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> The thing with this is I just can't imagine the App store getting shut down because of this, or even youtube.

Viacom was essentially trying to drive YouTube into bankruptcy with its lawsuit against them. Granted, they lost.
You make some good points but you and everyone before you who have made those points fail to address one key issue. How does one adapt? If distribution is dead than what's the alternative? Desktop computing will be with us for some time to come and desktop software will continue to be in demand. So now every software developer has to find a new line of work because some people think copyright needs to be abolished? Give me a break. This anti copyright stance is like chopping off your head to cure a headache anyway. Copyright still serves a very useful purpose and is far from evil in and of itself. It's just how it's being used that is the problem. So instead of taking such extreme positions on this why don't we come to our senses and all agree that protections need to be scaled back but not gotten rid of. You wouldn't tell a convenience store they now have to find a new way of doing things because they can't stop the shoplifters.

If copyright is gone then everything is up for grabs and it can have unintended consequences that make the same people who were against it cry out for help. Right now the argument is framed in such a way that it only takes consumers and willing creators into account. There are people who create things that neither want to profit from them nor share them with the world. In a world without copyright you place much more of a burden on those people to lock away their work. Your diary is up for grabs in this type of world and if ever someone felt like publishing it as their own or selling it there'd be nothing you could do about it. That tutorial you wrote on your blog, the one that's free to access to anyone, well that just ended up in an O'Reilly book without credit and no one asked you. Sure, they won't make a killing off it in this world but it's pissing you off and you think "that's just not right".

I'm wondering if all these great ideals the anti-copyright proponents talk about are the true goal or if there's a little bit of jealousy, sour grapes, and inferiority complexes thrown in there. It kind of reminds me of the guy who works at the McDonalds drive thru who talks a lot of shit about rich people and how it's not fair and we need to spread the wealth while he just sits in his drive through hoping his bank account will fill up with piles of cash one day.

What is under copyright protection right now that we can't create around or over or through? Do we really need to base our work off of someone else's to make something better? Doesnt the greatest disruption come about as a result of inconvenient restriction?

Abolishing copyright sounds great and the ideals around it are just beautiful but the world isn't an ideal place and great ideals and philosophies don't really lend themselves all too well to reality when put into practice. So in the meantime why don't we jump back to reality and get SOPA voted down, lobby to scale back copyright instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water and generally just be more realistice about these things.
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I did.

The reason that the article irked me:

Imagine this combination: brilliant, an MSc in CompSci, being over 50, female, not white, and an immigrant.

I tried to get her hired for the IT department where I worked. Instead she was cheated out of her pay and fired before the standard employee trial period ended. Standard practice for the place. (900 employees in four years, avg occupancy of 50 workers, anyone mid-level and up is white only, and as soon as a project was over almost everybody is fired, continuity of work is not the issue).

I've heard all the same excuses before in a much friendlier business environment. All in an attempt to treat people like they are not human beings. I know nothing about the author and I'm not disputing the realities of business in Hungary. But damn I want to shoot the message.

And a swath of downvotes in an attempt to do so is worth that...
> If the state believes it's a good idea to have a parent at home, the money for maternity and paternity should come out of the state's coffers.

It does. The state pays for the paternity leave. The author's point is that he still has to find a replacement worker for those three years.
One thing that the timeline has is a lot of unnecessary "weasel words". (Seems to be a disturbing new trend at multiple sites in the last couple of years.)

For instance, when did it become uncool to Delete things? Why can't I do that? Why do I have to "Hide" or "Archive" or "Make Unavailable in Timeline" or whatever else? Frankly, sites should always let users permanently and irrevocably blow stuff away. I shouldn't have to let mistaken posts be archived for eternity (for instance); sure no one can apparently see them, but what is the point?
If he's not being compensated for the cost of finding and retraining an employee, then the state isn't really paying for the whole thing.

That said, small businesses, and even certain roles in bigger businesses, just can't deal with the kind of disruption this would cause, never mind the money. I think we have to be realistic that someone who wants to take imminent leave shouldn't be in those kinds of jobs, and no government program can fix that.

Maybe I don't have the perfect solution in my pocket, but IMO the right answer can't be that employees lie about (or conceal) their intentions, and employers equally are forced to find plausible reasons not to hire women (or to fire them) just to stay afloat.
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What is the word splitting task mentioned here?
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In all fairness, the author just said that he would like to be able fire any worker, even if they were pregnant women/young moms or older folks, which instead have a special protection that would make it impossible even if they're not working well. [BTW, I personally agree with a special protection for pregnant women, but the costs should be on the State]
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I have waited for months for Geoffery Moore's classic book Crossing The Chasm to be "available as in my country" .

Normally, changing my country to US will make the Kindle verson available to me.

So here I am, literally card in hand, unable to pay for a product that is available. I still cannot phantom the reason a Kindle book (a digital product) is available only in 'certain regions'.

So in 24 hours, if I do not find a way to pay for this book I will find a pirated copy.

