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Brussels is not in America, though.
Sounds cool. Can you mention the 3 communities?
You'd get little to no traction with that if you frame it as a tax, leaving aside that many potential allies for such an approach would object to enshrining the characterization of copyright as "property". (Also, income earned is already taxed.)

Now, on the other hand, if you phrase it as a renewal fee, that would go over much more smoothly. Patents, for instance, have maintenance fees required at 4, 8, and 12 years, and they double each time.

I'd love to see, as a step towards limited-duration copyrights again, an exponentially increasing scale of renewal fees. For instance, after the first 5 years, it could cost $1000 for the next 5, $10k for the next 5, $100k for the next 5, and so on. (Throw in a grace period where all existing works get 5 years from the date this is passed, so people can adapt, and have time to evaluate what to renew.)

On that scale, after 5 years, any work producing value would be worth renewing. Some works will be worth renewing for 20 years. Incredibly high-value works might be worth renewing for 30 or even 35. But there'd be a serious tradeoff there; is it worth spending that much to renew the copyright of an old work, or to create a new one that grabs people's interest?

And as a bonus, abandoned works that no longer have anyone around to care about renewing would move into the public domain.
Frowned upon by who? 'Bad' in what way?

Regular expressions are powerful, and are used in plenty of production software.
I'm not one to judge their work, but A List Apart is certainly a site that has always cared about the topic:

https://alistapart.com/

(Good timing--they currently have an article about typography on the home page.)

I think Medium traditionally has, as well.
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I don't think many Americans consider how lucky we are that we have practically unlimited land compared to many industrialized nations. In Germany housing is very expensive. Homes are often passed down generations and parents move back in with their kids during retirement much more often than in the US.
Easy framing to get around that: "Only the less creative ones, who prefer to sit on their old works rather than making new ones."
everywhere i go, i got fed with cookies and candies. everywhere i see children eating ice cream and sweets. I bet we will remember these dark times one day but right now the state of the ignorance is staggering
Yes, I instinctively agree with you. But what about sink investments? Also, what about borderline protocol implementation improvements? Death of a thousand papercuts...that kind of thing?

Does keeping the algorithm source in the open, which allows for forks when opportunity presents itself...is that pretty much the optimal strategy against any transaction protocol being abused?
I'm just beginning to realise that a bit part of mental "toughness" and resilience is actually self-compassion.

Striving directly for toughness can lead to you feeling bad or angry at yourself for having certain feelings, when actually feelings need to be felt, not repressed.

It's shifting your inner monologue from:

"You shouldn't feel so sad about that girl dumping you. You were only together for a few weeks. Stop moping around."
to
"You're feeling really sad right now, and that's totally expected and ok. It's probably going to last a while longer, and that sucks, but you're going to be fine."

This might be obvious / intuitive for most people, but as someone who always used to default to the first version when "talking" to myself, it's been a big shift.

To actually answer the question, the book that introduced this idea to me was "The Art of Extraordinary Confidence" by Dr. Aziz Gazipura.
Disney has another trick up its sleeve (which will possibly bring the dispute to a permanent conclusion in their favour).

Excerpts from a detailed Priceonomics article (https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-...):

> Even if Mickey’s copyright does expire in 2023, Disney has no less than 19 trademarks on the words “Mickey Mouse” [...]

> According a precedent set in a 1979 court case, a trademark can protect a character in the public domain as long as that character has obtained what is called “secondary meaning.” This means that the character and the company are virtually inseparable: upon seeing it, one will immediately identify it with a brand. [...]

> In other words, Disney has ingrained Mickey Mouse so deeply in its corporate identity that the character is essentially afforded legal protection for eternity, so long as Disney protects him (trademarks last indefinitely, so long as they are renewed).
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Additionally,

The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk (https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ)
Fingerprinting data to find when it's been copy-pasted is a neat application for invisible characters!

I've also found a lot of identical characters when handling Chinese text. Note that Google Translate does not handle these correctly.

https://github.com/pingtype/pingtype.github.io/blob/master/r...

