Daniel Dulitz

Lane Wallace is a great aerospace writer, and here I think she's got it especially right. - Daniel Dulitz

There are two arguments in this essay, and their power comes from the fact that the arguments interact in what might be a surprising way... - Daniel Dulitz

This is much more interesting than the original article. Not that I agree with all the analysis here -- there are some unsupportable broad generalizations and the discussion of Western classical music being college-focused is simply incorrect, culturally. But if you read the original, this is definitely worth a read. - Daniel Dulitz

I was taken in too, but it turns out she was just misrepresented by the WSJ: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin... - Private Sanjeev

Also see the author's responses to readers' questions:http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-m... - Anne Bouey

Coolness, glad to see that! - Daniel Dulitz

And then that kid showed up with a drum, and I said, all right, fine, we're done. - Daniel Dulitz

Funny how commentators couldn't decided whether Hotpot was a 4sq clone or a Yelp clone or what. I guess it had to be a clone of something... - Daniel Dulitz

That would be a rather silly thing to do, since an open source implementation would be prior art against such a patent. - Daniel Dulitz

When has prior art stopped anyone from getting a bad patent that some people can't afford to fight against? - Seth

Good point. Maybe I'll patent the business method of getting a bad patent that people can't afford to fight. And then when someone sues me for patent infringement I'll countersue with my business method patent. - Daniel Dulitz

Naturally, in a pervasive surveillance state, there is a need to distract the people from the huge amounts of extremely intimate information gathered in the name of the law, by raising the specter of "being tracked" statistically and often anonymously on the web. The cookie -- visible to and controllable by the client -- becomes the scapegoat that by its sins atones for all the invisible and uncontrollable surveillance one elsewhere. - Daniel Dulitz

This goes well with his previous post, on the most important thing, which is that a market is an awesome way to allocate rival, excludable goods. - Daniel Dulitz

As an aside, attempting to apply standard market rules to digital goods won't work, as those are neither rival nor excludable. - Tudor Bosman

Exactly, that's the whole problem with DRM. Copyright/DRM can make digital goods "more" excludable, but nothing can make them rival, so markets will fail at efficiently allocating resources if all we have are copyright and DRM. - Daniel Dulitz

There is a lot of similarity between the ineffective and anti-freedom responses to terror and wikileaks. - Daniel Dulitz

Very cute! NOM. - Daniel Dulitz

Corpse reviver #2! And yummy pizza! Becca and I liked it. A+++ would eat again. - Daniel Dulitz

To say [Murdoch's latest paywall attempt] is a bold move is like describing the Charge of the Light Brigade in similar terms. Except that 278 people paid for the Charge of the Light Bri - Daniel Dulitz

I'm ready to move in. :-) - Daniel Dulitz

Coolness! - Daniel Dulitz

"The investigation last year by the House Energy and Commerce Committee determined that WellPoint and two of the nation's other largest insurance companies -- UnitedHealth Group Inc and Assurant Health, part of Assurant Inc -- made at least $300 million by improperly rescinding more than 19,000 policyholders over one five-year period." I think that's the basis FWIW. - Daniel Dulitz