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I believe that's the second part, there is a first part although: realizing there is a problem. For example, you may not see cancer as a problem and not try to find a cure as you may see this as a special destiny.

And to help people to realize problems you need to teach them to doubt. And not only doubting about religion, but also science (didn't Eistein somehow prove Newton wrong?) and their life choises and everything basicaly.

Who is good at doubting? I believe usually really good scientists or people that have a grasp of good philosophy (the greeks, Popper, etc.).

So, as it's not even that difficult to learn, I believe the world needs more (good) philosophy...
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A comparison with physical goods is pretty much irrelevant. If you take away copyright, you take away a limitation on others, but don't prevent the creator of the work from enjoying the work itself.

There is a reason copyright law and property law are universally separate: One creates an artificial restriction on the public to prevent them from doing something which would not take away the freedom to act of the creator of the work, the other places restrictions on the public to prevent them from taking away the freedoms of the owner of something, who would be deprived of the use of what is stolen.

Pretty much every legal system on earth recognizes that these are fundamentally different, and pretty much every one of them recognize that copyright protection is a tool putatively intended for the benefit of society - not created to protect against injustice.
Societal structure is not a constant. In China, for example, the government willingly admitted that 2/3 of organ donations came from executed prisoners (2009), as proposed by the original argument. A purely rational Chinese person probably wouldn't consider criticising this policy to be a means of maximising his utility, and it's not even easy to make an argument that abolition of that specific practice in isolation would maximise society's utility.
I think you're on the right track, but I'd take it a step further: Whenever you're displaying what the time is to a human being, convert to UTC. In all other cases - especially storage and transmission etc. - use TAI.

We have very rich libraries for dealing with time in software, so it's not like it would be a huge drag.

There are still some unaddressed edge cases, of course. Say there's a leap second on 1 July. Now consider the interval 14:00 30 June - 14:00 1 July. In "human time" it's 24 hours, but in computer time it's 24h00m01s - and, conversely and perhaps more dangerous, should "14:00 30 June" + 24 hours come out as 13:59:59 or 14:00:00?
I don't get one thing with internet culture not refering to intelectual property as a real property and its theft as not a real theft.

If copyright theft was not theft, the whole GNU and Free Software movement wouldn't exist. As author of software licenced under GNU GPL, you say "this is free, but because I am the author and I have copyright, if you want to use it in your software, you must also release the code under GNU."

If you say copyright theft is not theft, any software company can go and use GNU code, include it in their proprietary code and re-sell it. And because you also imply that we should give up on copyright enforcement, they would get away with it.
re: 3

Surely one reason for Netflix, Hulu, etc is to aim to provide a single point of access. Without this, you'd have to sign up to an account at HBO, Fox, Universal, Everylabeloutthere, then download each of their apps to get at the content.

That is, until Mr Entrepreneur creates a service that scrapes, aggregates, links to, or otherwise makes it easier to access all these content producers from a single site. The content producers might even decide that hosting, billing, and all that coding takes too much, and outsources it to Mr Entrepreneur. That hosting, billing, and coding costs Mr Entrepreneur, so he'll want a cut to cover costs, and some more to provide a profit incentive. Still, as a single point of access, tempting the producers with the promise of its big user base, the service can negotiate bulk licences…

And so, we're back to where we are now, where you access content through an intermediary, and pay for the convenience.

Capitalism comes in for a lot of criticism, but arbitrage and innovation is one of the things it does well (as long as there is balanced competition and regulation.)

That said, just because that's the way things are done now, that doesn't mean it's right. There is always scope for things to be done better, and for some of us, that ease is provided by torrents and such.
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Just because someone wants something doesn't mean they have a right to it.

