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Precisely the reason is to give breathing room for big players to invest in development of technology so they can capitalise exclusively for a period

Pharma and Healthcare was the implication I believe. The US approach to these things has a bad reputation internationally though I am informed that it’s an amazing system if you’re…

At least they’re allowing their colonies to have elections

Yeah I think that’s done. Tragically this technique coupled with a poor selection of materials was the structural cause of the grenfell fire. We see this kind of panelling around v…

I actively skip stuff that’s on substack just like I do medium and blogger. Maybe there’s good stuff on there but it’s usually a by-word for slop. I figure if anyone has anything t…

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Already in widespread use https://www.sips.org/what-are-sips

This was tried before but was presumably scuppered by the market intelligence and surveillance communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P

> If there are tens of thousands, it may make you feel less bad about tossing them. That’s a great point. It doesn’t eliminate the problem but it helps break it up a bit, which is …

I had considered this. Up cycling them as eco bricks but that’s nearly as destructive as burning. Life would be so much easier if I had no qualms.

That’s no good to me. It’s the physical volumes I need to get rid of. I couldn’t give a fiddlers about what’s in them

I have lots of old books that aren’t very good. That I can’t give away. What do I do with them? I have this strange taboo feeling about destroying books, even bad ones!

Unless you’re hoping the regulators will build you a moat. Stupid, yeah but that’s the kind of thinking that a highly leveraged and desperate situation breeds.

Maybe that’s the point!

My main issue was it was bricked. I had given up on it and then just got an email out of the blue. Just because I bought direct from them I guess. They didn’t demand any proof or t…

Correct you will be left with the people who couldn’t switch

How’s this for a working theory. Economic actors that were established doing the “easy stuff” that got displaced first got a head start on everyone else and started low balling on …

They did the decent thing with the Versa and refunded everybody.

Okay bro.

They’re not going to support legacy pebble by any chance?

> You can’t really call it a pro-piracy message though. Of course not. That would probably infringe on advertising standards. But it is the clear implication.

> Apple knew they were selling a device to play pirated music If I’m remembering right, the tagline on the Mac mini was “rip mix burn”

It’s not a big secret. I’m pretty sure it was mentioned in Chris Pratt’s recent adaptation…

I was suggesting that website hosting isn’t a particularly hard problem with no moat. European customers could go literally anywhere.

“American website hosting companies are disproportionately exposed to market shock from their European customers”