0wza

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by 0wza 14y ago
Well, it's better than Google. Google just jumped right into the game, though they claimed to disagree with it. Bezos has the cash to play the game. And he had acces to it early enough (remember the one-click patent) to gain a monumental
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by 0wza 14y ago
Hey, I absolutely agree evolution is slow to catch up. But the thing is, we gotta live with what we've got. (Kinda like an election with two lame candidates.) That is the challenge. We're better to work with what evolution has equipped
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by 0wza 14y ago
Wow. Your thinking is downright scary. "compromise [is] a logical fallacy" If it's hard wired then maybe that's for a reason. And the reason is likely because it keeps you or your progeny alive longer. Economics can often be inhuman. It'
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by 0wza 14y ago
Are you sure that's what he's saying? Is he suggested all patents are impediments? I just skimmed that paper and I see references to semiconductors and software. The word "pharmaceutical" only appears in the title of a one of the referenc
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by 0wza 14y ago
Dubious lawsuits are a telltale sign of a company on its way down. When all else is lost, file lawsuits. What's to lose? If we can't pay our bills with earned revenue, maybe we can get a few judgements for some quick cash. Whether this ap
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by 0wza 14y ago
A peculiar comparison to P2P. But I think I know what he's getting at. It's the idea of "enablement". As in, enabling easy infringement. But if my understanding is correct (it might not be), so long as there are alternative non-infringi
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by 0wza 14y ago
This what I thought too. Where is his comparison to patents in other areas? I liked this title because it is restricted to software. A title like "Abolish patents, full stop" is, to be blunt, sheer idiocy and all too common. I think there
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by 0wza 14y ago
"U.S. Consumers" So does that imply if the consumers were not in the U.S. this would not be newsworthy? Or am I reading too far into the title?
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by 0wza 14y ago
Depends what your cake is. The internet was not always ad-supported. We know for fact it was valuable before commercial activity was permitted. Suggesting that any improvements since that time are attributable to web advertising is perha
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by 0wza 14y ago
"For the last few months, iPhone users have enjoyed an unusual environment..." Am I the only one who finds that humourous? An "unusual" environment? What exactly is "normal" about tracking people's movements in the name of convincing adve
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by 0wza 14y ago
Off topic a bit, but I just want to say I like the layout and the general approach of your blog. If it's a template I haven't seen it before. The "pondering" section is intriguing. What if you could accept input as to what topics readers
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by 0wza 14y ago
Well, what if I don't need the "cloud" to run virtual machines? What if I have many "machines" running on my computer, isolated kernels in userspsace? What if I have all the computing power I need at my fingertips, literally? Is that sor
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by 0wza 14y ago
The parent's term "passive-aggressive" is spot on. StackExchange is even worse. If you only knew their banning practices. They have extremely thin skin. The anti-thesis of "Postal's Law". When they ban, it's not a warning, it's permanent.
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by 0wza 14y ago
If people like luriel are consistently being hellbanned for speaking their mind on some non-programming topic, I still want to read what they're saying about programming. Everyone has some controversial viewpoints on _some_ topic. But tha
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by 0wza 14y ago
In the comments of his that I saw in recent threads I read, I liked this guy's taste in code. For me, that's pretty rare on HN. What the heck happened? Was he seriously ill? Judging from the commments I saw, his mind was apparently in go