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Press freedom generally trumps privacy, as it should.

More on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYKKvnKQkkE

So why do you feel compelled to post when you know what you are saying is old news? You just adds to the noise and make it off putting for anyone else to post that actually knows about this event including your obvious point.

From what I've seen I agree with your first point. AirBnB is more like The Pirate Bay than YouTube.

You can't really compare different data sets like that.

Well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr

He uses the royal "we" to define a group (here, engineers) and then prescribes very broad goals for what "we" "ought" to do.

That is pretty much the definition of ethics [0].

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/whatisethics.h...

The concept of freedom can quickly become confusing, but I think the accepted terminology is that "freedom from" is negative freedom as in protections like universal healthcare. While "freedom to" is positive freedom as in expressions like absolute[-1] freedom of speech [0]. Where negative freedom is more left and positive freedom more right. You of course also have to account for the political y-axis (or similar concept [1]) i.e. the level of authoritarianism.

I think it's interesting that many of the concepts that the US prides itself on originally included negative freedom in a more prominent way than you see today [2][3][4].

[-1] Non-absolute freedom of speech can probably also be seen as a negative freedom.

[0] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum#Other_multi-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Truslow_Adams#American_Dr...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms

I don't know. In terms of excitement and creativity I think we're slowly catching up to the end of the 90s.

I guess he's a capitalist.

This should give some indication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_Th...

There's more than a semantic difference between moral and material interests. In fact most "internet hippies" I know wants strong moral protection for authors [0][1]. It's a fairly central concept in the copyright debate, not least since it's part of the universal declaration of human rights.

[0] http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/the-pirate-party-on-c... [1] http://the1709blog.blogspot.se/2012/05/pirate-party-plans-fo... [2] http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G06/400/60/PDF/G0...

I don't think Elon Musk is a very good candidate for this year. Last year seemed more eventful for both Tesla and SpaceX.

I definitely think jurisdictional issues can be interesting from an intellectual point of view. Especially since the Internet has made many such concepts far less obvious. One could of course argue that discussions (especially outside of obscure technology) rarely reach a level where they become interesting.

Somewhat similar to the "American Dream".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Truslow_Adams#American_Dr...

There's a similar system in Sweden[0]. It really is a shame that AEDs aren't smaller and cheaper.

[0] http://www.vice.com/read/if-your-heart-stops-in-sweden-a-mem...

There were also actually more women in computing back then...

http://blogs.computerworld.com/sites/computerworld.com/files...

Am I supposed to take an article that only references other libertarians seriously?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strate...

Kamprad in on par with Buffet if you belive Bloomberg.

http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2013-10-31/cya

IKEA is still, as far as I know, based in Sweden as much as Apple is based in California.

IKEA opened their first store outside of Scandinavia in 1973, H&M in 1976 and according to wikipedia Tetra Pak had financial troubles until they became successful in the mid 1960s. Of course Sweden had a major advantage in that its infrastructure wasn't destroyed in WWII.

I don't know. On the one hand it's good to face adversity early on as it forces you to get your act together and spares you trouble down the line. On the other hand if your skill or situation is different from troubles that you think you'll face, than the adversity becomes arbitrary. So you end up with people who where "good at the entrance exam" when you really want people who are at their best at the end of the process.

I assume that we're talking about starting companies here? Because once you become larger you have the same benefits as everyone by being employed by your own company. With that in mind I think unemployment benefits or similar is the wrong way of thinking about it. You aren't really unoccupied, you just currently aren't getting paid enough for what you do. This is a lot more similar to being a student. So student benefits is probably a better match. For instance if you could take the student loan from you masters degree "quota".

In general I think low cost of living is the best safety net there is for entrepreneurs.

"does anyone have a good one on the role of color in fashion?"

"Blue is in fashion this year" from The Language of Fashion[0] might fit the bill. It has been several years since I read the book, but I remember it being quite difficult to get through.

The rant in "The Devil Wears Prada" is fairly correct from a more practical standpoint. We're talking about things like trend development[1] and trickle-down theory[2] (in the fashion sense). If you only read one book on fashion it should probably be Fashion-ology[3].

"Perhaps if college and high school students were given the chance to peek into the whole world of opportunity in written expression, the humanities would see a resurgence."

To be fair I'm not sure these fairly traditional elite universities are representative for all schools.

[0] http://books.google.se/books/about/The_Language_of_Fashion.h...

[1] Chapter 9 and 10: http://www.prschool.ge/img/every_day/Fashion%20Marketing.pdf

[2] http://www.margaritabenitez.com/trends/lectures/TRENDS_CH03....

[3] http://books.google.se/books/about/Fashion_ology.html?id=LUW...

The Big Picture by the Boston Globe is similar.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/

It's also funny how all these "anonymous government sources" suddenly became available when the subject was about someone else.

It also means apple can't control who makes accessories.

I find the fact that he was invited to present at startup school far more interesting than the message itself.

It's not about "handwaving" per se, there are numerous reasons I don't enjoy tokenadults posts. All of which are irrelevant since many other people do. I simply ignore most of them and expect the same respect in return.

But if you're a five year member, I'm in the mood and you're breaking basic rules of HN like "don't comment that you flagged" I reserve the right to call you out. Even if I wasn't technically correct about not reading the article this time.