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There's an important distinction in the categorisation of theft as [primarily] criminal and copyright infringement as [primarily] tortuous which I feel you've simply ignored.

The category distinction is vital IMO as it is right that there is greater protection under the law against someone who steals your belongings vs someone who merely duplicates them.

If one considers that right to free enjoyment of ones personal property is oft considered a basic human right then it can readily be seen why denying someone ownership is considered to be a greater wrong, generally, that denying someone sole rights to reproduce a particular work.

Moreover the level at which the state intervenes has become twisted (at least in the UK) wherein the state is beginning to get involved (under USA's pressure it seems) in very low value tortfeasance on behalf of large corporations whilst at the same time ignoring rather higher value crimes (such as theft) against individuals. Indeed, though I'm not really on top of this one [perhaps you can elucidate], it seems that more copyright infringement is being treated in the USA as criminal than is elsewhere.

In short whilst, yes, copyright infringement is still illegal even if it's not criminal I don't agree that you can claim all denial of alienable rights is equal, or even nearly so, which appears to be the thrust of your argument.

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"or with your name attached" is only true with provisos; there are several laws under which I could object to your passing off (in the common sense) of this work as mine which would prevent you from legally selling the right to do so.
Amazon and Apple aren't in the business of distributing digital goods with low marginal cost. They are in the business of distributing digital goods with the highest marginal price possible, so they have little incentive to reduce their marginal costs as much as possible. (Even so, their profit margins are very high.)

When you stop trying to impose artificial scarcity and simply try to distribute with the lowest possible marginal cost (things like Project Gutenberg or Bittorrent), you find that even if the marginal cost is not exactly zero, it is close enough that the marginal cost does not affect the pricing across any real-world range of quantities. Thus, the traditional supply/demand model no longer applies.
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I'm having a hard time seeing how discounts on 95% of these services would be considered an employee perk.
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if you're talkinga bout a b2b transaction, no. your business negotiates your terms well with the startup to ensure you're innovating but not going to be significantly impacted if the startup goes under.

In semiconductor startups, you sometimes need to secure "second source" agreements with a bigger business (that could be your eventual acquirer ) that assures they'll takeover manufacture your existing silicon if they go down.

In our case we had a second-source partner until our acquisition that had "rebadged" parts available. It was annoying, but it's sometimes the only way for a startup to sell to big multi-million dollar customers.
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Interesting? Do you always pair with the same person?

When was the last time you paired with someone other than the person you have been pairing with recently?
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Is this a troll? Fuck it, i'll answer it anyway.

First.

Evil by definition is:

6. that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct: to choose the lesser of two evils.
7. the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.
8. the wicked or immoral part of someone or something: The evil in his nature has destroyed the good.
9. harm; mischief; misfortune: to wish one evil.
10. anything causing injury or harm: Tobacco is considered by some to be an evil.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/evil)

Therefore, if you want to 'do evil' you can harm, cause mischief, cause misfortune, cause injury or harm, etc etc etc. So that's what "you can do evil" means.

Second.

Evil is not by definition, "doing something you shouldn't do," as evidenced in the definition in the URL linked above. Evil is just bad. Sometimes it might be necessary to do evil. The bible has innocent god-fearing people do evil all the god-damn time - but it's something they do In The Name Of The Lord.

Third.

Why the hell are you telling me this? I never said anyone should or should not 'ban evil', I was merely stating that the potential for good or evil in a public domain-licensed piece of software like SQLite can't be compared to an Open Source-licensed product because the public domain is inherently more evil than Open Source.

Fourth.

'Banning evil' is not even comparable, to saying that breaking a law is illegal. Saying that breaking a law is illegal is a truism. Banning evil is a sometimes-necessary act in order to enforce a punishment for doing evil, which is the whole basis for a system of laws and penalties. You have to define what evil is and define a punishment for varying degrees of evil. Without specifically defining such laws you have a kind of tribal unspoken law which is quite subjective and not compatible with things like copyright law or software licenses.

Does that clear things up?
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Ideas are inert. What is called "control over ideas and labor" is really control over other people who wish to use and build on them, and that is at best a necessary evil we should minimize.
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I tried your format, and every time I get

Error: Unable to set calendar clock

TIME:SET-CALENDAR-CLOCK
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and then drop into a debugger. Are there any steps I could do when it can't set the time to get the rest of the system to boot?

Edit: the emulator is outputting:

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when I enter the time, so there must be an emulation error of some sort.
Aren't they more like games in handy book-a-like format?

This I think promotes my point (I would!).

If you only ever share pop-up books, coloring books, sticker books, flap-books, texture books, carpet books (they have samples of carpet in them), etc., with your child then they're not being exposed to the central concept of receiving ideas from a passive medium and giving life to those ideas internally without a proscribed pattern as to how one should do that.

Mind you I've no strong evidence that the move through object presentation, to picture based story, to picture accompanied story, and on to pure prose, genuinely does lead to a development of imagination (rather than say just accompany such a development).
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I agree that you will be happier and more productive if you do these things. But, these things don't help you deliver value to your customers.
Reading this thread, the masses of 'um's here really feel contagious.. i wouldn't want to be starting a speech right now.

