for Donald Trump. Clearly the Brazilian Constitution does not have the protection of force, whi
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by zweep 7y ago
Because the Department of Justice doesn't enforce anti-trust law anymore. Read the book "Chickenshit" for more details.
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by zweep 7y ago
There are legal protections in the US for journalists that don't exist de facto or de jure in many other countries.
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by zweep 7y ago
Can you recommend 10-20 people to follow?
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by zweep 7y ago
The only way we NEVER fully get self driving cars is if we nuke or bioterrorism advanced civilization off the planet in the next 50 years.
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by zweep 7y ago
In the 90s Bose speakers used to be the thing for upper middle class men. They used to proudly show off their systems when you visited their houses. Is this still the case?
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by zweep 7y ago
I once bought an electric toothbrush sealed in the box at a Costco store which had clearly been used at least once.
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by zweep 7y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that a charity kitchen dispensing pork should be illegal?
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by zweep 7y ago
I'm not sure it's harder. More countries have successfully shot stuff into space than have build an airliner industry (US, Canada, France, Russia, Brazil).

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