I'd like to charge everyone who sees me when I walk down the street - I'd make a bundle - but I'd think society would be pretty stupid if they indulged me.
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One's a crime, and the other ain't. You can't accuse people of crimes without being able to back it up.
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I should have explained that my costs were calculated on a "per day" assumption. Thus the costs are for:

5000 x 60 x 60 x 24 = 432000000 Writes

50000 x 60 x 60 x 24 = 4320000000 Reads

(432000000/10000) x 0.01 = $432

(4320000000/10000) x 0.01 = $4320

Azure Total Cost For One Days Use: $4752

((5000/10) x 0.01) x 24 = $120

((50000/50) x 0.01) x 24 = $240

AWS Total Cost For One Days Use: $360

You are right that I don't take into account the bulk feature of azure reads & writes but this is down to bulk requests only being possible on a single partition at a time which in my personal experience (not exhaustive) is non-trivial to take advantage of.
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Berne convention only constrains a life+50 copyright. For example, in Canada (signee of the Berne convention), Prokofiev (dead 1953)'s works are in the public domain.
So why would Berne convention force USA to remove "Peter and the Wolf" from public domain?
We'll have to reset everything at Y10K anyway.
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Really? I was under the impression that SPDY used SCTP and not TCP?
Technological change made Kodak obsolete - there's not much management could do about that. But what really annoys me is how badly Kodak management handled it.

Rather than simply winding down the business and paying cash to shareholders, they ploughed money into developing digital printers and digital cameras; a market with thin margins and where they had very little competitive advantage. It's almost like management couldn't bear the thought of going out of business so they ended up doing something worse - losing more money and THEN going out of business.

I think Microsoft has made a similar mistake. Rather than sitting on it's little nest-egg of Windows and Office and miking the cash until it runs dry, it feels compelled to waste money in areas with no competitive advantage. Bing, Windows Mobile and XBox have all provided a worse return on investment than US treasury bills.
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If I build a factory at great personal cost, but the materials and electricity to produce the goods cost next to nothing, is it theft if people take these goods without my permission? I don't see the difference between this and intellectual property.

You say it is not accurate but don't provide anything substantial to back up your claim. Instead you use a logical fallacy: because these persons are bad, thus the argument of using term "theft" is bad.
I agree. Here are some of my suggestions on bills that would help protect the freedom of the internet, from a few days back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3464814

I don't like the framing of creative artistic works as "content", though. It's our culture, the culture that defines us as human beings.
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... and the images for the lazy

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I think it's automatically inserted by jsdo.it's backend.
Then maybe it was the right decision(for the company at least).
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> Then the alternative is that all creators keep their output to themselves

That is provably not the case: People still published written works, performed plays and music for thousands of years before copyright laws were introduced.

Even today, there are vast numbers of novels, movie clips, songs etc. being made available freely.

The alternative is that SOME creators keep their output to themselves. The vast majority of creators are not being paid to create their content.

Now, if you want to make a claim that the works created by the ones that would keep their output to themselves are more important to society, then that's a claim that is not as easily refutable, and it'd even be possible you're right, depending on how one measures importance of a work.
Amazing it took this long. I can't remember the last time I used regular film or a modal camera. I suspect when Grandma and Grandpa got digital and started sharing on Facebook, they were done.

It's a shame because like their neighbor Xerox they were technologically advanced. They were big in digital pre-2000 and slammed on the brakes when they hit short term losses.

Chalk it up as another case of large firms struggling to innovate. Makes Apple seem all the more impressive.
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Great article. Aside from the fact that being approached by someone "looking for a co-founder" is a turn-off (on par with being approached by someone looking for a spouse), it's also not a good sign of a successful entrepreneur. The successful entrepreneur archetype will be executing at all stages. If they believe that the lynchpin is an external person that will make it magically come together then they probably don't have the chops to make it through all the challenges that startups inevitably face. This is distinctly different from hiring an engineer, or meeting someone who shares passion and applicable skills for your idea.

As far as swinging for the fences goes, I believe that is a middle stage decision. When you have some traction, you are potentially faced with difficult choices about whether to "sell out" or not. If you are just starting out and you decide you are "going to be the next Google" that is just pie-in-the-sky dreaming, not swinging for the fences. If you want to be an Apple, Google or Amazon you will need to build it up over the course of decades through a series of successful pivots to scale up. Facebook is the most recent example, where the entire momentum of the site was imparted from the exclusivity of a truly tiny market (Harvard students), and then pivoting pivoting to progressively wider markets. For any of these companies the risks are incredible at each pivot, so swinging for the fences is more akin to building 5 startups in a row successfully. The only way you're going to get there is by building one regular small startup first and then repeatedly taking it to the next level from there. I don't think it's any different for YC startups other than that they start out with better connections, but that does not a business model make.
I'll agree with Bing and WinMo, but Xbox? Are you serious? There's one in every teenager's household. It might have cost them a loss to get there, but, if anything, it's an investment for the future—people need to buy games (and accessories, hello Kinect) for their Xboxen.
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That's a very negative take on it. The second person to object to SOPA wasn't plagiarising the first.