I have to say PGs 'UHM's were very noticeable (distracting, even), although that perhaps was a little influenced by the prior mention.

Finally- slightly OT but i missed the discussion thread- I was really disappointed by Paul's responses to the questions asked. While I understand it is difficult to come up with a proper response on the spot, i thought the questions particularly about university's peripheral 'roles', and manufacturing-oriented start-ups were really insightful and his mostly side-stepping answers really missed an opportunity.
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I'm not advocating the complete repeal of copyright and patent law. I actually think that the constitutional provision for such laws is exactly right. What I'm trying to point out is that copyright and patent rights are not the natural order of things, and that without specific enactment, it is not the default state of the law, and that exclusive control over ideas is not something that authors and inventors should take for granted.

Any useful copyright system must be a balance of competing interests, and it is not in any way tyrannical to suggest that the authors should not win by default and then go on to use public resources to enforce their own rules for how their ideas can be applied or disseminated.

Imagine a world in which Harlan Ellison wins every lawsuit he files. That would be horrible.
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>>This is actually a good reminder that I should write something more in-depth on this topic

I would love to read it. Please post it to HN if you ever get to it, I think a lot of people (including me) are interested in the concepts and ideas behind Genera and other Lisp machines.
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By doing this you're clearly stealing money by making digital copies of it, devaluing money for everyone and making the maker of the money (US Mint) bankrupt.
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That reminds me very strongly of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdOomYvnyNI&t=1m13s
Perhaps this might make it difficult for new artists to get off the ground or discovered.

Form organizations which take the money and pay the artists salaries. Now becoming a new artist becomes similar to becoming a new programmer or architect or whatever.
Have you sought statistics for no-shows that aren't reported. There's a general prohibition against reporting other people's failings particularly when trying to appear warm and accommodating.

Not sure how you'd do it except perhaps as an exit question for people leaving your community.
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The via doesn't really apply in your example, if you look at the post and see the linked pages and his comments via is for attribution of original source.

I don't know what hat tip is but original sources are important and the least someone can do when they rewrite your content is offer up a direct link to you. The whole rewriting content thing is kind of annoying in the online news sites though.
I think "via" is the original source, and "hat tip" is how you found it (i.e. another site that linked to it).

(Or the other way around. I agree with Marco on that one, I think it's confusing.)
I was an early user of Posterous and got our whole company to setup multiple sub-domains when each of us tweeted out photos. At the time it was the best because you didn't have any ads showing up alongside a photo (like twitpic). Im sad to see posterous otherwise give up and just move to twitter. I feel like if they would have kept innovating 2-3 or so years ago then they would be at a much better place. What are their goals before they got bought? It wasnt clear to me.
I think that perhaps the most important part about intellectual property is that it restricts what you can do with your real property - you can't write a story using someone else's characters (derivative work), and more obviously you can't write down you favorite story on your own paper, or copy a cd, etc... It restricts what you can do with your own property even if you never entered into an agreement with anyone else. This is clearly shown with submarine patents.
Can anyone suggest a way to port your posterous blog to tumblr, retaining the url's and the comments (i believe tumblr uses disqus for comments) ?
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Hold on - I thought this was an awesome idea right up until it was a joke.

Why don't we actually give the RIAA millions of dollars?

Like, the argument from all advocates of digital freedom isn't that artists don't need money to survive, but by making things simple and easy, people will quite willingly part with their money.

So why not solve this "chicken and egg" issue by hurling a few eggs their way to get the ball rolling?

Let's give them shitloads of money to prove that people will willingly pay for their product.
Those are precisely the alarms I suspect it sets off. Some people are more averse to marketing than you or I — it makes them uncomfortable, because they associate it with a certain kind of marketer that is very common on the Internet. (Like I said in my other comment, I bought it and thought it was quite good.)
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After knowing Ankur or a year or two, I believe he is underselling himself.
He is an talented dev who can pick up new environments very quickly: non trivial iOS game in a month; functional programming with F# in a few weeks etc
He is also a genuinely nice guy and has business acumen.

If your in London, and want someone to hack projects with, then you could do a lot worse!
What makes you think this won't happen with Google?

They have a very valuable patent portfolio, and there is a very high likelihood that Google will at some point experience problems similar to Yahoo, Microsoft, Kodak, etc.

Once that happens, shareholders will be clamoring for that asset to be put to use - if management hasn't already done so to prop earnings up.

