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on *Permanently Deleted* · c/technology · 8 pts · 1y

Does buying the book give you license to digitise it?

Does owning a digital copy of the book give you license to convert it into another format and copy it into a database?

Definitions of "Ownership" can be very different.

on rule · c/onehundredninetysix · 8 pts · 1y
  • I know nothing

  • I don't believe the information

  • I believe but don't care. <--- The US is around here

  • I care but I don't act

  • I act but without effect

  • I act with effect

You are missing a piece of the analogy.

After each key press the size of the letters change, so some become more likely to be hit than others.

How the size of the keys vary is the secret being sought, and this training requires many, many more monkeys than just producing Shakespeare.

Overhead is the same (maybe less if management is smaller and cheaper) but dividends go to workers instead of shareholders.

Downside is that raising capital to grow the business is much harder and it's much harder to take risks because the effects are not diversified.