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s/countries/country/ Given the variety of agreements on international intellectual property law such as the Berne Convention, WCT, TRIPS pushed through multinational organizations …

Physical property is zero-sum. If someone else is driving your car, you can't drive it. If you copy my PDF, I still have my PDF and can use it exactly the same. I'm only deprived o…

Tax credit for mortgage interest encourages speculative investment in the housing market. Tax credit for credit card debt encourages consumer economic activity.

In the same way the risk premium of a financial security is proportional to its riskiness.

I think you're right. It's a good change for people who want to build web applications. Maybe that's the right thing for future development ease. I feel it's a shame though, the de…

In my opinion, whether or not a website uses JS is orthogonal to this (though, I would argue websites shouldn't need JS just to repeat some elements). The issue is web has changed …

All too often being 'mobile first' means being desktop last. It feels like a betrayal when UX becomes a zero sum tradeoff between new users and the enthusiast users who built the p…

I'm very confused with the PDF appreciation comments. I have to read lots of PDF textbooks and reference documents for school and the experience is grating, especially trying to na…

I think they have greater incentives for filtering out spam on YouTube.

self driving light rail would be interesting

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