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Hi Steve,

such a pity you asked so far down the thread. I really enjoyed having a crack at a reply. So much so...

I found there were several ways to consider your question, not all of which were immediately obvious.

To capture my thought, well I put up a repo, same handle as here, at github, https://github.com/amygdyl , under HN_REPLY, where the context and flow of my thought really needed to bypass the "comment is too long" objection I encountered.

(Having done this, I realized just how much I've been discarding in frustration, when editing simply did not bring my reply within the limit, so this may begin a hopefully worthwhile habit.)

My partial conclusion went as follows:

"[...] the outcomes are ternary: the indemnity is worthless; the indemnity by putative assignment of a defensive patent has some
limited use, but you are defending not Microsoft directly, but MS + 3rd party; or "highly dependent on strategic evaluation".

I do not think that this contracts provides any straightforward indemnity against adverse action initiated by Microsoft,
however. Simply nothing in the context or wording leans towards supporting that interpretation.

However, in the event that Microsoft initiated suit claiming infringement of one of the portfolio of 10,000 patents covered by
the clauses within this contract, clearly the siutuation created by the contract would become a nullity.

So, in dealing with 3rd party risks, the result could be quite open to interpretation, at least in early stage litigation.

However, as to your question on face value (and making a number of assumptions) then the answer is - if these assumptions became fact, in particular the tort for infringement cited a patent among the 10,000 portfolio, then, yes, this would constitute effective, but implied, mitigation and defense, which if the relevant clauses were enacted, and defense argued, would create a nullity.

How this benefit for customers of Azure actually plays out, if it in fact is ever played out, might never encompass as risky and interesting a scenario as that which I in passing posit. But I believe that in potential, Microsoft might have done a extremely
positive, open minded and market generative, act, in offering this standard term.

It gets more interesting, if you consider the possibility of two Azure customers, suing for infringement, where Microsoft IP
might come "in between" their claims. [...]*

I hope that makes some sense to you, but I genuinely felt the complete flow of my argument was worth putting down, would absolutely appreciate your thoughts - john
Okta, a single sign-on solution that you constantly have to sign in to. I _love_ it.
Why does this standard not fall under the purview of N.I.S.T.?
I think it's more that students are allowed to take loans that they can't possibly service. Since you can't get out of loans via bankruptcy and the loans are backed by the federal government, loan agencies have no reason to make sure borrowers are qualified. When they issue big loans to women's studies and philosophy majors, they don't assume any of the risk that's rightfully theirs. That's where the abuse happens. Students, in their ignorance, take on more than their fair share of risk.
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Agreed! I was totally bait-n-switched when I got hired there. Was placed on a horrible team that was a joke. Got out of there as soon as I could.
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The VC is "punished" by his own (and his investor's) voluntary investment losses. Who covers the teenager's losses?
Reading the replies you're getting, it seems the average HN commenter:

A. Has never read an economics research paper

B. Only know economics as monetary policy (or macro more broadly), and as a libertarian is inherently skeptical.

Currently, most of the interesting research being done in econ is outside of theoretical macro, so the knee jerk libertarian "economics is broken" meme doesn't hold much water as the topics and methods are pretty dissimilar. A developmental microeconomics field study in rural India is a different beast entirely from a macro theory paper.
For a sample of the diversity of economics research, see here: http://www.nber.org/papersbyprog/

Returning to your comment, the issue of storytelling, in a nutshell, was what drove me crazy when working closely with qualitative sociologists. Trying to discuss falsifiability in their study design was maddening. Sociology doesn't need to adopt the same research model as applied economics but they do need a serious look at their research methods, and I have more respect for those who try to take a quantitative approach. Many of the sociologists I worked with would turn up their noses at the phrase "computational social science" and were loathe to discuss issues like biased sampling, but the best ones (IMO) used qualitative observations to drive later large-scale quantitative study, which I think should be the de-facto standard for social science research.

Their reliance on ethnographic studies can be useful for verifying the existence of some phenomenon you have a hunch exists in some form, but such research is woefully biased and wholly inadequate as a means of measuring the prevalence or magnitude of a phenomenon, which is why economics studies (or quantitative methods more broadly) tend to have more credence when presenting evidence on the same subjects.
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> I think Macs "just working" has always been a myth.

