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4,416karma·3,765submissions·August 18, 2015
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The Internet Archive has a DMCA exemption. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#Software > There are more general exemptions, including dongle-based software. <…
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I've heard that Happy Drive singlehandedly destroyed the commercial viability of the Atari 8-bit software market, because it was so widespread and is so powerful at duplicating games.
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No. All his life he had the politics of his Brooklyn Jewish background; that is, left-leaning.
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Correct. More to the point, when it appeared many on the left attempted to wave this away by claiming that it was, as one put it, a "gentle satire" < https://en.wikipedia.org&#x…
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> When it collapsed, East Germany was still led by the same people who had created it. The Berlin Wall only existed for 28 years. North Korea is a multi-generational prison. Excellent point. Someth…
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>Furthermore, he has a system of volunteer spies in which children report
on their parents, and neighbours on each other. This cannot possibly work
well since eventually everyone reports everyone e…
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>Sub-saharan africa has slowly lost ground since 1950. I learned this some years ago. I'd heard the same thing as everyone else, about how Africa was booming and would surely approach develope…
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Tahoe backups to UnRAID's native Time Machine backup system (as described at < https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/using-unraid-to/manage-sto... >) does not work in U…
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> SofaBaton remote Does it require a moment to reconnect to Bluetooth after it falls asleep? Or does that issue no longer exist?
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>Shopify is basically the only really successful Canadian start-up. I've heard that Shopify is by itself 10% of all Canadian tech jobs paying >$100K.
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Title edited by me from "There are now more than 1 million “.ai” websites, contributing an estimated $70 million to Anguilla’s government revenue last year"
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> So who would even do such research? The best you could find is some meaningless difference in mean scores that is likely swamped by environmental factors. Yes, I too find it easy to avoid doing r…
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There was a 2018 op-ed in the Times < https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/sunday/genetics-r... > by a geneticist, warning society that at that mo…
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>Good. now that it is done, can EU and the rest of the world push for regional ownership of Instagram, WhatsApp and Youtube without the US complaining unfair practices. >Chinese ownership as a s…
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> For my product niche, Amazon has (many) more buyers at my pricepoint and value prop I see. Thank you for the comparative rundown; very interesting.