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by dasht 13y ago
Employers turning a blind-eye to intra-company dealing / distribution is not at all a new thing but I don't think that was the poster's question. I think the poster was talking about open-ness and public face. Again, for
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by dasht 13y ago
I think it is still taboo among most VC's and angels. Founders are supposed to be cookie-cutter stereotypes who fit a pre-established program. Your personality / public face can be "challenging" but not challenging, i
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Moglen: "Pt III: The Union, May it Be Preserved"(snowdenandthefuture.info)
1 points by dasht 13y ago|0 comments
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by dasht 13y ago
Neat. Here's some inspiration. (Note, Don Hopkins has been at this for a while.) http://www.donhopkins.com/home/CAM6/
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by dasht 13y ago
Via huffingtonpost, here is a link to the IRS document which is the source of this report about "Open Source" firms being targeted. What is released here is a "Be On the LOokout" (aka "BOLO") list - instruction
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by dasht 13y ago
Bah. I call BS. You sound like a San Francisco real estate speculator or developer. "High density infill" projects are loved by the people who make money off the development of the property but no matter how much you weaken zo
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by dasht 13y ago
I think PG is asking the wrong questions. None of merely plausible hypotheses as to the motive of an imagined government actor creating bitcoin is testable . Perhaps more importantly, we've skipped entirely past the question -- a question
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by dasht 13y ago
Setting aside whether the two groups you name are likely suspects, the fact that both public identities and open institutional affiliations does not contradict the hypothesis that a government did it. For historic precedents, see for exampl
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by dasht 13y ago
The reasoning in this short message has been a consistent part of RMS' talk and actions since the very beginning of the GNU project. Earlier than Ogg Vorbis, the very existence of the LGPL is an example of similar reasoning, applied. You
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by dasht 14y ago
The poor sap made an off-hand remark from the dais during public comment on the Council's plan to send a letter to the USPS asking them to delay the sale of our historic downtown post office. He was, in effect, making idle chit-chat, not
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by dasht 14y ago
It measures a skill very different from ordinary typing, so, no.
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by dasht 14y ago
A lot of people read this and this kind of story and they want to talk about the morality or value systems of these kids, themselves, and so forth. I propose that there is a much more important reading: Youth unemployment is extraordinarily
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by dasht 14y ago
This quote is one of those intuitively plausible things that turns out not to be true: "the more important point to analyze is: when you add it all up and average over all businesses, is it a wash? After all, those dollars must be going so
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by dasht 14y ago
The Linux kernel has not been a project of "love" since at least the time that Linus was hired by Transmeta in 1996. The bulk of the heavy lifting that keeps it going is paid labor. In the mid-to-late 1990s, work on Perl was funded by rev
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by dasht 14y ago
Paul Graham, or anyone "in the know", may we please hear a bit about what the equivalent of a term sheet looks like for a Y Combinator non-profit investment? Is Y Combinator giving a grant? Is Watsi issuing debt to Y Combinator? What
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by dasht 14y ago
Riddles, logic puzzles, "write some code on the whiteboard" .... It took me years to realize that these are not tests of technical ability, they are tests of submissiveness . For example, if you are being interviewed by someone at the sa
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by dasht 14y ago
It's very harsh but I find fault with some of the adults who made him a "celebrity" in the first place. Here's a link to the (yes, harsh) piece I wrote about that. It's significant, in my view, that Swartz "came to fame" right as the first
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by dasht 14y ago
A focus on the prosecutor helps distract attention from the question of whether and how Swartz was mistreated by being made a (somewhat artificial) "tech celebrity" at a very young age only to become a kind of semi-outcast in some tech circ
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Using Aaron Swartz(basiscraft.com)
7 points by dasht 14y ago|2 comments
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by dasht 14y ago
I wish someone had given me advice along these lines, long ago: (a) Make sure you have a really strong grip on your finances. (You sound like you probably do but I'm mentioning it anyway.) Include worst-case planning like the scenario
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by dasht 14y ago
I think that RH and Canonical are very problematic for the community. They are a mixed bag containing a lot of good, but also containing some critical problems (for the cause of freedom). So I like to speak frankly about those problems, w
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by dasht 14y ago
Their users are, de facto, locked into a few vendors who, because of this arrangement, can charge excessive rent. In part this is because of a tiny number of critical components that do not have libre licenses; in part it is because thes
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by dasht 14y ago
For a time I too was the maintainer for GNU sed. Part of that time I was paid by the FSF for that work (this was a long time ago, when the FSF had a small staff working directly on the Hurd and GNU). When I started, GNU sed was very i
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by dasht 14y ago
There are no such companies. The problem is that you said "monetize later" rather than "become profitable later". For example, someone else suggested that Google was an example of a company that had no way of monetizing their original produ
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by dasht 14y ago
Amazon's main strategy is to broker transactions between its users and the vendors that supply those users. Amazon is aiming to be everyone's primary retail store for everything. Facebook's strategy is to own everyone's on-line "sharing".
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by dasht 14y ago
I hope people vote this up (the topic comment, not mine here). It's a really remarkable bit of incoherence (that matters because of its role in law).
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by dasht 14y ago
Well, organize . Suppose you hit the deadline with almost but not quite enough signatures. Now, if all those signatures are disorganized -- just random individuals who happened to sign -- that's the end of the game. But if many of thos
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by dasht 14y ago
This looks a fantastic concept. Details matter and there are plenty to get right there ... but it looks very nice. (The video script could use some work. The repetition of "what if you could ...." is too heavy, for me.)
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by dasht 14y ago
"A system which relies on DNS, but in which anyone can setup a node seems better than a system that relies on DNS but only has one centralized node (Twitter), no?" The concern here is that whoever is currently leasing the domain name has au
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by dasht 14y ago
"Why can't the usernames be like email addresses?" [in the sense of querying DNS to find them]. In this context we're talking about what it takes to avoid relying on DNS (because DNS is a centralized, highly politicized system). Your solu

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