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by DannyBee 2y ago
That's both unfair and untrue. The FTC has been staffed with very good antitrust lawyers for a long time. The career employees give a crap or they wouldn't be there - every single one of them could make a lot more in private prac
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by DannyBee 2y ago
You are confusing the DOJ (here) and the FTC (lina). Lina in fact, has repeatedly lost in court and is widely viewed, by both antitrust hawks and doves alike, as being remarkably ineffective. You'd be very hard pressed to compare her r
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Unfair competition is, particularly in California, which interprets it's UCL very broadly. Let's set aside all other claims (there are others), and take a look at "Unlawful, Unfair, and Fraudulent Business Acts" under th
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by DannyBee 2y ago
The defamation angle is not interesting. They are pretty clear they will go after them for torturous interference, unfair competition, etc. California's UCL is much broader than you may think here - it is consistently interpreted very
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by DannyBee 2y ago
(steel tubing is available on weekends and evenings too, fwiw) I agree it's good enough for random aesthetic stuff, but even outdoor stuff is silly to use it for if you care about aesthetics. It really does rust pretty quickly these
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Sure, you can use it for stuff, just don't expect it to hold anything real in any meaningful span. Here's some real values for you: 2ft 3/4 EMT has an expected failure force of about 3300lbs (some studies found actual is arou
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Pipe racking connector Modular pipe connector Those do okay without you getting hundreds of irrelevant air hose fittings
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Emt will eventually rust if not painted as well, depending how much you care. It is really mostly used in open commercial/industrial settings (if you go to home depot or Costco you will see emt running everywhere). Aluminum is your
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Agreed. EMT exists to keep wire from getting damaged by accident. It isn't even considered self supporting let alone structural. You can easily bend 1/2 emt by hand.
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by DannyBee 2y ago
this is exactly the kind of thing that juries resolve all the time.
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Agreed. This design is going to be very very hard to machine precisely and very expensive to prototype They don't even say exactly what they did or how long it took or how well the tolerances turned out. They only give the classic und
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Certainly principles of international jurisdiction are well settled and fairly consistent. In that sense the comment was correct. However, you are also correct that legal principles around information collection and transmission are both
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Not quite. Here: https://www.asil.org/sites/default/files/benchbook/jurisdict... This is both a reasonable exposition and fairly short. But also keep in mind data collection and transmission and sharing
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by DannyBee 2y ago
+1 - ethercat and profinet are the way. Random guessing - Ethercat seems more likely to take over for CAN because CoE (canopen over ethercat) is so common. It's very easy to turn CAN devices into ethercat ones. Harder to turn them into
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Fair enough. I can’t edit it to remove that part, which is mostly orthogonal to the point.
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Sure. But Indy processes an amazing amount. Assume it’s 10k/hour or even 1000/hour average over the year and it doesn’t change the point. At 1000/hour it means they did 9 million packages a year and seized .001 percent of the
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by DannyBee 2y ago
You actually can as long as folks “agreed” to let you. Welcome to the slippery slope of the “reasonable expectation of privacy” I’ll see you at the bottom, we are going there fast
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by DannyBee 2y ago
“I don't think that's really the case.“ Evidence? I’ve interned at a larger one and learned a lot about the others along the way. So I’m basing this on experience. What are you basing this on?
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Doubtful - for the simple reason that fedex has cameras everywhere , and unlike the police and bodycam footage, they have no dog in this fight, so they aren't going to mysteriously lose the footage. So my guess - they set aside the v
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by DannyBee 2y ago
"but not against big corporations" Because that's literally not their mission: https://ij.org/about-us/ "Our mission is to end widespread abuses of government power ..." "IJ is the natio
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Fedex doesn't get a choice. We'll assume for a second this was purely state to state (ie no customs involved) since that seems to be the case. Even then, they generally don't get involved unless a package smells funny, is lea
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by DannyBee 2y ago
The feds were not part of this - it was state proceedings.
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Lawyer here (but FWIW, i donate to IJ so, uh, not exactly on the government's side here): Take what i'm about to say as a description of the process rather than any support for it :) So, it's not quite that. Here, they are cl
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by DannyBee 2y ago
Yes, there is a difference, but one thing you should do when you see this difference and think it is critical consider whether you are parsing words way too strongly in a colloquial discussion on hacker news. I'm trying to participate
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by DannyBee 2y ago
I guess i'm going to disagree with you. He's not just providing primary source testimony from his point of view, he's trying to pretend he has primary source testmony on what others were doing as well. If he left out the part
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by DannyBee 2y ago
"If Google Code succeeded, it’s hard to imagine that Google would not have tried to monetize it someday." Google code did succeed in that sense. It had hundreds of thousands of 30-day active projects, and some insane market share
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by DannyBee 2y ago
I miss mitch hedberg
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by DannyBee 2y ago
You are again thinking in terms of winning, and in literally the first sentence i wrote that we were not trying to win anything. The goal was to get SF to not be a shitty monoculture. Ideally by SF being forced to compete with us, and m
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by DannyBee 2y ago
"I'm not a journalist, but in an ideal scenario, how would somebody have known that you were one of the key members of the project?" It's not about asking me , it's about not asserting things you don't know. I
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by DannyBee 2y ago
What evidence do you have, exactly? I've been super-consistent on this for at least 10 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605689 It was also written in our OKRS, etc at the time. I probably have plenty of int

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