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Sorry for being this direct, I know it can be viewed as impolite but please bear with me for a second. If you want curious conversations to occur, then please consider forcing down…

Once upon a time I became convinced I wanted to create the first 100% virtual bank of my country. Not having the faintest idea of how to do such a thing I set out to at least colle…

No font in Google fonts does, for instance. At least from their own little demonstrator. There is https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji Noto Emoji which can render the flags bu…

Different legal systems codify different mores differently. In Argentina and Chile, mapuche people to this day continue to legally challenge the ownership of land that they claim i…

Oh my. I just looked, and it turns out in the US there is apparently no such thing as voiding a sale due to it being forced, only 'fraud' understood as misrepresenting the value of…

According to the article the State discovered, way late, that the kind of ties he had with China were not of the kind they assumed guilt of and heavily publicized when they went to…

They aren't Automatically Awesome Tools Of Civility either. An entire world war was fought as a direct consequence of one said peace treaty. Nazis wouldn't have been able to gather…

Unless they have like a country-wide e-mail address or some kind of HN-exclusive PA system, I don't think this figure of speech really means much other than a childish retort that …

A good compromise for this kinds of things is usually dual licensing: - If you're big enough to make real money and you need my attention then pay me this much please - If you're s…

One thing I've always wondered is, who cleans this things? Is normal, run of the mill cleaning personnel expected to be careful enough to not accidentally toss something out alignm…

If there's one scenario where I'd dread autocomplete-based/chorded typing is when coding or writing on a terminal. My coding usually comes _after_ some consideration about I want t…

According to https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte... : Recipes can be protected under copyright law if they are accompanied by “substantial literary express…

According to this people: https://www.unep.org/thinkeatsave/get-informed/worldwide-foo... about a third of the food produced is thrown away along with half the water used to produc…

Unfortunately, if we can't agree on what words mean, I can't justify continuing to waste time in this discussion. Cheerio!

> The argument that you’re not stealing something physical is an old, tired, immature, and naive narrative And yet here you are, claiming that "pirating" something is somehow bad. …

> Easily duplicable cultural products? You’re suggesting that you should be able to take something someone else made because it’s easy to do? No, I'm not. What's more, that's an ea…

At least according to their own accounting, movies lose otherwise hilarious amounts of money all the time and they seem to still exist somehow. "Piracy", which in reality is probab…

Your use of scare quotes on plain self-evident terms kinda makes me think this is going to be entirely pointless, but here goes nothing. Do you understand that your being more or l…

The purpose of DRM is ultimately asserting the will of a couple corporate ghouls over your use of the thing they basically cheated you into renting. Which wouldn't even be a thing …

The wording on the main driver of the experiment, their especially bad emails, leads website operators to think there is a problem where there is none. This, on top of the research…