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I may be wrong here, but I think I vaguely remember that each language version of Wikipedia is supposed to represent the speakers of the language.
Expect of course when Africans do something that woke people in California don't like. The Wikimedia Foundation considers it important to be able to prevent people in Uganda from writing about a topic like homosexuality in a way that's representative of the views of Ugandian speakers.
1Yes, it's possible to reduce the backlog that way but it wasn't the strategy proposed in the OP.
If you reduce the backlog of patents, it's "easier to get patents" and people are likely going to fill more patents.
I do agree that having a single reviewer spend more time to review a patent doesn't make it harder or easier to get a patent.
If you worry about effects such as different reviewers making different decisions about when to accept or reject a patent, it would however be better to let every patent be independently reviewed by two patent clerks. If both vote approve, the patent gets approved. If both vote reject it gets rejected. If they differ a new patent clerk gets to be tie brackets.
Then you give bonuses to the patent clerks that least often need a third patent clerk as a tiebreaker and fire those patent clerks that need the most tie brackets.
Going from the current system to one where every application gets two reviewers isn't easy but wouldn't be impossible either.
One way would be to allow a process, where an inventor that request a patent can pay $10,000 to get two reviewers and jump ahead of the one-reviewer patent queue. At the end of each calendar month when the two-reviewer process takes longer than a month to reply to a patent application the price goes up by 10%. If the queue is empty the price goes down by 10%.
The money then goes to the patent office to hire more patent clerks. Maybe +200% fee would be better than a blanket sum given that different patent claims have different complexities.
There's also a distinction between reducing the procedural difficulty of applying for patents and reducing the "real" difficulty of making a legitimate novel invention. You don't seem to be making that distinction, but surely you agree it's relevant?
If you are making a "legitimate novel invention" and do nothing to produce a product but sue all the people who make the same legitimate novel invention after you, I think that's still a drag to progress overall.
As far as I understand the constraint in places isn't in the amount of beds at the venue but how many people fit in the workshop rooms, so it's unlikely that you will get a reduced price if you aren't sleeping at the venue.
At the same time, nobody forces you to be at the venue. You are free to enter or leave the venue at any time. That includes going somewhere else to sleep.
(I'm from Berlin but I'm not in the organizing team)
I'm not sure what your model here happens to be. I would expect that at a minimum you would need to lobby people with power to turn patents into products for that to happen.
From the progress study perspective the key question is whether if you make it easier to get patents and sue people with those patents, you will get less or more or new products.
Both are plausible outcomes and the effects are hard to know. Just pointing to the fact that life would be easier for some people in the ecosystem if it would be easier to get patents for them and sue people, does not automatically mean that this would be good for progress.
Since I have a whole pile of technology I designed (with my blog posts largely being an occasional byproduct of that) a few people have asked me why I haven't patented lots of things. The main answer is, it's usually just not worth it. I also like designing technology more than I like dealing with the patent office.
Would you patenting more things actually lead to you doing something to turn the patented inventions into products that you currently aren't doing?
If it wouldn't and it would just allow you to sell your patent to some patent troll who then uses the patent to sue people who independently invented the same thing, that might overall have a bad effect on innovation.
There's nothing misleading about the video of how Obama lead Biden of the stage at the fundraiser. There's no reason to use the "cheap fake" term for it. Updates from seeing it help people be less surprised by the debate performance or managing to call Zelensky Putin at the same day he calls Kamela Trump.
As far as the NYT doing the bidding of Democratic megadonors even when that conflicts with the party line of the Democratic party I don't think that matters to the left-right axis.
As far as the question of taxation goes, tax laws are still passed by Congress and the Senate. Polling does suggest that Biden running makes a Republican-controlled Congress and Senate more likely which makes tax cuts more likely. Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom don't seem to hold different positions regarding taxation than Biden. Both are centrist Democrats just the way Joe Biden is.
People who cut themselves with knives often have scar tissue that reflects that. Self-cutting often means that the person had depression in the past.
Some people peel skin of their fingers to deal with nervousness and that leaves marks. This habit can go in hand in hand with high anxiety/OCD.
I am very interested in more sophisticated rules relying on gestures, posture, gait, or eye movement to conclude interesting facts, assuming they are reliable.
Your ability to identify specific gait patterns in other people depends a lot on your ability to feel distinctions in how you move in your own body. If you don't have trained body awareness I would expect most sophisticated rules to lead you astray.
There's some tensing up in healthy people when they tell a lie. Given that there are plenty of reasons why someone might tense up that's no good way to diagnose whether someone lies, but if you see someone who can lie without tensing up at all that is a sign of sociopathy. Sociopaths also have a lower startle response than healthy people.
When it comes to Ivermectin Wikipedia had the position that meta-analysis in reputable journals in Western academia weren't notable and the thing that's important is what non-academic authorities like the CDC had to say about it.
If a programmer sends you a smaller image file because they are able to use a format that compresses the image, then most of the impact on you as a end-user is not that you are prevent with new features but just that the website loads faster. Today, Firefox seems to also support WebP but there was a time when it didn't and was lagging behind.
When asking ChatGPT for current examples of what Chrome allows but Firefox doesn't it gives me the examples:
awaitat the top level of modules, simplifying asynchronous code. Chrome supports this feature fully, while Firefox has partial support and ongoing work to improve it (DailyDev).Using immutable data structures is for example a way to reduce bugs and not to "inflict new features" on users. Even if your goal is just websites that are faster and have fewer bugs, programmers being able to use these four things is helpful.