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  • Yeah mate. The people writing here are economists not engineers, and that's the professional language for what they're talking about in their field. It's like if a nuclear engineer said "oh yeah, the reactor is critical" which means stable.

    I hear the point your making and the point OP made, but this is how really well trained PhDs often communicate - using language in their field. It's sort of considered rude to attempt to use language from another specialty.

    All of that context is lost in part b.c. this is a screenshot of a tweet in reply to another tweet, posted on Lemmy.

    The way it's supposed to work is the economist should say "we don't know what this does to infrastructure you should talk to my good buddy Mrs. Rosie Revere Engineer about what happens."

  • Adding the library-libby nexus. Most libraries have an eBook collection connected through Libby. I've got a Kindle and zero books bought from Amazon. It's great.

    Protip, if you went to any form of formal education (college) then you probably have alumni library account access. My Libby has three library cards logged in. I never wait for a book.

  • Want to know something fun about US parents??

    Patents don't really protect new inventions. They give people a right to sue for financial damages and there is no criminal force of law (this is a generalization and I am not a lawyer). So courts don't really go "hey, stop using invention ABC, someone else has a patent on it." They just say "hey, that other guy invented it first, give him some money."

    Patents (not other forms of IP) are made to be wildly public so people can invent things on top of previous inventions.

    Does it always work like that? No. But it's one facet of US federal law that I find interesting, and a little bit hopeful.

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