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As there is no global government or other power, we can observe the relationships between people that have no common power and prove his assertion false.

Or we can observe that though someone may travel abroad, at home they are subject to a power (their home country's laws) and abroad they are subject to a power (the laws of the country they're visiting).

And then we can observe that your analogy really works best with the countries themselves, and of course the history of international relations is full of countries respecting each others' territory, sovereignty, etc. without any need for some third party to exercise power and hold them in check. Right?

Right?
> In fact in Rubygems, you can point to a Ruby git repository (like github) and have dependency management happen from there - no necessity for a centralized repository (like maven.org).

That's a feature of Bundler, not Rubygems.

> The same thing happens with SBT or leiningen, except that they are JARs. I believe this comes from using maven as the backend. Therefore, either you need to setup a local repository or publish to Sonatype or some other place.

I don't follow. I mean, you don't need to setup a local repository anymore than you need to setup a local Rubygems repository.

Checkout this anonymized and trimmed up `build.sbt` for the project I'm currently working on: https://gist.github.com/sam/7162604

It's got a number of JAR dependencies, followed by project references to projects on the local filesystem as well as Github, neither of which are JARs.

In fact, because I don't have much clue how to distribute my own libs on maven.org, I don't bother. If you want to use it, just drop the URI into your build.sbt and away you go.

Is this not what you're looking for?

If you want to create a JAR (say for deployment), and you're not working with a Play application, and you don't want to publish the JAR to a repository, that's cool too. Just run `package`, or use the sbt-assembly plugin. Just takes a couple seconds.

SBT is basically Rake + Bundler + RVM + Guard + RDoc all in one. I'm not aware of anything that those do that SBT can't. It's pretty easy to pick up as well. People complain about it, but I've personally invested a lot less time learning SBT than I have in those tools and feel like I'm probably as proficient at this point.
Obviously not the consent of all the governed, all the time.
You're going to say that the way nation-states deal with each other proves some sort of inviolable human rights?

Have you read much history?
> But many things I don't get: - Word processors - Spreadsheets - Photo editors

In 2012 Mozilla stopped innovating its Thunderbird mail agent [0]:

"Is Thunderbird a likely source of innovation and of leadership in today’s Internet life? Or is Thunderbird already pretty much what its users want and mostly needs some on-going maintenance?"

[0] - https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stabi...
If physical property could be copied and used without depriving its owner of its use, then I would be absolutely all for the abolition of physical property rights. After all, if I could simply take a copy of whatever you possessed without depriving you of possession or use of it, then why would anyone have any need to actually own anything? Our entire concept of property rights are predicated on the existence of scarcity; no such scarcity exists for intellectual property.

Justifying intellectual property through the analogy of physical property is flawed, as they are inherently different beasts.

That said, your core argument is entirely spot-on - our economic framework that is accepted in policy circles doesn't see the economic value of letting copyright expire. I'd also suggest that policymakers are rarely (if ever) dispassionate and unbiased; at the end of the day, their view of the world is closely aligned with the view of those who keep them in office through campaign contributions and whatnot. It doesn't even have to be as explicit as bribery - simply the fact that Congressmen (out of necessity) run in circles with wealthy people who have an interest in preventing the expiration of copyright is enough to color their opinions and views in favor of that particular position, even if they never knowingly accept a bribe.
I think this article proves that wrong (if these stats are true). Teens are the most fickle demographic out there!
See also - http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ - I find its a better "best".
Yes. It gets a bit more targeted when you add the space [men should ] or [women should ]

I guess there are a lot of online bibles affecting the search?
If services only remain at their peak for 4/5 years this doesn't represent much of an advantage.
I do the same for breakfast, but I feel more comfortable doing so because most of those foods are regulated. I don't believe protein powder is, which is a little scary considering how often it's consumed. If Soylent is to be treated as a supplement (lack of regulation) that is consumed exclusively, it's even more unnerving.

PS - Are you Louis? We had a quick email convo last year. If you need help implementing some of the marketing aspects of EatThisMuch, let me know.
That was my first thought, too.

On the other hand there are probably cheaper ways to beat your competitors than crewing a boat, paying for fuel/electricity, havign a datacenter crew on board, dealing with the challenges of getting a high bandwidth signal hundred of miles off-shore, etc. Specifically you could invest in ever-faster custom processing in hardware or a lower latency connection will still make you faster than your competitors. You don't need to be as fast as possible, you only need to be a tiny bit faster than everyone else.

