I proposed something similar to this as a way to handle fraud or non-performance in Federal contracts: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+StevenFlaeck/posts/BNzLK4wwwPY
They don't need to generate a profit and it would be preferable if there was no profitable business model for it. Donations to both MIT and Harvard are considered charitable; making more of their classes freely…
Except that's how this is usually done. Federal loans can be deferred and payments scale to income. The counterargument to the high cost of college is that she, or her parents, should have looked at how much it would…
Or "macho cultures" have a lower percentage of male college graduates, creating more opportunities for women at the top. Or they correspond to fast-growing underdeveloped countries which, because they are developing in…
Housing doesn't need to disappear. If we tried to move everyone in California closer to the center of its major cities, we'd see prices increase dramatically.
A state can have population growth and net emigration.
Life is easier when everyone else is a failed version of yourself, amirite?
What's the actual advantage to the game? Why would a company want to create a research server for people to perfect their bot programming?
Actually, I think the ACA does improve the situation he describes. Small companies, like start-ups, wouldn't be required to purchase health insurance and people whose earnings teeter at the edge of "ramen profitable"…
Those same universities have selection criteria which predict success after college independent of the college attended. So it's not like they are masterfully teaching anything; rather, it seems very much like they are…
<I>This isn't possible. A person can either spend money or store money.</I> This isn't quite accurate. You note later how markets work, but you're not seeing how much that's in tension with wealth…
You are basically describing the LXTHW model.
The irony being that Spotify has a social strategy.
Even if that's correct, that doesn't mean that what Kim did wasn't illegal or wrong. Kim wasn't simply engaged in "file sharing" he ran a multimillion dollar parallel distribution system. He wasn't sharing, he was…
It's worth noting that Kodak was a leader in digital cameras even in the 1980s. It's also worth considering the impact of vertical integration: companies like Samsung and LG also make phones, giving their own CCD makers…
I often wonder about these findings. To what extent are we seeing a neurologically-driven phenomenon vis-a-vis one generated by a host of factors causing relatively common skill atroph? By 45, many people might be…
Best to hold off on boycotts as it's coming out that the committee and other groups have been claiming support they don't have.
It just needs to be pointed out: an education at Random State University can be had for less than $10,000 a year. Taking that degree in a low-cost state would enable low expenses overall.
Shifting the opinion of normal voters probably won't matter; they tend to have strong, pre-existing loyalties and SOPA is unlikely to change them. But motivating a group that tends not to vote completely upsets the…
That finding relies heavily on reports by teachers, not actual tests of creative ability. As such, the methodology tends to filter out any non-disruptive creatives, leaving people who have both creativity and…
This presumes that the kickstarters have the real resources necessary. The fact that a lot of people agree with your vision does not ipso facto create the resources necessary to pursue it.
It kills the trademark. Once something becomes generic, anyone can use it. So a competitor could say "we produce the best photoshop software" because the term is now simply a word for editing photos digitally rather…
Don't discount the value of family connections, whether to family-run businesses or through friends. I turned down three jobs (two family firms and one using friends in the oil industry) because I did not feel I wanted…
The compiler thing is actually the major problem. There are lots of choices and it's easy to become lost in those woods. LPTHW has the benefit of "download this", which removes an entire realm of choosing that's much…
On HN? None. But I personally know people who did not care about programming until they encountered a language or teacher or project which really clicked. LPTHW seems to do that an awful lot, in fact. I take that back,…
I proposed something similar to this as a way to handle fraud or non-performance in Federal contracts: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+StevenFlaeck/posts/BNzLK4wwwPY
They don't need to generate a profit and it would be preferable if there was no profitable business model for it. Donations to both MIT and Harvard are considered charitable; making more of their classes freely…
Except that's how this is usually done. Federal loans can be deferred and payments scale to income. The counterargument to the high cost of college is that she, or her parents, should have looked at how much it would…
Or "macho cultures" have a lower percentage of male college graduates, creating more opportunities for women at the top. Or they correspond to fast-growing underdeveloped countries which, because they are developing in…
Housing doesn't need to disappear. If we tried to move everyone in California closer to the center of its major cities, we'd see prices increase dramatically.
A state can have population growth and net emigration.
Life is easier when everyone else is a failed version of yourself, amirite?
What's the actual advantage to the game? Why would a company want to create a research server for people to perfect their bot programming?
Actually, I think the ACA does improve the situation he describes. Small companies, like start-ups, wouldn't be required to purchase health insurance and people whose earnings teeter at the edge of "ramen profitable"…
Those same universities have selection criteria which predict success after college independent of the college attended. So it's not like they are masterfully teaching anything; rather, it seems very much like they are…
<I>This isn't possible. A person can either spend money or store money.</I> This isn't quite accurate. You note later how markets work, but you're not seeing how much that's in tension with wealth…
You are basically describing the LXTHW model.
The irony being that Spotify has a social strategy.
Even if that's correct, that doesn't mean that what Kim did wasn't illegal or wrong. Kim wasn't simply engaged in "file sharing" he ran a multimillion dollar parallel distribution system. He wasn't sharing, he was…
It's worth noting that Kodak was a leader in digital cameras even in the 1980s. It's also worth considering the impact of vertical integration: companies like Samsung and LG also make phones, giving their own CCD makers…
I often wonder about these findings. To what extent are we seeing a neurologically-driven phenomenon vis-a-vis one generated by a host of factors causing relatively common skill atroph? By 45, many people might be…
Best to hold off on boycotts as it's coming out that the committee and other groups have been claiming support they don't have.
It just needs to be pointed out: an education at Random State University can be had for less than $10,000 a year. Taking that degree in a low-cost state would enable low expenses overall.
Shifting the opinion of normal voters probably won't matter; they tend to have strong, pre-existing loyalties and SOPA is unlikely to change them. But motivating a group that tends not to vote completely upsets the…
That finding relies heavily on reports by teachers, not actual tests of creative ability. As such, the methodology tends to filter out any non-disruptive creatives, leaving people who have both creativity and…
This presumes that the kickstarters have the real resources necessary. The fact that a lot of people agree with your vision does not ipso facto create the resources necessary to pursue it.
It kills the trademark. Once something becomes generic, anyone can use it. So a competitor could say "we produce the best photoshop software" because the term is now simply a word for editing photos digitally rather…
Don't discount the value of family connections, whether to family-run businesses or through friends. I turned down three jobs (two family firms and one using friends in the oil industry) because I did not feel I wanted…
The compiler thing is actually the major problem. There are lots of choices and it's easy to become lost in those woods. LPTHW has the benefit of "download this", which removes an entire realm of choosing that's much…
On HN? None. But I personally know people who did not care about programming until they encountered a language or teacher or project which really clicked. LPTHW seems to do that an awful lot, in fact. I take that back,…