• frezik
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      4 months ago

      Trade secrets don’t need to be enforced much by law. You can create an ad hoc trade secret regime by simply keeping your secret between a few key employees. As it happens, there are some laws that go beyond that to help companies keep the secret, but that only extends something that could happen naturally.

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          4 months ago

          Being free to innovate and keep your own ideas to yourself sounds like it should be part of the free market though.

          Forcing people to disclose their (mental) secrets seems bizarre.

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      4 months ago

      Are you telling me that the axioms behind the simplistic model are wrong?? shocked-pikachu.jpg

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          4 months ago

          Wrong as in not sound. An argument can be valid assuming its assumptions are true. The argument is the model, which really is a set of arguments. Its assumptions which are taken axiomatically are as you say impossible, therefore they are not true (which I called wrong). So the argument is not sound. I’m not saying anything different than what you said really, just used informal language. ☺️

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      To be fair, we absolutely should outlaw at least 99% of all currently practiced forms of advertising and make it so that new forms of advertising have to be whitelisted by a panel of psychiatrists, sociologists, environmentalists and urban planners before they’re allowed.