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by bawolff 4mo ago
Yes fair point, although i think in this case that would be pretty trivial to prove.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
To be clear, by action i mean an action the person believes would result in the crime in question occuring. > your desire I don't think it's my desire. I'm pretty sure i'm just describing how our legal system actually
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> Moving some magazines isn't normally illegal. Neither is shooting a gun (at e.g. a gun range). This case has about as much to do with moving magazines as a murder charge has with discharging a firearm. Its intrinsic to the crime,
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by bawolff 4mo ago
If you take an action in the real world it is no longer a thought crime.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> Let's say someone is driving 35MPH. They think "oh snap, I think the speed limit is 30MPH here!". The posted speed limit is actually 40MPH. There is a difference between incorrect belief in what the law is vs incorrect b
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I don't know that i agree. If you intend to commit a crime but due to circumstances beyond your knowladge your actions did not amount to the crime even though you intended them to, i think that is still a crime.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I don't think that is the relavent question. Did he move the items because he believed that they were evidence being sought by the police? I don't really care if they are actually evidence of something or not. I care if the accuse
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> Dolphin isn’t on iOS, because you can’t do JIT compilation on iOS....Well, Apple has one exception to its JIT restrictions: web browsers. JavaScriptCore, WebKit’s JS engine, uses JIT compilation for its higher-performance tiers. So, if
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by bawolff 4mo ago
If you want to talk in the american context, its not like they wrote the constitution yesterday, there is hundreds of years of juriprudence on the issue. To be sure its not an easy question, but we aren't starting from zero here.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> It's not just Europe. DMCA takedowns in the US: no liability for taking down innocent content. Isn't it under penalty of purjury?
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by bawolff 4mo ago
All drugs have side effects and downsides. The question should be if the benefits outweigh the costs, not if the drug is pure magic. Obviously its not pure magic, nothing is, but its still a useful drug.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I mean, i dont know how things work in academia, but if i was reading a fiction novel, and it turns out half of it was copied from some other novel i already read, i would feel a bit cheated. So i could imagine the same thing applying to ac
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by bawolff 4mo ago
That is why we have judges, to make judgement calls. Its probably going to come down to how closely you are copying.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> The only legal way to waive copyright rights This is generally not true, but more importantly Wikipedia does not ask people to waive their copyright rights, only license it under a creative commons license. Its no different than how op
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> More importantly, how could wikipedia possibly work if contributors retained copyright in any form over their submitted articles and edits? Note, the cc-by-sa 4.0 license that wikipedia uses requires you to waive any moral rights to th
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> Smells like proper job to me! In proper jobs you get paid, and there is someone telling you what to do. Neither of those things apply to Wikipedia. There is no NDA. The only exception is if you volunteer to join the group that deals wi
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by bawolff 4mo ago
British-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation United doesn't have quite the same ring to it. I suspect its just because naming things concisely is hard.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
+= and ..= are things i find i'm constantly missing in lua. Personally im a fan of introducing ternaranary operator in lua. Everyone uses `x and y or z` as a ternanary which i find way more confusing than ?:
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I think the problem is traditional news journalism tried to be middle of the road. Which worked fine when you needed to run a tv channel or print edition that needed to appeal to most consumers and consumers had limited choices. But with th
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Isn't he famous for social engineering/physical security type things? If you hire an expert in X, you are probably going to get X.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Verifying behaviour of an arbitrary program is uncomputable. However that doesnt mean you can't have proofs of behaviour of specific programs you create. Personally i have some doubts, a lot of research has gone into the idea without m
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by bawolff 4mo ago
There are some problems with incentives in the vuln report space. People report trivial vulns and expect the same treatment as people reporting critical vulns. But this isn't new with AI. Look at all the ReDos vulns in npm ecosystem. I
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> The Taliban’s attacks on civilians didn’t help their cause Umm, do you mean al-qaeda (if you are referring to 9/11). Al-qaeda and the Taliban are different groups. Neither are particularly nice, but only one did 9/11.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Even countries with strong moral right regimes usually have quite significant limitations on what they protect. Typically its about ensuring credit and making sure the work is presented in a way that preserves its integrity. Although there
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Copyright didn't come out of nothing, it largely evolved out of censorship regimes. Having copyright being about protecting authors economic rights instead of being about censorship or printer's ecconomic interests, was a huge ste
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Sure, but that is an internal documentation failure not a redis failure. It feels incredibly unfair to blame redis for that.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
I like memcached, but its really not redis's fault if you set it up as a volatile cache but people treat it as a persistent data store. The comparison is especially weird as memcached is also not persistent.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Generally speaking, people do not use the word terrorism or freedom fighter to describe the actions of a state actor during open war.
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by bawolff 4mo ago
> By the reasoning here, a company (as in the commercial site here) can use my photos so long as the use is incidental and doesn't earn them too much money -- or at least impact my revenue, which is currently $0. That is how copyrig
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by bawolff 4mo ago
Economics could make sense if they outsourced the enforcement and the enforcement company gets paid regardless of how prolific the usage is. Don't know if that is what happened in this case, but seems plausible.

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