Jiro

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by Jiro 5y ago
You're being deceitful here. Stigler does oppose TRIPS because of its effect on developing countries--because intellectual property protection keeps developing countries from using patented things. In other words, he wants patents to
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by Jiro 5y ago
Michael Moore did this in Bowling for Columbine.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Because it's reporting a mistake that Russia has made in a place where everyone can see it, including Russia.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Reporting this only helps Russia. Why is this being reported at all?
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by Jiro 5y ago
Does not load for me.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>there is no global consensus on how long patents should last. Yes there is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS_Agreement Also, you're confusing patents and copyrights. Patents have not been extended for ver
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Patents granted to Asians, Africans, and indigenous Americans for prior-art would bankrupt Europe. Patents last 20 years. So no.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Also, add that acting against current pressures in accordance with terrible ideologies often invokes the interest of future generations, or present generations in future years. Because it's a lot easier to justify your ideology and cr
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by Jiro 5y ago
I went to his download page. It doesn't say "we don't take bug reports". If he only wants to prevent bug reports from people who read his blog, saying it in the blog may be useful. But he probably wants to prevent bug
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by Jiro 5y ago
All I said is that, since most projects accept bug reports, if you don't, you should say "this project doesn't accept bug reports" rather than complaining that people have expectations that after all, are correct for the
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by Jiro 5y ago
He has no obligation to do anything about bugs, but open source projects whose developers listen to bug reports is so common that if he doesn't, he should explicitly say "I don't take bug reports" in a reasonably obvious
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by Jiro 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Access... specifically allows the use of sources that are hard to access. The rule here wasn't that it couldn't be used because it was hard to access, bu
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by Jiro 5y ago
The reason that someone said the band's Instagram page isn't a valid source for information about the band is because of the rules about self-published sources. The rules were patched at some point with a narrow exception, to all
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by Jiro 5y ago
It is mostly good, but the bad parts aren't evenly distributed. There are a couple specific categories of articles where Wikipedia can be bad. Anything political involving people on the Internet is guaranteed to produce a good or bad
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by Jiro 5y ago
If Wikipedia wasn't about truth, nobody would use it. And if the consensus is particularly bad on a subject and the people editing the Wikipedia page are cooperative, they'll usually be able to find a rule intepretation that all
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by Jiro 5y ago
The reason we have to have laws about such things is that paying the bribe is always beneficial to the individual company. Refusing to pay bribes only helps if every company refuses to pay the bribe. If you can't do business without b
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by Jiro 5y ago
It looks like the Pokitto isn't even as powerful as a 3DS, and every 3DS is fully hackable. And a 3DS is nowhere near as hard to find as a Vita.
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by Jiro 5y ago
The question for any "gaming console" like this is "what advantage does this have over a jailbroken console of the otherwise proprietary kind". Anyone who'd use one of these things probably got a Vita or an early S
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by Jiro 5y ago
Yudkowsky claimed that the exact basilisk as described by Roko wouldn't work, but he also believes that something like it would.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>But war also happens over important things. The USSR really did have a different political and economic system. Which was a criticism of the book at the time. Moral equivalence between the US and USSR owas common on the left. If you w
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by Jiro 5y ago
Miserliness is not the same as greed. Miserliness is about refusing to spend money, not about making money. It may overlap with greed when it comes to paying low wages, but miserliness doesn't, in general, mean exploiting people.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Also, free speech isn't immunity from repercussions. Well, people are facing repercussions for viewing pro-Ukraine material. There's no immunity from repercussions, right? (Or more precisely, people are facing repercussions f
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by Jiro 5y ago
>If something becomes a net negative "at scale", don't allow it to be "at scale". >No one is entitled to a business model. When it's just ordinary American conservatives being censored by social media, so
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by Jiro 5y ago
It apparently has thousands of copies of the same DNA. That makes it sound like calling it a single cell is a technicality based on how the multiple copies of DNA aren't separated from each other, but it isn't necessarily a singl
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by Jiro 5y ago
You also get the situation where you're not protected from dishonest people, but honest people get discouraged from doing anything with your software because of the same clauses that the dishonest people just ignore anyway.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Neon is not the main reason they are doing it. It's a byproduct that gives them a little extra profit once they've distilled the air anyway for other reasons. Distilling the air just to get neon wouldn't be profitable.
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by Jiro 5y ago
The paint chips themselves are small and are not very damaging to the phone, but getting the paint chipped like that probably means he dropped the phone.
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by Jiro 5y ago
If you otherwise have the rights to use it, duplicating it in order to use it may fall under fair use.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Said differently, the GPL doesn't try to apply itself to "derived works" because of some contralegal dictum they don't have a different creative origin. It merely says "you have two choices - license the things
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by Jiro 5y ago
Sean Campbell is black. That doesn't stop you from being called a racist for criticizing BLM; but it certainly helps.

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