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You could put a PURL into a catalog record and if the URL it pointed to needed to change you changed the redirect on the PURL server, and all the places that pointed to the PURL didn’t need to change. It was a beautifully simple idea, and has influenced other approaches like DOI and Handle. But this simplicity depends on a commitment to keeping the PURL up to date

A Bit About PURLs

inkdroid.org

When YouTube won that race, they won it with a given set of parameters, including the kind and amount of ads they show. Society at large has, at that point in the past, basically decided that YouTube's offering is the best, and given this market domineering position.YouTube is increasingly moving away from the parameters of this implicit agreement, in minor ways at first, more now. Had they "competed" in the video platform race with current policies, maybe everyone'd be using Vimeo now.

YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

Human society depends upon the fact that we can expect people to behave with the same kind of regularity and predictability as the rest of nature.

How to Think About Free Will | Psyche Guides

psyche.co

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