Oh man I read this like 15 years ago and recall loving it. Unfortunately that’s about all I recalled. Thanks for the refresher! I might need to pick it up again.

Yeah plus it’s a swiss company…with a crypto banking feature. They probably just want to attract Nazi bitcoin.

Information imbalance and weak consumer protection laws

If you think any anti trust shit is happening to any company who gave trump a million dollars, I have a used car I would like to sell you.

American copyright law? Basically every research institution in America pays them lots of money for electronic subscriptions in order to not get sued. Like academics don’t give a fuck and will use scihub or email a friend or whatever but their institution will just subscribe to a plausible number of things to avoid drawing the attention of the publishers. For profit research like pharma or industrial chem are even more buttoned up because they are much juicier targets for potential IP suits.

Well for the first several hundred years they actually produced a product that they mailed to people and that took employees and infra that the various unis didn’t care to have (with some exceptions for university presses like Oxford and Cambridge). Now it’s 100% momentum and branding. You publish in Science because that’s the impressive one for Science.

The pro-slavery New York Times?

You can study for an IQ test and raise your grade so it doesn’t really measure anything important, just test taking ability, which I suspect is where a lot of other positive correlations between IQ and college admissions/outcomes/etc factor in

Ah you must have a cold.

What’s a battle?

Rolexes

I mean IANA or whatever literally made up a standard where two letter TLDs were reserved for countries even if they aren’t how those countries refer to themselves, see gr for Greece. I’m assuming .io just stands for Indian Ocean in this case, which seems like probably not how the chagosans self identify. Then you have countries like Montenegro that have .me and realized it means something in English so capitalized on it by licensing a company to resell .me domains.

I don’t think I have any particular point other than I think it’s dumb to have a system of artificial scarcity be the only alternative to having to remember the IP of every damn site I want to use.

Ranch it up! It’s 8:40 bro!!

Customer facing, so I think I wrote the one with the cat…

I wonder if the Zuckerborg made old Pete buy back any shares for this favor or if Mark has now also drunk the flavoraide

Nooooooooo

Nice try, but I’m still not gunna stand in the cube with you.

Whose car?

I’d try it. Fuck it. Can’t be worse than the Germans and their tuna and corn pizzas. Lunatics.

A regular Nostr Dumbass