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As a user, before I click a link to a file with a .gifv extension, I know in advance that there won't be any audio. I like that.

I love this. One question: how much emphasis was put on security? Can I safely let the users of my website input any string and feed it directly to the render function?

These better work conditions would come at a cost. The money has to come from somewhere. You can't just complain that Amazon doesn't treat their employees well enough without expla…

Then I assume you mean that one party is better off and the other party is worse off (taken advantage of). Sure, that can happen. But in the case of Amazon, the workers are better …

A contract is not a zero-sum game. The expected outcome of a contract is that both parties take advantage of each other and they both win.

Better work conditions would mean higher costs to Amazon.

This is funny. Voting on generated titles is a great idea. If you allowed users to post comments, just like on HN or reddit, that would enable people to play along. Also, I would g…

The chart you give for discretionary spending goes from 1992 ($803) to 2012 ($1289). It shows an overall 60% increase in discretionary spending in only the last 20 years. Not exact…

Let's say that Thailand has a king and that publishing a caricature of the king on the Internet is punishable by death. Meanwhile, I'm an American and I make a website in the Unite…

Yeah they did some things wrong apparently. I don't even know enough to pass judgment.

It looks like they know what they're doing. I was especially curious about deduplication. The way they do it sounds perfectly reasonable: > MEGA indeed uses deduplication, but it d…

To be fair, if there's any chance that your password is the same as someone else's, then you have a terrible password.

You're right. For many branded products (especially clothes and shoes), consumers would indeed prefer to buy cheaper replicas good enough to fool their social circle. If they had t…

Yeah, I understand the value of a brand. I was thinking that, without trademark, there could still be ways to ascertain the authenticity of a product. For example, tiffanys.com cou…

I wonder how much advertising depends on trademark law. I suppose that, without trademarks, companies would advertise their domain name instead of their company name.

Yes! Trademark creates huge freedom concerns. For what it's worth, I don't think there's anything shady about an extension that replaces the ads in your browser. Web users can alre…

I guess it depends on one's opinion about copyright law.

Thanks again!

If I may ask a second question: what do you think of emissions trading as a solution instead of bans on specific sources like leaded gasoline?

Very informative, thanks.

Your profile says you're a lawyer. I have a question for you. Why did they need to ban leaded gasoline specifically? Wasn't it already illegal for anyone to spread poison in the ai…

But then one has to wonder why NASA's technology has not improved during the 37 years that came after 1975 despite a budget of over 10 billion dollars a year.

That's easy to say for someone living in a rich country. Before you advocate the murder of poachers, remember that they are most quite likely not evil, but rather ordinary poor peo…