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I think most people are simply ignorant of the sheer volume of transactions of counterfeit goods on Amazon and similar platforms. The platforms benefit from each transaction regard…

Amazon has benefited tremendously from counterfeiting, and has done little to combat it until recently, mostly because the pressure to act has increased and the benefits of stallin…

This. The influence of Conway’s law is underappreciated. We are all trained to see hierarchies as the only principle for building structure, it’s a dominant normative ideology. Onc…

Are you really sure that is the distinction. A lot of conservative policies results in even the conservative voters being worse off as a result. And there IS a direct profit motive…

You‘d need to break it into much smaller pieces, but that is the obvious solutions the problem.

I don’t remember the author talking about the soviet union existing before 1922, he does talks about soviets (assemblies).

Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577

Duckduckgo claims to use 400 sources [0], so you’re probably not totally spot on. Edit: However, that includes their Instant Answers feature, and the numbers are outdated, it’s 160…

Lack of privacy is google‘s business model. So an alternative would require a different business model, or they‘d end up at the same place eventually.

Does it give you access to files in iCloud? Or how would you get your ebooks into emacs then?

CSS should fix that, and give you all those unevenly spaced words you so desire.