On the other hand, if someone can take advantage of economy of scale (by being a neutral provider to many brokers) and provide an advantage over everyone at a lower cost than the above options, then everyone would need to use it to compete effectively.
That kind of implies that everything we create inherently belongs to the government, "they" let us use it for the period of copyright, and then it's theirs again to sell off. I can make a case for copyright ending and creative works no longer having an owner, but I can't make a case (philosophically) for them to automatically belong to the government.
How could anyone host your content on their servers without a license? How could they link to your content from a widget if it wasn't transferable? Is there a comparable TOS that you prefer?

"By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog."

http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
Snapchat is one. Especially in the youngsters it's usage is rising pretty fast.
Getting OT here, but the thing that kills me about Gimp is how badly it doesn't want to save the file in its original format. You have to export it (totally different menu option) and then it will whine when you close the file because it thinks you haven't saved it.

The thing almost every user expects it that saving the file just saves over the old file in the format it was originally in. IIRC, it used to work that way, and then one day it changed for the worse.
Maybe - though my guess is that they'll join a university population and/or workforce and start interacting with the wider world, that just happens to be significantly on Facebook. But at 40 mine is hardly a relevant opinion :)
If remixing Disney signals some abysmal state of society, what does that say about Disney?

DJs should be free to remix pop songs as they like and everything is gravy, but if a DJ dares remix another DJ's work then suddenly we are a poorer society? Absurd.
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I find it a little bit hard to believe that tumblr is only 4% and that Google+ is 3%.

I highly doubt the veracity of these numbers.
It's great that young people are diversifying in this way, but isn't it a little apples to oranges? You don't use Facebook to send disappearing images to each other, you don't use Instagram to plan events or remind you of birthdays, and you don't use Snapchat to share pictures of your cat with followers around the world. They're very different things, yet they are all lumped into the category "social network" because you can make connections with people. By that standard, practically any online service or platform these days is a social network!

Still, it's very significant that Facebook is not the go-to thing for lots of online connective tasks (even if they do own Instagram). People don't want all their interactions to be on one platform for the same reason no one puts all their eggs in the same basket, and in addition, there are nicer baskets out there to try out!
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It's understood to mean a monopoly on the right to produce copies. Not on the right to sell them. Which is why it is (still) legal to sell used books.
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I believe this was literally Chapter 1 (ok, maybe chapter 2 or 3) of "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears" [1]. Life imitates art, I guess? Or maybe that author is more prescient than I gave him credit for.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Avogadro-Corp-Singularity-Appears-eboo...
Well, I wouldn't necessarily dispute the claim that the UK seems to have a better handle on gun crimes overall as compared to the US. It's just that the difficulties in doing so are quite different between the two.
Point well taken. I appreciate your insight.

So here's a secondary question... Could the overall cost of the education be reduced if the intro classes were taught online? Or the non-humanities intro classes taught online?
What, specifically, are the "basic property rights" that copyrights clash with?

I ask because the general statement of "use my ... however I wish" is obviously way too broad; I can't use my computer to commit fraud, or my printer to print dollars. More generally, I would say the distilled basic property right is to use my property in a way that does not violate anyone else's rights or break any laws.

The most basic property right is the right to exclude others from the use of your property, and in that sense, if we accept that "intellectual property" is property, then it seems to apply there too.

I don't think I'm the only one in this thread who saw rayiner's comment and felt instinctive disgust followed by grudging admiration -- the idea there is really messing with my while framework for thinking about copyrights.
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That would require the government to take ownership of Snow White - that is, it would require that after a certain amount of time, all copyrighted works become the property of the government, who may then be under some mandate to auction it off or whatnot.

Maybe some folks would be okay with this, but I would much rather my creations be owned by no one after a certain period than that the government just exercises some form of eminent domain over my property to take possession of it.
To be honest, I have no idea.

User shabble has some ideas (in a sibling comment to this one), but reading that gives me the impression that this is a little bit of a theoretical concept. It's not. It's very widely practiced, with the explicit intent of "promoting growth".

E.g., a search like [1] calls up a large number of references to it.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=how+do+antibiotics+fatten+an...
Read this and the two linked articles. While I doubt anyone can speak to meeting this deadline, the two very most important things have happened:

The manifestly not up to the job CMS is out at the "general contractor", QSSI will be adding that role to their work on the site.

Honesty has arrived: the unfortunately names Jeffrey Zients (since Zients is too close to clients and I generally think I've made a cut and paste error), rather than being a "consultant" as originally portrayed to no doubt avoid some feather ruffling seems to be, in Obama's style, seems to be the fix the site czar. And he critically he admits that sending bad data to insurers is not just a big problem, but at the very top of his "punch list" to get fixed.

