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All of these are uniquely worse than the current system for the artists, though. Again, I agree that copyright should be abolished (or that copyleft should be enshrined in law), en…

I am anti-copyright, but I think you're considering this through the lens of a computer scientist/rocket engineer instead of someone who's had to work a worthless desk job or wait …

Power usage, latency, ethical concerns.

> What do you mean? And can you provide some clear examples? On top of the things you listed? Genital mutilation is common and accepted. Sex trafficking is common. Politicians are …

Swiss banks largely don't exist in the way they did in the 1990s and prior because of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (an American regulation almost universally agreed to be…

Singapore is more guilty of that than Switzerland. Singaporean banks are the post-FATCA Swiss banks.

If you read the article, he notes that after he retires, he's got a book on Haskell he's going to read. He retired from the Prime Minister position earlier this year. His aspiratio…

Singapore as the benchmark for "competent local government" seems flawed. Ignoring decades of corruption incidents[1], it's also plagued with human rights abuses, including signifi…

Barely related, but do you have advice for someone who wants to work on a very specific project at Google? I'm not at the point of hireability yet, but in the long-term I want to o…

So that's why he would never pass forum administration to the other guy. For anyone who's caught by surprise, you should look at his portable Gamecube.

Could you change the name? Since there hasn't been a release yet, it would break nothing, and there's already a project (that you also started, but that is used by more people, sin…

The MacBook Air is passively cooled; Pros have fans.

Windows 7 didn't have a consistent UI, though. In multiple places you could find Vista and XP-decorated panels. Your nostalgia is wrong.

East Asian wars tend to be drastically more deadly than the wars of any other group. The Three Kingdoms War wiped China's population to 30% of what it once was, and had half the de…

It's Dedoimedo. The entire point of Dedoimedo is whining loudly about whatever gets reviewed. If he stopped complaining about things his audience paid him to complain about, they w…

Easter weekend is arguably the best weekend to do something like this. It's not an actual holiday, so there are none of the normal precautions taken around bank holidays (bank vaul…

Patents only last 20 years in the US. Whenever this would go into effect, the patent would be expired.