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by KPGv2 2y ago
There are plenty engineering consulting firms. In fact, I'd go so far as to say all engineering firms are consulting firms except the ones that are a department within a larger construction or manufacturing company. Consulting is whe
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> Engineers don't get paid more when a project gets further delayed. time & materials is a standard way engineering contracts are done
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by KPGv2 2y ago
University is an expensive credential to check off a box for most people. I'm not one of those people, and sounds like you aren't, but for most people, it is.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
NB autostereograms require you to move your eyes away from each other, the opposite of crossing them. To put it another way, crossing your eyes is what your eyes do when you're looking at something close to you, while the opposite is w
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> credit cards with 25% interest rates This is actually illegal in South Korea > medical debt South Korea has a single-payer system > student loan debt I think this is much less of a problem in S Korea than in the US.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> battle royale was a B movie Yeah, if it's not an American movie, it's some cheap shit! /s My brother, it was nominated for nine Japanese Academy Awards, it was helmed by one of Japan's top directors, is an adaptatio
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by KPGv2 2y ago
My university's athletics program pulls in so much money and some of it funds academic programs. No money goes from academics to sports. So the athletics department is not only self-sustaining and self-funding, but it funds academics a
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by KPGv2 2y ago
My university had a police department because it is, as one might expect of a flagship state university, an enormous landmass with billions of dollars in infrastructure and equipment, plus about 6,000 full-time residents living in universit
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Because you have to go to a high school that offers special courses, you have to be willing to work much harder than the average student, and you have to know about this trick when you're like 15yo and comprehend how much $$$ and time
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> That would mean you'd just take 2 years instead of the normal 4? FWIW my wife was a fourth-year the start of her second year at uni because she'd tested out of a ton of basics or taken dual-credit courses in high school. I wa
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Except the original claim was that *only* the lawyers win.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> Because even if you "win", you now have all of those lovely legal bills that the lawyer sends you Oh come on, that's like saying when you involve engineers to build a bridge, the only people who wins are the engineers be
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> I really don’t understand this “I don’t have a choice all fast food is bad” some are pretty healthy I agree with you, but when you factor in cost, availability, familiarity, and other psychological factors, you end up with people insti
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> Permissive open source (MIT, BSD) is a voluntary donation to the likes of Jeff Bezos This is like saying planting a tree that converts CO2 to oxygen is a voluntary donation to Jeff Bezos. Just because you do something that helps everyo
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> anyone below a "department head" is not getting custom addendums added to their contract. Nonsense. My wife negotiated modifications to her employment contract in her first job out of school. This included a diabolical adjust
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> if you posted the photo to somewhere like Facebook, the user can buy the license to use it from Facebook instead of from you This is not true. Here is Meta's TOS: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/pre
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> non competes were considered unjustifiable restraints on trad I'm sure you will find that non-competes are perfectly legal in the US.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> this will almost certainly be outlined in your employee contract A majority of employees in the US are at-will, meaning there is no employment contract whatsoever.
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by KPGv2 2y ago
FWIW CLAs do not sign away your ownership in code. It merely gives the project the right to use your code via a license You know how you sign those end-user *license* agreements, which do not give you ownership in the code of those applic
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> Only the copyright owner can sublicense If that were true, then the distribution of OSS would be illegal. If I contribute to an open source project, I have licensed my code to that project. If someone downloads that project, the OSS pr
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> This was a surprise to me but it explained why some OSS projects, like ones by Adobe, require a CLA: many people use their libraries at work, and if someone like that contributes a fix Adobe’s lawyers justifiedly would not want part of
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> In the absence of a CLA who does own the copyright to the work you do under US law, if you are not an employee of the company that owns the code you're contributing to, and you didn't sign a work-for-hire agreement with them,
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by KPGv2 2y ago
The person you're responding to is wrong. CLAs are not transfers of copyright ownership or code ownership. They're only licenses (that's the "L" in "CLA") that grant the recipient a set of rights for how
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> If you sign a CLA you no longer own that code. This is untrue. The "L" in "CLA" means you are licensing the code to someone else, not transferring copyright. Edit: [Here]( https://github.com/Decathl
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by KPGv2 2y ago
to clarify, it's an impossibility to give it to them irrevocably as under US law you can reclaim a copyright that's been transferred to another party after a statutorily defined period of time
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by KPGv2 2y ago
I never said you cannot transfer copyright. I said you cannot irrevocably give it up. And this is true: under US law, after 35 years you can reclaim your copyright
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> how about you give them the copyright under US law, this is an impossibility. Under a CLA, you retain your copyright, and you (typically) give someone else a perpetual, irrevocable license to use your copyrighted material in their own
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by KPGv2 2y ago
A CLA doesn't give them your copyright; you still own it, and you're licensing it (hence the "L" in "CLA") to them. And, at least under US law, non-remunerative license agreements can be revoked under certain s
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by KPGv2 2y ago
> The CLA is usually a way for the contributor to renounce their copyright I don't know about other countries, but you actually cannot renounce your copyright under American law. It is an impossibility. The only way your own code
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by KPGv2 2y ago
Ireland does, though, and is it conceivable that a victim might also learn from Canada's mistakes?

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