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Bill Flarsheim's avatar

In 1980, as an undergraduate with ADHD and a typewriter, I was not capable of writing something as long as a dissertation. In 1987, using the lab’s shared Apple computer and word processor, I wrote a dissertation. Cut, Copy, and Paste makes it possible for me to write thing. Spellcheck too.

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Andy Cahill's avatar

It is worth adding that - as Cory Doctorow pointed out in a recent essay for Locus Magazine - and I paraphrase: "this sh!t is expensive!" The massive resources required to run the liquid-cooled server farms is enormous. This is not financially viable as a profit model if all we have to show for it in the long run are "low-stakes, high cost" gains (e.g upgrading from ps 3 to ps 5). Copyright regulation is a barrier (the ghost of Napster-past) and so are hype-driven investment subsidies that makes the service seem more profitable than it actually is (the ghost of Uber-present)

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