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I'm not sure how much of each they do, though I'd imagine it's a bit of both, as obviously they're experienced in taking APIs public so they both have the tech to support it and th…

Mashery ( http://mashery.com/ ) has done this for Netflix, Rotten Tomatoes, and others. I think they're more about providing useful API access technologies than actually doing cont…

CS was likely the most demanding major at my university in terms of workload outside of class. Depended on what classes you took, but the toughest demanded ~30hrs per week of probl…

Ah, totally missed that when I watched the first time. Thanks!

Why is it important to call the green die 'olive'? Both 'olive' and 'green' have 5 characters... I suppose it's because you can spell out MR. BOY with the dice in winning order if …

Landes & Posner also never advocated abolishing copyrights altogether... They just advocated moving to renewable terms instead of automatic 70 years to life. Regardless of whether …

There's also a huge demand for flights to the moon. Nobody supplies it because it'd be too expensive. Same thing for a LOTR that you couldn't charge for. Where do you draw the line…

You should realize that what you're advocating is much worse than the current copyright system. You say that movie studios should produce a movie, lock it up extra tight and only s…

Freedom of information is only useful to those who can use it. Most people do not gain much from free information, as they can't make money with it and they're not interested in le…

Would people still create cave paintings without copyright? Absolutely. Songs? Yes. Books? Fewer, but probably yes. Multi-million dollar movies and games? Absolutely not. Art would…

Unfortunately, I've yet to hear a convincing alternative incentive scheme to that of copyrights and patents. The necessity of copyright and patent law varies widely from industry t…

This falls exactly into the scenarios I talked about... Given how much randomness was involved in our creation as a species, let alone our technological ascendance, it is highly un…

Not quite. The actual reason is that we have invented radio technology only very recently. Because we are so new to the technology, odds are that our communication partner has had …

Amazing how curriculum focus has changed--in no small part due to the invention of the computer. These topics have almost nothing to do with what most Harvard students study today.…

Exact same thing happened to me when trying to do my first cs problem set. It was some filename that I was sure had a 1 in it but it was an l. It's almost as if courier tries as ha…

I'm curious whether the info about Harvard students is accurate as well. If there's one university I would imagine gets followed by a lot of non-students it's Harvard. For a clear …

I think rewatchability is a great metric for one thing: whether or not someone is going to want to rewatch something... Just because the data better fits your desired skews, doesn'…

Don't forget, there are many reasons why American businesses are so successful. Most of those reasons have nothing to do with government intervention or bully politics. You may dis…

The US wields all kinds of influence over a nation like Sweden. If the US raised a few barriers to trade with Sweden, it would have a drastic effect on Sweden's economy. Many Swedi…

Personally, I find Netflix does the best job and is easily worth the rating-entry time investment required. It's not because of the content they show me, but rather because of the …

What recommendation systems stand out as the most effective/relevant to you guys? These can be largely explicit feedback based systems (ie Netflix), implicit feedback based (ie Ama…

What's the current state of thought on why Apple trades at such a lower P/E ratio than other, seemingly far riskier, tech entities? They seem to have transcended radical innovation…

Hulu's a very dangerous commodity for whoever buys them. Once sold away by NBC, Fox, and Disney, they'll also lose the exclusive contracts they have with those networks, in which c…