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jan888··on HN Replies – Get notified when someone replies to you
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jan888··on Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain
Thirty years? Why have copyright at all? I've yet to hear a good argument that doesn't boil down to "because my business model deserves to be profitable."

Intellectual property isn't a scarce resource. I look forward to the day we all exploit that. We'll find new business models, ones that take advantage of being able to build on all proir human knowledge, and we'll all be more productive because of it.

jan888··on Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
Can you give an example of a consistent and complete logic?
jan888··on Ask HN: What is so great about Bloomberg Terminal?
I've used vim for years with Dvorak and no remapping. Works great, IMO.
jan888··on UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from new laws
Yes. There is no law against insider trading, just the SEC and judges thinking it's really bad so we should punish it even if Congress never got around to passing an actual law against it.

See here for one example [0]. The SEC does have rules against it, so it's not entirely on a case-by-case basis [1]. It's just the SEC isn't supposed to write law.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-12-11/whats-nex...

[1] http://www.sec.gov/answers/insider.htm

jan888··on UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from new laws
But we don't even have insider trading laws. Insider trading is something the courts came up with based on an expanded meaning of fraud.