To a certain extent that is certainly true. But there was a time during the Snow Leopard era when Macs were extraordinarily reliable compared to the then-contemporary competition, and even compared to anything before or since. Things have gone downhill since then because Apple decided to de-emphasize reliability in favor of other things like thinness, and the merging of desktop and mobile environments.
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"Being surrounded by dreamers inspired me to dream bigger and set an example that hard work can make your dreams come true."
What Close actually wrote:

"Even if your motives are not bad, I still do not want my work trivialized. I must fight you because if I know of your project, and do nothing to exercise my legal rights, that will put me in a position where I can’t fight the next, even more egregious usage of my copyrighted image and use of my name. It may be an amusing project and many people might like it, but it is MY art that is trivialized, MY career you are jeopardizing, MY legacy, which I have to think about for my children, and MY livelihood. I must fight to protect it. I hope you will realize the harm you are doing me and my work that you claim you admire and voluntarily shut down the site so as to avoid a law-suit."

It was amicably resolved.

http://hyperallergic.com/54104/my-chuck-close-problem/

Scott Blake's Close-like images were a travesty of Close's paintings, and they potentially give the impression (to an uninformed bystander) that there's no creativity or individuality in Close's work. The fact is that the similarity with Close's work is recognizable, and Close's work can be devalued by imitation ("bad money drives out good", etc.)

Dean L.'s work is more convincing as an image, but it doesn't avoid the problem of dilution by not mentioning Close's name. It's still obviously a Chuck Close filter that acts in a way that completely erases/ignores the materiality, labour, and individual creativity that Close put into his paintings.

I'm no fan of Close, but he was absolutely right to act to try to stop this from happening.
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Even if US colleges are better than 98% of the world (which I doubt, it seems like you conveniently forgot Canada, Europe, Australia, etc.) employers are mostly using that degree as a box tick. Convincing students they need the exhorbitantly priced best when they really don't still seems predatory to me.

Personally I paid the equivalent of 16kUSD for a 4 year software degree in New Zealand, and my fortune 500 employer seems fine with it. A foreigner would have to pay double, but that's still far from US prices.
A lot less than Sweetbriar and much more like Virginia Commonwealth University. Stanford and MIT will be fine, the University of California won't be.

Sweetbriar: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/fashion/the-independent-w...

The very top will survive the cuts in federal funding, but research at lower tiers won't survive. The larger sectarian colleges will survive, the smaller ones will die. Notre Dame will remain, Seton Hall and the Franciscan University of Steubenville will go away, that's a good thing.
Bankruptcy is exactly the vector for discharging most personal debt. The problem is that student loans are exempt from bankruptcy.
Our nearest star is a perfectly fine nuclear waste storage facility. Humanity--in much shorter timespans than those proposed for subterranean storage--could perfect a radiation-hardened space elevator, or other mechanism, capable of reliably transporting such waste to low-Earth orbit. Once in space, nudging the dry casks sunward is a solved problem.

As of 2004, the estimated cost for a space elevator was $6.2 billion USD.[1]

Others have written on this topic[2], but do not account for technological progress. Today it is prohibitively expensive and dangerous to shoot nuclear waste into the sun. In 100 years, the cost per kilogram will have dropped by orders of magnitude and the reliability of orbital delivery will probably exceed five nines. Achieving escape velocity[3] will be a fraction of today's costs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator_economics#Cost_...

[2]: http://www.universetoday.com/133317/can-we-launch-nuclear-wa...

[3]: http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/VASIMR
This is why I wish that as part of HTTP 2 they had allowed the use of SRV records and gotten it built into the browsers / clients etc.

SRV records are far superior - its a priority and weighted list of hosts for a protocol, which could really cut down on load balancing complexity.
And if guarantees for the loan companies are removed and the inability to free yourself from it in bankruptcy. Essentially move the 100% of the risk that borrowers currently have and move a nice portion of it to the lenders so they both bear the burden of the loans can't be repaid.

Imagine if banks had zero risk when providing home loans. I don't think it would be too difficult to buy a house you couldn't afford and quickly the price on homes would be driven up. The student loan industry is so completely fucked and needs to be reformed before it ruins our economy.
>It's literally incomprehensible. Just make a really good fast desktop computer.

For the sake of argument, why? It's probably one of their worst selling products. Nobody defends the remaining iPod enthusiasts when they demand a new giant capacity iPod.

Maybe we just need to accept that Apple doesn't want to be in the desktop computer business for much longer?
I got a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in religion. Total debt around 25-30k. I went to school at age 20 and graduated at age 25. I did not go straight from High School.

I did not want to be a shrink. I wanted to focus on research. Unfortunately, I could not afford to continue on to graduate school. My grades weren't good enough to get a scholarship. I was working as a cook at the Olive Garden, and had kids at home, so I tried a few careers that didn't work out. I wound up in the Army because it seemed like the right thing to do. I'm glad I did it.
If you were Heroku, how would you plug the hole of people running some parts of their deployments in AWS us-east-1 to save on their Heroku bill?
In the perspective that this article takes, what is the difference between YC (that I almost do not really know) and a family uncle who gives some money to a young founder?
None IMO, both expect some return in money or something else and hard work.
$500/month is a ton of money when it's competing against groceries, utilities, healthcare, etc.
> For starters, while economists tend to view a job as a straightforward exchange of labor for money, a wide body of sociological research shows how tied up work is with a sense of purpose and identity.

