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> The question around IP law isn't if it's possible for creative work to be created without it, which is obviously true, but what creative works would be created (and what creative works would not be created) if IP law didn't exist.

Those are bad questions, and unanswerable on all accounts. They also don't help us because then we have to compare the subjective values of creations to pick which is better, which is impossible since it varies person-to-person. One question we could ask is "How much money flows from a consumers to creators under both systems?" That question is still hard to answer, but at least the answer would have meaning.

> Is your claim that the set of creative works we have today would exist in full without IP law?

I don't claim that everything would be the same without IP laws. However, I certainly think it would be better if they didn't exist.

> rather easily refutable through any single example where a company's primary competitive advantage hinges upon IP rights. Potential examples abound.

It doesn't really matter but I am curious what companies you're referring to that aren't acting as parasitic rent-seeking middlemen.

> You can argue that the tradeoffs in IP law are not good tradeoffs. But your post seems to think that there would be no tradeoff -- that simply we'd get all the benefits conferred to society (in the form of creative works), with none of the downsides, if we eliminated IP protections.

I don't see any evidence that lifting IP protections will result in a decrease in quantity or quality of creative works as a whole.

> The burden of proof is on you for that one, since I'm sure if you surveyed any company relying upon IP protections in any non-trivial way, they'd indicate that capital would have been allocated elsewhere if not for those protections.

Let's make it clear what you're advocating for: continued state action that benefits a minority of the population at the expense of consumers by providing the members of that minority with an artificially enforced monopoly on information.

Your argument is the status quo fallacy. Just because something currently exists, does not mean I have the burden of proof. In fact, it is you who must prove that IP is beneficial. I cannot prove a negative (that IP is not necessary or beneficial) and asking me to do so is irrational. That's like asking abolitionists to prove that slavery isn't necessary for the economy. (Sorry for the inflammatory example but it's what came to mind)
Fines must be completely decoupled from the people levying them. They should be required to, say, give these funds to a blind trust which donates them to charities which don’t operate anywhere within 500 miles of the dining jurisdiction.
Agreed. This just feels like closed-source syncthing.
The Inbalance of the current structure was established affectively by Disney and the movie music entertainment lawyers of Hollywood destroyed any semblance of reason. It must be restructured to compensate creators and allow free information or better said democracy of knowledge.
It's also such a rich technical problem, that spans every sort of engineering, from machine learning to robotics to chemistry and materials engineering.

And it's like, purely a technical business. If you have a company that can "buy" garbage for $X and sell your outputs for $Y > $X (+costs), you don't need to deal with politics and lobbying and building buzz.
I don't disagree that it's a net positive. My point is that aside from being a post about the technical accomplishments of Elm, it does little to sell me on changing my tools and language. I don't doubt that Elm is pleasant to work with, but I find React really pleasant to work with.

If the goal is to convince me to learn a new language for the weekend and play with it, telling me how I can save 50kb isn't huge motivation. Seeing actual examples of real world benefits are compelling for me, not artificial samples.
Weird, I only browse Twitter in my mobile browser and I never had any issues. Which browser are you using?
Perfect Loops in Processing
Isn't the main reason dnf metadata is so massive that it contains the filelists of every package in repository? No other package manager requires that information to work. Does anyone else at Red Hat (such as the dnf developers) consider the metadata size a major problem?
The shareholders certainly consider bankruptcy to be relevant. One would think they would find the hiring of "responsible" people who bankrupted their previous company to be relevant also.
A legislative debate, which is my entire point. People aren't showing anywhere near the level of vitriol that ICE receives towards the local police for enforcing laws that are IMO far more ridiculous. Currently in many states people are torn from their families to be placed in cages and children are dumped into facilities because their parents possessed a benign plant which happens to be legal in a plurality of states -- there's no outrage because there's not the full force of the zeitgeist beaming it through the telescreens as a crisis for political purposes. I don't agree with any of it personally but just have to scoff at the hypocrisy.
What is the purpose of having "the cloud" in your home at all? To me "the cloud's" primary value is that it is running off-site, in an environment that capably and regularly deals with broken equipment. If my work is backed up in Google/Dropbox's data center, I don't have to worry about it if my house gets flooded.

Having the cloud in your house, running on whatever stuff is laying around, just seems one small step removed from just keeping everything on your laptop and hoping it doesn't break.
Reduce plastic bag usage. Everyday shoppers across the world, carry groceries and other items in billions of mostly one-time-use bags that are very destructive to the environment. Perhaps come up with a simple shop-to-home cart that reduces (eliminates) plastic bags.
>despite shipping from China being obviously more expensive in real world resources.