It's about the Kangxi Radicals Unicode block, compared the CJK characters block. If you want me to write a blog post about it, please comment and I'll get around to it.
I was referring to the parent’s example and most of Europe adheres to an only moderated form of this ideology anyway. Germany especially.
IMDB disaster: first they gutted discussions, now they are gutting user reviews
thats insane thats about 10X more than we have in Europe
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You should call it "health care payments" then. Insurance has long gone past it's original goal of mitigating risk.
The results are not very convincing.
* Clean up what's left from my dead startup.

* Get a job.
In mathematical theorems the initial conditions are rather uniform without much if any of special cases. Thus mathematical proofs needs typically much less control flow to cover the initial conditions than computer programs. In fact many proofs are just straight deduction without single if to cover corner cases. Such type of "code" is simple to check. One just checks for logic of deduction, not the coverage of all initial conditions.
Wow if they had that 40 years ago it really makes you wonder what they have now.
Wouldn't any sensible journalist round trip any documents through 7 bit asci to strip any possible watermarking.
huh, Gigadiff strikes me as a terrible name, because it's actively misleading. Without reading the description, I'd think it's about diff that can run on really big files.
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> I wonder what happens when the people realize any candidate who gets into the primary is part of the machine ?

They stop voting like half the country already has.
* RegEx opens your application up for DoS attacks

* RegEx is not very readable

* RegEx can be (very) slow

* It's not trivial to write RegEx code that achieves your goal in a high-quality way. Often quircks and edge-cases are missed.

I'm not saying that you should never use them, but oftentimes a (much) better alternative of achieving your goals is present.

See https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...
There'd still be trademark issues.
If anyone can make e.g. a Marvel movie, the franchise will be judged by those movies. It makes perfect sense to defend that.
Amazing article. And for some crazy reason I found myself tearing up when it considered the sacrifices of the donars.
And it absolutely did, as did the Gutenberg press, the telephone, the radio and television. We just don't recognize it because we've never experienced a pre-telegraph life.
It's interesting to me, because I've seen this effect (while copy pasting) and wondered why... if I hadn't been translating I would never have noticed.

Even though some are noticeably different:

⿌ 黾
why outwith non latin languages accents and oddities like the sharp S dont actually change the meaning.
> This statement appears to rely on a circular definition of intelligence

The statement is a metaphor. Mathematicians are commonly deemed intelligent, with high variability of course, as university graduates generally are. On the meta level, mathematicians provided a lot of the basis which computers and programs are build from. Now it's poetic freedom to include programmers who venture into mathematics in this fuzzy term.
Yeah, things similar to this definitely happen. Anecdotally, I have a friend with the last name "Name." This was years ago, but when he first created a Facebook account, he had to enter his last name as "Namé." I think he eventually had it changed back by contacting support.
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I think this is a great compromise for something like Mickey, which clearly remains in commercial use.

It’d be nice if we could find a way to handle Mickey while also releasing Catch-22 etc into public domain.
I tested with AppleScript's "say" command, and it doesn't pronounce spaces, so screen readers are probably fine.

It might affect string handling where you split a string by space characters, and then compare words with a dictionary.

For example, Pingtype English which translates word-by-word to Chinese. (note the words "the" and "same" not getting translated in the examples).

https://pingtype.github.io/english.html

Google Translate handles it fine.
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Good. I don't really care about Mickey, rather everything else.

It's much better if Disney uses the already perpetual nature of trademark rather than continuing to push for distorting copyright.

I don't know that they really would be satisfied with that though, since they have so much under copyright that wouldn't get this kind of trademark treatment.
It seems like most schools in Los Angeles do this for plays and recitals. What is strange is that people still film stuff. I think it gives them something to do.
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As an interesting aside, that's how BBS's worked pre internet. Long distances calls were so expensive, BBS forums were largely localized. We would have get togethers and people's houses or at libraries, to meet each other once or twice a year, drink beer, play volleyball, etc.
With netrunner I'm not continually buying packs, but rather data sets and expansions. Plus with rotation I need to keep that up. There's no randomness, but there is ongoing cost.
This is why I still swear by Lynx for most browsing
How is that different from his option 5?

