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Interesting issue. I wonder if it would be possible for a country to set up an extremely long copyright term (with a huge administrative fee) that would have to be respected under US law (and other adopters of the treaty).

I'm sure many music/movie studios and authors would gladly pay $100K to copyright each of their works internationally for 500 years...

We should also consider the media message we'd be sending to the uninformed. A site called Hacker News opposes SOPA; what do you think the average person's response to that would be?

Frankly I think that HN is the wrong vehicle to bring attention to the matter strictly from a marketing/outreach perspective.

However, YC is a great channel to carry this message, and PG has already taken a very public stance on the issue.

Stop by #4clojure on freenode, the site devs hang out there (myself included) and happily give pointers on problems. Also, the main #clojure channel, while busy, is a great resource -- Clojure has a pretty welcoming community.

He was my favourite thinker and orator, I'm very sad to see him go.

About 14 cents per download (streams are probably even smaller) on the lowest tier of S3 (once you're over 10TB/mo it gets even cheaper).

Raynes is amazing.

I think that's backwards. Make Science/Engineering cheaper and liberal arts more expensive... arts degrees should be considered luxury items: nice to have but not strictly necessary. I think many people would be better off not going to University than get an arts degree, whereas there is huge societal benefit to pushing out more scientists and engineers.

Liberal arts should exist, just at a much smaller (frankly, more reasonable wrt actual demand) scale.

He has a string of accomplishments that still live on in active development... and he made it to 84. That's a good run.

The tricky thing is that project management is a very mature industry, so saying that I'm going to build a badass PM tool says even less -- my thought was to focus on the reason for building the tool. My take is that project management in the software space fails because the stacks of tools companies use are rarely interoperable. Efficiency and predictability are hugely dependent on a tight coupling between the different phases of software dev -- and that's where there's still huge amounts of room to innovate.

I hear what you're saying, I just don't know how to rephrase that question to focus on what's innovative...

edit: just to be clear, I think you're right. I'm going to takle this this all day to try to make it clearer. Thanks.

I've been refining this application for the past few weeks -- but I'm always looking for any feedback I can get. Let me know if you think I should make any last-minute changes (or even what you liked/disliked about it).

Just a reminder that applications are due in tonight. Good luck to everyone!

31 feet.

Ant jumps off the wall and onto the floor (no walking necessary, and easily survivable), walk straight across the 30 foot floor and 1 foot up the wall.