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by encomiast 3y ago
Users with over 25,000 reputation can see site analytics that include charts that look a lot like these. https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/site-analytics
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by encomiast 3y ago
I like that there's some competition in this space. I wish it was someone else because I will never have a Facebook-controlled app on any of my devices again. I simply don't trust them. If it's available on the web and it gai
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by encomiast 4y ago
Fair points.
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by encomiast 4y ago
The idea of copyright predates the United States. The English ‘Statute of Anne’ of 1710 is typically cited as the first modern expression.
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by encomiast 4y ago
“it was made up to support and safeguard author’s living”. That’s not really true. It least in the US, its stated purpose is to promote the useful arts and sciences. Incentivizing authors is a means to that end. If incentivizing corporatio
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by encomiast 4y ago
My point is that you are picking and choosing which parts of nature you value. The idea of "having", of ownership, is not natural. Many people like Locke have tried to connect it nature, but with limited success — it's still
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by encomiast 4y ago
Sure, and also I am bigger and stronger than you. Therefore I take your physical object and you can't stop me. That's natural in the sense that it follows from natural law (physics). Natural laws are brutish and don't support
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by encomiast 4y ago
"Intellectual property is an unnatural, made up construct" So, what laws and constructs of civilized life are not an unnatural made up constructs? You seem to be suggesting there is some natural law that excludes things like intel
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by encomiast 4y ago
I disagree that Bach is simple (I'm not sure what pure means in this context). Bach wrote contrapuntal music. This means you can have two, three, four, or five independent voices that sum up to a whole while maintaining their individua
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by encomiast 4y ago
FWIW places like 18F are frequently hiring engineers, product people, and designers, the pay is similar, the work is related, and they are 100% remote.
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by encomiast 4y ago
You are being pretty shifty here. You were talking about laws congress passes, but now you are talking about precedent, which is something that happens in courts (the judicial branch). I'm getting the sense that you are a little mixup
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by encomiast 4y ago
Congress does not pass regulations, they pass acts of law. The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal