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by edwr 2y ago
s/countries/country/ Given the variety of agreements on international intellectual property law such as the Berne Convention, WCT, TRIPS pushed through multinational organizations like the WTO, the only country in the world w
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by edwr 2y ago
Physical property is zero-sum. If someone else is driving your car, you can't drive it. If you copy my PDF, I still have my PDF and can use it exactly the same. I'm only deprived of a hypothetical profit I could have made by selli
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by edwr 2y ago
Tax credit for mortgage interest encourages speculative investment in the housing market. Tax credit for credit card debt encourages consumer economic activity.
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by edwr 3y ago
In the same way the risk premium of a financial security is proportional to its riskiness.
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by edwr 3y ago
I think you're right. It's a good change for people who want to build web applications. Maybe that's the right thing for future development ease. I feel it's a shame though, the de-emphasis of web documents leads to more
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by edwr 3y ago
In my opinion, whether or not a website uses JS is orthogonal to this (though, I would argue websites shouldn't need JS just to repeat some elements). The issue is web has changed from JS enhancing a structure defined by HTML to JS sub
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When, if ever, will HTML support template stamping(edref.neocities.org)
2 points by edwr 3y ago|5 comments
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by edwr 3y ago
All too often being 'mobile first' means being desktop last. It feels like a betrayal when UX becomes a zero sum tradeoff between new users and the enthusiast users who built the platform and community to be what it is. User resea
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by edwr 5y ago
I'm very confused with the PDF appreciation comments. I have to read lots of PDF textbooks and reference documents for school and the experience is grating, especially trying to navigate a document with upwards of 1000 pages on the Chr
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by edwr 5y ago
I think they have greater incentives for filtering out spam on YouTube.
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by edwr 5y ago
self driving light rail would be interesting
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by edwr 8y ago
"Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl." - Rob Pike on the UNIX principles