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> There were some premodern societies where land possession was very fluid. Yes, commons, rotating field systems, and similar arrangements show that. > But. There were plenty of ot…

Possibly, but what we think of as land ownership today — land as a commodity that can be freely bought and sold, and as something that gives the owner near-total control over how i…

It's also not falsifiable. Dang can disclaim it but Gruber's next step would just be to write "of course dang would say that." If all Dang did was deny, then yeah, it would be quit…

I sometimes give to panhandlers, but it’s mostly for my own benefit. I don’t believe my actions do anything to solve a problem, but I also don’t want to desensitize myself to the m…

That means we hire only the best person for the job, we seek out and demand excellence, and we unapologetically prefer people who are very smart. We treat everyone as an individual…

I read somewhere something to the effect of this: Some languages solve deficiencies in the language by adding more features to the language. This approach is so common, it could be…

That's not entirely true. Continental European law tends to be far more detailed than Anglo Saxon law, but still relies on precedents set in previous cases when there are ambiguiti…

Even worse, this thread is full of armchair lawyers ... Any actual lawyer would tell you Assuming you're not yourself a lawyer, doesn't speculating about what an actual lawyer woul…

A personal anecdote: I was charged with adding a cookie banner to my company’s website after having successfully resisted having one for many years. The reason given to me by the n…

When working in an environment where there are serious consequences to being late, everyone has an easier time accepting that hard choices have to be made to get a solution out the…

For Apple to be able to take a cut from other app stores, they need to have full control over said stores No, they just need a legally binding agreement.

Thank you for taking the time to write such a long and informative reply. I found it enlightening.

It depends on individual requirements. Most Apple laptops have better battery life than all of my laptops, but current ones have less memory available to run virtual machines unles…

Which company makes better laptops than Apple?

I think you can safely assume that unless someone is part of the absolute poker elite, they are unlikely to be earning anything near the median software engineering income. It’s no…

The article didn't cite IEA making an argument or even presenting any facts; rather, it reported an assertion that carbon capture isn't enough. Maybe we read different articles, be…

Asking you to consider an analogous situation is hardly the same as claiming you said anything you didn’t.

If you can’t spot a flaw in the facts or the arguments, I guess you can always cast doubt on the credibility of organizations presenting the facts and arguments. That way you don’t…

I think you are mixing things up. Apple was experiencing a sales slump but was far from dying in 1985. Jobs got ousted in a power struggle between him an Sculley who was CEO. In 19…

No. Two people with access to the highest level of state secrets have in public acknowledged something which although officially a state secret, has in fact been public knowledge s…

This would've been useful if you knew what kind of number it was... JSON isn’t ambiguous when it comes to this. Numbers are arbitrary precision decimal numbers[1]. I’m guessing you…

Here are a couple of things to consider, to help you determine if you should buy $APPL or not: * Do you think the stock is currently undervalued? If yes, at what price would you co…

People who say "it depends", without also explaining what it depends on, are not worth listening to. Someone who advocates for a silver bullet solution to a problem is more helpful…

It doesn’t seem that difficult to me. It’s obviously net worth.

If only other countries existed that had implemented these policies, then we would have some evidence to indicate whether you were right or wrong.