3 weeks container shipping on a super container ship vs. even cheapest truck shipping ?
I think the article adequately describes how difficult it is to "find an alternative" particularly when the state legislature is cutting off those paths.
Huge fan of Asana. One feature I've only ever seen in Asana is the the ability to have a single task added to multiple lists with the ability to independently drag to prioritize on different lists. You might be ordering your list by customer priority including marketing and sales tasks, I can order mine by the order I'll tackle them in including unrelated devops tasks. We can have different priorities without breaking things and it's still one task so if either of us marks it as done the other sees it as done.
Question: where is it used today?
No one involved in levying the fine (or deciding what is fined or how large a fine is) can benefit if you want to remove the conflict of interest. Perhaps the best thing to do is stick it all in a fund for helping victims of crimes when the criminal doesn't have enough funds to cover damages to the person (but even that isn't great).
Don't airlines negotiate fuel costs like a year in advance just to make sure they can pay a normalized amount throughout the year? If they negotiate these for the future, there shouldn't be any suprises (i.e. fuel surcharge). If they aren't negotiating for fuel prices, then why have the surcharge in the first place if it's just the actual fuel cost?

It's all a game to keep the initial ticket price down and then they slap on a whole bucket of fees by the time you are done entering in your CC info. Google Flights is usually pretty good at telling you what the cost will be before you even click through to the airline's website.
Allergies. Something has changed to make us allergenic to a degree that was never previously the case. We need to understand and fix it.
Great question - how would one find those? I can't look for anything without getting spammed by the buy-your-house-cheap not-quite-scammers, but anything else is pretty light.

That said, I suspect they'd pay less than we'd need to get anything comparable. The Seattle market has been insane for years, and I got extremely luck when I bought right after the crash.
The Chinese shippment also has to use a truck to get from Port.
LMAO, now I need to hear about it.
If that municipal or county government is operated by unionized public workers, including police, then the revenue collection is going primarily to pay that union, who in turn fund politicians who continue their revenue collection policies to pay their members. It's capture, so in effect, kleptocracy.
I'm not talking about average rent. I'm talking about supply of affordable housing units.

45% of Hong Kongers live in public or subsidized housing.[1] That's over 3 million people. That's a lot of affordable housing, in a very dense city!

You suggested suburbs would be better. Can you name any city's suburb(s) that has enough affordable housing for 3 million people?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Hong_Kong
But why would anyone then pay you to develop that app? They would need a business model of their own that doesn't rely on selling it, or maybe some other form of locked-down ecosystem where it is physically difficult to reproduce it even if it were legal to do so.

If the app is just a way into some other paid-for service, that could work OK. It would be similar to businesses contributing to OSS that is available at no charge today because they build related services that they do charge for. But this sort of model only works for a subset of the valuable apps produced today.
Writing Guide Pages for Martinfowler.com
Reduces page weight by 68% without - from 987 KB to 318 KB.
Copyleft is a strategy to reach a specific goal in order to address a specific problem. It is not in itself the goal.

In order to ask if copyleft would still be an effective strategy in a non-copyright world we would have to ask if the problem would still exist and how it would look like. Then we would have to compare copyleft to other strategies to see which would be most effective.

Personally I think that if the anti-copyright movement would managed to gain enough political support to remove copyright then copyleft would not be the most effective strategy to gain the goals defined by software freedoms.
Curl exercises
There's another flaw besides the many flaws that others have mentioned. As the author says, the amount of metadata downloaded is different between package managers. Perhaps ideally, only the metadata needed for a requested package would be downloaded. But I don't believe that's what's happening.

Alpine is fastest not just because it has a more efficient metadata format, but also because it has far fewer packages than the others.
Neither DC nor Manhattan grew up around the car. What was different was the role of the car at the time the transit system was built; DC's was built later, during a period when the car had become dominant and the assumption was that it would remain that way, and now as that role of the car is being questioned, the transit system we have is poorly suited to the transit modeshares we'd like to see.
> In what sense can the UN "force" anything?

Are we going to pretend the UN and UPU have zero power to dictate global shipping rates? Because that's exactly what they do.
For a billionaire, that's the same amount of bad as when I get a ticket for $60.
“Money making scheme” is putting it mildly. If they're offering to not tell your insurance company in exchange for paying a larger fine, I would describe that as “extortion.”
Why? Speeding kills. It seems reasonable to me that the ticket be proportional to your means, so you don't have a regressive effect where poor people are highly impacted and rich people laugh it off.
This is unfortunately and notoriously true. It is how relatively impoverished towns without a real tax base generate enough revenue to provide basic services. These fines are usually selectively applied to people from outside the area, so there is little adverse consequence for the townspeople. It works this way throughout the rural US, though easily avoided if you diligently pay attention to and comply with the signage when in those kinds of areas.

