Aloisius

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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Employers can fire you in the US for general strikes. You're only protected if you're striking for grievances against the company, not for solidarity actions. Indeed, unions can be dissolved for it. Add in how large the US is, it&
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
It's more East than North of El Palo Alto - the tree Palo Alto is named after.
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Samsung lost a large percentage of market share to their competitors in the last couple years, so I'm pretty sure they already have to participate in markets. Well, assuming they haven't revived the cartel.
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There aren't any ads in Maps - at least, not yet.
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I'm not sure I understand. What software do they expect to install via the App Store that can't be installed with the Apple's root certificates? Apple signs everything listed on the App Store, does it not? Also, why would the
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
You can also screenshot directly to the clipboard by adding control to the keyboard shortcut (e.g. control-shift-command-3).
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It's mostly just sad.
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The EU didn't define any specific method of watermarking nor does it need to be tamper resistant. Even if they had specified it though, it's easy to remove watermarks like SynthID.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
That would probably require cooperation with Apple. The contact-only mode is authenticated using an Apple-signed device certificate and a signed record of those contact identifiers (as hashed UUIDs) that have been registered for a particula
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
That Surgeon General's Advisory also warns against video games. As did the Surgeon General in 1980 who warned kids were addicted to video games body and soul.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Potatoes are harming the kids, ban it? Seriously though, the correlation is just weak - far to weak to actually draw conclusions from let alone ban it.
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Today: Social media is harming our kids, ban it! 30 years ago: Video games are harming our kids, ban it! 60 years ago: Rock and roll is harming our kids, ban it! There is little evidence to support social media causes harm. Even correlation
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
What constitutes data about people? If I save your comment, am I a digital stalker? Is Google a digital stalker because they archived this page? Is HN a digital stalker because they didn't get your explicit permission to show a profile
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Sweet. 30% of Microsoft's code isn't protected by copyright. Time to leak that.
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You need them for solar inverters, but you also need them for the turbines like those used to generate power with geothermal/wind/hydro/nuclear/etc.
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What we have now is nothing compared to what would happen. We expect large scale displacement and resource wars, but over the course of decades which gives people to adjust. What you're describing would, by contrast, would kill hundred
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Yeah and then we'd face a global economic depression and mass civil unrest since those major emissions are emitted while doing things like distributing goods like food.
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Yes, but a third of Poles emigrated, largely ending Brits' moral panic about Polish plumbers stealing the jobs, social housing and increasing housing prices. Not that it solved the issue of jobs, social housing or housing prices of cou
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
Source? I can't find anything about the standard treatment course for TB in the 1950s resulting in low manganese.
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Would it matter if it was? Even if it could be reverse engineered, so can physical inventions . Just like with physical inventions, the issue of trade secrets isn't just that it can slow down innovation by wasting resources reinventin
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
> A trade secret algorithm supports the idea that it would have been made anyway Made and kept secret . If the leak never happened (like it hasn't for other RSA trade secrets), we may not know the algorithm to this day. No one co
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
> Given the history of RSA in particular, I'm extremely skeptical of that. Well then you might want to read about RC4 which only became public after it was leaked. Prior to being leaked, it was RSA's cash cow and one of the m
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
There is a rather long history of the workings of cryptography products kept secret, so yes, it is entirely possible that the underlying math would have been kept as a trade secret. It is also possible that it would have never been created
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The societal benefit was having RSA publicly described. MIT isn't a charity.
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> The UK invented tilting train technology, and it was given away to foreign corporations instead of being licensed and exploited in the UK. It wasn't given away. Fiat Ferroviaria purchased the patents for it. Mind, the UK wasn&#x
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Pickup trucks aren't flat vertical walls like a semi though. They are a high wall with a hood. While "sharp" edge can certainly break bones, getting hit with a high hood causes people to slam their head into the hood with ver
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> (this is why dimes say 'One Dime' on them instead of 'Ten Cents'. No, it's purely stylistic. We tend to spell out denominations on coinage and "dime" is just the American spelling of disme, meaning
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by Aloisius 11mo ago
The IMF is a UN agency controlled by member governments. It's subordinate to 190 governments.
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In a legal case? You question the authors under oath, subpoena communications records, billing records, etc. If there's even a hint that you used AI output in the work and you failed to disclose it to the US Copyright Office, they can
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Em. Merck makes the measles vaccines (MMR and MMRV vaccines) used in Canada (and the US). They don't make opiods.

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