jonpeda

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by jonpeda 13y ago
The Mathematica system makes some beautiful, informative graphs, and presumably users can make those graphs with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's technically very nice. Yet, in the entire blog post, is there one insight that wasn't a prio
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by jonpeda 13y ago
People donate their data to support Wolfram's closed-source, paid-license, for-profit program?
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by jonpeda 13y ago
> If someone cannot grasp this, they lack either or both of the intellectual maturity Yes, that's entirely the point! >> flummoxes people at the 9th grade level, > There is no such as "an intuitive convention". consiste
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by jonpeda 13y ago
Yes, ultimately we are bound by tradition, since changing over to any system is too expensive and confusing. Path dependence and local optima. See also: English vs Metric units.
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by jonpeda 13y ago
> this is based on the Quill v North Dakota interpretation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution. Note that this is a very old reading, and any modern court would likely wash that out, as everything related to human existence is
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by jonpeda 13y ago
Are there multiple sales tax regimes operating within the span of one PO Box? Doubtful than anyone on either side will worry about that case
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by jonpeda 13y ago
That's like saying "e-commerce == middleman effectively increasing the burden of any purchase and wasting resources"
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by jonpeda 13y ago
> If goods are taxed more businesses raise their prices. Businesses aren't being taxed. Consumers are. This is entirely dependent on which part of the supply chain has the fiercest competition. Sometimes consumers get the economic profi
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by jonpeda 13y ago
Sales tax should go to the state where the buyer is, since the buyer is almost always the human person in the transaction. The only reason that it goes to the seller is that sellers are easier to regulate than individual buyers. With modern
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by jonpeda 13y ago
The best result that could come of this Internet/Sales Tax issue is that Sales tax is abolished in favor of income tax.
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by jonpeda 13y ago
1GB was a huge gimmick, because 99.9% of people couldn't get 1GB into their accounts if they tried. They just threw the huge number out there because they knew they could handle all actual current email demand.
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by jonpeda 13y ago
Colleges will most certainly welcome re-applications (transfers or post-gap-years), but the window is generally small, as elite colleges are a young-person's institution.
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by jonpeda 14y ago
Where did the "socialist" and "place in life" enter this discussion?
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by jonpeda 14y ago
If an invention is useless (ahead of its time) for 10 years, then you may as well keep it secret until the market is ready, and then publish.
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by jonpeda 14y ago
> deserve their own patent. What does this mean? If A is patented, A+B is covered by A's patent AND B's patent. The only way to avoid A is to use a non-patented yet critical invention. The inventor of A should have included any such thi
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by jonpeda 14y ago
If you want to propose a communitarian moneyless society, so that. Don't beat around the bust.
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by jonpeda 14y ago
Not necessarily. NWU is a private university, and in general plenty of private companies fund research. In some cases, the government funding issue is relevant. Not in all cases.
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by jonpeda 14y ago
Still an improvement over the current situation.
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by jonpeda 14y ago
> What stops them just publishing a sham product whose sole purpose is to be for sale while infringing the patent and then show a few licenses to a couple of fishing buddies? The courts are adept at investigating those issues. For examp
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by jonpeda 14y ago
ahem. https://www.google.com/search?q=being+the+averagest https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/being-the-averages...
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by jonpeda 14y ago
> switching costs are high Why? switching to private school is expensive. Switching from is not. In the public system, schools change every 3-5 years anyway. " and it strikes me that private schools may be less likely to change drastica
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by jonpeda 14y ago
eq == == This is true in both infix notation and in prefix notation.
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by jonpeda 14y ago
XML is far more structured than JSON.
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by jonpeda 14y ago
When people complain about threading, they are thinking about shared-mutable-state threading. Obviously we will never have single-threaded systems, they would be blocking all the time.
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by jonpeda 14y ago
> Heck, they'd probably like someone to outsource their email, too. 2004 -- Was this before or after Gmail launched on April 1?
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by jonpeda 14y ago
angels don't want return?
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by jonpeda 14y ago
because it wasn't making enough money to merit a buyout, and the current operators got a better offer to work on Palantir projects. Same reason my babysitting service was doing well before I got a job working on a web site, and then I shut
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by jonpeda 14y ago
but then 'duplication" only happens if the source file is shared post-encryption, which is far less common than sharing pre-encryption, sync post-encryption sharing requires sharing the key as well.
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by jonpeda 14y ago
This is the problem with the ad-supported walled-garden closed-system model. My grandma can't see my stuff on G+, due to its awful usability, but if they opened up a nice API, someone could build a client app suited to audiences like the 80
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by jonpeda 14y ago
> I know I would dread having to use any current kind of dating site if (God forbid) my wife predeceased me. Huh, I know some wonderful success stories for this use case.

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