I suspect he put it low on the list because it could be a cat and mouse game of trying to anticipate all the potential information leaks.
On an anecdotal level, I've felt that a lot of this can manifest as mild envy, if not otherwise that pervasive fear of missing out. As an example, you're at home reading your favourite book and all your friends are out partying, yet even though you were happy with the decision to read, and to not join them if you had the offer, you still feel a bit envious of all of the others going out partying (and hearing about it too).

I'm curious why it's so easy to see your own life as boring as compared to others, and while it's absolutely true that you only see their highlights (good and bad), you've got yourself 24/7, along with every single unfiltered thought and feeling that comes along with it.

One activity of mine is to basically reflect on the recent past (say, the last 6 or 12 months, maybe even longer if I need to hammer the point home) and make a list of everything I did that was interesting, brave, adventurous, exciting, dangerous, difficult... no matter how insignificant some of it might seem.

Once you have what is essentially an itemised list of your achievements in the last year or two, it's easy to put your own experiences into perspective, and you are no longer dismissing them because you're not lumping in all of those quiet moments where you needed downtime or binged something on Netflix, or whatever. And in a lot of cases it's far more interesting than what you'd be doing if all your weekends were parties and hangovers, and such like.

And no one else needs to see that list you make, it's just bringing the attention back to yourself. It's incredibly powerful and a great reminder in those low moments.
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Thanks for the encouragement - I'll write that blog post when I get a chance!

黾 is the simplified version of ⿌.

(In http://pingtype.github.io click Advanced > Regional, paste into the Simplified text box, then click "Simplified to Traditional")
This is so sneaky! I am trying to find a good black list and found this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.IDN.blacklist_chars

Or maybe black listing is not the best approach, maybe a mix of multiple approaches. First strip out stuff and then view the text in a program that displays "unconventional" characters?
As a test I pasted the post's test sentences in Vim and the invisible characters are replaced by blocks of <XXXX> that are very hard not to notice. The more you think about it the more tricky corner cases you find :O
I noticed a similar thing with "reduced sugar squeezed orange juice" which is 50% added water and some Vitamin C.
I, too, have noticed the decline in airports. Both status and comfort are severely lacking from even the 1980s when, as a child, my family and I spent many a flight delay waiting for my father to return from a business trip. But something the article fails to mention: this seems to be a uniquely American phenomenon. The airports I've interacted with elsewhere in the world have been head-and-shoulders above anything in the US.
While we used Caché as our MUMPS runtime, it was policy to not use any of the language extensions in case we ever needed to switch to GT.M, so I can only speak to what is in the ANSI spec[1]. I never looked into the Caché functionality as a result, but it looks like if you used their ObjectScript then you definitely had a different experience than me. The closest thing to relational objects we had was that we had an internal standard for defining the structure of our globals (databases) such that they could be accessed and iterated over in a consistent way using an internal library of functions that made it kinda feel like working with tables; though even that was designed primarily to avoid bugs caused by simple typos. The vast majority of the code I wrote/worked with involved primarily for loops and basic CRUD with some locking code that was also simplified via an internal function library.

As for your syntax error woes, I don't recall ever running into a massive issue like that, but then again by the time I was working at this company they had decades of time to figure out a stable MUMPS dev environment and even an internal IDE for it, and for the most part they seem to have succeeded. I still wouldn't say I like MUMPS; if it had first class functions and the ability to use an entire tree as a return value (or at least a pointer of some kind) rather than only the value of the root node then I'd probably say I like it.

[1] http://mumps.sourceforge.net/docs.html
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"Programmers are less intelligent, skillful and diligent on average than research mathematicians?"

Keep in mind that there are a lot more programmers than professional mathematicians, and programmers are more likely to be well paid than mathematicians. As a result, mathematicians are self-selected for doing math while most programmers are only in it for the paycheck, on top of the fact that a mediocre mathematician probably isn't going to be able to make a living in math.

"Compare to the world of the working programmer who is judged not by how fast he writes code but by the real world positive impact of that code,..."

I suspect that you have an excessively positive opinion of the work of most programmers. I myself know far too many who are both slow and detrimental to the projects they are assigned.