I just hope this is not the beginning of a bad habbit.
They didn't really get into to much detail, but what usually happens with these situations is that all of the LLCs are just funneling the proceeds into the same bank accounts, no matter whose name is on the LLC paperwork. In this case, it appeared that the patriarch's bank accounts were the ultimate destination for the money regardless of which LLC owned a building at any given time. The twist on this case was that the mastermind was also in a position to facilitate better terms for each subsequent sale.
Having apps require a non-renewing subscription hardly seems like the more user-friendly approach.
Thanks. The home page already has IP to geolocation to suggest country/city, using a free open db (so the city-level accuracy is not very high).
...or get pregnant.

It is a very grey area. Too much government regulation and how the hell can it be profitable to hire someone. Too little and individuals get borked if they get pregnant/sick/etc.

Personally I would sacrifice less pseudo stability for less regulation. I believe many problems start off with good intentions, especially when it comes to more regulation.
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> If they are publicly available, then the Dropbox team is probably already monitoring those files.

I doubt that they are. Copyright is a matter of permission. How would any third party know who has permission to do what?
In Hungary smaller companies usually cheat on their taxes... it's a national sport.
I would disagree with you on this part. Noise is the social. The lack of "noise" is what made G+ sooo boring for so many. I know once I added the noise of HN circle on G+, even though I didn't know any of these people, I enjoyed G+ tremendously more.
> SPDY does not exist without SSL, nor will it.

Can you elaborate on this, or provide a link with more context? Almost all TLS/NPN references are missing from the current SPDY draft spec. (I've found webpages that repeat the SSL requirement assertion, but none that source it or explain why.)
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>California has at-will employment, but you sure can't fire someone based on gender or age anywhere in the United States—and he opens with his desire to do just that.

I don't think you understand his position at all. Trying to fire someone in Europe is often compared to adopting a child, lawyers will take cases against former employers on commission because the probability of winning the case is extremely high. There is no comparison when it comes to US at-will employment, for eg. you have to be able to prove that the employee you fired for coming drunk to work was really drunk, that you gave him written warnings, flowed the formal procedure etc. To be fair tough, employers often use employment agencies that exploit loopholes but it only serves to increase the cost of labor. The only ones benefiting from these laws are the public sector and government owned company employees (ironically even government owned companies resort to exploiting loopholes because even they can't operate under the regulation). And these are probably much higher percentage of workforce than in the US.

And the corruption he is talking about is tax evasion and gray market, that's a huge part of the economy in these countries.

Also, I'm thinking the "progressive tax" in the US kicks in at a much higher nominal amount then Hungary, and that it's disproportionate to the cost of living difference.
Out of curiosity, why use helium instead of hydrogen? It's not like human lives are at risk in these experiments.

I imagine you'd get more lift with hydrogen.
pathetic reasons for not hiring women.
A wrongful termination suit is not based solely on the employer's reason for termination. That would be silly. Business owners are advised to document infractions so when they fire someone, they have written evidence in case a suit is brought against them.

I do agree that it will shift more power to the employees and it might help them in certain situations. But if you make it more difficult to fire a person, a business takes on more risk and loses more money when they hire someone who isn't good. Businesses will become less willing to take on new employees.
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I'm was writing a user-space thread library and I found your article "Implementing a Thread Library on Linux", a really nice article by the way, and then found "Farewell to MIT" just through browsing the site.

"Farewell to MIT" just seemed like such great advice, I was surprised when I found it hadn't already been posted here.
It's illegal to hide your pregnancy from your employer. If you do so, you simply don't get compensated and expressly give the right to your employer to put the contract to an end.
haha I really do believe that is true.
Define "top-notch". Because under my definition of the term, I would expect there to be very few engineers in Hungary that match that description.

IMHO, Silicon Valley works because it houses a hugely disproportionate amount of the very best engineers, and from my experience the top .1% or so of engineers open up possibilities that otherwise simply aren't there.

Yes, the capital is here, but I think that's an effect and not a cause. If you took Facebook and started it in any other place in 2004 (with just a handful of exceptions) with exactly the same access to funds I highly doubt it ends up as it is today.
I enjoyed the article, although I felt the content was somewhat generic and platitudinous. I was hoping for more concrete examples.
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You imagine that the media takes its purported role of keeping the public informed on the most important news of the day seriously. That hasn't been true even moderately for the last decade at the least.

It's infotainment. There is no fundamental difference between CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, and techcrunch, or TMZ. The biggest differences are primarily stylistic.
My wife was fired when she was pregnant, because she was pregnant - which is illegal here in Italy - and they were so kind as to write so in a letter (never underestimate human stupidity/arrogance). We're taking the case to court, and I can tell you that there is no "on commission" here in Italy (also forbidden by the law).
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And the state passes that right along to the business / people through taxes.
And why are there so many top-notch engineers in SV? Because of the climate, because there are more natural-born engineers, or because many top-notch engineers have moved and move there because there is the capital and the best environment for startups?

And why would you expect Hungary to have very few top-notch engineers?
You are incorrect regarding OverDrive and Kindle. The support was just recently added [1][2].