Again, no one can predict if they can pull it off, but according to these articles the management problems that were ensuring it wouldn't get fixed are said to have been addressed. Since this includes a new contract with QSSI, which CMS proposed firing 3 days after launch, I don't think we can even said the White House et. al. obviously took too long to do it.
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Dont quit your job. I quit my job 2 years ago to start my company and feel very differently about this than most others on this YC message board.
If you get in to YC or one of the top 3 then by all means quit as you will most likely be making enough money in a year to cover your expenses. However, if you are like the rest of us stay where you are for a few reasons.
#1) Multiply the time you think it will take before you generate your first dollar of revenue by 2, your final product delivery by 2 and when you will see the first dollar that you will put towards your home rent by 3.
#2) 6pm - 2am is still a decent amount of time to work on your startup especially if you are keeping the lights and heat on in the house with a proper salary.
#3) If and when you run out of money you will probably take freelance jobs that will dictate your time even more than your day job so you will be back in the same situation but desperate.
#4) If for some strange reason your startup fails, you dont lose out on a year of career advancement because frankly the cool app that compares women's breasts is not exactly transferrable experience in corporate america.
Now it all depends of course on what your startup is and what it requires but if you realistically sit down and believe that you cant do 2 things at once and the startup is worth the risk then rock'n roll baby!
I've been on a DIY soylent (diy.soylent.me) for over a month now and I feel full. I don't feel stuffed, I'm just not hungry anymore.
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The newest Azure data center in Iowa(?) was going to be open air. Basically a pile of these containers in a field, with a big fence over it and a roof similar to a big car-port (no walls). They figured it was going to be better for cooling.
I tried this, and here was my experience:

1. I am gluten intolerant, so swap out oat flour for almond flour. Swap out B complex supplement for marmite. Also, calling marmite "real food" is a bit of a stetch in my estimation.

2. After the first week, realized I was probably mildly allergic to casin, swapped to coconut milk.

3. After the first week after that change, noticed I am probably also mildly allergic to banana. Cut it completely.

So what I ended up with was a high fat low carbohydrate equivalent that isn't too bad. I actually drink this pretty regularly, and it is extremely filling. However, calling this guy an idiot is disingenuous to say the least; his work is going through considerably more scrutiny than Soylent Orange, and it contains considerably less allergens. Depending on who you talk to, up to 15% of people are gluten intolerant[1] and so, when keeping risks in mind, we should be cognizant of the dangerous of various proposals.

All in all, I actually do like (my modified) Soylent Orange, but ad hominem attacks are unnecessary and "real food" is a suprisingly slippery concept. Hell, coconut and almonds are common allergies too!
The other night at dinner my eleven year old daughter asked me "What's instagam?" and then proceeded to ask if she could have an account because all her friends were on it. I told her no because I don't like the idea of her on a social network yet (and it's probably against their TOS anyway).

Truthfully, I don't know why there isn't a K-12 social network that has schools and teachers, and kids were grouped by class, and teachers could moderate all posts and (have the option to) see all messages (with a notice to the parties that it had been looked at). That would alleviate any concerns I had about inappropriate content, and online bullying (there's a record, kids would be accountable for what was said), and provide immediate benefit to students and parents (who could maybe have accounts that were read-only for public discussions and their own children's correspondence).

Edit: As numerous replies have pointed out, there apparently is one, edmodo.com. I guess it's just not used around (or at least not in my district).
I see your argument why shouldn't be that way, but I don't see there an argument that it in reality is this way, at least not for most women.

It may quite well take a village to raise a child, but in practice for most people there won't ba a village to do so; One person shouldn't have to sacrifice the rest of their life, but more likely than not one you will have to do that; and while I can agree that 'no one should be staying home full time while the other is at work all day' and Scandinavian countries have very nice results with such policies for both parents, in USA most people will be forced to choose between either that or poverty.

So, to answer the question, you're stating "clearly the answer should be b" ... but is the answer b in reality?
really digging the breadcrumbs. these are some sexy sliding effects.
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No they don't want to hang out on the same place their mom is. They have accounts but they sit idle.
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I can only agree. Do had a really clean, intuitive design. I didn't used it on a daily basis, but - just like latraveler - I was checking out the competition for my company's product a couple of years ago. Out of all the todo list apps I signed up for (and hell, there sure is a lot to choose from), Do was actually the easiest one to use, basically everything was where I expected it to be. It had the perfect balance between the Basecamp feature-rich but complex UI and the glamorous but over-simplified Wunderlist.