Insufficient local tax base for small towns is a problem throughout the world, with many diverse solutions. This is the evolved and ad hoc US flavored version in the absence of a top-down official solution.
There’s a cottage industry of companies in big cities that will truck your US-bound package to the US for $1 each and deposit it into USPS.

Eg: chitchats express.

Sometimes Canadians do this for shipments to Canada because it can be a lot cheaper.
Blokable prefabs look horrible. We don't need cubes/boxes to shove humans into, we need real homes. The housing shortage isn't just about a lack of shelter but about a lack of human spaces.
They literally eradicated feral honeybees.
I thought of nextcloud. Seems very similar:

For those unfamiliar nextcloud is kinda an open source Dropbox.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nextcloud-13-how-get-st...
The FDA isn't infallible, and it relies on data from industry.

Yes, ineffective and dangerous.

> "Opioids are ineffective in the treatment of chronic pain, and the dangerous risks associated with using and abusing opioids have led to America's most deadly drug epidemic."

-- National Safety Council[1]

> "Ibuprofen Plus Acetaminophen Equals Opioid Plus Acetaminophen for Acute Severe Extremity Pain"

-- Govt-funded trial at UVA[2]

> "Ibuprofen, acetaminophen more effective than opioids in treating dental pain"

-- Case Western Reserve University[3]

> "In summary, reliable conclusions about the effectiveness of long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain are not possible due to the paucity of research to date. Accumulating evidence supports the increased risk for serious harms associated with long-term opioid therapy, including overdose, opioid abuse, fractures, myocardial infarction, and markers of sexual dysfunction; for some harms, the risk seems to be dose-dependent."

-- NIH[4]

And after that, you're welcome to look at examples where pharma execs admitted to misleading doctors about both safety and efficacy[5].

1. https://www.nsc.org/home-safety/safety-topics/opioids/treati...

2. https://www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0301/p348.html

3. https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2089370/effectiveness-ris...

4. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180417181101.h...

5. https://www.wbur.org/npr/690556552/lawsuit-details-how-the-s...
> "Build more housing" is probably the answer to the homeless problem, but X needs to be fixed first.

There is always an X to be fixed first, and housing is never built.
Every computer can be a server and every server is a computer. The only difference is on a layman's mind. Just because you're interfacing with the computer through a screen instead of a network connection doesn't mean the backend service/OS calls changed a bit.
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> Cloud = servers someone else has and mostly maintains for you

No, ”cloud = on-demand provisioned server resources”; that was what distinguished cloud computing from pre-existing remote-leased or on-premises resources. “Private cloud” (usually, on-premises of the user) has been a thing since very early in cloud computing, and “at home” has been plausible for even fairly casual users at least since Ubuntu 9.04 bundled Eucalyptus.

But this service is just abusing “cloud” to mean “SaaS”, I think (in that it's a demo of a paid SaaS product that incorporates your hardware.)
Hah, I totally agree. Every time I see it, I think "what the hell were they thinking?!", or "does anyone actually want to read this drivel?!".

It's certainly not exactly a "premium" look.
depends on how you look at bust years. i would argue that 2009 and 2010 still fall into the social network bubble. i would probably combine 2007-2015 into one long excitement period transitioning from social networks to iphone apps to blockchain/ar/vr/self driving cars etc.
A lot of it is actually airmail.
Under your description all government that pays someone(s) would qualify.

That's not what kleptocracy means.

>is going primarily to pay that union,

I don't think that is accurate.
Perhaps changing location in title from "the country" to "the U.S." would help international readers; some of whom have told me they feel annoyed because they need some acknowledgement that other countries exist.
where i am we used those plastic bags as garbage bags. While usage has gone down extremely after a tax was introduced, i now use the large bags. I dont know if the impact was that important.
Amusingly you experienced those high prices only because of... regulation! AU gov banned fresh banana imports, so the market couldn't easily sort the problem. Other countries had stock and were ready to step in but were not allowed to do so.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/government-confirms-ban-o...

> Mr Howard told banana growers in north Queensland after the cyclone that he would not allow imports of fresh bananas until the industry got back on its feet.

> But he went further on the sensitive subject of importing fresh product, indicating the Philippines government's long push to export bananas to Australia may never succeed.
Terrible website design. Absolutely no reason to block all content just because I have js turned off.
Why? You know what happens to a rich Lambo owner when they owe the state 20 bucks? They hire their courier to speed to the post office at 60mph to deliver the check.
>we need this sort of technology to take hold with non-technical users,

I'm pretty sure non-technical users are not looking for a private cloud.
No it isn't. Handing a $100 fine to person X and person Y is ridiculous when person X makes minimal wage and person Y is a C level executive making $400K. Normalizing the fine to the median income and proportionate changing it by income level is equitable and fair. You can look for legal precedence in bail hearings, where wealth and flight risk are definitely and correctly taken into account.
Rising male virginity and the 'incel' epidemic: https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1111607604348805120
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You should visit a mid-size town in Europe sometime.

