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Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol by O____________O on Friday February 20, 2015 @03:05PM (#9082614)
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?

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Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol by pdonis on Friday February 20, 2015 @09:50PM (#9084468)
> 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.

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