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Would it be possible to create a web hosting system which doesn't have a single point of "legal failure"?

I guess by definition, it couldn't be run as one company. But you could have independent but co-operating companies in multiple countries, each holding a copy of the hosted data.

Would the directors/shareholders/managers have to be different personnel? (e.g. if Alice receives a cease-and-desist for material hosted by company A1 in country C1, is Alice under any obligation if she also works for company A2 in country C2 which also holds the material (and is available under the same URL, so would probably come under the same letter)?

Some sort of a redundant array of inexpensive countries would be needed to have an 'internet state' that wasn't beholden to the laws of any individual country.
Complete moron.
Are you posting that to laugh at 'carlos', or are you carlos?
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I like Steve and have found some of his postings in the past quite inspirational. I found a large part of me responding "you go Steve" while reading this.

It wasn't quite enough, though, to silence the part of me that was responding "you elitist prick" when reading things like "Given the choice between having an extra $100K per year of free money vs. becoming the kind of person who can kill off that much income without fear or worry...".

Many people have lost their livelihood by losing a small portion of this amount of "free money" and are facing dire economic circumstances in their lives. This blog post may just be 6 months too late considering the current world economic status.

Steve usually blogs "way out there" and I suppose that sometimes when you reach hard, you miss the mark. I hope he keeps going, I just thought this one was a miss.
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I am a little dubious myself, but it seems doable, considering a couple factors:
Steve was going to UC Berkeley before he got popped for that theft charge, CSUN is quite a bit lower on the pecking order than UCB (no offense any CSUN graduates!)
Second factor is that if you don't do any partying, girl/boy chasing, don't have to take care of your family, don't have to hold a job, you have plenty of time to do a double/triple load of studying. Thing is most of us don't want to do that...
Yes, you're right. That's why I've called the model "simplistic".

It already has lots parameters to deal with and, more important, it consistently underestimates your userbase - which is good while you're planning.

Though, point taken, soon I'll post an updated version.
We also competeted, our app is http://myconfapp.com - It's a social conference management platform.

Our experiences about the Rails Rumble is here : http://vesess.com/blog/2008/10/21/rocking-with-rails-rumble/
Steve has a lot of great motivational posts, has been a hacker/indie developer himself and seems to be a rational guy for the most part.
However, he has those "full of crazy" posts, plus I do wonder whether he really believes his wife's job: http://www.erinpavlina.com/
Anyhow, I am sure he will do alright without Adsense.
Well it is a little bit closer to old school .MOD files (anyone remember those?) than MIDI. This kind of compression can be useful for a very narrow field of music but not for general type.
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Something important isn't on the list: some way to use sub-domains.

And also Installing custom apps/packages. That would be better if its going to be with the billing intro. And also some way/sandbox to SSH('sandbox' becoz its cloud).
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Really interesting post - thanks. For me, the most important thing that studying Philosophy can do is to get people to ask questions and to consider the assumptions that are traditionally made. That is not to say their actions might ultimately be different, but at least they are able to recognise particular problems and difficulties... even if there are no absoultely convincing solutions.
I currently teach Philosophy in a Sports faculty and believe that it is useful in getting students that are not 'naturally' philosophical to realise there are philosophical and ethical problems that don't have 'easy' solutions. This is what I think is important and it is up to those of us with the more traditional philosophical training to make philosophy a useful enterprise in other disciplines.
Very nice, it could be a great resource for roleplayers (but then I'd remove the 'uber l33t' line, heheh).

I'd like to mention that the navigation through the journal entries didn't feel too easy. I'd suggest adding a link at the bottom of each entry to show the previous one, for example :)

Good luck with your site!
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I still do the mouse-keyboard dance because switching windows, and switching input fields within windows, in the Windows OS is so awkward (or sometimes impossible) with a keyboard. Maybe Windows 7 needs iswitchb mode or something.

So, The Editing Problem exists in the context of an entire OS not just a single window, but on top of that it's not just about moving the cursor and changing the text - text editing can be improved when the program has the ability to work with the text on a higher level, e.g. changing the serial number in a zone file instead of changing line 3 chars 10-20.

Emacs is more suited to this style of work because of its built-from-its-own-scripting-language spaghetti nature.

Which brings me to my last point - the biggest problem with text editing is all those stupid, different, difficult to parse, non-lisp file formats that Linux is littered with! Grr! And XML! Grr^2! ;)
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Never heard of you before. I checked your bio on Wikipedia and you don't have one. Sounds pretty ridiculous to me. Very hard for me to believe you're even a real person.

Casting aspersions on his character? Why? It's very hard for me to believe people can know enough to earn a Nobel Prize for Physics, but they do.

See: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/12/rules-are-no-obstac... for how he did it.
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has been a hacker/indie developer himself

has anyone ever played the game (Dweep) he supposedly made all his money off of?
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Isn't this an April fool's joke?
Thanks for the feedback :)

So you were using the real time slider above the journal, but you thought that a previous and next link placed somewhere would help the navigation?

