SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll — and The most precious resource is agency

Issue #451 — July 02, 2021

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SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll sparkfun.com \| points: 763 \| comments: 164

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The most precious resource is agency simonsarris.substack.com \| points: 617 \| comments: 298

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Secret Recordings Reveal How Exxon Lobbyists Manipulate Politicians and Public gizmodo.com \| points: 482 \| comments: 190

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British right to repair law excludes smartphones and computers 9to5mac.com \| points: 443 \| comments: 255

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Don’t encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams jakearchibald.com \| points: 346 \| comments: 313

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Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube theverge.com \| points: 327 \| comments: 245

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Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020) retroreversing.com \| points: 325 \| comments: 62

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Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020) amazon.com \| points: 310 \| comments: 175

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021) news.ycombinator.com \| points: 270 \| comments: 599

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Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S. proposal cnbc.com \| points: 235 \| comments: 232

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Servo Engine contributions this year github.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 83

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Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time news.mit.edu \| points: 204 \| comments: 62

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Heat dome causing record breaking heat wave severe-weather.eu \| points: 203 \| comments: 288

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Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’ seattletimes.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 49

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Is Facebook’s “Prophet” the time-series Messiah or just a naughty boy? microprediction.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 74

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Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA rainforestqa.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 175

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Robinhood S-1 IPO sec.gov \| points: 179 \| comments: 195

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Twitter ’troll’ to pay six-figure sum bbc.co.uk \| points: 176 \| comments: 208

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Otter Browser otter-browser.org \| points: 175 \| comments: 90

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Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39 onlinedomain.com \| points: 175 \| comments: 112

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