And that's why it's so pervasive - the only practical defense to patent lawsuits is building up your own portfolio of patents for defensive purposes. But, since it is highly likely that your company will face situations that require you to utilize that portfolio in an offensive way, your previously defensive patents will require other companies to acquire their own 'defensive' patents. Ad infinitum.
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I have wondered about these companies and always thought they were hyped up, but at the end of the day...are they really that good? I don't think soooo :) YC companies seem cool at the start, but are they really doing anything, besides looking cool? It seems the same type of companies and same type of founders are in YC, not to say many won't continue to be successful, but if I was in the room at the YC office with everyone, the only thing in common would be technology, but it lacks diversity in many ways...many will argue that one and say they have people from all kinds of places, but really same old Ivy league, computer or engineering degrees, started or finished. Got jobs at big names etc etc etc. Boring!!! :) Thats why you see the same style of companies and no big winners cause its only selected by a few people, that probably look for the same traits of people. Is YC a bunch of Paul Grahams? lol
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Market conditions can be constrained by regulations such as Apple's prohibition against pornography. Eighteenth century USA excused slavery as the price of doing business before government regulations altered those market conditions. Prior to such changes the practice was no less scummy. In-App kid-chiseling falls squarely in the category of scummy.
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Thank you for a very clear, informative post.

I've thought about this a fair amount, and you still managed to explain it in a way that made it new to me.

You do credit to lawyerkind.
You're wrong about yahoo "dying". They've increased revenue by about 800% and earnings by 1000% in that decade of death you're referring to.

As for "Yahoo the search engine" - that certainly seems to be a lost cause, but Yahoo has built a substantial business over the course of the last decade. Assets such as their Fantasy Sports, Yahoo Finance, and Flickr are thriving - not to mention their stake in Alibaba.
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Just because there is one traditional way of providing funding for the production of, some, creative works does not mean that we need to keep going back to that same model for the foreseeable future.

There are lots of different models that work. Even today there are models that are working (pay what you want, kickstarter, freemium, live events vs. albums, merch, etc.)

You say this: "One thing is sure: that large group of people whose names scrolled by on the credits would no longer be able to be paid for their work on movie productions as we have known them." but that is NOT in any way sure. Indeed, right this very minute it is trivial for the vast majority of the people who are the core market for that specific movie to obtain that movie without paying any amount of money to the studio, the artists, or the crew. It's honestly hard to imagine a world where it would be easier to do so. And yet... And yet, the world has not collapsed. The movie studios have not imploded. People still pay money for movies. People who make movies still get paid.

Why? How? This is something important worth asking. At this point only the most simplistic of viewpoints could possibly imagine a future where it is impossible for people to earn a living through making art. There are far, far too many counter examples, even of artists going out of their way to challenge the traditional assumptions and pioneer new methods for making money by creating art (Louis CK, Radiohead, Humble Bundle, Double Fine, Julia Nunes, etc.)

Unquestionably the changes in technology that have enabled unfettered sharing/piracy of digital goods will have a profound effect on the financial nature of commercial art.

But will that effect translate to a situation other than a metric crapton of art being produced every year and a great many artists making a living off of their work?

Absolutely, conclusively not.
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Here's a python version, if anyone wants it. I know that I've had to do interpolation in the past, and this would have been nice to have.

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>I wish we could stop discussing this from the premise of "it's controversial whether we should stop locking people up for drug possession".

I haven't been arguing about that all.

At the root of it, I have a hypothesis that a majority of violent crime in our present society stems from some kind of inter-institutional fracas, i.e. people committing violence do so, for the most part, as an attempt to further the goals of the social hierarchy to which they belong.

On a parallel level, I also believe that barring some seriously draconian shit, ala Singaporean death penalties, in a lot if not most communities we have basically reached peak law enforcement. (It's worth debating just what is "seriously draconian", though). We basically can't stop people from engaging in ludicrously profitable or enjoyable illegal activities, and at a micro level we can't stop dedicated individuals who want to hurt other individuals.

Given these two beliefs, I think your best bet is to shrink the organizations involved by drastically eliminating their profit margins on their most lucrative trade. (As a side tangent, also engage in more expensive deep independent investigations as done in the Wire, but as the Wire shows there are many institutional challenges with that approach also).

As it turns out, it's a complex question. What might be true for inner cities might not apply for port cities where you can make a dime doing something else illegal.
real world examples look like this

Flickr photo (ori) -> example.tumblr.com -> my blog "photo via example.tumblr.com"

Youtube clip (ori) -> John Doe on FB -> your FB "youtube clip via John Doe"

so 'via' is the place where you clicked repost/share not the original content
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Are you typing the year as "2012" rather than "12"? The universal time you have shown here decodes as 3/22/1911, which is close enough to 100 years ago to make me wonder. Either that, or you copied the display contents by hand and left off a digit.
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It's a shame that I stopped using bookmarks years ago, cos I could usually google the result much quicker.

Though this UI might change that! Will deffo try it out!

Any thoughts on twitter favs, which a lot of users (including me) misuse as a booking marking service.
Totally get that-- if it's the style you're comfortable with, go for it. Hope I didn't sound critical, just curious.

Although if I may, there is a potential benefit to using strings there in that it lets you get rid of the switch statement entirely:

unless config.clip of ClipHelpers
throw new Error "No clip mode '#{config.clip}'. Available modes are #{(k for k of ClipHelpers).join(', ')}"
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This could also make it easy for a user to add helpers at runtime. Maybe overkill for this, just something to keep in mind.
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