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Hear hear... comes down to reputation.

One does not simply steal the software running the service, one must steal the entire service.

How does one profit from music? By creating fans which in turn builds a brand which can be leveraged in creative ways... concerts, endorsements etc...

How does one profit from movies? Exclusive access to high quality versions first. Avatar cost anywhere from $250m - $500m, it has grossed $760m. Theaters sign up, pay money and get the best shit first... sure it will be copied... eventually (maybe within hours) a pirate theater may get a hold of it... but will it always be in a few hours? Or will it be a day or three? Avatar made ~90% of its money by week 10... obviously the theaters don't want it out for as long as possible... same goes for the studios... so if all efforts were focused on inside leaks instead of consumption, a stronger business model and secured profits would be had.

In fact... when you look at it... the Gov is subsidizing the industry through law/enforcement due to the inability of the industry to manage its own business. 'HALP! I can't keep my fucking people in line'... the only real Gov. response should be... GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER BITCH.

How does one profit from books? Similar to movies and music... brands & exclusive distribution.

How does one profit from games? Exclusive and _secure_ distribution.

How does one profit from an idea? Building the infrastructure (the business) for that idea to execute.

Not to mention the kick started method... I threw down on Double Fine Adventure... some of you did too... its about to hit $3m.

If some thing is good... one does not simply steal that thing and inhibit its profit... one must steal the entire world in which that thing exists in order to really harm the thing stolen. Otherwise the harm done is marginal... and if that harms kills your thing, your thing was marginal as well. Better luck next time....

I guess what I am trying to really say is... GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER... and http://youtu.be/zypjjdX-hvQ?t=40s

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So when are we going to see dedicated Bitcoin hardware? Most of the security problems with Bitcoin arise from using the software on general purpose computers, which don't mind if arbitrary processes examine the memory of the Bitcoin client. Trusted Platform Modules and smartcard chips, on the other hand, can encrypt incoming data without leaking the private key. You'd only need a couple thousand more gates (WAG) to run Bitcoin on secure silicon.

In fact, this is such a patently obvious insight that someone else must have thought of it already.
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It seems like you're miscommunicating over where to delineate the product. You are right that the marginal cost of the Nth copy of a particular film is about zero. The marginal cost of making the Nth film is still decidedly nonzero.
Could I float a proposal that all bitcoin-related articles be indicated as such, in the title or link domain?
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I don't think Chrome is trying to sandbox their own code using NaCl, so much; they're just trying to sandbox "arbitrary executable" code.... which is sandboxed automatically if it's JS running inside a JS VM instead of a random binary blob.

For the rest, one of the main points of Rust and servo is to have better security-by-design. Whether the DOM ends up implemented in JS or in Rust is still up in the air at this point, but either one would be much better than C++ from a security perspective.

As for JavaScript, it's what we have due to happenstance, but displacing it involves either a huge amount more complexity in web browsers (to support JavaScript _and_ another language both touching the same objects and whatnot without memory leaks) or just dropping JS entirely and implementing some other language (not exactly likely to succeed). Maybe someone will create a VM that can run both JS and something else well. Maybe. It's not all that simple to do.
"It is not appropriate for those companies to be mitigating that risk using the credit from their merchant account."

If I'm not mistaken, if this were an actual, say, visa merchant account, all parties would have much clearer rules laid out. The customer would be protected "they didn't deliver, I'm not paying". The merchant doesn't get "credit" per-se..... they have to deliver goods or the charge-backs start, at which point they are up shit creek, along with possibly their substantial deposit with their merchant provider.

Paypal does not work like a normal merchant account for credit cards - people need to remember that - that's why we have these horror stories.
If a credit card processor tried to pull this stuff they'd have their visa contract yanked in a heartbeat and thir merchant banks would drop them like a hot potato.
The world I want is a world where people don't have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make movies like Avatar. They can make movies that good themselves in their free time as a hobby. Other people who like the idea can get on board and help. In the end the result is shared with everyone like telling stories around a big global campfire. (They may or may not then sing Kumbaya).

That seems ridiculously impossible and utopian right now, but I'll bet that won't always be so. How do we get there from here? I'd really like to short circuit the part where everyone that believes this is impossible or undesirable economically has to die off before this can happen.
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Thanks for the legal analysis, always a welcome addition here.

> The useful question is whether the particular rights bundled into "copyright" are the best way to do the things we're trying to do.

Yes, the ultimate goal is to reform that, but I think the argument needs to be that there is a more optimal way of codifying copyright for everyone - content creators, consumers, and 'mashuppers' - that can create more abundance, dynamism, an opportunity for all parties.

But instead the prevailing argument seems to essentially be one of technological entitlement - that taking something for nothing without the consent of the creator/rights owner, at least as defined under current laws, has no consequence for the rights owner, and that it should be legal to do simply because it can be done.

