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by belorn 3y ago
That article makes an interesting argument. If the code is for the purpose of interoperability, and the use does not prejudice the legitimate interest of the copyright holder, and it does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the progr
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by belorn 3y ago
Could you give a few examples of what you mean as "a lot of legal scholars have had their doubts"? A key question is if different aspect of a work should be considered separate independent works communicating with each other or as
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by belorn 3y ago
From the analysis I saw in Sweden, the conclusions was that the wast majority of deaths were caused by failures in the elderly care. The pandemic spread like wildfire by the overworked personal who did not get protective gear or time to kee
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by belorn 3y ago
Windows collect a lot on users and what users commonly install on their machines. For this specific situation a simple script pulling from chocolatey and a warning based on a threshold (and additional warning factors based on history) would
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by belorn 3y ago
Could we explore a bit in how it would cost them money. Taxes in general get back into the economy unless the government stockpile the revenue or invest them over sea. It would increase costs for companies doing exports, raising costs on mi
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by belorn 3y ago
Renewable electricity production can be anything. Just because you produce something does not mean the same country has to consume it, nor that it is connected to the general grid. Renewable production can be 100% if that is what a given
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by belorn 3y ago
When it comes to large sophisticated software the goal is not so much to improve it one self. Rather it is the knowledge that any anti-patterns will be removed by the community if it ever get added. Most of the time the community will not e
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by belorn 3y ago
This topic was discussed a while back on HN since its a topic that comes up a few times. Karen Sandler, executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, has a pacemaker with wireless communication that runs non-free software with und
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by belorn 3y ago
I do not see how a book citing an other book is commercial competing. Citations in most cases enhances the original book in same way that research papers cite each other, which then is used as a measurement of the value of the original pape
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by belorn 3y ago
In order to address those political people would need to go and demonstrate and become political active in order to bring in tax reforms, banking reforms, economic reforms, social welfare reforms, government administrative reforms, school r
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by belorn 3y ago
The bug being described is that Microsoft will run spam checkers when receiving emails for Microsoft customers, and they will check domain ownership when sending outgoing emails, but they won't run spam checkers or check ownership when
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by belorn 3y ago
The pirate bay case demonstrated that you don't need to prove a specific instance of infringement, only that occurrence of infringement "somewhere/somehow" was more believable than the alternative theory that no such inf
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by belorn 3y ago
Both Napster and the Pirate Bay founders argued that only users could be held responsible, since it was the user who requested the infringing files. It did not stop the courts. Anyone could use those tools to download creative common files
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by belorn 3y ago
When people appeal to authority it is important to include context which fully describe the view and perspective of said authority so that the information is not just correct, but given in context so that it is not misleading. When scientis
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by belorn 3y ago
The global scientific consensus is that climate change is primarily caused by humans burning fossil fuels. Fossil fuel use is what put more green house gases into the atmosphere, which in turn is heating the earth beyond what the environmen
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by belorn 3y ago
In my experience vegan food tend to mostly belong to a single food culture with its own blend of spices, taste and textures. It is as different to meat based food cultures as Indian food culture is to the food culture in Greenland. A typica
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by belorn 3y ago
They could do that, just as much as someone could pull videos and songs from youtube and use that to train a model. Its public content, so if people wanted humans and machines to not access it then don't publish on a public platform. O
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by belorn 3y ago
Radio has since the mid 1990 moved towards digital signals, and by now almost all conventional radio receivers do not covert electromagnetic waves into sound waves. They covert electromagnetic waves into a digital sound file, which then get
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by belorn 3y ago
The key aspects that the supreme courts in the US looked at when they decided on the author guild vs google, was if the use of the work supersede, supplant or become a replacement for the original works. They also looked if google sold port
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by belorn 3y ago
Relying on Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc in order determine fair use for AI models, there are a few key aspects to consider. The outcome should not supersede, supplant or become a replacement for the original works, nor should they sel
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by belorn 3y ago
The general impression I get from the article (and similar reports) is that patrons of sex workers in general do not seek the mechanical aspects of sex. They also do not seek power. What the largest majority seek is validation. The big brea
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by belorn 3y ago
When you mean other articles, are you talking about this author?
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by belorn 3y ago
What other previous articles? As for the last point, that one is not about Audible, so... what are we even discussing here? The article last argument, which is after discussing DRM and monopolies where users are captured into a locked marke
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by belorn 3y ago
People are naturally allowed to invest in what ever technology they think will fit the role best, such as green hydrogen. No one is investing in that, there exist no hydrogen-burning turbines that burn green hydrogen, but someone could beco
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by belorn 3y ago
Are you talking about consumption or production? In term of production a country can easily go above 100% renewable by selling a lot of it during periods of optimal conditions. Naturally, a country can not above 100% in terms of consumption
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by belorn 3y ago
That is true when the market price is fairly static and doesn't change much. This is how it used to be when fossil fueled power dominated the grid, since the biggest cost is the fuel and that could scale based on demand. For EU this is
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by belorn 3y ago
Here in Sweden I can't recall such discussions. Large casualties from battles in Leningrad and Berlin involved millions of civilian deaths, but it mostly the actions made afterward when citizens surrender that get classified as a war c
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by belorn 3y ago
Note sure if other people got confused by the title. This is not the first time in 20 years that a person got executed for drugs charge. There has been 14 of those in the last 6 months. She is the first woman to be executed in the last 20 y
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by belorn 3y ago
(From the medium article from an other comment) Air Canada changed their pilot training, changed several manuals and documents, standardizing the fuel weight units (which was already in process), changed the circuit breaker, established a f
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by belorn 3y ago
> He ruined something that was, within margins, doing ~alright The company lost an estimated 2 billions by the time Musk bought it, with about 200 million lost per year. It also managed to break GDPR laws, and have some of the largest da

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