Aloisius

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by Aloisius 2y ago
Case law is law in the US.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
You can't copyright the name of a font in the US. You can trademark it.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Can't pardon state crimes nor cases of impeachment. Arguably, if you impeach someone in public office, even if they aren't convicted by the Senate, any pardon of those same acts becomes moot and they can be tried in court for the
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Case law on internet-specific personal jurisdiction made by the district court, presumably.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
What are the odds the Supreme Court hears this?
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by Aloisius 2y ago
So it's not literally sold? I've been confused about this for a while. Given data is what allows them a unique advantage for their advertising product, it seemed odd that Facebook would sell that data to others. But to hear people
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> It happens that they're all from the US except TikTok's ByteDance and Booking.com. It was probably _designed_ for that. Booking.com is owned by an American company. > In the EU, to have pretty strong memory of people do
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Who does Facebook sell data to?
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by Aloisius 2y ago
What? Spotify most certainly does have strong network effects (your friends are all on it, the party you go to with collaborative playlists uses it, etc), data driven-advantages (Spotify's personalized recommendations are built on vast
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> since much of cap ex is deductible Since when? Last I checked, capex was not deductible. You can deduct depreciation of assets over time, but that's not going to offset profit to create a loss unless you're spending far mor
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by Aloisius 2y ago
None of that is used to determine who is a gatekeeper. The assessment for whether Chrome qualified as a gatekeeper is less than 3 pages long. All they care about is whether they qualify as a platform and that they are over the threshold for
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The DMA doesn't care how easy for final customers to switch. If it did, Chrome wouldn't be designated a gatekeeper given how easy it is to switch to Firefox or brave or a dozen other browsers. The DMA is about disintermediation of
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The timeline doesn't align for that at all. National security concerns were raised before the Pentagon banned in in 2019, then Trump ordered it to divest in 2020. No doubt that it became an argument by some more recently, but it was
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by Aloisius 2y ago
They're a gatekeeper in the same way YouTube or TikTok is. They control access of businesses, in this case music labels, to the final customer.
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Booking Holdings is American. They bought booking.com in 2005.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> The rich borrow against gains That they have to pay back with interest. This made a little sense except for short-term loans when one had liquidity issues when interest rates were close to zero or in very, very limited circumstances
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> SAFE McDonald’s coffee which doesn’t explode in one’s lap while trapped in a car & causing disfiguring third-degree burns requiring skin grafts McDonald's coffee is no more safe today than it was in the 90s. The temperature
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by Aloisius 2y ago
We must have lived in very different cities since carjacking and car break-in rates were way more common in the 90s in the cities I lived in. I can't think of any major city in the US, at least, where that isn't true.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> Filtered milk. Tastes the same as ordinary homogenized milk but double (or better) the shelf life. I had to look this one up. I don't think I've ever seen filtered milk in the US, but it looks like the ones sold here are sp
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> 6-8 years before their higher level thinking pre-frontal cortex fully develops This is a myth. The prefrontal cortex doesn't appear to ever stop developing. Early brain development studies involving MRIs simply only looked at pe
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by Aloisius 2y ago
We should have never permitted minors to apply for federal student loans. Frankly, the direct federal student loan program was probably a mistake. We shifted everything from private loans with federal guarantees to direct federal loans beca
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It's in all the news articles from the time. The loans were forgivable if they used them for payroll and didn't fire anyone for a certain period. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821457551/whats-i
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> In the moment, it would be so easy for a confused & stressed person to accidentally or mistakenly tap those notifications and enable their own account hijacking. That won't give them access. When you respond to the reset pas
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by Aloisius 2y ago
In the primary case on that page, the court ordered Apple to assist the FBI or provide a reason why it would be an undue burden. Apple provided a reason it was an undue burden. A hearing was scheduled. The FBI withdrew the request and the o
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It's a setting (Settings > Emergency SOS). It used to be on by default and do a little siren sound before calling emergency services. Personally, I just open the slide-to-turn-off phone screen instead (hold volume + side button for
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Not in the last 12 months. This quarter compared to a year ago. It was up 1.5% for 2024 compared to 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-thermal-power...
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It doesn't look like it is: > (b)(1) A person who commits computer tampering as set forth in subdivision (a)(1) or (a)(5) or subsection (a-5) of this Section is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. Repeat offenses for (a)(2) is a felo
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Parliamentary systems with proportional party list voting systems are far from immune the cult of personality. See: Hitler. There's a reason why so many governments with such systems one would consider "free" still have to ou
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> That's an incredible amount of money to not house people. Um. If they were housed, they wouldn't be included in the homeless count. Hence the problem using it as a denominator given all the money being spent subsidizing per
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by Aloisius 2y ago
(a)(1) is a misdemeanor, not a felony.

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