No, it should be legal to do because there is ultimately more utility and value in it for everyone including the rights owners than under the old regime, so much so that they do it willingly like some are starting to experiment with now (NIN, Louis CK, etc).

That's the argument that must and can ultimately convince society, government, and Hollywood (or at least drag the latter to it kicking and screaming) that there is a more optimal copyright system. Spurious appeals to neo-entitlement will just fail there.
The unicode change is net-even functionally with 2.x. Unicode everywhere is a nice goal, but let's not pretend that 2.x can't do unicode and that 3.x is the only solution.
this seems interesting. any (simple) examples I can study?
> What upcoming food shortage? Food production is largely a solved problem. We know how to sustainably produce large amounts of food from a given amount of arable land, and we have plenty of arable land to feed not just the current global population, but the projected maximum global population. It's true! We already have the ability to feed the largest population we'll ever have. True, Africa currently has food shortages, but as soon as Africa stops relying on peasant farming, that problem goes away. We can argue about when (or if) Africa is going to finally have their own Green Revolution[0], but...upcoming shortages? Do you know something the rest of us don't? :)

(I had a strong personal reaction to your tone; I find your tone really unpleasant. I recognise this is my problem. Sorry.)

You're right that there is enough food for everyone to be fed and live a productive life.[1] But there are still extensive problems sharing that food out.

Just one example: almost half of children under 5 in Nepal are stunted because of chronic malnutrition.[2]

Developing countries spend too much money importing food.[3]

There are problems now that are hard to overcome in future - climate change, desertification, salination, rates of HIV / AIDS in the farming population, migration, etc. Here's a set of photos showing some problems. (http://www.irinnews.org/photo/Slideshow/43/Too-Poor-to-Farm)

But there are interesting methods that show some promise - such as 'empowering women'.[4]

I don't think we are conquering global inequality. I think it's getting worse. And the environment might not recover eventually; it might go into runaway heating and boil off the atmosphere. Or it might recover eventually, after having killed off all human life.

[1] (http://www.wfp.org/hunger/faqs)

[2] (http://www.irinnews.org/Photo/Details/201112300839360722/A-y...)

[3] (http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/77872/72/A-global-food-cris...)

[4] (http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95038/FOOD-Reduce-hunger-nurt...)
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Could that risk not have been averted by paying closer attention to merchant agreements and shopping around more?

Your merchant account has a limit. When you're about to blow it out of the water, you pick up the phone and call your merchant and talk about it, not wait for everything to go into automatic investigation fraud hell.

There are no flawless , fire and forget payment solutions that scale to any amount out there, there are just too many variables.
> people that wait tables in most states make less than $3/hr base pay, which is about $20 a day

The restaurants are also required to difference between minimum wage and hourly pay + tips if they don't reach minimum wage. Whether that happens or not is another matter.
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I didn't say the touch screen will be horizontal.
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True enough - but paypal is not a regular merchant provider.
Go get one of those - they communicate.
I think the debate is much more complicated.
I would start by analyzing the various dimensions that property can have.

Let's list some:

- Non property vs property. Religion vs. patents.

- Public property vs Private property. Rain vs. bottled water.

- Intellectual property vs Physical property. A song vs. a gong.

Any other dimensions you can think of?
I was hoping it was something like this - you can donate $0.01 by credit card, and they will lose out (overall) due to merchant account fees.
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True, people downvote if they don't agree. without even giving a reason. While downvoting should be for eliminating spam and comments that don't add to discussion.
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So this is not new in America

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>He never takes a marginal approach to an issue.

Who does and is interesting to read?
I've worked with designers who justify making multiple interfaces for similar functions. Frankly, this approach is almost always wrong and results in confusing interfaces and repetitive, difficult to maintain implementations.

Simplifying an experience to it's essence and ensuring that users learn quickly through consistency is key to design.

Bad designers are often quick to justify why two similar functions need different interfaces. Good designers understand that combining similar functions eliminates cognitive noise and creates the opportunity to add more features more easily and more understandably.

The author of this post strikes me as the bad sort of designer, one who views design as anything other than engineering and who justifies bad design with tortured "emotional" arguments.

Users are emotionally happy when they accomplish what they intend, understand and learn quickly, and feel confident they can repeat their result. Users are not happy when you force a single course of action through one-off behavior driven tunnel visioned design, leaving them confused and disoriented afterwards.

I've seen this before, and it is the product of egotistical designers caught up in their art instead of their users' experience.

Bill was right on this one. Windows interface sucks because it was not designed from the ground up with the user experience in mind by a comprehensive intelligent creator, not because it fails "emotionally" or lacks art.
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I love python. It took a while but it has won me over, and I've come to appreciate its commitment to legibility and consistency. At this point it only loses out to javascript in my heart because javascript is universally deployed on users' machines.

