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by blacksqr 3y ago
I'm curious to know just how reliably one can filter access by country, and if there are resources for someone interested in doing it.
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Regrettably, thanks to the international nature of the internet, it may still be legally hazardous to make works in the public domain in one's own country available on the internet. The legal question of whether putting something on an
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by blacksqr 3y ago
See paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3585515
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CPFloat: A C Library for Simulating Low-Precision Arithmetic(github.com)
2 points by blacksqr 3y ago|1 comments
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by blacksqr 3y ago
But the key is that not all creativity can be copyrighted. Both US law and the Berne Convention (which almost all countries are party to) permit copyright only for artifacts fixed in a tangible medium, and it must be a human that does the f
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by blacksqr 3y ago
According to the following article: https://www.vennershipley.com/insights-events/originality-in... . the Judge in the case explicitly referenced decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union, and suggests tha
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by blacksqr 3y ago
It's curious that there is no mention of this ruling's possible effect on AI art. A side-effect of the ruling may be that AI art is uncopyrightable in the UK. A law was passed in the UK in 1988 that said computer-generated art cou
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K&R C compiler obtained from Research Unix v5, v6 and v7(github.com)
25 points by blacksqr 3y ago|7 comments
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LwSHELL: Lightweight shell implementation for embedded systems(github.com)
3 points by blacksqr 3y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution clearly establishes that disqualification from office, and trial and punishment under law are parallel tracks, and can proceed independently.
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by blacksqr 3y ago
He wants to establish the precedent of an AI as a legal entity with rights and privileges. He's also trying to copyright images created by DABUS, for similar reasons.
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Right, now I'd like to see if the UK and EU follow suit.
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Now do copyrights.
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by blacksqr 3y ago
I will go out on a limb and state my considered opinion that both Rock Around the Clock and That's All Right are western swing. Their main significance is that they perfected the genre and made improvements impossible. So Elvis had to
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Fusion! Also, from the New York Times: > it will take quite a while before fusion becomes available on a widespread, practical scale, if ever. > “Probably decades,” Kimberly S. Budil, the director of Lawrence Livermore, said during th
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by blacksqr 3y ago
TL;DR "for many American businesses, this also has been a good year for profits, with some corporations notching record or near-record gains." "a sizable 177 businesses have closed since 2021, although exit interviews suggest
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Also of interest on this topic is the episode "The Politics of Possession" from the series "Ways of Seeing." https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z7wi8jd7aC4
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Trading in gold was banned in 1933 in the United States. The price was set by the government at $35/oz. The ban wasn't lifted until 1974, at which time the price skyrocketed.
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by blacksqr 3y ago
It was a period of what was called "stagflation", economic stagnation combined with inflation. It was supposed to be impossible to have the two happen at once, and no one knew what the hell was going on. Gold seems attractive in
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by blacksqr 3y ago
I dream suburbias where every child is brave and funny, where a green-skinned scientist cackling at dusk or a journey to the sherbet-wastes of Mars are childhood commonplaces. I dream teenagers, the boys with letter sweatshirts, girls with
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by blacksqr 3y ago
A victim of false DMCA claims ought to have grounds to sue for fraud, libel and tortious interference in business relationships.
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by blacksqr 3y ago
>Quarto isn’t without its fair share of issues I like Quarto, and I'm rooting for it, but in putting together a basic web site last year, I spent far too much time isolating and reporting bugs, and waiting for fixes. I get the sense
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by blacksqr 3y ago
> The US may very well head in the same navel-gazing direction soon. The US train pulled into that station right around 2016.
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by blacksqr 3y ago
It's always funny when the people of a democratic country get into trouble by electing bad people, then suddenly decide to fix everything by electing the very worst person they can find. That ought to do the trick!
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by blacksqr 3y ago
> It has come to our attention that MeridianLink, in light of a significant breach... SEC whistleblower information has to be original, which I presume means you have to have direct knowledge of infractions, rather than just claiming som
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by blacksqr 3y ago
> Wikipedia is providing left-leaning information on a variety of important topics. Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
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by blacksqr 3y ago
Ammonia was used in early home refrigerators, and people died in their sleep from exposure to leaked refrigerant with distressing frequency. There was a race to design leak-proof refrigerators; Einstein was issued a patent. Then non-toxic f
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by blacksqr 3y ago
There is a strong cultural/religious preference in Japan for newness and renewal. For example, the most sacred Shinto temple, the Ise Shrine, is ritually dismantled and rebuilt from scratch every twenty years.
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A Time-Jumping, Multiverse-Killing, Consciousness-Spawning Theory of Reality(forbes.com)
24 points by blacksqr 3y ago|10 comments
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by blacksqr 3y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1311608-arrested-development

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