Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol
by pdonis on Thursday February 19, 2015 @05:45PM
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I don't think the parent to your comment misunderstood the GP. I think he was making a valid point: that in order to pick the "right" value of N, you have to know what value of N will maximize the greater good. Unless you can do that, the proposed law does not make sense; and saying "I'm not trying to specify what the greater good is, I'm just picking a number N" does not change that.
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Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol
by O____________O on Friday February 20, 2015 @03:05PM
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in order to pick the "right" value of N, you have to know what value of N will maximize the greater good.
What? No. The comment said nothing whatsoever about 'N'. GP's comment was exactly this, and nothing more:
How would you even start to define a term like "the greater good" in a way that a law like this could event begin to make sense?
Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol
by pdonis on Friday February 20, 2015 @09:50PM
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> The comment said nothing whatsoever about 'N'.
Not explicitly, no. I drew an inference about what the GP commenter meant (or at least an obvious implication of what I think he meant). He's welcome to correct me if my inference was wrong.