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Its a matter of debate how much exclusivity should be granted and for how long.

But the key idea stands: an inventor who invents something rare and non-obvious should be rewarded, supported, and encouraged to invent again. Or not?

I guess patents are meant to reward above-average inventors. So isn't this a feature, not a fallacy?

Also it seems that prooving inventor capacity in this way is better than IQ test, suggested in the text.

Re:Solid Project: All of your data, under your control on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:11AM (#26047018)
At least for the services/sites/apps which support it, there is a page:

https://solidproject.org/apps

There are lot's of apps, most of them work just fine, which is quite inspiring.

Re:LIGO Black hole merger may have optical confirmation on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:13AM (#23731144)
the surprise is that to make an accretion disk which would make any detectable emission, there had to be a lot of matter around a black hole.

the accretion disks are commonly seen around binaries consisting of a stellar mass black hole and a regular star. stars feeds the disk in this case.

another possibility is to have a supermassive back hole in the galaxy center, which feeds on the surrounding gas, making much larger and slowed disk.

what has never been seen before a stellar mass black hole (or pair of black holes) feeding on the interstellar medium. This should happen of course, but the expected luminosity is way below anything detectable.

binary black hole, i.e. a system without any addition mass to accrete, would have to be in some very unusually dense medium, and the medium would need to be disrupted by merger.

interestingly, such medium can occur around another back hole - a supermassive one.

Re:SSH Agent Explained on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @02:57AM (#23244049)
What I am missing is why ever use ssh agent, including any re-enforced variations, if ProxyJump has none of the ssh agent issues and has little to no other disadvantages?
Is this about remote or all-remote?

Does anyone else do this thing when they work 90% of the time remotely and sometimes travel for a day meeting? This addresses some of the issues discussed.

This can also work for informal communication, to a degree.

Re:Ask HN: What's an unsolved problem in your field? on Friday April 17, 2020 @01:31PM (#22901080)
Physics: Quantum Gravity - Quantum Field Theory does not combine well with General Relativity

Physics/Astrophysics/Cosmology: Dark Matter and Dark Energy - are clearly observed, no satisfactory explanation exists.

Astrophysics (and Science in general?): very knowledgable specialized domain experts have issues learning from each other: too many different concepts, relations, methods. Even if universe is shared, representations are not easy to map on it at once. Astrophysics is especially bad in this.