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Engineer and former Amazon VP-turned-critic Tim Bray: "I have no real interest in giving the company, specifically, a hard time. I’m mad at the structure of 21st-century capitalism; the fabric of society is in danger of breaking.... Because the problem is so big that any of them, even Amazon, is rounding error."
I still like the idea of separating AWS from the retail business as a first step for Amazon specifically.

"Here’s a rusty knife.
Here’s a video I saw on YouTube once. Here are some instructions I read on Quora… Okay, how hard can it be?"

On the various things that we lump together as "Intellectual Property"

"A study published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews suggests that the insatiable Norse demand for ivory is what may have done the Greenland Vikings in. In a classic tale of devil-may-care capitalism, these Vikings seem to have overplayed their entrepreneurial hand, by selling (and hunting down) so much of their stock that it directly affected their product."

Southerners who sided with and fought for the Union were ignored at best and covered up at worst by pro-Confederacy historians.

"While crossing a field of fresh snow near Füssen, Bavaria, Germany, earlier this month, the photographer [Bastian Werner] noticed that he had entered an ice fog."
* 22 and 46-degree halos. * Subsun, circumzenithal, Parry, tangent and parhelic arcs. * Heliac arc (extremely rare).

"Bluetooth was never supposed to be called Bluetooth. Back in 1996, a consortium of companies—Intel, Ericsson, Nokia, and later IBM—decided to create a single wireless standard. Each company had been developing their own short-range radio technologies, but all the names they came up with sucked."

"We’ve barely scratched the surface of what the open social web can be — and it’s already better than what we have."

The classic!