As for formal mathematical proofs, I bet you will find that most mathematicians don't do them for the same reason that essentially no coffee is verified: it adds a lot of complexity (the same complexity, I suspect) without any obvious benefit.
You and the other commenter both quoted the same aspect about agreement of the community, so see my other response.

> Decentralization in this context would mean different rules for every participant, which is not something that we want - an extreme example of individualism where everyone has different beliefs, so a group cannot accomplish anything.

That is quite interesting, thinking of extreme individualism. But in thinking about that, isn't that what the entire ecosystem of cryptocurrencies is currently doing, and any one particular cryptocurrency itself is a point of centralization?

Again, I'm just tugging at a thread here, trying to understand how it's supposed to be even conceptually possible to be "decentralized". It just seems to me that we are talking about a different form of centralization - which may be a good thing! Possibly centralization of choice, as opposed to centralization with regards to physical location (i.e. which country you live in).
As the article you link argues, use of regular expressions when they are inappropriate is bad. This particular case - finding and replacing certain characters with other characters - is pretty well-suited to the problem, and is probably more readable than a bunch of open code to do the same thing.

(I'm not sure what you mean by DoS attacks - are you referring to the exponential case of backtracking? If so, don't use a regex engine with that problem, and don't use lookbehind/lookahead assertions, which aren't needed to solve this problem.)
To me your posts come off as the hand-wavy "just sprinkle in some blockchain magic!" sentiment that is the main cause of blockchain eye-rolling on HN, not the person putting you in the position of elaboration.
Makes you wonder about the real state of quatum computing down in the NSA's etal basements where the black systems live.
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would be nice to use it in combination with fortune or if I could use it as login greeting. Load it up with the best quotes from the stoics, psalms, jesus sirach, the gospels, pauls letters and ecclesiastes and all the existing library. Put a good RND in front of it and you have a real Oracle greeting you whenever you want!
Don't people have car alarms in US? I cannot imagine how one can break a lot of windows without making noise and meeting angry car owners.
And these are only the direct adaptations. Disney's very first work, "Alice's Wonderland" (not the movie, just a dreamlike short), was a riff on Carroll's work. It was published less than 30 years from Carroll's death and about 50 years from publication.
a lot of them has simply given up, hence the opiod crisis
Yes, it was also nothing new. Put a Russian ad side by side with a right or left wing PAC ad and I'd wager you'd have a hard time telling the difference.

There were samples released on the internet. There were both liberal and conservative ads taken out too, so it wasn't just pro-Trump like most people believe. It seems as if the campaign was more to divide the country than pick any particular candidate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/russia...
> This particular case - finding and replacing certain characters with other characters - is pretty well-suited to the problem, and is probably more readable than a bunch of open code to do the same thing.

No, it is not a good solution to the problem; you ignore my earlier comments. English or latin text is not comprised of the sole ASCII characterset; it contains characters outside this set (quoting other languages, names, imported words for example).
The death toll was presented as evidence that Israel is in the wrong. I'm saying it proves nothing about which side is in the wrong.
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Also owners could make an ambush.
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The Magician's Nephew is definitely worth a read too.
Isn't Jordan Peterson also famous for being a proponent of racial IQ theories?

I'm really skeptical about IQ in general, but anyone popular with the far right really makes me suspicious.

I'll take a look at the link you provided...But man, there are an awful lot of 1488 types that support this guy. It really makes me question where he is coming from.
an American journalist handling English text, maybe.
I talked to a Facebook employee about how he handles all of the crap on FB as a user, and he said most people there make heavy use of the filtering tools, so they're only seeing the stuff that they care about. That always sounded like a good strategy to me, but maybe not for your case since it's literally one guy.
Copyright should be abolished.

As it stands, copyright serves little positive social purpose. The overwhelming majority of creators get paid little if anything for their work, and still there is a glut of content. So there should be no fear of the world losing lots of great content if there was no copyright.

Most of the benefit of copyright is reaped by the middle men, who profit off the work when the creatives that made it have long ceased to do so (if they ever did). Abolishing copyright will thus mostly affect these middle men, and have little effect on content creation itself.

Those creatives that still want to get paid in a copyright-free era can find business models that don't rely on copyright, like performances, donations, or kickstarter-like models when one is paid for future work.