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by bgwalter 1y ago
That is fairly easy to answer: When the infringement shifted from small people taking from Walt Disney to Silicon Valley taking from everyone, including open source authors and small YouTube channels. I find the shift of some right wing pol
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Does the distinction matter? If humans build a machine that uses so much oxygen that the oxygen levels on earth drop by half, can they say: "Humans are allowed to breathe, so our machine is too, because it is operated by humans!"
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The US Supreme court has complained on multiple occasions that it is forced to do the work of the legislative. Why could a copyright office not advise the congress/senate to enact a law that forbids copyrighted material to be used in A
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The required reasoning is not very deep though: If an AI reads 100 scientific papers and churns out a new one, it is plagiarism. If a savant has perfect recall, remembers text perfectly and rearranges that text to create a marginally new te
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Get people to vote for Trump on the all-in podcast by promising a better economy, no wars and less wokeness. Then take their IP after the election. Nice going from the "Crypto and AI czar". Here is a hint for the all-in people: Yo
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Dropbox moved parts from Python to Golang already in 2014. Google fired the Python team last year and I hear that it does not use Python for new code. Instagram is kept afloat by gigantic hacks. The scientific ecosystem was always there, bu
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I get that pytest has features that unittest does not, but how is scanning for test files in a directory considered appropriate for what is called a high security application in the article? For high security applications the test suite sho
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The European elites will do anything to decrease job chances for their native populations.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I mostly agree, but the military distinguishes between hypersonic glide vehicles that are launched from a rocket and then glide at hypersonic speeds towards the target while being able to do evasive maneuvers and hypersonic ballistic missil
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by bgwalter 1y ago
So they are "renewing the brand", appointed a committee but the post does not mention anything concrete at all apart from AI FOMO. Stackoverflow's problem is that they did not push back on AI right from the start. Instead, th
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I would have expected an Eastern European or American pope for obvious political reasons (think Karol Wojtyla). The political commentators will go wild in the next week.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Nice. If the helpdesk function still works, could you make the Cloudflare Stackoverflow captchas go away? Stackoverflow becomes unusable lately.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This looks like a victim of some anti-wokeness Trump program. The administration probably remembers that Oregon was pretty active in BLM protests. Perhaps the GPL friendliness of the OSU lab also plays a role. The broligarchs want the OSS s
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by bgwalter 1y ago
They want to track and utilize the new code that those developers are writing. And they want to keep them on GitHub. And they want to claim in potential lawsuits: "See, those developers themselves have used CoPilot, so they approve the
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The RIAA lawyers never had to demonstrate that copying a DVD cratered the sales of their clients. They just got high penalties for infringers almost by default. Now that big capital wants to steal from individuals, big capital wins again. (
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I have. Handling Monero, presumably for real currency conversions, is banned. If that were done for Bitcoin worldwide, the price would collapse, because it is no longer useful for, e.g., sanctions evasion. By the way, the article itself cla
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The fact that Bitcoin itself has never been banned strongly suggests that it was government approved from the beginning or even developed at the NSA. The tracking is a feature, and many governments want a CBDC. What does the CIA think? The
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by bgwalter 1y ago
AI has certainly created new work for the GCC project. They had to implement a scraper protection from the bots run by corporations who benefit for free from GCC but want to milk it even further: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermai
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by bgwalter 1y ago
""The adoption of these chatbots has been remarkably fast," Humlum told The Register about the study. "Most workers in the exposed occupations have now adopted these chatbots... But then when we look at the economic outc
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by bgwalter 2y ago
Interesting. I thought you could do this in the open: https://www.theverge.com/news/646426/a-1-million-per-head-di... Is the Sovereign Bitcoin Fund bailout scam still on the table or is Bitcoin doing well enough s
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by bgwalter 2y ago
Lutnick is a man of his word: https://fortune.com/2025/03/20/howard-lutnick-pumps-tesla-st... Tesla is now above that price from March again. Orangehorseshoe loves Tesla!
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by bgwalter 2y ago
The privatization of infrastructure in Europe has been a disaster. The only area where at least prices went down are telecommunication companies. The postal services are worse now. Railway is more expensive and a disaster. Energy prices are
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by bgwalter 2y ago
The comment provided a BBC link about Hegseth's speech that the EU must raise its military spending to 5% and essentially take over Ukraine protection. I'm not sure why you mention Fox News, which does not raise the points that we
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by bgwalter 2y ago
The question was why Hegseth got into that position. The now deleted comment speculated, perhaps in a clumsy fashion, why polarizing, incompetent but loyal figures can be useful for a permanent bureaucracy to achieve its long term goals. Th
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by bgwalter 2y ago
If you focus on one (admittedly ill formulated) part of a downvoted and now deleted comment, you can infer anything. Yes, Germany supplied moderate amounts of weapons in the beginning, so they were involved from the start if you like. Then
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by bgwalter 2y ago
[Deleted, political discussions are impossible.]
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by bgwalter 2y ago
Cave paintings were made by AI robots trained on the IP of real painters?
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by bgwalter 2y ago
The IQ in the US started declining since the start of the Internet: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-... "Leading up to the 1990s, IQ scores were consistently going up, but in recen
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by bgwalter 2y ago
The average IQ will probably drop at least ten points in the next ten years, but everyone will write (AI generated) blog posts on how their productivity goes up.
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by bgwalter 2y ago
What is the connection to machine generated code? He designed the items manually and mass produced them. No one objects to a human writing code and selling copies. Apart from that, this is the commercial Picasso who loved money. His early p

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