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by bdowling 2y ago
I'm not surprised. In this case, however, it doesn't even meet the OSI definition because it doesn't allow distribution of modified versions.
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by bdowling 2y ago
When people who care about open source talk about "open source", they often mean the Open Source Initiative definition. https://opensource.org/osd
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by bdowling 2y ago
> A general strike means the labor class ... stop working in order to put extreme pressure on the group of people who do control those contracts and who do control capital . > Such a system ... should be Deconstructed as rapidly as
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by bdowling 2y ago
If you did buy one, you might not be able to license it in your state. Your mileage may vary. Note: USPS is exempt from state regulations because it is a U.S. federal government agency. That is also why they don't have state license pl
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by bdowling 2y ago
Patent application filing fees and the time you spend preparing the applications, primarily. Also the loss of privacy (name, etc. in application) in applying for the patent. Edit: Also the risk that your application is rejected so that you
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by bdowling 2y ago
It’s rare in modern times, but sometimes you may encounter a sign board written horizontally right-to-left, as in this sign above the front entrance to the Nippon Budōkan: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nippo
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by bdowling 2y ago
Where is the logical fallacy? Actually, where’s the argument? His post is just a few reasons he doesn’t trust his government; he’s not trying to argue that you shouldn’t trust your government (you probably shouldn’t, though, for reasons I w
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by bdowling 2y ago
If they can't get the basics right, who knows what horrors lurk under the hood.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Whoosh
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by bdowling 2y ago
What's the relevant difference?
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by bdowling 2y ago
> I too, as the good samaritan that I am, like to stroll through my neighborhood and give all the cars and bikes I encounter a quick pentest, purely for the benefits of the owners of course. In my neighborhood, "security researchers
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by bdowling 2y ago
So who got the insurance payout? The buyer?
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by bdowling 2y ago
> Does the Allen estate really need the cash? The article doesn't clearly distinguish between the museum auctioning off the item it owns and the Allen estate auctioning the items that it had loaned to the museum, but there's a
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by bdowling 2y ago
Cheaper than an Apple Pro Display XDR ($4999 to $5999).
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by bdowling 2y ago
No need for foreign operatives, we do it ourselves. We treat thumbs up/down as agree/disagree, whether we're supposed to or not.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Some restaurants should just be food trucks.
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by bdowling 2y ago
All of those are common in Japan.
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by bdowling 2y ago
Many of the free or cheap OCR services are based on the free, open-source Tesseract OCR. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/ Those services usually do not expose all of the options. If you’re handy with sh
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by bdowling 2y ago
I rephrased the question. The instruction set may be copyrightable, but as in Google v. Oracle , we don't have to answer that question. Even if an instruction set is copyrightable, then under Google , it is probably fair use to copy
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by bdowling 2y ago
Would copying an instruction set and ABI to make an interoperable processor and system be fair use in light of Google v. Oracle (2021) [0][1]? [0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf [1]
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by bdowling 2y ago
Probably this company: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com
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by bdowling 2y ago
Certainly, owners sometimes leave properties vacant, and sometimes do so for long periods, for various reasons. The housing market, however, should be big enough and robust enough to allow for some of that occurring. Personally, I'd li
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by bdowling 2y ago
> that they own 100% You might be surprised to learn that many small rental properties are heavily mortgaged. Along with insurance and property taxes, the biggest cost is usually mortgage interest. Some owners even lose money for a few y
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by bdowling 2y ago
Allowing occupation of vacant properties by squatters because there isn't enough housing supply is like allowing stealing food from farms because there isn’t enough food supply. It’s demoralizing to the producers and maintainers of the
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by bdowling 2y ago
> Are landlords the most vulnerable people right now? Increasing risk will eliminate a lot of the "mom and pop" landlords (widows, former small-business owners, retirees, etc.). If it is too risky to own only a few extra condo
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by bdowling 2y ago
Americans use metric where it's required by law (e.g., food and drug packaging), it just takes government force. Government force can also change a population's language. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by bdowling 2y ago
Reviewing this a bit more, it was actually the 1710 Statute of Anne in Great Britain that took away our rights to copy whatever we wanted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
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by bdowling 2y ago
We used to have the right to copy whatever we wanted and be accountable to no one. That all went away in 1790 when the U.S. government passed the first Copyright Act. https://www.copyright.gov/timeline/timeline_18th_cen
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by bdowling 2y ago
> you have to sign a contract You have the right idea, but there isn’t a contract that a buyer has to sign. A restrictive covenant is attached to a property when a developer (e.g., of a condo complex or subdivision) deeds a subject prope
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by bdowling 2y ago
This reminds me of the Computer Literacy Bookshops in Silicon Valley. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Literacy_Bookshops

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