They're making the same point using a similar argument but that's very different to plagiarism.
A CEO isn't a banker. A CEO is here to make sure the business lives long and well, so basically he has to trace new paths. Most of the time, it fails.

If Microsoft sat in his little "nest-egg" of basic interpreters there would be no Office and no Windows.
Plain and simple, the existence of piracy is not due to the lack of legislation but due to market failure. I find that many people are more than happy to pay for good service and good products -- even if there are cheaper/free alternatives.
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Kodak was practically the first company that foresaw the arrival of digital cameras, and even built prototypes of them. They just had no idea of how quickly the market place can change. Kodak's switch to digital cameras was planned way before digital cameras were in the market. It was just done too late too slowly.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_was_the_digital_camera_invent...

The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).

It's like you are flying a plane and you know there is a mountain ahead of you, and you'll eventually need to climb, so you begin to adjust the plane ready for a climb. Suddenly a cliff appears in front of you and you crash into it.
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The claim that Hollywood was created to evade Edison's patents is dubious.

According to "A history of narrative film" by David A. Cook "The reason why a full-scale Eastern-based industry moved its entire operation to southern California during these years has never been completely clear, but the general contours of the phenomenon are obvious enough". He then lists these reasons:

- the type of temperate climate required for year-round production (most shooting was done outdoors at the time)

- a wide range of topography within a 50 mile radius

- the status of Los Angeles as a professional theatrical center

- a low tax base

- cheap and plentiful labor and land
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> That's just not true. If you asked a random person "what do you call the act of taking something without paying for it", they'd answer "theft".

By saying "taking" you've already given them the wrong question.

If you ask a random person "what do you call the act of imitating something without paying for it", they'd answer "huh?", or "art".
This is a typical lobby tactic. I spent many years fighting similar interests related to DNS issues at ICANN and in Washington. Our position was to support a smaller ICANN and more control by the community - less regulation and more checks and balances. Anyways, we were always bouncing up against Big Business, Big Media and the Telco's and they would lobby back under the guise of organizations like The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, The Free Speech Coalition, Net Choice and many others. After a while when I came across a new group, I'd just take the opposite of what their name said and that usually represented their position.

Many of these groups have mastered pre-emptive appropriation of key terms, usually forcing the opposition to do verbal backflips in order to make their point without conceding the oppositions opinion.

Looking back, I hated every second of it.
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It is ironic that Citibank now ultimately will be calling the shots at Kodak because of the $950M "Debtor in Possession" line of credit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtor-in-possession_financing

When Citibank was bankrupt the Secretary of the US Treasury gave Citibank $45B for preferred stock - basically no strings attached. Shareholders of Citibank kept their equity. The Citibank management that had run it into the ground and stayed in place will now be the ultimate decision makers at Kodak.

Why isn't anyone talking about breaking up these "too big to fail" banks? When they get in trouble again now they will be able to point to saving Kodak as another reason they should be bailed out. If you saw this situation in a third world country: National government loans to bank, bank loans to industry; you would see this a croneyism and not be likely to invest or build a business in that country.
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Important detail: only in combination with an arbitrarily large HTML file, and only with arbitrarily many user interactions (i.e. the user needs to manually increment the state).

As such it's a pretty meaningless type of turing completeness. So, whereas in general it's undecidable whether a program completes (the Halting problem) if it's written in a turing complete language, for the case of HTML+CSS it may well be decidable for several reasons. Firstly; because the HTML file will be of limited (and in practice small) size, and secondly, because the interesting question is whether you can reason about the state _now_; not whether the document might reach arbitrarily many states were the user to perform infinitely many interactions.

