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by 35208654 4y ago
> How many books would exist if authors were never paid? Authorship is centuries older than the modern copyright regime we suffer under. You present a false dichotomy.
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by 35208654 4y ago
Globalization is over. The US has no interest in securing the shipping lanes apart from ones strategically vital to certain goods that can’t yet be made locally. The US has a decent demographic profile and an amazing trading partner to the
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by 35208654 4y ago
And yet iOS lives rent free in your head.
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by 35208654 4y ago
There’s a hack hidden in this message, one that I’ve built an entire career out of: learn to not take anything personally in a professional context unless you absolutely must. Several times in my career I have heard someone say, “stay away
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by 35208654 4y ago
Beginning with the RIAA suing college kids and culminating the French police raiding what.cd, I have become anti-copyright. Not reformist, not 'but it's good for...'. Totally anti-copyright. Burn it all down. Share music. Sca
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by 35208654 4y ago
Chernobyl-style reactors haven’t been built for decades and the kind of failure that happened with it has long since been addressed. We even have designs where meltdowns are basically impossible. I agree that the people who stepped up are h
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by 35208654 4y ago
This has been a popular opinion for a very long time. It even supports a plot point in the movie The Departed (2006): Oliver Queenan : Microprocessors. Billy Costigan : Micro what? Oliver Queenan : Microprocessors. We'll probably be at
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by 35208654 4y ago
Really expensive accidents that cost money and very few lives. Meanwhile, coal had gotten a pass on hundreds of years of added costs to healthcare and loss of life expectancy.
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by 35208654 4y ago
I’m interested in understanding what sentences in the linked article you consider “snide,” as I did not get that at all from the article. While everything you said is true, I believe the message of the article is not “boy it sucks to have t
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by 35208654 4y ago
I think there's room here to have a 'public option' open source implementation with appropriate governance / rules. Give everyone a basic 10 digit @ email.usa.gov. But I also think there should be a government regulated
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by 35208654 4y ago
The demand for ideological purity and that the revolution be perfect is the reason that progressive causes lose so goddamn always. Your opponent doesn’t play by these rules.
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>but now get them instantly, for free. It's amazing! You know this already, but just a kind reminder that you didn't get them for free. You paid for the library with your tax dollars, and continue to do so. Which means you are
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by 35208654 4y ago
Mark Fisher would say current music sucks because it's lost the ability to articulate the present. “The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations. There can be few who believe that in the comin