Tbf , we are trying to recreate certain elements of that platform in the fediverse and such a take would be needlessly nuanced

“Stop the corporations” or “save the API” just isn’t as effective as saying f the guy who decided to change things

Always wanted a “personal” website but felt I wasn’t creative enough to create anything useful enough… Maybe a wiki was the best I could come up with

Care to share what you use the website for exactly?

Doubling down I see

Are you still on reddit ?

Yeah but they were probably just wandering

Why did my mind automatically imagine the guy trying to find how to make farts edible

Think back to the moment you learned that copying was considered theft

Well copying is very broad… Plagiarism’s treatment as being both technically and morally wrong imo always makes sense. Plagiarism goes beyond copyright infringement though, since infringement only requires “use” of the material whereas plagiarism is passing it off as your own.

I think what you say is fair if not true - one difference (and I’m sure there are more) is these weren’t lands acquired by conquest/military subjugation, but rather by agreement with the landholding populations to live in peace. What actually happened was the indigenous populations were lied to in one way or another such that the European nations never held up their side of the bargains because of ambiguity in the agreements in addition to Europeans plainly lying about what was being agreed to.

I think this is evident in the ways the Canadian Reconciliation Calls to Action use language such as “call upon the Government of Canada…to jointly develop with Aboriginal peoples a Royal Proclamation of Reconciliation…[which] would build on the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the Treaty of Niagara of 1764, and reaffirm the nation-to-nation relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown”

Essentially these lands were never legally taken which is why the indigenous groups can/should lay claim to them. That makes this scenario different than a group being displaced by military conquest (which is technically recognized as a legal, albeit cruel, mechanism for displacing people).

Salt actually does more than add flavor - it also makes the water boil at hotter temperatures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling-point_elevation

LOL what an experiment. Iirc Gordon Ramsey said it like that on some segment about boiling pasta but I doubt he went to the lengths you did to verify his claim

Confused - how does not pirating hurt the company more? Wouldn’t it be the exact same outcome for the company (as when pirated) or is this kinda like when GoT was arguing their popularity is even bigger when you look at the number of people torrenting their episodes

Thanks for your service

Whats the solution to the issue small startups would face w.o patents when the mega-corps just take their innovation and package it differently?

Fuck u/spez , would much rather have mods that put in effort because they want the community to succeed and not because there’s an opportunity to profit

Are you Shakespeare?

The author seems to have defined all patents owned by patent trolls as “bad patents” while in reality a bad patent is one that should not have been granted in the first place. Patent trolls definitely own “good patents” as well and don’t realize any advantage by purposely seeking out invalid patents to enforce.

Otherwise, interesting that the office seems to believe the number of IPRs requiring determination are too high? Wonder how relevant the post-covid backlog was to this decision

World crew

I don’t know either , will figure it out tomorrow