I will echo that most OverDrive collections are nowhere near large enough for most people to care just yet. But that has been rapidly changing with so many compatible eReaders on the market. Libraries are just now bulking up on digital licenses to meet the surging demand. I would not be surprised if there are already libraries with more digital copies of a popular novel than paper copies.

[1] http://overdrive.com/news/OverDrive-and-Amazon-launch-Kindle...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
OK, I don't know about Italy so fair point "Europe" is too broad. But still you've confirmed his point about not wanting to hire women, especially if Italy is comparable in maternity leave. And don't tell me you aren't expecting to win this case.
That's illegal through all the Europe and that's OK and how it should be. We are speaking however about possibility to fire person who harms company intentionally.

P.S. 3 years maternity leave in Hungary looks really bad IMHO.
You've got no idea how surreal it was to click through and start reading that.
> you pay like 1,2$ for each 1$ your company makes

Sorry, I call BS. This figure is just made up.
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Monthly auto-renewing subscriptions? If yes, would you mind saying which ones? I'm curious if there are certain classes of non-publishing apps which are being allowed to use auto-renewing IAP subscriptions.
The Economy is cyclical. The best time to grow is during a bubble. In a couple of years when all those me too incubators have burned themselves up there will be fewer people willing to tunnel him into the US... He could do his Graduation during a bust.
This is exactly what I meant: That the cost should be distributed on all businesses/people and not just on those businesses which hire young women/potential mothers. This does more than pay itself with a higher participation of women in the workforce; it's just a distribution of risk without adverse selection as with mandatory car insurance.
You've got no idea how surreal most of that book is :-)
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> I still cannot phantom the reason a Kindle book

That's one of the most interesting phonetic substitutions I've seen in a long time. (The expression is "cannot fathom the reason", BTW.)
very optimistic. That said, fun read.
Because the labor market isn't perfectly liquid. Let's say a manager randomly decides that he's firing all the blond haired people in his company. Those people will be harmed. Even if perfectly competent at their jobs, they very well may not find another job right away. It may even be the case that an equivalent job doesn't exist nearby and the employee is SOL if forced to quit without planning. Furthermore, once the company fires all the blonde haired people and this becomes known, there will be cases where competing jobs can now offer less pay because it knows a competitor is no longer willing to hire blond haired people.

Now, you might say "the company that fires all the blond haired people will eventually die at the hands of a company that gains an advantage by accepting blond haired people." True, but it's a slow bleed, and that certainly doesn't help the blond haired people who were arbitrarily fired.

In case you're skeptical, all this and more can be observed in the case of US black people up until the civil rights era.
That's why in a country which operates under the rule of law SOPA should never pass. If the plain reading of a law results in outcomes which you can't imagine, then the law is an ass.

The attitude of "yes this law applies to the app store but it will never BE applied to the app store" is basically an exercise in double-think, and in my view is morally suspect.

What is the criteria then for who the law SHOULD be applied to? People the RIAA don't like? People legitimately disrupting established industries? People competing commercially with the friends of senators? The whole point of the rule of law is to prevent arbitrary exercise of discretion. The law either applies equally to everyone or applies to no-one.
Maybe he simply inherited it. Maybe he works for Google Hungary or other international company (overall charging rate he has mentioned in article does not look that bad in international context).

What really looks bad how Hungary's laws make companies noncompetitive. E.g. higher employment taxes means people will work in other EU countries if there is possibility.
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> Simpler solution. Let people make arrangements they want.

for example, in hard times, or to pay debts, allow to sell oneself into lifetime slavery.
The SPDY draft spec doesn't seem to include any of the encryption bits; I don't know why. I've read documents explaining the details before (as well as expressing very strong opinions about the (lack of) merit of a modern protocol supporting a non-encrypted mode), but I can't seem to find them at the moment.

As far as I know, SPDY's protocol always builds on an SSL session, not a raw socket connection. Opportunistic SPDY connections to HTTP servers rely entirely on SSL "next protocol negotiation" (NPN); a SPDY server will indicate that it supports SPDY to an HTTPS client via NPN. SPDY also uses SSL to avoid interference from proxies that would otherwise break attempts to use SPDY on what started out looking like an HTTP connection.
Sounds like a place where businesses are actively discouraged. I wonder how the guy who (hypothetically) buys his €90K apartment made his money? Probably from running a €9/hr shop under-reporting revenues.
I believe you're either taking my comments out of context or are predisposed to bias against it for some reason.

The point of the article is that employees are expensive. Certain types of employees are potentially more expensive than others. He wants to avoid hiring the low-risk people, but isn't allowed to. The self-selection of startups is... y'know what? I'm just repeating what I said originally.

The hardships encountered in Hungary are the same sorts of hardships that large companies have to put up with, to varying degree. That was the basis for my comparison.

If you don't get it, sorry. I honestly don't know how you read the article and read my post and don't know how they relate.
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I hope Hungary will not get financial aid from IMF and ECB (if I remember correctly) or will make it extremely hard to get it. That will harm Hungary in short term but in long term it will be good for all the Europe. It will send very good signal for all other Europe countries where right-wing extremists do stupid things (especially Eastern Europe).

P.S. I'm from Eastern European country and I see some similarities with Hungary.
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