jonathlee

Intellectual property and physical property are entirely different. Intellectual property can be shared/multiplied/given away indefinitely while still being retained by the originator while physical property cannot.

After copyright expiration, the original author of intellectual property can create derivative works even after their copyright expires (in the same universe, etc.) or even updated revisions, which restart their copyright for the revision. Even if other could do so, I suspect the market for their derivative works will still have a preference for their works vs. others who create derivative works of the original, depending on the quality of the derivatives.

It is really hard to own land (or any other physical thing) after you've sold it but the same is not true of a novel.

"Only 8 months" tells you nothing of the conditions or prison population within which he will be placed. 8 months in solitary or in a maximum-security prison (where hard-core, repeat-offender murderers and rapists are) is much harsher than years in a minimum-security prison.

Julian Assange, who hasn't even been convicted AFAIK, has been kept in solitary in a maximum-security prison while only being accused, falsely it turns out, of non-violent crimes. The reasonableness of the entire punishment must be taken into account, not just the duration.

Adding "tiananmen square" to "tank man" does return the photo as the 3rd result: tank man tiananmen square

Also, the misspelled version of Tianenmen that I first used worked as well.

Interesting modelling exercise but until we have physical evidence that this is occurring, and can calibrate the model to what degree, this is just an interesting hypothesis/story. Models are always subject to the GIGO and built-in-assumption confirmation problems and are always wrong, just sometimes useful.

Find the evidence to prove/disprove the model.

Because its the new hotness.

Yes. Look up space diving. There have been old Popular Science (Popular Mechanics?) articles on it and speculation in the space community about a new sport if/when a space tether is possible.

I have personal experience with this type of situation. Twice we had excellent phone interviews for an onsite contractor position. Then, when the supposed person we interviewed showed up, they turned out not to be able to do the work (not an onsite interview, the actual work). One was so bad that they had no idea what a variable was.

I have never heard of that happening in _any_ real-world version of communism. Maybe you are thinking of an employee-owned company?

No, the actual previous owners of the were running access to the beach as a business. It was a road (driveway) they built and charged fees to use, not public.

That was a reference to Robert Heinlein's book, "Stranger in a Strange Land".

Of course you put supports under it. The point is the low amount of mass required.

I work at Nucor and know of several people who have done exactly this in the 20 years I've worked here. They started working in a entry level production position and worked their way up to department manager, division manager/VP, senior VP and even CEO in one case.

This must be a new thing or only apply to certain states/cities. I've never saw this happen back when I was doing low wage work.

It's harder for 100 companies to collude undetected/unchallenged with no viable alternative than for 1-5 massive/politically-savvy companies to tweak results/ban users to fit their political biases. The larger a company is, the easier it is for it to blow-off any lawsuit losses over bad behavior (or simply have bad customer service) and continue those bad practices.

I believe the article has failed to realize that "self-reporting" evidence is weaker than actions, not stronger. If you listen to the Freakonomics podcast for any length of time, you would realize that the weakest, most likely to not really be true, form of evidence is self-reporting. When self-reporting/answering surveys, people commonly give the answer they are "expected" to give. The actions then reveal their real preferences, which can differ substantially.

With a topic as sensitive as urban density, where city planners have been bombarding us with the "right-answer" of high-density living for decades, I would expect people to over-report preferring high-density living, especially on a survey conducted by someone trying to prove their case that people prefer high-density housing.