This is precisely why handing the reins over to sociologists would be dangerous. The concept of "identity" is massively over-valued in our society, with very little coherent critical commentary available. Somehow it's seen as an unassailable, unquestionable truism: every person has an identity, and they build on it throughout their entire life. Giving sociologist-types more power to shape policy will lead to an increase in the acceptance and enforcement of this erroneous thought process.

Erroneous because one's "identity" is, in reality, of extremely limited utility and the source of much suffering: does my identity properly reflect who I really am? Are others being respectful to my identity? Are they behaving correctly toward me considering my identity? Is my identity subject to systematic oppression? Should I change my identity or keep it the same? How many people know about my current identity vs. my precious identity that I promoted for many years?

Spending time ruminating and basing policy on this concept of identity is a huge waste of resources, and what's the outcome? Pure, unadulterated suffering.

Identity has its place as a tool for conducting transactions and working in groups, but sociologists and their ilk have elevated it to an all-encompassing life-defining concern, and that's just not reasonable. Given how much we're already burdening ourselves here in the West with identity politics and other massive wastes of resources, I cringe at the thought of sociologists having MORE power over our lives.
Hasn't Tim Cook essentially confirmed that they will be refreshing the line soon? I guess, not to Mr. Counsell's satisfaction?

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/02/28/apple-ceo-tim-cook-pro-...

I get all of the arguments on how long it's been, though.
It's easy and it should be done, but I don't think it will be that effective. Mortgages come with other rules. If you can't come up with 20% down, you pay mortgage insurance. If you have limited ability to pay it off, you don't qualify for as much cash. If you have a bad credit history, you pay higher interest. All these things are meant to keep mortgage debt from getting out of control. No such rules exist for student loans.
Yeah I'm not a chemist but it always strikes me as odd that "hazardous nuclear waste" cannot be recycled. Even now there are ways to capture carbon waste (eg, genetically-engineered carbon-eating bacteria et al). I find it hard to believe that we won't have a way to capture radiation in the future, or (even better) utilize the radiation-producing materials in subsequent reactions.
Talking about "taxpayers" is disingenuous at best - the private loan holders are the ones that made the unwise loans and should be directly losing out. To the extent that these private parties have agreements with USG guaranteeing they'll be bailed out, then the proper time to object to that corrupt arrangement was when it was being made!

Debt, in general, must be dischargeable in bankruptcy. Otherwise the practice is equivalent to the gradual reinvention of slavery. Student loans already run afoul of this principle - let's not double down on the corruption merely to delay writing down losses that have already occurred.
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I've never gone over the 30 minute limit, but my trips (and the design of the system) are point-to-point.

When I lived in SF I had a bike, so I can contrast:

Owning a bike:

+ You can leave whenever you want, never have to worry about a bike being available

+ You know the maintenance condition of your particular bike

+ Your bike will almost certainly be lighter

- You have to carry a bike lock (or locks with you)

- You have to maintain your bike

- You have to either bring it with you, or lock it somewhere secure

- There are no secure outdoor spots for your bike (for the most part)

- In SF, inevitably, unless your bike is indoors at both ends of the trip, someone will either a) steal your bike or b) steal _parts_ of your bike, possibly preventing you from riding it away

Bike Share:

+ Once your trip is done, you can forget (not worry) about the bike

+ You don't have to maintain a bike, have bike tools, spare tires, etc.

+ You don't need to have or carry a bike lock with you

+ You can go on an all-day or overnight trip e.g., ride to BART, take a flight or Caltrain and spend the day on the peninsula. Very risky to do this usually with locking your bike up (there are steel bike boxes / lockers at some stations though)

- You may not know what kind of shape the bike is in maintenance-wise (for the most part good, but some misaligned shifters and other minor nuisances)

- You may get to a rack and find no bikes there (This has only happened once in 3 months)

- You may get to a rack and not be able to remove a bike, or only find broken bikes (this has only happened once in 3 months also)

These are largely non-hypothetical - While living here I had my bike seat stolen and the thieves had attempted to steal the handlebars but were apparently interrupted.

My previous bike actually survived being overnight in the Mission once or twice and I later discovered saw marks on the U-Lock.
This USA student loan scheme is one of the most brilliant machines of social control ever devised.

People get of college already owing a lot money, now they have to work for shit, and put up with their asshole bosses do. They can't have the option to spend couple of months searching for jobs or they will have to default their debt and mess all their future life.

