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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Matt Levine quote: > That strikes me as mostly wrong? One, it is not really impossible to value the families’ claims; they have won judgments in court. Two, “whatever the Connecticut Families decide to do with distributions” obviously ad
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Most of the Facebook companies are still called Facebook, see for example FACEBOOK IRELAND HOLDINGS UNLIMITED COMPANY https://opencorporates.com/companies/ie/466405 and some of its connected companies. Still, you
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Perhaps because it's old news and a failed model which companies have now started rolling back (see ElasticSearch)? https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality...
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
You don't need to ask people to rely on your promises. Just make sure that you are not able to do a rug pull, and explain that. It's generally pretty easy (just don't require a CLA) but you can make it clearer. For example, c
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Speaking of different circumstances, here's a helpful income comparator based on actual numbers: https://wid.world/income-comparator/ . Figure out how common your situation is where you are.
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
You can already have an ActivityPub server with your static website generator, there are a few examples (one is based on Hugo). https://maho.dev/2024/02/a-guide-to-implementing-activitypub... https://fe
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Yes. https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/b... stands though there were a few more waves since (starting with the Brazil situation): https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Abstaining is a political decision too.
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Not yet. Maybe later... https://bnewbold.net/2024/atproto_progress/
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Yeah, that's incorrect. I've fixed it now. A better summary is lower down: > Judge John G. Koeltl held that the Internet Archive's scanning and lending of complete copies clearly constituted a prima facie case of copyright
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
It's because of the omnibox that people no longer know what an URL is.
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Not if they end up cancelling each other's patents. :)
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
There is no evidence that, under the NEL, more digital copies of books were borrowed than physical copies were (un)available in the closed libraries. I've not re-read all the materials from the lower court recently, but IIRC publishers
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
It's very easy. Fine Amazon 100 billion dollars for fake reviews. Amazon and everyone else gets rid of the review feature the next day. I'm not sure this is a desirable outcome but it's definitely feasible (just like most blo
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Not really. I couldn't locate anywhere in the ruling an indication that the number of copies borrowed at any one time was a factor in the decision.
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
A public company couldn't get away with the creative accounting needed to get these headlines...
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
What's "legitimate piracy"? As a reminder, the scheme was designed to work exactly like typical lending libraries. Publishers were unable to show any harm, and the only evidence available proved they actually benefited from b
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Books. (Until they're vanished by publishers. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-d... )
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
It doesn't matter that Automattic keeps track. For the contribution to be fiscally relevant, the Foundation needs to keep track and release receips (and presumably report the totals somewhere).
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Says who? https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
There are some financial contributions listed at https://opencollective.com/automattic
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
> the tax write offs Automattic will have been claiming for years How? There's exactly zero dollars of donations from Automattic in the Wordpress Foundation financials. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits&#x2F
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Infuriatingly, they didn't actually use the same text but they introduced multiple tiny changes so that you're forced to check word-by-word whether it's still an open/free license. Was it really necessary to replace &quo
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
> What if large numbers of countries with developing tech markets start looking at the suppliers involved the way the USA looks at China's Huawei? It's well known that the NSA performs supply chain attacks by planting spyware o
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
If you're interested in the union's proposals for those "long overdue measures", obviously you don't ask the WSJ. > No one understands safety better than the very workers who meticulously build these planes every
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
You mean it should be illegal to link the WSJ, which buries such information in a pile of anti-union propaganda? ;-) If you need more information on the union's position you can check the union's website: https://www.ia
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
The union's information: https://www.iam751.org/?zone=/unionactive/private_view_page....
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
"Some mechanism" is called simply taxation. In 1944, the top income tax bracket in the USA was 94 %. Nowadays you'd also need a wealth tax to deal with the perverse incentives caused by past accumulation of stock. https:&#x2
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
I'm amazed too. The mere fact that they accept storing hard disks powered off for years is a big red flag. It's in everyone's list of top things to avoid doing, not just in archiving circles: https://www.backblaze.
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by Nemo_bis 2y ago
Actually Apple is supposed to pay interest as well, but it's probably going to be a very low "legal interest rate". From the original decision: ---- 1. Ireland shall recover the aid referred to in Article 1(1) from Apple Sa

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