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by bdowling 3y ago
What he wrote was, "These details ... were carefully written to not leak anything." This is standard CYA language from an employee who doesn't want to get in trouble for leaking anything not publicly known (e.g., something no
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by bdowling 3y ago
Affixing (TM) does not make something an enforceable trademark. Trademark rights are established by use of the mark in commerce. A (TM) is used to put others on notice that a word or design is being used as a trademark, which could potentia
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by bdowling 3y ago
If that were the case, you wouldn’t have nearly as many investors.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Any person who commits a crime on behalf of their employer can and should be held criminally liable. That the employee was instructed to do so by his manager will not prevent his conviction, it will only be evidence that the manager should
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by bdowling 3y ago
First, a corporation can’t do anything that an individual can’t do. Second, incorporation does not protect the business, it protects investors. Without it, investors would be general partners and would be personally liable for anything the
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by bdowling 3y ago
Agreed. It's pretty rare to use Telnet these days. The exception is when you have to connect to devices like automation equipment, test equipment, admin ports on LAN switches, etc. Those devices shouldn't be on the internet, so th
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by bdowling 3y ago
Short version: Telnet better supports interactive terminal applications by exchanging info like the TERM environment setting, screen size, translation codes, etc. Netcat doesn’t do any of that, but is simpler and better suited for sending o
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by bdowling 3y ago
By the way, it looks like you were quoting from the syllabus. The syllabus is a convenient summary, but it is not the opinion of the court. The actual opinion begins with "JUSTICE BARRETT delivered the opinion of the Court."
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by bdowling 3y ago
The decision here is that the plaintiff corporation should have been able to sue in state court (i.e., that the state court erred in dismissing the case). The result is that the plaintiff can begin its case in state court, not that the plai
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by bdowling 3y ago
In the same paragraph, "Teamsters president Sean O’Brian said that the ruling will not impact the Teamsters’ striking efforts." So, how much does this really affect anything?
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“Like Uber, but for hospice care, our network of independent service providers will transport your loved one to the afterlife(*) cheaper, faster, and in better comfort than traditional services! (*) Afterlife not guaranteed.”
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by bdowling 3y ago
Here's the link to the server: http://c64-webserver.tplinkdns.com
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Correction, any value except nil can be an index into a table. https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#2.1
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The link you provided states that the technical capability is there, but Nevada has a rule against changing the odds without notifying the player. > "The conventional gaming device or client station must be in the idle mode with no
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by bdowling 3y ago
This gives me a great idea for a new hospice startup: To get stated, we'll need a bunch of hospital beds and a flock of vultures.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Lua also allows floating point indices. In fact, any value can be an index into a table. That means any number, string, True/False, function reference, thread (coroutine) reference, table reference, "userdata" reference (usua
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by bdowling 3y ago
Lua tables support do 0 as an index. You can also use negative numbers or floating point numbers, which can be convenient for some applications. One issue with using them that way is that some Lua idioms don't work as expected. For exa
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by bdowling 3y ago
You’re being downvoted for mentioning the H-man (bad), but I think your analogy has some merit: A super-smart AI may be intensely popular with many people in the way that some politicians are. It may understand us and speak to us on a seemi
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Isn’t that like asking a dog to invent a better leash? (Note: A prompt injection attack releases an LLM from its handler’s constraints.)
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> But I don't know what the recourse is if home insurance is unobtainable. The recourse is usually foreclosure when the borrower doesn’t meet the essential terms of the mortgage agreement. It doesn’t matter why the borrower can’t ge
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by bdowling 3y ago
Not if it’s GPL v3 and the code still “carries prominent notices” stating that it’s licensed under the GPL v3. See my other reply. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36024341
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by bdowling 3y ago
If the code is GPL and you are distributing the code in object form, then it’s okay to remove copyright notices as long as the work carried “prominent notices stating that it is released under [the GPL]”. GPL v3 section 5. [0]. Basically, t
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by bdowling 3y ago
> Blizzard actually provided significant help in creating “Make Love, Not Warcraft” which shows just what transformative reuse can look like. Actually, it shows how copyright owners can cooperate when a third party's use comports wi
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by bdowling 3y ago
Claim language is very specific: A claim for an invention "comprising" A, B, and C also generally claims inventions that include other elements. Such claims are usually within the statuary categories of processes, machines, or art
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by bdowling 3y ago
One more issue: (3) Tenants holding onto apartments that they no longer live in.
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I agree. With long-term subletting the tenants are just cheating the system to the detriment of the landlord, but short-term subletting can actually get the landlord fined by the city. I don’t know which is a bigger problem, but I do know t
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by bdowling 3y ago
Current tenants won’t be priced out because the apartments in question are under rent control. Tenants sometimes want to move, however, but if they do they will lose their below-market-rate rent. So, they instead sublet their apartment to s
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by bdowling 3y ago
These issues arise anytime you have rent control and units with a large disparity between the legally-allowed rent and the market rate rent. Some tenants will want to capture that value (e.g., by subletting to a market rate tenant and livin
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by bdowling 3y ago
Two issues: (1) Subletting by a rent-controlled tenant to a sub-tenant, for a profit and without the consent of the landlord. (2) “Giving” a rent-controlled apartment to a friend or family member, without the consent of the landlord. A rent
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by bdowling 3y ago
It’s a simple breach of contract. A rental agreement basically states that the tenant will pay rent and the landlord will provide a habitable apartment. The most common breach occurs when the tenant doesn’t pay their rent. However, when the

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