Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit — and A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page

Issue #870 — August 26, 2022

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Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit blog.comma.ai \| points: 1120 \| comments: 284

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A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page endtimes.dev \| points: 798 \| comments: 321

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Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay whitehouse.gov \| points: 727 \| comments: 152

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Removal of Heroku free product plans help.heroku.com \| points: 629 \| comments: 455

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Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (2019) boyter.org \| points: 404 \| comments: 247

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The coming tsunami of fakery grandy.substack.com \| points: 383 \| comments: 354

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Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (2019) blog.cloudflare.com \| points: 358 \| comments: 222

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Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection vox.com \| points: 339 \| comments: 494

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EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service epb.com \| points: 303 \| comments: 199

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Orcas are breaking rudders off boats in Europe smithsonianmag.com \| points: 278 \| comments: 166

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Imagen: An AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text imagen.research.google \| points: 278 \| comments: 217

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OpenArt: “Pinterest” for Dalle-2 images and prompts openart.ai \| points: 231 \| comments: 93

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PostgreSQL 14 Internals book – Part II postgrespro.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 15

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We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home tests and ranked them trytapioca.com \| points: 198 \| comments: 166

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DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open spreadprivacy.com \| points: 198 \| comments: 196

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Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf] cs.yale.edu \| points: 191 \| comments: 44

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Apple M2 Pro to use new 3nm process cultofmac.com \| points: 173 \| comments: 135

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Creativity requires solitude dkb.show \| points: 170 \| comments: 54

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Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy vs. placebo in treatment of alcohol disorder jamanetwork.com \| points: 169 \| comments: 151

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Oracle started as a CIA project (2014) gizmodo.com \| points: 162 \| comments: 70

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