If so that sounds like a good idea.
One thing you need to watch out for is recruiters "reformatting" people's CVs, possibly without their knowledge, into their "house style". One candidate I interviewed happened to bring an original copy of his CV with him, it was quite radically different to what I had in my hands.
Does any have a free database of all known VC's?
I'm particularly interested in data with contact information on a company or individual level. So fields such as contact name, contact title, contact email, contact phone number, company name, address, phone number, plan submission email address, etc. This seems to be particularly difficult (yet useful) information to find without having to pay $ to obtain.
Flash isn't insidious about it's "cookies" just as browsers aren't insidious for allowing developers to use cookies and The Pirate Bay isn't insidious for allowing people to use BitTorrent... for whatever legal or illegal purposes they choose. For more examples see gun manufacturers, alcohol distributors and companies like Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and Google.
I think this will work. You must be companies on three continents within different legal systems. You should not have to many ties as managers, but shareholders is fine as long as you do not travel to all thes countries. You must own fiber so you are not below an ISP at all.
Yeah, I was kinda feeling the same way. I mean it's his blog and can do whatever he wants about it, but things like this aren't too nice to read in some circumstances.
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The Flickr tag search example on that page! beautiful!
Cool hack.

Works on IE7, FF3 and Chrome. And as pmjordan said it doesn't work on Opera(I use 9.52).
i think you should do a cost analysis from a user standpoint of competing services. once a "fair" or "market" rate has been established, i'd then adjust your price significantly below that (of course you can't forget to maintain sufficient cash flow to stay afloat). then market the hell out of your service (make sure your service is on par with that of your competition). once you've established yourself as a leading marketplace for online music, develop a significant competitive edge and you'll be free to adjust your pricing structures upwards, as long as you monitor your attrition rates to make sure the market believes your tax increases to be "reasonable". keep in mind your competitive edge could be something as simple as "well, we've made ourselves the largest marketplace for online music". etc, etc, hire me as a consultant and give me an equity stake. etc, etc.
I would call that admitting defeat to an extent.

There is no shame admitting defeat if you're doing it wrong.
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"So far we've agreed that we should distribute 70% of the revenue generated from song sales to artists.

I don't think this is enough though -- I think we should distribute some specific percentage of our total revenue (including song sale revenues and advertising revenues)"

>not important

"Anyways, it's difficult to find a balance between how much revenue we're pulling in and how much we're willing to pay out."

>this is the real issue. forget your first question.
How about this - fire everyone but the writers and a couple of great managers, sell all of the office space. Meet at Starbucks, if you need to, and organize everything over e-mail.
I'll look into these guys. Thanks!
Yep, I have investigated this. It's lower on the list of priorities because my focus is to make the site work when it knows nothing about the user.
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Yep, I do need a designer.

The band descriptions are taken from Wikipedia. My parsing code needs work.

Thanks very much for the feedback.
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I usually refer Crunchbase and VentureHacks

Crunchbase:
http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organizations
http://www.crunchbase.com/search?query=VC

Venturehacks:
http://venturehacks.com/search_results?search_term=vc&se...

http://venturehacks.com/search_results?search_term=seed

http://venturehacks.com/search_results?search_term=investor

But also browse Venturehacks by bungee jumping links from one profile to another and by tags. I filtered out VCs to approach for my next startup from Venturehacks. You would be better off when you go thru their track record and see what kind(field) of startups they fund. Quality of content assured(venturehacks is by invite) since you won't find your Uncle Harry down the street who funds another chip cookie maker :)

Although there isn't any contact details on venture hacks, You can easily contact them by their current work office.
I see what you mean about the tagline.

Thanks very much for doing those side-by-side comparisons. I am not a fan of any of the bands you entered, but, to my ill-informed eye, the recommendations don't seem too bad. Which ones were off the mark?

And thanks for the heads-up on the XSS exploit. Will need to sanitise my URLs more thoroughly.

Thanks very much for your feedback.
Yep, only two recommendations for a quite famous band is not great. I'll put cock/prog-rock on the list of missing under-represented genres.

Thanks.
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Oh! OK... I actually missed the slider... I was using the links on the right side (the archives). Now I notice the effect on the picture when I slide and it's super cool, but I think you could maybe make it stand out more somehow, I totally didn't see it.

Also, the slider is a bit far from the text, so I'm not sure I would have related it with the journal entries.

So, I guess I'm trying to say that you should show off the cool stuff a bit more so silly people like me find it easily :)
Funny. I'd love to see an emo version of Vista. Or maybe not :P
Winer says: "I haven't used a command line since I left MS-DOS in the early 90s."

Seriously? I can't even imagine how you could get by on a UNIX or OS X as a professional developer without using a command line at least occasionally. Does he really only use Windows?
The ones that seem to make money often appear to me as the "high income bloggers that blog about making money by blogging about moneymaking blogs and bloggers and how they made money" type of individuals.
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Yeah I was worried that people may not see the slider. I am glad that you think it is super cool, so do I :)

I will look into ways to make it more noticeable.
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I stopped reading after the first few paragraphs. The author displays a stunning lack of economic sophistication, boiling down current economic problems to the U.S. budget deficit. Currently the chief economic problem facing the US is that American consumer spending (and significantly, growing consumer spending) has been fueling the economy for decades, while working class and middle class wages have been stagnant. The resulting massive consumer debt was masked somewhat, or at least prevented from exploding into crisis, by policies which inflated house values and encouraged homeowners to borrow massively against home equity.

