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> The "non-tariff barriers" are important - all kinds of environmental and safety standards could be considered as these, and they can be far more difficult to deal with than simpl…

> Sounds like artists and philosophers and academics fall into your category of nerdiness. I don't think anyone would dispute that. The real problem manifests itself when those dri…

> There are people that spend most of their available hours staring at screens of graphs while trading various tokens in order to achieve the highest score... but of course we call…

> If Facebook is such a problem then people could just stop being part of these social circles. It really isn't that difficult. No, it actually is that difficult, or more precisely…

> The fact is that there are alternatives (for both consumers and developers) to the iOS app store. They don't get products from or on iOS, but they can still buy and sell comparab…

>> If the Apple app store isn't a monopoly I don't know what is. > Microsoft had something like a 97% marketshare. Apple is nowhere near that. Whether a company is a monopoly or no…

> Interesting that product numbers were reused. When you're in business as long as DEC was, I think that inevitable if you want the product numbers to be short and memorable.

> Probably a combination of all three. The US and China have the benefit of a comparatively gargantuan native population that all speak the same language As odd as it sounds, my un…

The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/soul-of-a-new-machine-tracy... It's mostly about the development of the Data General Nova computer. It's …

> Knowing that discrimination exists while you get into something doesn't make it less discriminatory. "Discrimination" is a neutral term though: there are acceptable kinds and una…

> This is one of the enormous penalties we as a nation have to pay because neither of our political parties actually wants to solve the illegal immigration issue. This is a legal i…

> Sad fact is that Mac sales are now 10% of Apples revenue. I think the only reason Macs receive any attention at all within Apple is because you need Macs to build iphone/ipad app…