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Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion
Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher's Weekly that "publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy" come...
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European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout
In an unexpected turn of events, one of the key committees in the European Parliament voted recently to weaken a reform of the copyright...
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The end of Roe will bring about a sea change in the encryption debate
With the Supreme Court poised to rip away a constitutional right that’s been the law of the land for nearly half a century by overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s time for the gloves to come off in the encryption debate. For a quarter of a century, it has
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The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious
The great indentation war is over and it seems like we have a clear winner.
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Why is every consumer startup selling me what I already own for 10x the price?
Why would I pay $36 for a pair of underwear?
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USPS Discrimination Against Atheism? A Study by Atheist Shoes (2013)
Stupendously comfortable handmade shoes, inspired by the minimalist aesthetic of the Bauhaus and crafted from the finest leathers known to humanity. Designed in Berlin, and handmade in Porto, all our materials are sourced in Europe (Germany, the Netherlands & Portugal).
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Farmers always worked from home
Farmers effectively work from home, and in the past majority of the population was farming. What can they teach us about Work-Life Balance?
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Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes
Econ gives us an example of when and why this happens.
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The iOS option to charge battery to "80% Limit" shouldn't just be for iPhone 15
[There is very lively discussion on Reddit, where it’s trending at #1 both on r/ios and r/apple . There are a bunch of worthy suggestions there on how to improve the feature even more, but one thing’s clear: iPhone users would love to see this come to more devices.]
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Banks as collateral damage in a class war
Central Bank obsession with holding down wages has consequences for fin stability
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The War on Cash
Corbett Reporteers will be no stranger to the war on cash. I’ve made videos discussing it, conducted interviews about it, written articles examining it and dissected it on the radio .
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For police PR flacks, quack lives matter
Police seem to be heroically rescuing baby ducks . . . pretty much everywhere
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1,100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets
1100 Declassified U.S. Nuclear Targets from 1956 on the interactive NukeMap. Choose a city and a bomb size, and detonate. See what happens.
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Shouldn't Robots Be Doing My Taxes By Now?
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…
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If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
China Exit Bans: Understanding the Risks. Learn about the use of exit bans in China and what you can do to mitigate the risks. Get expert insights.
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Mexico seeks to solidify rank as top U.S. trade partner, push further past China
Mexico's emergence followed fractious U.S. relations with China, which had moved past Canada to claim the top trading spot in 2014. The dynamic changed in 2018 when the U.S. imposed tariffs on China’s goods and with subsequent pandemic-era supply-chain disruptions that altered international trade and investment flows…
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The Brexit Possibility
Brexit’s downsides are clear; might tech help realize upsides in building something new based on a new world order?
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Things I Despised About My Education
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The first big AI disaster is yet to happen
The first public passenger locomotive, Locomotion No. 1, began service in September 1825. The first mass-casualty railway disaster happened seventeen years…
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Decentralised content moderation
With Donald Trump suspended from Twitter and Facebook, and Parler kicked off AWS, there is renewed discussion about what sort of speech is acceptable online, and how it should be enforced. Let me say up front that I believe that these bans were justified. However, they do raise questions that need to be discussed…
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“A solution in search of a problem” is a low-rates phenomenon
Plus! Money and Equilibria; eSports; The Price of Liquidity; Plausible Deniability; The Illiquidity Premium, Continued; Diff Jobs
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As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter
Yet Another Quitting Twitter Story
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The Hostile Forces of Beijing
On January 16th the friends of Cao Zhixin, a 27 year old book editor residing in Beijing, posted a video of Cao onto Youtube. The video spread quickly spread across Chinese language Twitter, and fr…