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In a democracy, if the majority of the population is unable to earn a living they can just vote themselves a living. Such a system also happens to be in the interest of the haves because they need consumers to purchase their products that t
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News that was less entertaining and did less to appeal to its audience would reduce the number of stupid people who vote in elections which would increase the quality of our elected politicians. Cable news outlets like Fox News and MSNBC as
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If your business depends upon having a monopoly to be sustainable then it isn't a sustainable business. Competition is good, actually, and is essential for a functioning free market. When you have insufficient competition, you end up w
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Originally, US copyrights were 14 years with an optional 14 year renewal and you had to register it with the government and deposit a copy of it in the Library of Congress [0]. Copyrights were also limited to Americans because the purpose o
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Are there any alternatives for the Usenet archive? Even if Google says they aren't removing access to that immediately, it's got to be a matter of time before they delete the archives probably as part of a total shutdown of Google
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The main thing AI does is kill off blind purchases of ebooks from unknown authors. Reputable publishers won't be publishing and bookstores won't be stocking AI generated books so it's mainly an ebook problem. The way to succe
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As a general presumption, avoiding anything on the non-fiction bestseller list is a good idea. Those books are generally aimed at the lowest common denominator that reads so you probably won't get anything of value out of them. There a
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I don't think anybody ever thought they'd live to see the day when Mickey Mouse entered the public domain. I'm still not sure I'll believe it until the clock strikes midnight and Congress actually lets it happen. Tomorro
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What is the rationale behind changing how print statements work in C++? Is there something broken about using cout or is this just another case of C++ adding extra ways to do the same thing for the sake of adding extra ways to do the same t
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The idea that energy bills need to be higher is sure to be a political winner. I encourage any politician who believes in that idea to openly run for office on it rather than trying to hide it and do it once they're already in office.
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It isn't so much that they're mainly found in religious texts as that the most common English translation of the Bible is still the King James Version which is over 400 years old and "thou" was still part of the English
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This comes off as election year pandering but it also probably shouldn't be a crime to begin with. I don't use that particular drug, have never used it and have no desire to use it but I'm fine with it being legal as long as
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> Many of the hobbyist sites running on sites like vbulletin or invision are gone; we use subreddits for those now. And people don't even bother with those, more and more people just post meme gifs in the comments of reels, sitting
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I think the more interesting question is whether anybody who is being paid to manipulate public opinion is a moderator on Reddit. A moderator position has to be much more useful to an astroturf actor than a mere poster because an astroturf
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What is stopping somebody who'd be inclined to take a COBOL job from just starting a contract firm and taking the $300k from the government? Does the government check if they actually have employees who have 30 years of COBOL experienc
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This would explain why 99% or so of the US population's lived experience is that we're currently in a recession yet the economic statistics make it look like the economy is booming. Indicators that the economy is extremely bad rig
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That's why Boris Johnson renounced his US citizenship.[0] He's a British politician who was their Prime Minister from 2019 to 2022 but he was actually born in New York so he was a natural born US citizen. The US really should adop
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A spy camera that looks like a towel hook seems like a product that should be illegal to sell. For what legitimate purpose would somebody want a towel hook camera? Don't most people put towel hooks in bathrooms? It seems perfectly reas
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> For the most part, the end user actually doesn’t use the free software, rather it is a part of something else they pay for. That's surprisingly true even when the FOSS alternative is a perfectly suitable drop in replacement for a
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If the voters want a functional or effective government, they can elect a Congress that is capable of passing legislation. Allowing the executive branch or the judicial branch to perform the role of the legislative branch enables voters to
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The best solution would be to prohibit the executive branch from making up new laws and return that power to the legislative branch where it belongs.
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2 things (in the corporate world): Android and Spring framework. It's also basically OOP the language which means large enterprises are biased towards it. Other factors are that it has very strong built-in libraries and has become a po
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The must-have 3rd party N64 exclusives were the AKI wrestling games (The 2 WCW/NWO games, WrestleMania 2000, No Mercy and the 2 Japan-exclusive Virtual Pro Wrestling games). Pro wrestling fans still consider them among the best video g
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The Gameboy didn't have access to the internet which meant you couldn't do most of the modern business models on it. The only way to make money off of a Gameboy game was to sell it in a store. It was impossible to patch it after i
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They do apply to corporations. Allowing commercial use is part of the definition of both "open source" and "free software" so a non-commercial license is incompatible with the GPL Without Stallman releasing an official N
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Nobody expected entire applications to be built out of HTML, CSS and JavaScript when those languages were being designed. CSS's main purpose was to get inappropriate bloat out of HTML because HTML was supposed to describe content not w
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I think terms like "capitalism" inherently spread confusion rather than clarity. Specifically, which of these systems do you mean by "capitalism"? 1) The status quo in the US where the economy is dominated by private cor
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It isn't the user's responsibility to find a working business model for a corporation. The same principle applies whether it is a news web site or a free video hosting web site. A business model based on taking away basic web brow
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You can do the same thing with a device called a computer. You can also do that on Android with Newpipe and could do that with Vanced before Google used (likely specious) legal threats to destroy it. There's no good reason whatsoever t
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There's enormous incentive for somebody to create a tool that actually lets you "write once, run everywhere" by automatically compiling your code to the right format for every platform. This would dramatically reduce developm

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