Readit Newsuntangle commented on Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative kaguya.io/... · Posted by u/vasanthk1125
Nice. I would love to import the metadata from my Calibre Library. Calibre is great, but it is ancient and its evolution is glacial.
I graduated from "Annapolis" (AKA USNA, "The Boat School") in the 70's. My second career was in high-tech here in Silicon Valley.
Let me state the "quiet part" of the Naval Academy's mission out loud: It aspires to train the Services' future admirals and generals. It is not a vocational school, nor is it really a college. It's something else.
It strikes me that the relationship between flag-rank officers and their civilian (political) leaders is fair game.
Having said that, the selection of this speaker is edgy. But it's the timing of the event that I think puts it in the bad-judgement-or-worse category. We used to call this "poor headwork."
My recommendation would have been to postpone the event until next year, and then reexamine the issue more closely. And to do all of the above quietly.
untangle commented on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? · Posted by u/0bsolete
POPclip deserves its own entry. It adds an action menu popup to any selected text. I find it indispensable. (I'm told that IOS has similar features.)
untangle commented on OpenAI's Lies and Half-Truths garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/RafelMri
Theft, or borrowing, to get started is a tried and true modern business model, isn't it? First you "borrow", then become quite useful, then everyone forgets about the first bit.
It appears to have made some people billionaires. Examples:
Spotify was started by an employee uploading their MP3 collection.
The FB scraped the Harvard student directory.
And Paypal stretched banking laws. And Youtube was built on the back of countless music and TV videos under copyright. And Airbnb played/plays free & loose with hoteling laws. And Uber with taxi rules. The list is long, and the excesses are large. Move fast and break things. Become too big to fail. This is nothing new. It is core to technological advancement and capitalist enablement.
untangle commented on The "End of Programming" will look a lot like programming (2023) ben11kehoe.medium.com/the... · Posted by u/mooreds
"End of Programming" will look like a Mag-7 interview: [program design] + [leetcode].
untangle commented on Tesla’s EV Market Share Is Dropping Fast jalopnik.com/tesla-us-ev-... · Posted by u/t23
The chart in this article tells a more balanced tale.
The size of the US EV pie doubled and Tesla's growth didn't. But while Tesla's share is not yet in freefall, the trend is quite alarming. The group growing share is fractionated.
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1134120_tesla-is-losing...
untangle commented on The Ruling That Threatens the Future of Libraries theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/mdp2021
Hey at first blush I’m really liking the idea of taxing copyrights and patents, just like land. If you want to maintain them over the duration allowed you pay yearly tax, just like property. Wether it is valuable or not, wether you monetize it or not, the tax is the tax. You want the ongoing protections the legal system affords your copyright? Pay the tax. to avoid payment you can sell or renounce the copyright/patent.
For random “copyrighted” content like say my blog scrawlings, it would by default be under a CC attribution license unless I paid copyright tax on the content. Ie: default open not default closed.
Curious if any country does this?
> taxing copyrights and patents
It's an interesting point. I believe (chatGPT4 agrees) that taxes on IP occur via licensing deals, on transactions, and/or through registration fees. But not through anything resembling a RP wealth tax. There are probably some corner cases though.