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I just picked one egregious example to compare to Korolev and other researchers that suffered. If you want to compare systemic examples like the Gulags then the Jim Crow system tha…

You're right it could've been a lot greater however you should apply the same analysis towards the USA as well. If you're black you're all but barred from participating in the spac…

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Abel Prize is pretty popular and has esteemed winners. The only requirement is that the person being nominated be alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Prize

I find the criticism of cprop a bit bizarre. Configurations of apps have many use cases. Some people package config files with the app on the classpath others use fs. Some do a com…

Many people in the tech industry don't realize the tradeoffs they are making by participating on FB. This is to say nothing of the nontechnical crowd who make up the overwhelming m…

I think it would be pretty hard to write something like algo.monads in python when macros are not available. https://github.com/clojure/algo.monads

Because Mickey Mouse is an idea while a farm is not. Claiming ownership of metaphysical concepts like Mickey Mouse is very different from claiming ownership of something that's sca…

There's a thread on reddit a while ago that explains this quite well. http://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2j3xar/til_tha...

There is a great book available for free about the topic: Against Intellectual Monopoly[1] which does a great job detailing how IP is actually destructive to innovation and hurts s…

> You seem pretty accustomed to economics. Can you explain how exactly or why would anyone buy any items (that's what currencies are for after all) using a deflationary currency? T…

SICP shows us how to do this as an exercise 1.19. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html... In scheme: (define (square x) (* x x)) (define (fib n) (fib-iter 1…

> The reality is that there is massive state intervention in the productive economy and the free-trade agreements are anything but free-trade agreements. That should be obvious. Ju…

This sounds like a more care-free way to do the same thing as http://unlicense.org Personally I'd choose unlicense instead of WTFPL.

You may be interested in learning how Hollywood came into existence ( http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf ) or America's roles in industrial revolution ( http://www.bloomber…

I think a better way to phrase the poll would be: Which alternative JVM language do you actively use most? I've met a lot of people who like and use groovy and have it in productio…

I wonder how effective cramming it all in 5 days. I would be interested in how much he remembers after 2 months.