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Article argues that "management" skills (gasp!) will be key to good careers as agentic AI use increases.

The characterization that IP law is only intended to spur creative activity is incorrect. It was designed to balance the interests of the creator with those of society. And that ba…

Yes, I had the exact same reaction and actually donated a print version of the book to the Internet Archive so they might create a digital ebook. It never materialized and I ended …

Pretty sure it was channel 9. I used to listen to that all the time.

This is absolutely the easiest solution. We did this for open.media.mit.edu in order to archive the old wordpress site. Used wget to fetch all of the HTML and ran a script over it …

Since you list other non-open source solutions as well in your question, I’ll mention one more, which might be the closest to what you are looking for > maven.com. We started colla…

Sasha Frere-Jones used to be the music critic at the New Yorker and writes a fantastic (although somewhat irregular) substack blog > https://substack.sashafrerejones.com/

Tap water in Amsterdam is tested daily and perfectly safe for drinking: https://www.waternet.nl/en/service-and-contact/tap-water/can...

Can you share some articles or studies that demonstrate the increasing openness? (I hope it’s true that it cuts both ways, but would like to see more data/research).

I would still like to see an answer to the questions above. In particular, does a user who connects on three devices count as three MAUs?

During Covid: an espresso machine (and quality grinder)

I was wondering the same. I am familiar with it because we use NHG as our company font, but didn’t know that it was widely known.

“ Your first topic will be free of cost.“ This doesn’t sound like the project is fundamentally committed to open source.

I am not sure what you mean by “average American” but millions of people in this country rely on emergency room visits for their health care needs. I suspect the NHS provides a sup…

You assume that everyone reading a copy of the book, would also be willing (or able) to purchase it. That’s not the case.

Since it’s a non-profit there are no shares or shareholders and he has no equity, ie the salary is the only way he financially benefits from the success of the organization. 800k i…

I believe the Dom in Cologne was finished and is now being maintained by a staff of more than 100 stone masons etc... so many parts of it have been replaced over the years. I alway…

I also prefer to track todos this way because it shows me how much free time I can realistically commit to new things. There was a calendar app that did this very well called Timef…

That is technically correct but in policy discussion and the Economics literature patents are usually linked to innovation (where innovation is defined as invention + commercializa…