Amazing line.

Yes this does threaten Blizzard's business model so I understand why they'll go after Turtle, but that doesn't mean we have to care or let them prosecute Turtle for Contempt of Business Model.

Now, if Turtle used Blizzard's WoW trademarks to advertise and make money, I fully agree that violates their _trademarks_ and can be litigated as such. But if Turtle somehow didn't do that (and still sold access to their compatible WoW backend), I'd be interested to hear if that is somehow still a copyright violation.

I think this is referring to the Japanese rail payment cards? I know you can use them on things like vending machines, but from the article it seems like the Triforce cabinets let you save game progress on them too, which would be a great feature I've never seen in US arcades.

That's the theory, but I don't know how far LiteBox is along to supporting that workflow.

Then there's things like the folate blocking antibody (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4783401/) which you can do a blood test for, but again not all people with autism have the antibody.

If anybody has any ideas I'd love to hear them.

- Money (the concept) is useful to society as a store of value, so you don't have to waste effort bartering for things.

- Adding on to that, credit is useful to society since it lets humanity even more efficiently allocate its good and labor (stored as money).

- Finally, stocks, insurance, and other financial instruments are additional advanced developments on top of credit, where groups of humans (companies) can take on even more risky endeavors supported by investors or insurers.

So my view is companies like Jane Street facilitate these complicated value transfers, to let (e.g.) a spaceship company draw on resources generated by growing crops, selling shoes, giving haircuts, etc via a convoluted path through stocks, ETFs, whatever.

In 2010 or so we tried to adopt Mercurial at the small company I worked at, but the support for Git was just so much better - even back then. Git's popularity meant that tooling, documentation, and general ease of finding people to ask questions was 100x easier with Git, so we switched. I'd imagine the same thing played out many times over.

A few FAANGs did and still use Mercurial, but they're on their own islands and don't really affect the wider tech ecosystem.

1) A device mod to redirect Pocket URLs to the URL of your choice 2) A proxy server to translate Pocket API calls into a different backend's API

Currently only Readeck is supported as a backend (since that's what I use), but please feel free to contribute if there's another read-it-later service you like better. And of course any feedback is appreciated.

Note: Kobo has announced they're eventually replacing Pocket with Instapaper, but even when they release the update I'm going to update the proxy to translate Instapaper API calls too - this saga has made me want to stay on something self-hosted that can't be shut down.

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For my Kobo, I wrote a mod that lets me redirect Pocket API requests, and a small proxy server that translates Pocket API calls into Readeck calls.

So far it's working flawlessly and my Kobo is using its built in Pocket viewer for Readeck instead. I'm hoping to open source it soon so others can use it.

It took so long to move tapes around and read the sequentially (no random access!), and as the data corpus grew it got harder to have a practical backup, even though the data was still theoretically extant.