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by bdowling 7y ago
Jurisdiction limits where a lawsuit can be filed. It does not limit what Apple can put in its terms of service for the App Store.
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by bdowling 7y ago
The general rule is that property owned prior to a marriage remains the separate property of that owner. So the answer to your first question is generally A. The answers to your other questions will depend on whether the couple is in a mari
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by bdowling 7y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. For trademark law, U.S. law is a hybrid. Federal law is always codified in a set of statutes, which makes it a bit like a civil law jurisdiction, except that higher court decisions are binding o
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by bdowling 7y ago
My guess: (1) It's probably a violation of Apple's terms of service to distribute an app that infringes another's trademark and (2) the app probably still displays the infringing mark "点击英雄" somewhere, for example i
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by bdowling 7y ago
It is not a matter of respect. U.S. trademark law applies in the U.S. and Chinese trademark law applies in China. The laws are just different. The U.S. does more to protect a user of a mark who neglects to register. For example, there is a
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by bdowling 7y ago
The comment was about USB-C generally, not limited to the MacBook implementation. There isn’t an inherent reason why two cables couldn’t carry twice the power of one.
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by bdowling 7y ago
Two USB-C ports in parallel would get you to 200W.
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by bdowling 7y ago
An Affero GPL (AGPL) license wouldn’t prevent AWS or Azure from competing with Wolfram’s cloud service, it would just require that they publish their changes to the source code. They’d still eat Wolfram’s lunch, which is why it won’t happen
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by bdowling 7y ago
There are many programmers making closed-source software using open source tools. For example, anything that runs on an embedded Linux platform is built using open-source tools (e.g., GNU compilers and open-source libraries) and is usually
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by bdowling 7y ago
If HPC is a generic term for HPCs, then the company wouldn't be able to prevent competitors from marking their competing products as HPCs. So an HPC mark may have limited value. It would be like having a water company called WATER; you
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by bdowling 7y ago
The U.S. does protect that right. Here, Ms. Manning is apparently being asked to incriminate Julian Assange, not herself.
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by bdowling 7y ago
Answering my own question, "megatons of TNT" does refer to metric tons.
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by bdowling 7y ago
Are those metric tons or imperial tons? If metric, why aren't they gigakilograms (teragrams?) of TNT?
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by bdowling 7y ago
It's almost a crime that a metric ton isn't called a "megagram". Aside, are the mega and giga prefixes ever used for anything except bits and bytes? (Edit: OK, OK. I forgot about megaohms, megahertz, megawatts. Also mega
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by bdowling 7y ago
We can't defend everyone's morality equally. Most of us agree about the immorality of racist laws or forced sterilization. There just isn't the same kind of consensus about the morality of publishing leaked classified documen
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by bdowling 7y ago
Sometimes fiction is the best way to express truth.
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by bdowling 7y ago
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
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by bdowling 7y ago
The slides indicated they were contemplating very small systems without an MMU or memory protection. Without those, a null pointer dereference may not be able to generate an exception.
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by bdowling 7y ago
For comparison, in 2010 the U.S. had 15.1% of its population living under the poverty line. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold
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by bdowling 7y ago
Surely they are literature in the broadest sense of the word.
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by bdowling 7y ago
As I understand it the costs of arbitration are usually split between the plaintiff and defendant. However, your point may still be valid because the corporations are often repeat players who wield more influence. On the other hand, if an a
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by bdowling 7y ago
That contract would probably be unenforceable due to being against public policy.
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by bdowling 7y ago
I recommend trying a Topre switch keyboard because they're very high quality and quieter than most, if not all, of the Cherry-type mechanical switch keyboards. In my opinion, Topre switches have the best feel for typing. The downside o
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by bdowling 7y ago
Note: The linked video is by foul-mouthed Canadian YouTuber AvE, in which he disassembles and comments on an angle-of-attack sensor from a C-130 military aircraft. He comments favorably on the build quality of the assembly, but is not impre
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by bdowling 7y ago
Police generally have access to full-automatic machine guns. They’re not limited to the semi-automatic models sometimes available to civilians (e.g. in the US).
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by bdowling 7y ago
You can turn off that auto-saving feature in system preferences. It’s called something like “Ask before saving changes.”
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by bdowling 7y ago
Your math is off. The home is an asset worth $150k plus a liability of $120k for the mortgage, for a net positive $30k. That puts your hypothetical person with a net worth of positive $130k, not negative $20k as you calculated.
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by bdowling 8y ago
An immediate mode GUI doesn't have to use immediate mode rendering. For example, the Dear ImGui library "outputs optimized vertex buffers that you can render anytime in your 3D-pipeline enabled application." [0] [0] https:&#
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by bdowling 8y ago
A retained mode GUI is defined by writing initialization code that sets up a model of the UI elements in memory, attaching data and linking callbacks to interactive elements like buttons. The UI library uses the model in memory to draw the
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by bdowling 8y ago
A naive implementation would have the problem you describe. However, a smarter library implementation avoids this (e.g., by generating an id for the button, saving the id on mouse-down, and checking the id on mouse-up). The user of such a l

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