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by bdowling 3y ago
FYI, the distracting, stilted writing ("It is [date] and I am [doing something]") is a reference to Watchmen , which the author cites as an influence.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Or directly from the Ninth Circuit: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/04/24/2...
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by bdowling 3y ago
Why would the mafia use a garbage truck to murder someone?
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by bdowling 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Removing barriers to employment will help more employers be open to hiring teenagers. I’m all for protecting children, but expanding job opportunities is also a good thing.
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by bdowling 3y ago
Not every kid is from a middle or upper class family that provides everything they need and gives them an allowance of spending money. Some kids need to earn money because they don’t get those things from their parents. If those kids can’t
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by bdowling 3y ago
Here’s how US law defines “copies”: “Copies” are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise commun
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by bdowling 3y ago
I wouldn’t say that training on copyrighted material definitely isn’t copyright infringement, because training may require making a copy into memory for the training algorithm. That may be enough. In Midler v. Ford , Ford had a license fro
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by bdowling 3y ago
If training requires making a copy in memory, then that may be copyright infringement.
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by bdowling 3y ago
It might not violate copyright, but it may violate a "right of publicity" for imitating the voice of someone else. See e.g., Midler v. Ford Motor Co. , 849 F.2d 460 (9th Cir. 1988), in which Bette Midler sued Ford Motor Company f
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by bdowling 4y ago
You are quite wrong about both copyright and patent law. There is no non-commercial exception or personal use exception in either domain.
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by bdowling 4y ago
No, copyright law is about the exclusive right to make copies, among other rights. In US law this is 17 USC 106. The reason making a single copy for personal use is generally considered permissible is because: (1) it may be fair use under 1
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by bdowling 4y ago
He’s also an uninformed dickhead. Here is where I stopped reading: > I’m not a lawyer but I can translate for you. The rest of it describes what he thinks patents should be , not what they actually are.
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by bdowling 4y ago
There are often separate patents for things and methods of manufacture of those things. In any case, a patent will be drafted to try to cover as many possible implementations of the thing or method.
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by bdowling 4y ago
> even if I'm not even capable of landing a stone? No, because the disclosure has to enable a person of ordinary skill in the art to practice the full scope of the invention. This is called the “enablement” requirement.
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by bdowling 4y ago
We sometimes call them “software-implemented inventions.”
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by bdowling 4y ago
> other than a pure appeal to morality. There are several reasons to imprison criminals: (1) To physically prevent them from harming the public again. (2) To discourage them from committing crimes again in the future. (3) To punish them
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by bdowling 4y ago
The author seems to have referenced BBB as a generic for a firm that rates businesses (ala using Kleenex for tissues or Xerox for photocopies). It’s unfortunate that the most well-known firm of that type is a pay to play scam.
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by bdowling 4y ago
C existed as a cross platform language long before there was a C standard specification or standard headers. Specifically, C was introduced around 1972 and the first standard was 1989. (Wikipedia). There were C compilers for non-Unix system
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by bdowling 4y ago
The real punchline is that the Harvard dean initially believed the memo was genuine, that an associate director of admissions had written it as a parody of Harvard’s own practices.
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by bdowling 4y ago
> the publishers take issue with only 120 or so books Not quite. The plaintiffs have to name some specific works on which to base the case. The 120 is enough because the statutory damages for just those 120 works could be a staggering am
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Don't many community/government libraries do this? Those books are licensed to the libraries by the publishers. The introduction of the opinion here explains how it works: > This dispute concerns the way libraries lend ebo
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by bdowling 4y ago
> Is this typical for CS undergraduate degrees because you get to pick your own classes? Yes. For example, here's MIT's computer science and engineering degree requirements. After math and basic programming and engineering fund
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by bdowling 4y ago
We apparently disagree on whether the general, flexible construct is the subtype or whether the specific, constrained construct is the subtype. You seem to be thinking from a object-oriented programming class hierarchy perspective, while I
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by bdowling 4y ago
See my other reply. GOTO is the generic type because it can be used to jump anywhere. BREAK/CONTINUE are sub-types because they are limited in where they can jump. BREAK/CONTINUE can be always implemented using GOTO, but not the o
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by bdowling 4y ago
> GOTO is a BREAK (could always be substituted for one), but a BREAK is not a GOTO. You wrote this backwards, but you seem to understand the relationship and that GOTO is more general. That is, every BREAK is a GOTO (because you can alwa
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by bdowling 4y ago
My point was to contest GP's assertion that CONTINUE and BREAK were not equivalent to GOTOs. I agree that CONTINUE and BREAK are easier to reason about because you can look at them and instantly know what they do without having to look
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by bdowling 4y ago
CONTINUE and BREAK are simply jumps to the beginning of or just past the end of the current loop context. They are equivalent to GOTOs to particular program offsets without the programmer needing to create labels for those offsets. They do
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by bdowling 4y ago
> CONTINUE and BREAK are quite different from GOTO in that they operate predictably given the current scope CONTINUE, BREAK, and GOTO all operate predictably because they are deterministic operations. Each continues program execution at
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by bdowling 4y ago
To be clear, that anyone can improve upon anyone else’s invention and claim their improvement as their own, to the exclusion of the prior inventor, is what drives innovation.
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by bdowling 4y ago
> … it's been configured to be threatening and gaslighting when someone says it's wrong. So, about the same as your average human in the comments section. If it’s been trained on human conversations, then this shouldn’t be surp

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