However this is complete and utter bullshit.

Other languages are inconsistent? The answer is not to be inconsistent, and you can be consistent as a method or as a builtin function.

Don't know if it should be a method or an attribute? Python has properties now, the user doesn't have to care.

The 'special meaning' section that follows seems a bit confused as well. Why is it so special to get the length of a collection?

Sorry for going off on a rant, please correct me if I'm wrong here. I just get so frustrated with the eagerness of the Python community's apologetics for things that no longer make sense to be in the language.

I can feel it working within me too, I'm more and more on the fence about explicit self.
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Everyone who joined Twitter was handsomely rewarded for their hard work and their accomplishments at Posterous. We're taking much of what we built at Posterous to make Twitter a more powerful platform.

If the employees simply got to keep their job, they wouldn't have accepted the Twitter offer and instead have joined another startup. There are plenty of great opportunities out there.
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To fix this problem, software patents need to be abolished as a practice damaging for society and innovation. While they exists, they'll be abused by trolls.
Current Yahoo here. I love working for Yahoo. Fun & unique challenges to solve, compensated well, and is a nice environment.

Think what you will, but there are plenty more that are like me. My current team is full of some of the best people in the industry at what they do and the average tenure of them at Y! is ~6 years. So, there's plenty of very talented people left at Yahoo who are here because they want to be.
> If you buy a product that you wish you didn't buy, wouldn't you normally return it?

Consumer law in England doesn't let you do this. Many, but not all, shops do allow returns as a good-will measure. (Unless you buy online, where the Distance Selling Regulations give the customer remarkable rights.)

Doesn't "Buyer Beware" mean anything anymore?
OP must've miscalculated, surely. 0.1 pageviews per machine per second is quite amusing though.

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And because of that you are ninjas. Hm. This describes pretty much all startups I have dealt or been involved with. If you are not watching your servers and not tending to the users 24/7, you are dead before getting of the ground. If thinking you are ninjas helps your team get things done - great, but IMO the concept of company theming is a very artificial one.
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Good post. Both HT and via have been part of blogging since the beginning. Creating a new icon and standards page won't stop the re-bloggers from re-blogging and not attributing.

I have started working on a technical solution to news attribution. The original Atom spec had a definition for a 'source', which isn't being used. It didn't get adapted into hNews. I am working on extending Microdata so that links to the main source of the story can be attributed and read by search engines and aggregators.

The idea is that with the support of search engines blogs and websites that don't properly attribute with microdata markup can be penalized as duplicate content. A lot of the re-blogging content networks rely on search referrals for traffic and revenue, and referrals from aggregators for readers. This would also solve the problem where stories from wire sources such as Reuters and AP are republished hundreds of times on hundreds of different news sites and pollute search results.

The standards already exist, they just need to be documented and adapted (and added to the BlogPost schema[1]). It just as important for applications to be able to read attribution links as it is for readers.

for eg. at the moment when Business Insider reposts one of Marco's posts there is no way for a crawler to know which is the original. Microdata can help that and help keep mirrored or ripped content out of search engines and aggregators (like Google News, etc.)

The other problem I have with this group is that the entire committee is made up of representatives from large media companies, and they are all writers. Not a single independent blog, or indy blogger represented, or part-time blogger, or designer, or programmer, or software implementor, etc.

[1] http://schema.org/BlogPosting
In practice, I don't think anyone actually has a definitive answer to what differentiates them.

I always interpreted them as mostly meaning the same thing.
I think Emacs' longevity is in itself a strong evidence it's not that easy to improve on it.
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There have been discussions on the forum, but nothing serious. (There's specialized Bitcoin mining hardware, but we're talking about wallet storage here.) I don't think a smartcard is really enough; you need something like the IBM ZTIC, and it's not clear that people are willing to pay for that. There was some discussion about using trusted computing: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67508.0
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When I first saw the teaser trailer, I thought this movie looked really promising. I felt that the trailer hinted at some real depth.

And then the official trailer came out some months later showing all of the action and CGI. I lost all interest in it because it looked like every other fantasty/superhero movie out lately.
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I'm not a speech therapist or linguist etc. so wasn't aware of any formal distinction. I can tell you that "random" pauses, as you call them, are as useful as considered pauses. They slow down what's being said, which makes the speaker appear calmer, more considered, and so on.
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I guess so. I wouldn't mind if it was smooth.coffee (maybe other people would?), but I can see your rationale.

It seems like saying something could be cross-compiled doesn't really mean it is in that other language, but again, people seem to think of CoffeeScript as different.

Also, sorry for forgetting, but thanks for making this! It looks pretty awesome.

Do you have any plans for extrapolation?
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