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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 913 posts.
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The FDA's perpetual process machine
Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millions and billions; science; technology; economic development; long-term growth; code as language.
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January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all
By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2021 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1925 are open to all! On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain,1 where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These […]
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Bruce Perens: Invasion of the Ethical Licenses (2019)
About 23 years ago, I created the Debian Free Software Guidelines to help the Debian developers decide what software was permissible to include in Debian, which aspired to be 100% Free Software, and what should be consigned to a "non-free" repository upon which Debian would never depend. Nine months later, those…
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Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states
Can a human be happy all the time?
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On “White Fragility”
A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism
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TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global information flows
Curating and controlling global information flows What’s the Problem? While most major international social media networks remain banned from the Chinese market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Chinese social media companies are expanding overseas and building up large global audiences. Some of those…
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Why are there so many cats in Istanbul?
After visiting Istanbul, I wondered why there were so many cats in town. This piece dives into the history & culture of stray cats in Turkey.
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Working remotely crossed the chasm today
From academia to the Open Source movement, remote collaboration is not exactly novel. From Github to DuckDuckGo, remote-first successful businesses are no longer rare.
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Seeing the Smoke
Information on the coronavirus is widely available, and it doesn’t look positive. So why is everyone waiting for permission to do something about it?
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Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed
After seeing so many people debate whether computers can be intelligent I thought it only fair to ask an AI. As with previous posts, I picked the best responses, but everything after the bolded pro…
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Achieving Accessibility Through Simplicity
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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The GDPR as accidentally explained by people in the US
Bashing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seems to have become one of American activists’ favourite hobbies in the tech field. Some criticism is entirely justified. But many claims that the GDPR is “counterproductive” or “misses the point” are based on misconceptions, rather than an…
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Google Cloud Next 2020 – in person event cancelled
News and updates on Google Cloud's annual cloud computing conference.
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Finding McAfee: a case study on geoprofiling and imagery analysis
Identify past, current, and possible future locations through the geolocation and chronolocation of media provided by a specific user.
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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves
Q: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves Properly answering the following questions really doesn’t call for long blog posts. So I thought I would publish a simple FAQ-like…
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Bill Manning has died
Quantum computing, quantum Internet, Japan, astrophotography
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EFF to Supreme Court: Violating Terms of Service Isn’t a Crime Under the CFAA
Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and leading cybersecurity experts today urged the Supreme Court to rein in the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)—and protect the security research we all rely on to keep us safe—by holding that accessing computers in ways that...
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Why Lobste.rs Is Better Than Hacker News
Lobste.rs is WAY better than Hacker News (in my opinion). Here's why...