Quarrel

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by Quarrel 1y ago
This is for 14 months of behaviour mostly in 2020. The telcos had already settled their side more than a year ago. It isn't that long in terms of regulator response, believe it or not. It came about out of an inquiry that released a
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by Quarrel 1y ago
While I am somewhat entranced by the ideal, presumably the realities of SEO and how most of the web is funded would put a stop to it? This is somewhat like the leap Figma has made. They were able to build their own walled-garden, offer valu
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by Quarrel 1y ago
> government cannot make laws or regulations without consulting those affected by them how much of a hardship it constitutes to them This is at best disingenuous. There is no general requirement on government to consult. It is often refe
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by Quarrel 1y ago
While you're correct about Ofcom, the real distinction isn't really to the objective, but to the classification of its employees. Ofcom, Gambling Commission, and the rest of the quangos are independent statutory bodies, and (this
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by Quarrel 1y ago
Is your point really that- "I need to see all data downloaded to make this model, before I can know it is open"? Do you have $XXB worth of GPU time to ingest that data with a state of the art framework to make a model? I don'
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by Quarrel 1y ago
Right? And such a clear value statement. If I could, I'd invest. Sure, they might fail, but they're shooting their shot, and to me it has a clear differentiator that would improve the market for most of their users (if not the inc
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by Quarrel 1y ago
FWIW, it seems like nowhere is this truer than SF/SV. Outside the bubble, it isn't always the case, or the structure can be a bit different, but salespeople in the Valley (as it were) are a different breed.
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by Quarrel 1y ago
I'm excited by the idea of pgfdb*. I think it could be a great. postgres, with foundation replacing the transaction system to provide all the benefits that brings, horizontal scalability, automatic sharding, replication, and fault tole
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by Quarrel 1y ago
Thanks, that looks great.
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by Quarrel 1y ago
Which, just like robots.txt, worked decently well until the AI bot crawlers overwhelmed all else.
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by Quarrel 1y ago
I am amazed at the eye professional photographers have. A shot of a building that is suddenly really interesting, versus my shot of that building. Colour. Angle. etc. I just don't have the eye for it, despite having a decent amateur se
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by Quarrel 1y ago
I'm not sure what you're basing that on? Have the court filings become available? Of course, the random PR in the OP isn't going to go through their barrister's arguments. While I agree that the main thrust of the legisl
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by Quarrel 1y ago
Export controls still exist, but we're at least a far cry from the days of "This version of Mozilla is illegal to download if you are outside the USA. Please don't do it." (and before that PGP!)
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by Quarrel 1y ago
> > Every American is bilingual. > is completely unjustified. In the same vein every Japanese is bilingual or more. Or just as stupidly, so many of us are just mono-lingual, we just speak proto-Indo-European.
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by Quarrel 1y ago
Yes, that is the modern understanding. Widespread lead exposure had very little / nothing to do with the decline the Roman Empire.
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by Quarrel 1y ago
> AFAIK, the UK forced the big porn tech giants to hide explicit images and videos from the public unless users verify their age. Twitter, Telegram, WhatsApp, Reddit and other companies failed to do that. These US businesses turned a bli
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by Quarrel 1y ago
This is a damn good point. I suspect you're (implied, perhaps) correct, that not hiring morons increases diversity of thought. I certainly hope so.
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by Quarrel 1y ago
I don't doubt porn addiction is somewhat harmful to some people (I doubt it is nearly up there with alcohol, which afaik is easily in a class of its own). I've also had a kid in a London school for the last 9 years, so I'm in
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by Quarrel 1y ago
No. Tea can have no legal presence in the EU, but if it collects data from people in the EU at the time of collection, then it is caught be GDPR. It would be offering services to people in the EU in this case, and so has to deal with their
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by Quarrel 1y ago
> surrendering to a foreign government that has no jurisdiction over them is what's new Many countries, including the US, claim jurisdiction if you are providing services to their citizens. Some claim jurisdiction if someone in that
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by Quarrel 1y ago
I hate that too. Even when it is just across the one city, it is a major pain in the ass.
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by Quarrel 1y ago
> They are either the worst developers in the world or it is not simple. Or they have a good reason to not do it (in some PMs mind). At a guess, resetting the view, and displaying the nearest Domino's Pizza sponsored highlight pin o
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by Quarrel 1y ago
This is not true. Like, (almost) at all. (There are a few tiny exceptions, for instance, if an EU national commits child sexual abuse overseas, they can be prosecuted for it in the EU) Two Germans shooting each other in Australia break Aust
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by Quarrel 1y ago
While the GDPR has extraterritoriality, you are over-reaching here. Tea can collect and use photos of EU citizens, if it collected them in the USA, with (all other things being equal) no fear of GDPR violations. So, yes Facebook can't
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by Quarrel 1y ago
Why do you think this? There is an entire article linked here, saying that they, Scientists, don't know what the causes are, even though they're actively trying to search for a cause.
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by Quarrel 1y ago
> If Australia doesn't have the capabilities then why are the university campuses full of overseas students? Because Australian universities are a path to citizenship. Australia is one of the richest per capita nations on the planet
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by Quarrel 1y ago
Wow, missed this. Yikes.
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by Quarrel 1y ago
Absolutely. People sell annotated Bibles, or Shakespeare etc. You can transform it in to something that can acquire copyright, but it must have an artistic step. This is a big thing in the fine art world as well, you can take inspiration, y
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by Quarrel 1y ago
The real kicker here, is the that it is not the case in China (which FWIW, has a roughly equivalent GDP to the EU). Does China struggle if the US cuts off lots of these things? Sure. But they have a local ecosystem that has been forcibly, a
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by Quarrel 1y ago
> What else should they do then? They can say the code is in the public domain. This is distinct from open source, yes, but in almost all cases less restricted than anything with a (open source or otherwise) license.

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