Nothing like a well behaved society where the workers can't complain.

Brilliant!!
You say you don't know anything about his situation but then you go on to heavily speculate about his situation.

I'm in your situation btw. I worked through undergrad and grad school and had my work pay for almost all of my school so I never had any debt. But I realize I was lucky and had a good situation lined up and not everyone has the same opportunities. Some people need more assistance than others, and I don't mind if the govt helps those folks out.
Can you link to the part that says the improvements are insignificant? [2] says the opposite. Last week tonight [0] referenced this paper [1], pointing out significant changes when measuring siblings in segregated vs integrated schools.

Fixed isn't the right word, but segregation still exists in many ways and integration isn't the entire plan but rather a significant step towards a solution.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8yiYCHMAlM&feature=youtu.be...

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/Files/PDFs/Community%20De...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_segregation_in_the_Unit...
Cost of second Iraq War = 2+ Trillion and counting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
Can you not just download and use one of these vms?

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
Give me an example of a useless degree.
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Or even better: the Microsoft approach of giving students everything for free, so there's no reason for colleges not to use Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, C#, you name it. They're all good products, so there's little reason not to use all this free Microsoft software and teaching material.
I don't think I've seen many European IT college graduates who weren't basically Microsoft schooled, with a small side of HTML and Java.

Of course, computer science is a little more agnostic. Universities in general are, where they even accept digital documents that are PDF. But Microsoft's model seems to be very effective. It doesn't cost them anything to give people something they wouldn't be able to pay for, and it gets them, like you said, hooked and trained.
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Thanks for digging into this. I'll update that example to be more clear about keeping an lvalue reference to the return value.
>Borrowers already have skin in the game. Lenders have none

That's absolutely false. Lenders have skin in the game - they run the risk that the borrower fails to pay back the principal. That's why they charge risky borrowers more interest.

If lenders truly had no skin in the game then loans would be nearly interest free.
I'm guessing the rod holding it is patched out using software.
Immigration and farms
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/

I keep hearing this theme all the time and it doesn't make sense.

If only the financially vulnerable are willing to do a hard job, we should change the job, no?

It doesn't have anything to do with politics. It has to do with ineffective ways of accomplishing a goal.

We can automate our farms now. Probably would not have been possible hundred years ago, but now I can..

But when I speak of my efforts to automate my farm with farm bots, it invariably turns to the topic of immigrants and Trump and politics.

We should not attempt to boost immigration by targeting the vulnerable. It is not about politics or being a Luddite. Automation and tech in farms : It is just the decent thing to do when the pressure to produce so much food with shrinking labour force and an expanding hungry population. I am very frustrated. I can't seem to find consensus even amongst my own people, my fellow farmers. It always comes down to tech being too expensive. And when I want to create said tech, I am always discouraged by the other side that farming isn't worth the investment. It's a weird tug of war that I simply cannot grok.

Thoughts?
> A field which cannot predict what will happen next time can't actually inform a policy maker as to whether their policy is useful.

That charge could reasonably be made against economics. From 2008: 'During a briefing by academics at the London School of Economics on the turmoil on the international markets the Queen asked: "Why did nobody notice it?"' [0]

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/338635...
> Estimated costs to make college tuition free for every citizen: $62 billion

How? There are ~20 million Americans enrolled in college so $62 billion is only $3,000 per person. In comparison, the US spends about $12,000 per year per high school student.
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That's being fixed: https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards/issues/1738
>Also, doing stuff in America costs more than in China or India. News at 10.

Which is his whole point. Also, the suburb cashflow you are super concerned about would be fixed with cheaper building/maintenance costs.
>How do you fix that without blowing everything up and probably destroying the lives for a huge group of people who's only crime was being born in a certain set of years?

A huge number of millennial college students who weren't fortunate enough to graduate into a tech career between 2007-2011 already went through this. It wouldn't be anything new.

>Not to mention the economic implications of an entire generation going into middle age already carrying massive debt - how are they going to generate asset wealth?

I mean...this is already happening. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. "Blowing everything up" is the only way to stop this cycle.
If lenders truly had no skin in the game then loans would be nearly interest free.

There's a testable hypothesis there: did rates for student loans go up much when they were made non-dischargeable? I'm too lazy to check.
> ...the lending programs are predatory by nature in that they know students will be unable to service the high monthly payments, and eventually default as a result.

> Do I think people should pay their debt? Yes...

You were duped, but pay up anyway.

Doesn't that smack you as immoral in anyway?

If anything is screwed up in education, it's that it isn't free for anyone that wants it. How hard is it to see the value in having a citizenry that is well educated? How many other cons can the public see, but also feel they can make informed decisions in the face of it instead of "Duped, but pay up" herd mentality?