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One reason a lot of people are getting confused about API copyrights is that Oracle convinced people to describe the API as "declaring code" and computer programs as "implementing code."

I keep seeing people assume that COVID won't be under control until there's a vaccine. That doesn't have to be true. Several countries have brought their outbreaks under control already

The slogan "flatten the curve" represented a massive conceptual mistake.https://www.vox.com/2020/5/6/21241058/coronavirus-mitigation-suppression-flatten-the-curve People (probably including me) shared images like this. The idea was that by

It seems like the people who are eager to cut back postal service haven't thought very hard about the economics of network industries. Take subways. MTA, the agency that runs

The US legal system has room for improvement. The Musk/Unsworth defamation trial is fairly simple, with few factual disagreements. Musk wrote what he wrote—court just has to decide if it's