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Might as well post the full version, which adds context: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to kn…

Powerful interests want it to be true.

Arson is also an inherently dangerous felony, which is why when someone dies because of arson, the arsonist can be charged with murder.

More trivia: OpenFirmware is descended from Sun Microsystems' firmware, OpenBoot. Add-on cards could contain Forth code that would initialize their own hardware and provide a devic…

The article is about college-level education, which is primarily about ranking students in order of who should get the best entry-level jobs. If technology is disrupting the effect…

Design patents expire, unlike trademarks.

A patent application is a constructive reduction to practice. MPEP 2138.05. https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2138.html#:~:tex...

No one lives forever. You can’t take it with you. In the long run, we’re all renting.

New machines with Windows 10 were sold in 2021. So, less than 4 years of support for those machines.

The answer is to just build a lot more housing. Increasing the housing stock by 10% everywhere would be a good start. If there is so much housing available that buyers don’t get in…

I agree. The affordable housing costs $1M per unit because that is the market price for constructing any housing in those areas.

Homeless people want to live in cities, for all the reasons other people want to live in cities. In cities, affordable housing is extremely expensive. For example, in Santa Monica,…

Novelty (is it new) is the easy question because it’s just checking a database. Patentable inventions also have to be non-obvious, which is a more subtle question.

https://xkcd.com/386/

I'm curious too. I found a lot of skepticism of a similar claim. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/47754/are-one-t...

It's a shame, because school choice could be a rallying cry for "Tax the rich to pay for private schools for all kids."

It’s a joke because most American schools are run by the government.

I wrote "some exceptions apply" to try to avoid getting into the weeds, but yes, independent creation is an exception. Other exceptions include out-of-term works, public domain, Mi…