Also they must have payed a fortune for their domain, Salesforce probably intends to reuse it soon.
They would also be able to move operations to places where energy is cheaper or sea water temperature is cooler. In general, it could be used to minimize costs looking at a variety of factors. I'm still curious how they will connect to the mainland. A fibre connection would hamper the flexibility of having a boat. Employees would rather live on the mainland than on a boat. So perhaps they the boat is stationary and will enjoy the ample amount of cooling water and potential energy the waves create.
this last week..
one automation tool(it roughly allows users to use a GUI to click jobs together) customer wanted the ability to RD/rmdir the remote directories after a sftp get(yea, the tool didnt have this in the gui)... another one , using plain old sftp batch scripts, wanted the ability to use password login in his scripts.. some users will not(cannot?) use workarounds and want their software to do everything for them? and if the developers listened, the software will grow and grow and command line switches will be a mile long and GUIs will be 20 levels deep.. :p
>If we're just discussing your definition of fantastic who cares really?

I was responding to someone who said the he felt the upgrade for the rMBP was "fantastic." He expressed his opinion (which no one is obliged to care about) and I did the same. If you don't care, why take the time to respond?

>They lowered prices by $200-300, made them faster, more battery life, basically all you can do to improve a product, along with making a bunch of software free, that's several hundred more dollars there too.

If they did all you could do to improve a product, they wouldn't have cut the amount of RAM in the baseline model, when people were already complaining about the previous model not having enough.

Another issue is that the improvements are incremental. Like I said, I don't consider incremental improvements a "fantastic" upgrade.

These are opinions, if you disagree, that's an opinion too.

>I mean the Retina MacBook has no competitors. They don't need to lower prices.

Incorrect. You personally may not like any of the alternatives, but there are now several machines, around 3.5 lbs, with full HD and retina displays, targeted towards professionals.

There's the Yoga 2 Pro, which features a 3200x1800 display, and improved upon every aspect of the original. It doesn't have Iris Pro graphics, but many people have already been comparing it to the rMBP. Apple has excellent keyboards, but many people prefer Lenovo's. Having used both of them, I have a slight preference for Lenovo.

Lenovo also has the T440s, and the T440p coming out soon, with Full HD IPS screens. They are close in size and weight, and also marketed towards professionals.

Asus has a few things either on the market or in the works, which are clearly designed to compete with the rMBP.

The rMBP has quite a bit of competition in 2013, and 2014 isn't going to be any different. Some people act as if its a foregone conclusion that any non-OSX system is going to be inferior to something made by Apple. In reality, there are quite a few really nice systems out there, and some of them run Windows by default.

>along with making a bunch of software free, that's several hundred more dollars there too.

Apple's software simply isn't worth hundreds of dollars. As much as I would like for something cheap or free to replace Microsoft Office, it isn't going to happen any time soon.

>Adding to that, a good quality laptop is honestly the same price or higher at other companies.

Build quality does cost money, I agree. My issue lies in the fact that a company shouldn't downgrade any aspect of a system when they release a new one. RAM is inexpensive enough to make Apple's decision mind-bogglingly stupid. It would of made more sense to reduce the price by $170 instead of $200 and leave the extra 4GB in. Once again, this is a matter of opinion. You are entitled to disagree.
One of my favorite things about Soylent is that it provides a "reasonable" but consistent baseline for doing these sorts of tests. Until Soylent there wasn't a non-medical meal replacement that at least theoretically tried to be everything you need. Once Soylent has been battle tested for awhile, we can start doing actual experiments with controlled variables around diets. If we can get that far without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, we will potentially upend how we do nutritional testing.
And what happens if you use a VPN?
I have never read Hobbes but it sounds like his notion 'Common Power' could be more than a governing entity. Although trade is done peacefully without bloodshed I think that smaller societies realize that refusal to go along with larger societies' best interest would mean war, obviously this would not be good for the smaller society. So smaller societies co-operate and trade because they know they are better off doing so.
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> But they probably wouldn't be less motivated by longer expirations.

If expirations were shorter, say 20 or 30 years after the publication of a work, wouldn't creators be motivated to keep creating so as to not suddenly lose a stream of income?
Because kids would never use it. They like their hidden caves. It's similar to passing secret notes to each other in class. Except now they can do it from afar.
That's the beauty of it... it doesn't do anything!