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by 542458 6y ago
I’m a little confused at people who are mad at GitLab here. I’m under the impression that sanctions and export control laws tend to be fairly strict, and penalties for knowing non-compliance are harsh, including the possibility of jail time
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by 542458 6y ago
Does the law have an exemption for notifying people and giving them a grace period? As this is sanctions / export control, I was under the impression that deficiencies in compliance had to be corrected as soon as they were noticed - wh
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by 542458 6y ago
The original EULA doesn’t say those things (CS3 was before the era where everything had an arbitration agreement stapled to it), but does say that the software is only warrantied for 90 days and that that is the only warranty you get unless
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by 542458 6y ago
I think any competent lawyer would argue that the software was never guaranteed to have infinite lifespan, and Adobe stopped selling CS3 quite a while ago. The EULA explicitly says they don’t warranty anything past 90 days since sale. But r
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by 542458 6y ago
I was also wondering about that! “No neutral answers” is an interesting theory, although I’ve used 1-5 preference plus “no opinion” (for an even total of six) before. An alternative theory might be just that this simply forces people to pay
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by 542458 6y ago
Yeah, an App Store is in no way an artificial need. There’s a reason fortnite is on the Google Play store even when they had the option of only installing through other methods. For non-savvy users it mostly solves the “evaluating installer
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by 542458 6y ago
On the flip side, the FBI had to (probably) decap chips to get into that one shooter’s iPhone, which is pretty good security IMO.
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by 542458 6y ago
Due to the preceding Nintendo and Sony I had assumed she was talking about XBox there.
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by 542458 6y ago
FWIW it’s generally considered to be the former - some tab sites operate in a legally grey manner, but in recent years some have begone paying licensing fees for the right to create and display tabs. In that case I could see those sites hav
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by 542458 6y ago
No, because if you don’t pay you can still be evicted the moment the moratorium is lifted. Landlords can still do everything in the process up to actually kicking somebody out. The moratorium also notably doesn’t apply to people who can pay
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by 542458 6y ago
I’m not who you were replying to, but I’m interested in reading about that.
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by 542458 6y ago
> I still don't understand why it's such a successful business From what perspective? The logic seems relatively straightforwards to me. - The GitHub interface is usually easier to use than the git interface. This is mostly tru
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by 542458 6y ago
I’m not arguing against R2R - I’m just saying that we should be realistic about the objections and opposition we will face.
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by 542458 6y ago
Sure. And while a company has no right to good PR, you currently also have no right to support from manufacturers when repairing products you own. As such, we are discussing new legislation for this ‘right to repair’ where (as with all new
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by 542458 6y ago
I think the concern is less about “people with DIY skills making informed tradeoffs” and more about “sketchy repair places using poor quality or dangerous batteries”. Then somebody’s phone catches fire on a plane and becomes a PR trainwreck
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by 542458 6y ago
That is a legitimate strategy for libraries so you don’t have to package everything. Not sure why why you’d do it for firmware though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Header-only Maybe the author was cargo-culting that
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by 542458 6y ago
One of the interesting things about the church I grew up with is that the church constitution strictly limited how you can ask for money for the church fund - only once per week at the first Sunday service. This was obviously very limiting,
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by 542458 6y ago
A company is a single entity, but a bank is representing many entities, so I do think it matters which entity the bank was representing at that point in time. If I overpaid a contractor by mistake, I don’t think that contractor should get t
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by 542458 6y ago
Agreed. The previous article posted to HN was better IMO. I feel it’s relevant that Revelon’s loan hadn’t actually come due yet. I think it’s also relevant that Citigroup didn’t send Revelon’s money, they sent Citigroup’s money. “Somebody a
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by 542458 6y ago
I’m not the fellow you’re replying to, but here’s my 2C. My perspective might be out of date, as I haven’t touched WP in 5 years or so. -The plug-in APIs have been largely written by accretion, making them confusing and hard to grok. I alwa
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by 542458 6y ago
Feels like a dogwhistle to me, although I hope it is just an unfortunate choice of words. Describing causes as degenerate has a pretty sordid history, with the “degeneracy” in question usually being human rights.
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by 542458 6y ago
I help mod a medium-sized subreddit (non-political). We get more mobile-app-based traffic than web traffic by a considerable margin, and I believe this is pretty typical.
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by 542458 6y ago
This justification appears to have happened after the fact - As far as I can tell the endorsing library program postdates the National Emergency Library. They’ve never mentioned the endorsing library program in connection with the NEL until
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by 542458 6y ago
I don’t think it would take very much starting cash at all to make money off a Tesla crash. Options can be pretty cheap for moonshots. Alternatively, is it possible they bought options on twitter itself? It’s down 4% in after-hours (which i
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by 542458 6y ago
All the hacked accounts seem to have had the associated email changed. I think the attack goes admin panel -> change email -> reset PW -> tweet bitcoin scams. https://twitter.com/sniko_/status/128348597228
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by 542458 6y ago
The actual announcement says that Canada will ban "harmful" single-use plastics. I’d assume single use plastics that are absolutely required for safety and medical purposes would not be considered harmful.
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by 542458 6y ago
I think saying "you should never rewrite code from scratch" is a bit too dogmatic. There's a cost and risk tradeoff. I think people underestimate the cost of a rewrite (Due to ego or NIH or yak shaving), but I don't thin
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by 542458 6y ago
TBQH I think the noosing one is pretty innocent (since it is an actual noose after all) - but note that the ending paragraph says that that proposal doesn't have much support. I think most of the things described in the article that ar
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by 542458 6y ago
Most of the scientists is the article were the ones to “politicize” science in the first place, using research in statistics or Genetics to springboard into arguing for political policy - that the government should forcibly sterilize millio
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by 542458 6y ago
Having read the article, and done a bit more reading, I think a lot of the changes described here are good. Marion Sims’s accomplishments are utterly tainted by the absolutely nightmarish ways he conducted his research. Anything that preten

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