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A Few Global Cultural Treasures We Will Lose for 20 Years Under the TPP
What do Japan's Blue Sky Library, Malaysia's answer to John Wayne, and the first recorded composer from New Zealand, all have in common? They could all disappear from their countries' public domain for the next 20 years, if the current agreement on copyright term extension in the Trans-Pacific...
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Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer) (2020)
Rich countries consume much higher quantities via higher intensity/tech. It's NOT high and rising: wages, profits, administration, encounters, etc. Income well explains American behavior here too.
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Rising young worker despair in the United States
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Drug shortages have worsened and may only increase in the future, experts say
COVID-19 snarled the US healthcare supply chain, but it was in trouble long before, experts say.
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There aren't that many uses for blockchains
Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable
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No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them.
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Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
Here’s what these changes mean for our games and what players can expect from us going forward.
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US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low
For the first time since the Henley Passport Index was created 20 years ago, the United States is no longer ranked amongst the world’s Top 10 most powerful passports.
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Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins
Armed federal officers publicly threatening to defy orders from the President seems like it’s getting insufficient attention. The Biden administration largely continuing Trump’s border policies (he’s building the wall!) seems under-covered as well. The claim about vulnerable flights as a result is absurd.
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Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
Here's why coders should take a second look at "no-code" tools.
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An Apology
We launched an AirTag silencing tool recently. We have always made products we want for ourselves, and this was no different - we wanted it for AirTags on our bikes. (Some of us here have bikes more valuable than our cars.) In retrospect though, this also has the side effect of aiding someone with bad intentions to tra
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Copyright infringement in AI art
As AI creative tools are becoming widespread, the question of copyright of AI creations has also taken centre-stage. But while copyright nerds obsess over the authorship question, the issue that is…
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Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars
2020 has been a heap of bad. And not small bad either. As we’ve been stuck at home, viewing the world through either real or virtual…
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Sam Bankman-Fried vs. the Match King
The similarities between Ivar Kreuger and Sam Bankman Fried.
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Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro
Dropbox helps you make every second count when you're your own boss. Explore how Dropbox makes it easier to manage your business.
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Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021
The registry Top Level Domain Registry – Internet Computer Bureau Ltd, has notified Gandi that starting January 1, 2021 at 00:00 UTC (December 31 at 4:00 PM Pacific), the registration price for .io domain names will be increasing.
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Why are we so pessimistic?
Using insights from three recent books, Wolfgang Fengler provides suggestions for creating more balanced and fact-based news.
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Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)
I break down the logic behind the company's towering price tag and why I think the most valuable AI companies have yet to be built.
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San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate
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Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup
This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks There was a time when much of U.S. academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. Some o…
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