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When I read the bit on the steam engine, I remember thinking it wasn’t a great argument as it was hard to know how a patent-less world would have developed. I’m not surprised to se…

Of course! Happy you found it useful. You’ll have to forgive me if my answer isn’t super satisfying - it’s possible, but I’d want to see patents under these conditions empirically …

The book goes into quite a bit of depth if it is a topic that interests you. I would flag that we’re getting into “prove a negative” territory here: the goalpost is that we need to…

There are two things to tackle here which I’m keen not to mix up as I think their epistemological properties are quite different: 1) [the stronger one] while the scenario/narrative…

The book “against intellectual monopoly” has shaped a lot of my thinking on this topic - economists have looked at the various occasions in which patents were introduced into an in…

Do I understand correctly that this would enable me to do retroactive logging/perf-instrumentation?

Very interesting how on "downsampled 32x + interpolated" it sounds like the singer is harmonizing with herself

Francesco Mazzoli’s blog on https://mazzo.li/archive.html . His blog has topped HN a few times with various low-level/linux topics, some deep dives into algorithms etc.

While I understand the narrative you're proposing, what I brought with my source was a collection of evidence where pharmacological innovation happened at an unaltered rate pre and…

Then why is it that when pharma patents were introduced in countries that didn't have them, the rate of innovation, TFP, R&D-as-%-GDP didn't increase? I brought a source to this de…

Worth mentioning that the evidence says that patents don't have an effect on new drug creation/inventions. Evidence is collected here http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/a…

Very happy to see someone else thought of this too. I see the endgame as one in which services just expose documentation to their APIs and the AI figures out, based on your request…

I recently got this phone, and it really sparked joy. It does everything I need to function in 2024 (messaging people, navigating cities, managing tickets, NFC payments etc), while…

Indeed, “stop all progress” and “accompany progress responsibly” are two different approaches. This may be tangential - but I’d like to point out, that while the Luddite movement m…

A good book on this topic was Acemoglu’s “Power and Progress”. Lots of illuminating examples of how technological progress immediately made life worse for many people, until a revo…

Taleb in “Antifragile” talks about this as well. However he derives a different conclusion; he speaks of a phenomenon called “hormesis” which refers to a biological response where …

I’ve not looked into it personally, but I’ll relay what I’ve heard from various people who have looked into this or successfully done this. In one case one person, as you say, did …

Currently living in the Algarve after moving to Lisbon with my partner for her studies years ago. I know a few non-crypto entrepreneurs who came here for the NHR (non habitual resi…

I’ve been curious about the dynamics around the often-cited statement “rent control doesn’t work”. It seems that with rent control, you’d have higher demand and lower supply result…

I grew up in Tokyo as a child and used the subway twice every day to commute to and from school. I randomly sampled a few of these and the memories and feelings it evoked are incre…