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by abyrne10 2y ago
Made me think of this bit from Tim Urban’s classic blog post, The Tail End[0]: >It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re
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by abyrne10 4y ago
Shameless plug for Changewatch [0], a work-in-progress aimed at making it easier to keep track of changing terms and policies. Feedback very welcome. [0] https://www.changewatch.co.uk
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by abyrne10 5y ago
If you don’t mind my asking, what is the occupation you found? And what led you to an ADD diagnosis? (Asking as someone in their thirties who suspects they might have undiagnosed ADD.)
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by abyrne10 5y ago
This project came about because we kept getting emails from companies saying something along the lines of “We’ve updated our terms of use. Click here to see the new version”. This was very annoying, as most of these emails would, at best, i
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Show HN: Changewatch – see what’s changed between versions of policies(changewatch.co.uk)
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by abyrne10 5y ago
That’s really interesting, thank you. As you say, it seems like there’s a significant grey area that needs to be resolved, and I could see it being quite difficult to figure out where to draw the line in practice.
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by abyrne10 5y ago
Going by this definition of public domain, I don’t see how this could be the case: > The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply[0] Think of it this way. Imagine I wrote so
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by abyrne10 5y ago
I'm not sure it's true that something being algorithmically generated means it's public domain. Plenty of assets for things like video games are procedurally generated, but that doesn't mean they're public domain by
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by abyrne10 5y ago
I would argue that a lie involves deliberate deception, not just untruth. Fiction, then, is not a lie, as by definition it is something imagined or invented, and therefore not created to deceive.
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by abyrne10 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this out, it was really interesting to hear your point of view. I can't imagine what it must have been like to lose seven children before birth. I have a young daughter myself, so things like that
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by abyrne10 5y ago
Would you be able to expand on what you mean by it being a spiritual problem? And what the spiritual tools for the avoidance of nihilism are? I'm only just now, in my thirties, learning about spirituality, so I'd be interested to