Decreasing government spending or raising taxes in order to rein in the deficit is, indeed, precisely the wrong thing to do in the budding recession. “Entrepreneurial spirit” alone isn’t going to do shit. Needed are massive Keynesian government expenditures on infrastructure, boosting wages and employment, and keeping the economy going during a recession. Even deficit hawks are admitting this these days.

(Clearly there are several other problems: the budget deficits, current account deficits, and trade deficits which the U.S. is running are all obscenely high. The U.S. “defense” budget is a giant sinkhole which causes massive harm worldwide for arguably very little benefit, except to a shrinking number of specific very large corporations and (above all) their executives. U.S. dependency on oil imports is extremely costly and ultimately unsustainable, and the American government would do well to massively invest in alternative energy research. Etc.)
er, yeah, but look at where Jobs ended up versus Woz. Sure, Woz did well, but I can't help thinking he got taken advantage of along the way.
At one point about a year ago, he said he was making $40,000 a month, so he's still making tons. Plus, now he's got more real estate for higher paying display or joint venture ads that he can sell directly because of the scale of his traffic.
I was about to add nearly the same comment.
I wasn't advocating actually behaving like that. My whole point was: it's a joke.

As for the "posting in public": http://politedissent.com/archives/603

edit: Added the link.
That's just a placeholder, until I get off my tuchas.
Many (perhaps most) respectable economic historians would disagree with the first half of your statement. Between the later part of the 19th century and 1914, nearly every economically significant country was on the gold standard, and international investment, trade, and immigration were at enormous unprecedented levels. Industrialized countries in Europe were wholly dependent on foreign sources of raw materials (not to mention food), and countries worldwide specialized to a remarkable degree.

There are many other factors making a world war now less likely than in 1914, though.
+1 for Hetzner. Even though the website is in German, I've always been able to get qualified help in English.

I don't know how they'll feel about C&D's, though. I've never been in trouble with my servers.
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They should sell their presses and go to a Print on demand model. They could have special NYT dispensers at kiosks that allow you to choose which stories you want to read and makes a custom newspaper with ads targeted to match for each patron. Then over time it should learn each readers tastes and recommend stories. Google news for the unwired world. Vendors would rent the specialized printing machines from NYT for the privileged of being able to sell the worlds premier news paper.
The main reason the Iraq war is so expensive is that the US refuses to massacre the suspected supporters of guerrilla operations. Thankfully, terror tactics aren't accepted today as they were 500 years ago (or even 60 years ago).

Say what you will of war crimes and illegal/immoral tactics today, but in the middle ages whole cities were leveled to root out enemies.

The US would save billions by just killing the family of every suspected insurgent and blindly bombing their suspected locations.
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I think the model would have to be to develop an open source kit that allows standardized pluggable distributed hosting in "a box".

I wouldn't expect a significant market for simple non-dynamic hosting - the solution would have to accomodate blogs, forums and other dynamic content-apps.

Any provider of such hosting would just be provided with a config-file, and then start to pull the content, sync the DB etc. The kit should be designed to expect nodes to drop of randomly, and be self-healing (i.e. "elect" a new master-node, or be purely peer-to-peer).

Maybe the kit could be modelled on top of Google App Engine.

One single-point-of-failure would be DNS though. If your domain is .com, and Verisign pulls it, you could be hosted on the moon, and still disappear.
I thought the sample sounded OKAY, not great. The article certainly made it seem like this has a lot of potential though.

The biggest thing missing was the ambient white noise and transitions between notes- two things that are more commonly found in music played from a physical instrument. I think that is their biggest remaining challenge.

If you have purely synthesized music then you might be able to make the difference between the original and the compressed imperceptible.

Voice synthesis technology exists as well that, if perfected, would make it possible to generate music and lyrics entirely from the command line.

Then again in the 1980's some people predicted we would have flying cars and colonies on the moon by now so it could just be hype.
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The GP he quoted was a bit of a troll, but the economy will hurt OSS more than we realize

http://blogs.computerworld.com/who_writes_linux_corporate_am...
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The only thing I find more socially awkward than someone bragging to me about how much money they are making is someone bragging to me about how much money they could be making and are choosing not to.
> If your domain is .com, and Verisign pulls it, you could be hosted on the moon, and still disappear.

Ouch. I forgot about that. I guess one approach would be to have the same name under several registries, trying to get decent coverage across juridictions where the physical nameservers are located.

You could encourage people to choose a random (supported) top-level part (.com, .fr, .se, .co.uk, etc) in links, so a single DNS takedown would only hit a portion of links (which could then still be hand-edited to a working link).

Network resilience and peering would also be an issue. A country can always filter you out I guess, a la Great Firewall.

The sync issues would be interesting. Not sure what the people using the hosting see (a db? a filesystem?). Do-able, tho.

(Off the top of my head, I'd go for a DVCS-like model, where it's fully peer-to-peer, automerge when we can, punt to a human when we can't).
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