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There Are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property (2010)
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There are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property
From Mises Blog, 2009: There are No Good Arguments for Intellectual Property February 24, 2009 by Stephan Kinsella There are some decent arguments out there that argue in favor of a state, welfare …
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Amazon pauses vesting when you’re on medical or parental leave
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Corey Quinn
An Amazon employee DM’d me with a question: “is it normal at other tech companies for vesting to pause when you’re on medical or parental leave?” I have never heard of such a practice. Help?
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Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
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Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India – until it realized a BJP politician was involved
Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook’s enforcement of rules against powerful
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FLoC Away from Chrome
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Java Is Underhyped
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Java is criminally underhyped
The perspective of an ignorant computer science undergrad
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Turkey bans use of cryptocurrencies for payments
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Bitcoin tumbles after Turkey bans crypto payments citing risks
Bitcoin tumbled more than 4% on Friday after Turkey's central bank banned the use of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets for purchases citing possible "irreparable" damage and transaction risks.
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Lisp and the Web: Creating Web Apps Through Lisp and GCE
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Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel
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2.5B T. rex inhabited the planet, researchers say
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Researchers estimate 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the Earth
Around 20,000 T. rex were alive at any time during the roughly 2.4 million years the species survived.
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Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
The Federal Court has found that Google LLC and Google Australia Pty Ltd (together, Google) misled consumers about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December 2018, in a world-first enforcement action…
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U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown
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U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown
The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee formally approved a report accusing Big Tech companies of buying or crushing smaller firms, Representative David Cicilline's office said in a statement on Thursday.
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Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky
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Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from the sky
The long read: In 2019, the body of a man fell from a passenger plane into a garden in south London. Who was he?
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My Go Executable Files Are Still Getting Larger (What's New in 2021 and Go 1.16)
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Retraction: My Go executable files are still large (what's new in 2021)
The original draft of the analysis we presented was reviewed internally, and yet still inaccuracies slipped through. We are a team of humans. We make mistakes. We take full responsibility for the invalid conclusions we published.
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Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationships
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Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationships - Longreads
On the wonders and benefits of natural relationships and what happens when humans meddle with the delicate balance between species.
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LLVM 12
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'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight
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'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight
Researchers hope their "ultra-white" paint can save energy by reflecting sunlight from buildings.
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A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)
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A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound
The crisp, bright tone comes from a particular microphone — and a few other elements.
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New Zealand to ban sales of cigarettes to anyone born after 2004
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An end to cigarettes? New Zealand aims to create smoke-free generation
Proposals include making sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2004 illegal
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Chaos Computer Club calls for immediate moratorium on contact tracing app Luca
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Tech Tent: Bye-bye Silicon Valley, hello global workforce?
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Tech Tent: Bye-bye Silicon Valley, hello global workforce?
Phil Libin, co-founder of Evernote, has gone from office champion to a believer in "work anywhere".
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First of its kind study pits psilocybin against a common antidepressant
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STAT
First-of-its-kind study pits psilocybin against a common antidepressant
New research looks at how psilocybin — the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms — compares to a commonly prescribed antidepressant.
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