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I'm pretty sure a patent lawyer would know more about IP than you do, so I'm not sure who's the wonk here.

Every place on earth already has laws against deception and scams since thousands years ago, this has nothing to do with IP law.

capron AI weights are not open “source”

Pointing out that IP is broken is _not_ easy because most people believe in the contradictory notion of intellectual property, you included, not knowing the legal history of IP, the legal and economic history of the concept of property, and so on. If it were easy, it would be obvious to everybody that 1) IP law is immoral and 2) nothing bad would happen if it's abolished outright.

Here's a free ebook on the subject, written by a patent lawyer no less: https://mises.org/library/against-intellectual-property-0

capron Bret Victor update

I've put lenses on all my sunglasses. Works great, except when I go into a store and I have to lift my sunglasses and suddenly it's all blurry.

capron Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

- Why Lua has no library ecosystem https://github.com/capr/blag/issues/1

- Your programming language sucks https://github.com/capr/blag/issues/20

- A brief history of computers https://github.com/capr/blag/issues/13

capron Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?

why do Apple users give so much benefit of the doubt to these people despite all evidence?

capron Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

Wikipedia went to shit long time ago. I only trust it with plants and animals.

capron APIs for content sites must be free

What I think he meant by "specific desired outcomes" is arbitrary rules that cater to special interest groups rather than universal moral principles. And yes, that _is_ democracy in action, where the only rule is that the majority wins, at the expense of the minority who just lost. Your ">1M users" rule is an example of such arbitrary rule that proves his point.

capron Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

Simple: GDPR (or any EU law) is not enforceable outside EU

capron The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)

so much hindsight bias, sure, everything you take for granted now is not interesting, and for the parts that you think are not true you have just as little evidence as he had in 1997

capron Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

Cuz UE is so big on privacy don't you know. GDPR for the plebs and total surveillance for the state, got it.

capron Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

"never made illegal" but "lost everal lawsuits", got it

capron Revisiting the design approach to Zig

The Lua C API is now bad because you can't easily make Rust bindings to it?

capron Austria's data protection authority has found that Google Analytics is illegal

Google should just return HTTP 451 to all EU see how quickly these unelected EU officials would change their minds. And I say this as an EU citizen.