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by bdowling 3y ago
Not a country, but the City of Santa Monica, California, keeps a registry of rents for all rent-controlled units. Landlords are required to report an initial tenancy, which sets the starting rent. Each year after that, the City tells the la
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by bdowling 3y ago
You've convinced me. If I'm ever in the market for one of these, I'll buy from him to support his work.
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by bdowling 3y ago
> He has added significant value over the original Mac ROM and that's what he's charging for. Has he though? It sounds like it’s all based on Apple’s work decades ago plus an open source compression algorithm that someone else
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by bdowling 3y ago
> … trying to wield them against your community in another is extra ridiculous. Also, ineffective. What’s he going to do if the copycats don’t stop, sue them?
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by bdowling 3y ago
Why can't an attacker just link a new getenv() that pretends that LD_PRELOAD and other variables aren't set?
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by bdowling 3y ago
The API signatures were arguably the only part that was copyrightable. Code that is purely utilitarian (see “useful articles doctrine”) isn’t a work of human expression that is copyrightable.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Those kind of functions are arguably not even eligible for copyright protection because they contain no human expression of the kind that is usually protectable (e.g., creative writings, artistic works).
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by bdowling 3y ago
Until someone files a lawsuit and a judge and jury decide the infringement question, it’s all speculative. Some cases are pretty obvious, but even literal copying isn’t always copyright infringement (e.g., if the material is arguably not el
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by bdowling 3y ago
If the code is wrapped in if (updateDlg.DoModal() == IDOK) { … } then doesn’t that mean it only runs that code if the user clicks “OK” on the update dialog? (Edit: I think I understand now. It’s not the code, it’s the update URL tha
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by bdowling 3y ago
Robbery and burglary are both considered inherently dangerous crimes for which the felony murder rule can be applied. That means that if someone dies (victim, perpetrator or bystander) during a burglary or robbery, then the perpetrators can
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by bdowling 3y ago
It's a balance between encouraging people to stand up for their rights on one hand and discouraging filing of frivolous lawsuits on the other. The American system is "everyone pays their own legal fees", which encourages inju
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by bdowling 3y ago
Who exactly is forcing them to? There are tons of non-Apple repair shops they can go to.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Personally, I do not want anymore cheap Chinese knockoff parts anymore. I don’t want screens that have off colors, batteries that last 1/3 of their rated power, toner cartridges that last half as long as the OEM ones, etc. I really am
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by bdowling 3y ago
They mean OEM part.
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by bdowling 3y ago
> “If you want to use images produced by Human Generator in commercial projects, contact us.” If there is no copyright in AI-generated images, then how can they possibly enforce this?
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by bdowling 3y ago
Usually journalists don't actually understand what they are reporting on. Usually that's fine because most readers don't actually understand what they're reading.
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by bdowling 3y ago
> Noticing and responding to emergency sounds/signals in the road… How do deaf drivers respond to sirens from emergency vehicles?
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by bdowling 3y ago
＞ A computer program is not about expressing an idea; it’s about doing a thing. A computer program expresses the idea that a computer will do the thing described in the way described.
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by bdowling 3y ago
If the claims are non-novel or obvious, then the examiners, who are familiar with the state of the art in the field, will reject them. Maybe the applicant will amend the claims to claim something narrower, or maybe not. If the examiner and
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by bdowling 3y ago
> But could you even get a trademark for X, a single character? Yes. In fact there are at least a few registrations in the TESS database of X for various goods and services. They don’t conflict with each other unless the goods and servic
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by bdowling 3y ago
There’s always someone who doesn’t get the joke. Even today, there are people who, at least at first, are fooled into thinking that Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” was a serious proposal.
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by bdowling 3y ago
I invoked Poe’s law sarcastically. I’m surprised you didn’t realize that, given how over-invoked it is here. I guess there’s always someone who doesn’t get the joke. /s. <—- shouldn’t be necessary, but is, obviously. /s <—-
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by bdowling 3y ago
Haven't you heard of Poe's Law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law .
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by bdowling 3y ago
> American labor laws encode this expectation The law does not require customers to tip, it requires employers to pay employees at least minimum wage if employees do not receive enough tips to meet the minimum wage requirements.
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by bdowling 3y ago
> implied service contract There is no implied service contract when it comes to tipping. An implied service contract is a legally-enforceable contract. For example, if you went to a barber shop and sat in the chair and the barber gave y
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by bdowling 3y ago
> That is illegal. Given that this is an IRS rule, it’s probably only illegal if the business reports the income as tip income to its employees, as opposed to a service fee charged by the business.
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by bdowling 3y ago
If cars had been as popular as guns when the U.S. Bill of Rights was written, then such a right might have been included. Hypothetically, "Motorized transportation, being necessary to the mobility of a free State, the right of the peop
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by bdowling 3y ago
If an AI came up with that headline, then it's using more natural English than GP would advocate.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Somehow this is even more interesting after reading that OP is a Site Reliability Engineer for Google. http://www.brutman.com/Michael_Brutman_resume.pdf
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by bdowling 3y ago
> * Max 128K RAM IBM sold a 128K memory expansion sidecar to bring it to 256K. There is also apparently a way to swap in denser RAM chips to make it 512K (640K total).

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