Where my family and I lived in Padova, Italy, transportation was a "right tool for the job" situation:

* We could walk to a grocery store, our kids schools, the doctor, a few cafe's, a barber, and a takeout pizza place.

* We could also walk to a tram that would whisk us downtown, which was way more convenient than driving and looking for a parking spot.

* We could ride our bikes downtown if the weather was nice, which was good for date nights when we wanted to be more mobile than the tram allowed for, and we didn't have the kids.

* We could drive (1 car for a family of 4) if we wanted to, say, go hiking somewhere out in the woods, or take a trip somewhere. There were weeks when the car would just sit there, though, because we just didn't need it.

Walking and biking are much nicer ways of getting around when stuff is convenient to those modes of transportation. Less stressful, and it feels good to move around. It's also far better for the environment.
exactly, why on earth is there no "Report Spam" button on mobile?!
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces [1]

XinuOS [2]

MIT's xv6 OS [3]

[1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

[2] https://xinu.cs.purdue.edu/

[3] https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public
I am the grandparent. I should have excluded trademark when I referred to IP but let me make it completely clear. By IP I am referring to copyright and patents.
>I'm surprised nobody has died yet from counterfeit or substandard automotive goods of all things.

I've been told this will self-regulate in a truly free market.
Do you guys talk to normal people? I do sometimes.

They don't understand that this is going on.

I think when (if?) the normals ever figure out what we're doing to them they will round us up and burn us.
If you skim it, it will look that way.

What the editor is tackling has some overlap with common IDE features, but it’s taking a deeper approach to addressing them.

You listed one item from a big list of tasks, but the more interesting thing is what’s written after the list about how unison addresses the items.

And before demeaning the creators it may be worth it to look into their background a bit and see if it’s more likely to you that they are unaware of modern IDEs or if it’s possible you haven’t fully grasped some of their ideas yet.
They really are forced to do this. That's how Eternal September works.
I wonder if it wouldn’t be better for such towns to die. I don’t know if there’s any reason to live in a place where you don’t really have a means to do anything productive or (apparently) provide for yourself.
Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio if you'd like to see how extreme this kind of corruption can get. It could be described as a military occupation of part of the United States by a rogue nation.
The question is even if it material separation worked, are they really being recycled?
Two places to always drive the speedlimit:

* On US Military Bases

* Near small towns
Do you have a source for that, I can't seem to find a reliable one
> Block roads and build better public transport.

If you make the city unlivable in the meantime, that should help with affordable housing as people with means go elsewhere.

Sure, drop parking minimums in/near density/transit access. Let the market decide where you can sell residences without parking; although, building a multi unit building without parking in a neighborhood with street parking isn't really appropriate.

Public transport in the LA area is a pretty tough issue -- you've got a ton of people who often live far from where they work, and households with multiple workers rarely have the workers anywhere near each other. It's very hard to have public transit that has the speeds needed for long commutes while also maintaining the flexibility for the varied commutes that are common in the area. That said, almost all of the transit that gets built does get used, to the surprise of everyone -- so the answer for LA is probably just keep building transit until ridership saturates, and make small changes in zoning policy along the way.
Literally every retail broker sells order flow to HFTs for them to execute. What HFTs do with that afterward is up to the HFTs. Yes, they front run. Yes, they trade against you. Why else would they pay for the order flow?
Walk a mile at source and destination also adds 30 to 40 minutes to your trip.
if there are others I'd love to hear about them!

I've been collaborating with Duo Security to build a new Python static analysis tool that focuses on security deficiencies: https://github.com/duo-labs/dlint

In general, I agree, static analysis is a very powerful technique. I'd like the computer to double-check my work as thoroughly as possible when I'm working with code. Static analysis tools are often very fast and essentially "free" to run, so why not? False positives often become the limiting factor, but in my experience they at least point to locations in code that someone has deemed noteworthy, and perhaps should be investigated. Squelching false positives is also typically an easy process.

Whether it's simple stylistic recommendations for code consistency, security best practices, or even disseminating codebase information (e.g. function deprecation notices from the Instagram article), static analysis is a very useful technique.
The USPS signed an agreement for ePacket, but most of the packages are being shipped under UPU rules that most countries in the world are signatories to.

USPS fares better under ePacket packages than the UPU tarifed packages.
If one views the genetic material as belonging to the parent until conception, one simply needs to get the consent of the parent. If one views the fetus as part of the mother until some stage of conception, it is even simpler to justify.

You might as well be asking when did any two parents get consent to produce their child with the specific DNA that child has (say in a situation where both parents are at risk to genetic defects).