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> I'm trying to understand your point but it seems like you are saying that all people with sufficient capital would band together to prevent small inventors from getting funding for years? Legal rights are often the only protection
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> Before the end of this year, TEDx events will be held in Barcelona, Tehran, Kabul, Hanoi, Wuhan, Anchorage, Jakarta, Algiers, Lagos, and Tomsk, the oldest university town in Siberia. The Kabul one surprised me, but it is listed on thei
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What was the Ted Talk? And what happened to the utopian future it envisioned?(thedriftmag.com)
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>>> I would say it needs to be realigned to only allow productive companies to hold/protect patents. >> That would mean only large companies would own patents. It would be the death of the independent inventor. No capit
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> Selling patents to trolls, what can go wrong… Nothing that's Blackberry's owners' problem.
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> If we have a few more Fukushimas, we might ruin the ocean forever. I could be wrong, but, IIRC, coal power has actually created more radioactive pollution than nuclear energy. It's just a far, far larger volume of less concen
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>> I wonder how much of the green movement of that era was supported by the Soviets, who had obvious motives for undermining nuclear research in the West. I could be that even long after the USSR has been wiped away that its influence
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> It is very simple, nuclear has been a failure in Europe in the last couple of decades. Look at projects in the Finland, France and the UK. The situation would have been much better if there was a nuclear industry that could deliver in
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> This is a recurring theme on HN, so I think you all have very good opinions on this topic: why does modern software seem so unpolished, slow, bloated, unprofessional? Major software companies rediscovered that users will tolerate crap,
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> The CDC still has not performed or directed any large-scale experiments of any kind. They are a political institution, not practitioners of science. > Saying something definitive like 'Masks are NOT effective in preventing #Cor
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> Especially things like wood-working and chain-sawing videos. Downvotes and critical comments are key if you want to keep your fingers and your head. Yeah. In an ideal world "howto videos for dangerous activities" or even jus
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> "Main" _is_ a better name for that branch though. It's shorter and more intuitive. That's just making stuff up. IIRC, "master branch" comes from "master copy," which has long established usage a
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> I think you are misremembering the Brood War release. It was available for Mac 6 months after the PC release, and the “battle chest”,which contained both StarCraft and brood war, was mac/windows hybrid. The battle chest was by fa
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> a campaign of dehumanization against all people of English descent, based on claims that the English were inherently and irredeemably savage and uncivilized. I think you're running a bit ahead of yourself: https://en.wi
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>>> - ~2001, Bungie develops Halo as a title for the launch of Mac gaming. >> - Halo was announced in 1999, originally planned as an RTS for Windows + Mac, not for the launch of Mac gaming (not Mac only, although prior titles
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> I think manufacturers are hoping that certain aspects of the modern auto become "can't live withouts", e.g. bluetooth, which helps them smuggle all the other more marginally useful, security and ux intrusive features int
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>> I'm sure a huge amount of American material depicting the English or French would be considered racist if that standard were applied > I think what you are missing here is that there is no history in the US of genocide aga
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> I watched that scene on yt, read the lyrics and even wiki page about that song. I can't understand why it's considered "extremely racist". It looks even cute. However I'm from Eastern Europe and probably miss
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> I think the noble lie the parent is talking about has to do with the CDC's lie about masks early on in the pandemic. Are you talking about the "don't buy masks" thing? Because when I dig up the actual early commun
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> Perhaps not purely rational, but predictable and consistent with emotional norms. That makes no sense to me. On an emotional level, my assessment of someone's intentions is a far more important factor in determining how I feel ab
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> You may assume that "I" do not have sufficient education and training to interpret state-of-art publications, and/or assume that "I" would end up trusting dubious alternative theories, but you do not know. If y
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> It's not just that the CDC and other institutions of scientific authority 'said something wrong once.' I think most people understand and accept that science is not perfect. I disagree. I think a big part of the proble
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> Exploitativeness is extremely ill-defined and often used to push an agenda that is not really aligned with the interest of the party "being exploited". One could say something similar about "betterment" in your orig
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> Incentives are key to bring the technology back into the realm of usefulness (in the grand scheme of things). Externalities need to be priced into energy costs. In principle there is no problem with using the electric power of a small
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> Most exchanges of economic capital result in the betterment of both parties. 2) in order to get some, you usually provide a good or service to someone else. It's easy to misread that as something like everybody wins, but it'
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> These wouldn't count as rare as today he is a rather widely known photographer, but Wikimedia has a large collection of colour photographs from Alfred Palmer, mostly taken from 1941 to 1943 for the American Office of War Informati
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> It's a pet peeve of mine that people think that sci-fi authors writing decades before the tech exists somehow got the design right, just because Hollywood made some pretty moving pictures that fired up your imagination. Many peop
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> At my last job IT had tanium installed on our machines. It would make your computer nearly unusable for hours. Sometimes I felt like we had computers that were completely consumed by the overhead it took just for us to have them. Trend
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> Trusting what politicians say at face value is so naive I don't even know how to respond to you. Is that what you think I said? I said no such thing, and I didn't even say anything close to that. >>> How do you kno
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>> 3. Context aware authorization. So not just "can this user access this?" but attestation about device state! That's extremely cutting edge - almost no one does that today. > I think 3. is very harmful for actual,

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