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Plenty of artists have removed their music from Spotify because they pay next to nothing.

How is the article class warfare or leftist? The article seems banal and centrist to me. Kicking in open doors and saying we should help poor people not go hungry and invest in edu…

How does this work for countries with different copyright laws?

If you're feeling very John Galt take a deep breath. Remember that you're not a fictional character in a fictional society. You're a real person in real society where Entrepreneurs…

In some cases, yes.

Is the pursuit of equality really something you think of as strange or outdated?

Economics used to be called political economics. Why Valve can't stay out of politics is because a lot of things worth doing are political in nature or related to politics. Politic…

One way to cure this symptom of patriarchy is to try to stop being a 'troglodyte' as you put it. What would a non-'troglodyte' do? If you shrug, accept the status quo and say meh, …

Humans see patterns where there are none. http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strang...

Investing in infrastructure during a recession is what you're supposed to do. It creates jobs temporarily which increase consumer demand which drives the economy and increases reve…

On the other hand high bandwidth prices slow down adoption, usage and evolution for all other industries which uses these telecom services. The rest of the economy is held back by …

The world does not revolve around you :-(

A "little funding", are you serious? DARPA is part of the freaking DoD. Are you really going to criticize the government for investing in American companies of which a couple ones …

Not so much two-party adversarial politics so much as big business and the 0.01% funding and controlling the two viable parties. The center-right party and the right party used to …

Does anyone know what something similar would cost a large private corporation?

“In civil cases it’s guilty until proven innocent and in a previous case I declined to give the details who I transfered the site to. They say if it’s not me, then I could easily s…

I would call it black hat hacking, hacktivism or sabotage. I wouldn't call it a terror attack unless you feel terror when you realize you have to call your credit card provider. Le…

He only charged too little if his goal was to extract as much profit as possible from his customers.

I would imagine that employees would get training for the software they use so the benefits of the software being easier to learn on your own isn't an issue for government workers …

People who work at corporations have consciences. They are not run by robots yet. Corporations consist of people with kids of their own. They are human beings. They are not without…

I agree that the feedback loop between corporations who contribute to political campaigns with money and politicians that can regulate/deregulate and who need money to run their ca…

If you google it you'll find some more lists I'm not sure if the one I linked is the most comprehensive one.

If you're one of the 95% of humans who live outside the US and Canada and you want to talk here is a list of numbers to call: http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.…

Kooky is the wrong word to describe Ron Paul. Lets be clear about what Ron Paul's principles are. Ron Paul wants to eliminate the Department of Education, the Department of Energy,…

Or, these "kids" understands copyright and did some economical analysis and figured out that the increased spending power that comes from the money saved by copying content at zero…