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  • They should just charge a tiny fee, or return Error 402 Payment Required.

  • By then they could use 100% solar energy.

  • He's still checking it because we're acting like it's still the Twitter we knew.

  • If you can't tell the difference in quality between slop and Oscar-winning art, then you're making the AI bro argument for them.

  • Render unto Caesar the parking spots which are Caesar's.

  • Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith

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  • Another great example of this being an economic rent problem.

    Namecoin is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies, but never caught on because it's >99% domain name squatters. There's no mechanism to increase the cost of renewal to anything proportional to the value of the name, so they always renew for practically free. Consequently there's no incentive for web browsers to support it.

    A domain name is like a plot of land. Right now our choices are crony capitalist ICANN with eminent domain, anarcho-capitalist crypto DNS, or sailing the high seas on an .onion address.

  • Disney+, so we can poison your wife in exchange for slop videos.

  • That's not how the legal system works anymore. Only the rich will be protected, the poor will be constrained.

  • Maybe he was so highly regarded in his time that he didn't bother to save the nice letters.

  • I was on board until you came at the toilet posters

  • Me too 😭

  • In context I think they mean morally

  • Surely FIFA fans won't put up with an incredibly oppressive country

  • Americans are incapable of thinking that far ahead. They will literally scoff at any foresight, like the future is unknowable.

  • It wasn't

  • Ah OK. When you said the spec would be leaked, I mistakenly assumed lawyer problems.

  • Being reviewed and used by many people. So if it's just some guy releasing kernels by himself, then I'd be worried that it might include malware.

    I know Windows is garbage, but I assume the people pirating it don't see it that way, and do care about additional malware. So I'm curious how they approach this problem. Do they just not care about malware in their OS because it's already that bad?