weel

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by weel 8y ago
There's a whole lot of people who don't have the luxury of just being able to assume a baseline level of trust, because they feel out of place for whatever reason. Think about what groups of people that might be, in the kernel con
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Esther Dyson on the Attention Economy and the Quantification of Everything(econtalk.org)
2 points by weel 14y ago|1 comments
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by weel 14y ago
He's actually quite a nice guy. (Or is that just what he wants me to write? https://www.facebook.com/careers if you really want to find out!)
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by weel 14y ago
In the end they are set by politicians. Not for malicious reasons; politicians don't need to be malicious in order to make bad decisions, they have plenty of other reasons for that. In many parts of the US, surface road speed limits are qui
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by weel 14y ago
Irrelevant, though. Sure, there may be no copyright preventing anyone else from ripping off his reformatting work, but that doesn't prevent him from charging for it. He just has to endure the risk that he may not get for it what he charges
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by weel 14y ago
Which is completely irrelevant because whoever does have the original copyright has already licensed them to everyone under publicly available conditions.
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by weel 14y ago
Doesn't work from here. Wonder if maybe the local DNS server isn't happy with it.
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by weel 14y ago
Been a long time since I last saw "cow-orker". Or USENET, for that matter...
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by weel 14y ago
Back when I did some small scale sysadmin work, I found that our CD/DVD burners were a lot more reliable as CD burners than as DVD burners. This seemed to be true both of the older Dell ones we had and the newer generic-brand ones. I had mu
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by weel 14y ago
"Crimes for which someone wronged can sue" are actually not crimes but torts. Copyright infringement is always a tort, but the conditions under which it becomes a criminal offense vary by jurisdiction.
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by weel 14y ago
They already have.
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by weel 14y ago
Or better yet, the current annual price of the plan divided by the current yield on British consols.
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by weel 14y ago
Yup. Now as for damages, though, even though indeed they are supposed to cover your lost value and not the original price, the original price is going to set a point of reference that will influence how much you could reasonably convince an
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by weel 14y ago
I am not a lawyer and the following is my oversimplified understanding of the law as an economist who has taken some law&econ classes. But... Just because you have a cause of action for breach of contract (the law recognizes the other g
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by weel 14y ago
Wow, that's an impressively well-researched piece.
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by weel 14y ago
The problem with translating law is that a lot of the time words are used as "terms of art" that have a special meaning based on tradition or, worse, precedent: some court at some point was forced to decide on the meaning of some very fuzzy
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by weel 14y ago
The difference between civil and common law is an elusive thing. On the surface it is enormous, but the deeper you dig, the less you find. Sometimes it's claimed it's about precedent, and indeed some civil law jurisdictions claim that they
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Building for a Billion Users - Facebook infrastructure at Velocity 2012(business.me)
2 points by weel 14y ago|0 comments
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by weel 14y ago
English libel law is ridiculous, and yet it still hasn't gotten reformed. Remember the McLibel case? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_Case ) I don't exactly sympathize with the panicky rhetoric of the pamphlet that was about, but noth
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Startup crowdfunding almost legalized(techcrunch.com)
1 points by weel 15y ago|0 comments
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by weel 15y ago
You only need herd immunity. There is experience with vaccinating wild animal populations against rabies.
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New on Kickstarter: Skallops Will Let You Build Big | GeekDad | Wired.com(wired.com)
1 points by weel 15y ago|0 comments
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Skallops: Build Big by Michael Woods — Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
1 points by weel 15y ago|0 comments
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by weel 15y ago
This is a classic example of a question that can only really be answered with data. Generic studies are good, but nothing beats data you gather about your particular UI.
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Freaky videos of superhydrophobic coatings(neverwet.com)
1 points by weel 15y ago|0 comments
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by weel 15y ago
It is true that people his age don't usually die of disease, but that still leaves other options than suicide. The most common for males 15-24, according to http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa-cause-of-death-by-age... , are traffic acci
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Visa Problem Prevents Entrepreneur From Creating American Jobs(abcnews.go.com)
2 points by weel 15y ago|0 comments
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Great infographic on the Euro crisis(nytimes.com)
14 points by weel 15y ago|1 comments
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by weel 15y ago
Also, while his web site is not the paragon of UI design, it does manage to be #1 on google for "stickers." I can think of half a dozen things off the top of my head that he could be doing that, it would seem to me , intuitively , would m
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by weel 15y ago
If ever the online recruiting system gives you trouble but you think you ought to be able to apply, send your application to HR by email. (careers@fb.com should do it, I believe) And tell them about the bug too, so they can get it fixed. Al

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