alzamos

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by alzamos 3mo ago
When I read the bit on the steam engine, I remember thinking it wasn’t a great argument as it was hard to know how a patent-less world would have developed. I’m not surprised to see there’s a link which talks about how the claim was exagger
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by alzamos 3mo ago
Of course! Happy you found it useful. You’ll have to forgive me if my answer isn’t super satisfying - it’s possible, but I’d want to see patents under these conditions empirically validated. Some things you might find interesting - the auth
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by alzamos 3mo ago
The book goes into quite a bit of depth if it is a topic that interests you. I would flag that we’re getting into “prove a negative” territory here: the goalpost is that we need to prove empirically that patents achieve the desired outcome.
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by alzamos 3mo ago
There are two things to tackle here which I’m keen not to mix up as I think their epistemological properties are quite different: 1) [the stronger one] while the scenario/narrative is a compelling one (or maybe it just feels compelling
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by alzamos 3mo ago
The book “against intellectual monopoly” has shaped a lot of my thinking on this topic - economists have looked at the various occasions in which patents were introduced into an industry (or extended in scope), and there is no evidence they
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by alzamos 4mo ago
Do I understand correctly that this would enable me to do retroactive logging/perf-instrumentation?
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by alzamos 8mo ago
Very interesting how on "downsampled 32x + interpolated" it sounds like the singer is harmonizing with herself
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by alzamos 9mo ago
Francesco Mazzoli’s blog on https://mazzo.li/archive.html . His blog has topped HN a few times with various low-level/linux topics, some deep dives into algorithms etc.
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by alzamos 1y ago
While I understand the narrative you're proposing, what I brought with my source was a collection of evidence where pharmacological innovation happened at an unaltered rate pre and post patents in e.g. Italy and Switzerland. While I un
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by alzamos 1y ago
Then why is it that when pharma patents were introduced in countries that didn't have them, the rate of innovation, TFP, R&D-as-%-GDP didn't increase? I brought a source to this debate, if you have sources showing that increas
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by alzamos 1y ago
Worth mentioning that the evidence says that patents don't have an effect on new drug creation/inventions. Evidence is collected here http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht... , pret
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by alzamos 2y ago
Very happy to see someone else thought of this too. I see the endgame as one in which services just expose documentation to their APIs and the AI figures out, based on your request, what to call and how to present the results to you based o
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by alzamos 2y ago
I recently got this phone, and it really sparked joy. It does everything I need to function in 2024 (messaging people, navigating cities, managing tickets, NFC payments etc), while not tempting me into the dark/addictive side of smartp
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by alzamos 3y ago
Indeed, “stop all progress” and “accompany progress responsibly” are two different approaches. This may be tangential - but I’d like to point out, that while the Luddite movement may be painted as espousing the former, my readings have actu
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by alzamos 3y ago
A good book on this topic was Acemoglu’s “Power and Progress”. Lots of illuminating examples of how technological progress immediately made life worse for many people, until a revolt/change came about to prevent exploitation/share
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by alzamos 3y ago
Taleb in “Antifragile” talks about this as well. However he derives a different conclusion; he speaks of a phenomenon called “hormesis” which refers to a biological response where a low dose of a harmful stressor can have positive benefits
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by alzamos 4y ago
I’ve not looked into it personally, but I’ll relay what I’ve heard from various people who have looked into this or successfully done this. In one case one person, as you say, did everything on their own and pays a couple thousand every yea
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by alzamos 4y ago
Currently living in the Algarve after moving to Lisbon with my partner for her studies years ago. I know a few non-crypto entrepreneurs who came here for the NHR (non habitual resident scheme - the scheme mentioned in the article which all
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by alzamos 4y ago
I’ve been curious about the dynamics around the often-cited statement “rent control doesn’t work”. It seems that with rent control, you’d have higher demand and lower supply resulting in excess demand (both theoretically and it seems in pra
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by alzamos 4y ago
I grew up in Tokyo as a child and used the subway twice every day to commute to and from school. I randomly sampled a few of these and the memories and feelings it evoked are incredible. Amazing what a difference a small jingle can make to