Turing completeness makes hard to reason about a program; and indeed the weaker a language the easier it can be to reason about it - or, more practically - the easier it can be for the browser to determine boundary conditions and to simplify interpretation of the page. Indeed, ironically, Tim Berners-Lee points out the advantages of using weak languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power

Saying that HTML+CSS is turing complete is kindof like saying finite state automatons are because the number of states is unbounded. That's entirely beside the point however; the point is that I can evaluate a _given_ FSA without turing completeness, not that an arbitrarily large FSA might take arbitrarily many execution resources (I mean, well duh).

Any given HTML+CSS combo is thus bounded in two ways; both by its own size, and by the fact that I don't care about eventual possible states reachable after infinite user interaction but just about the current state (or states very close to the current state).
About 5 or 6 times. Didn't realize I was so dependent upon such a dubious source of knowledge.
And then you use some other service. See pseudo problems.
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Either you haven't read both articles or you need to refresh your memory on what plagiarism is, because this isn't even close.
Democrats have been the ones balancing the budget in the last decades. Republicans are fiscal conservatives in name only:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/07/why-the-gop-...
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I'm not convinced by 2 of the answers to their 5 question pop quiz:

> Q: How much does the Earth weigh? A: 1,000 trillion metric tonnes

But isn't asking the weight (and not mass) of a planet fairly meaningless?

> Q: How do aeroplanes stay up? A: The upward lift of a plane is created by its curved wings

Isn't the dominant component due to downward deflection of oncoming air?
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This is truly impressive. Any idea who the author is?

edit: to answer my own question: http://jsdo.it/GeckoTang

> There are more than 6000 lines of CSS behind this, but only the first 500 or so are actual CSS; the rest appears to be images encoded into text.

Why would you encode image to text??
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Traditionally, Hollywood (run by angry liberals) and the Republican Party are hostile, so this shift is more of politics reverting to the mean. The main reason GOP members were on SOPA was the support of Nashville and the NFL.

This shift is a very positive development, it means the bill is becoming impossible to pass in a Republican House (and where GOP Rep. Lamar Smith has discredited himself by leading fellow Republicans into the SOPA morass).
By that line of reasoning, you should be in favor of legalizing all forms of corruption. This is nonsense. Yes, money can always find a way, but some ways are harder and less effective than others.
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What makes you believe that it's not possible to recover from burnout in a few days? I'm reading "The Feeling Good Handbook" (David D. Burns) and p173 talks about a man who suffered from a serious depression that had threatened to ruin his business for quite some time and was steadily getting worse. Apparently he recovered from his depression within a week after after his session.

Obviously I'm not claiming this happens with all patients (it's taken me 4.5 months to move from "severe depression" on the BDC to "normal but unhappy"), but I don't understand why you're so convinced the poster wasn't suffering from a real and debilitating condition that - from his description of it - significantly decreased the quality of his life.

I'd also like to suggest the possibility that the OP may not have recovered at all, but have simply found some temporary respite. I see this from time to time on Facebook with people I know who are suffering from depression but who haven't received (or worked on) proper treatment - they'll post non-stop about how great everything is, how awesome the world is... and then they'll crash. They haven't addressed the underlying causes of their depression, they've simply found a temporary distraction from it.
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Because the constitution is setting up the rules for what can completely superceed it. Basically: Congress and the President must follow these rules when governing the country, except when they agree not to, as declared in these same rules.

I get the need for treaties and and federal laws to superceed local laws, but that laws have to be made pursuant to the Constitution while treaties only have to be made under the authority of the United States, defined as the President and 2/3 of the Senate, is odd. Seems as though they could legally eliminate all constitutional obligations through treaty, or even enter into a treaty to use a different constitution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricker_Amendment#Legal_backgro...
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Let me rephrase then.

Is it different from an ip point of view if you transcribes riff or a chord progression from other musicians?

In other words is it ok when the musicians do it?
This is a stupid article.

He first explains how protests are meaningless, because not enough people do them, and then proposes.... protest, by boycotting almost everything.
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In both cases it's the act of creation, they're just manifested differently. Hacker's enjoy their creation because they feel like stretch the limit of their intellect. Creating a family (IMHO) is both as equally, if not more, challenging.
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We’re willing to shift our clocks by an hour twice a year to “save daylight,” whatever that means. Correcting for 500 years of clock drift is a far more tangible reason. It’s rather pessimistic to assume that the people of 500 years from now would be unwilling to implement this.