bradchris

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by bradchris 2y ago
Midler won, it’s a cornerstone case in protecting image/likeness. In tech we’re used to IP law. In entertainment, there is unsurprisingly a whole area of case law on image and likeness. Tech will need to understand this—and the areas o
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by bradchris 2y ago
She has a personal net worth of >$100m. She’s also married to a successful actor in his own right. Her voice alone didn’t get her there — she did. That’s why celebrities are so protective about how their likeness is used: their personal
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by bradchris 2y ago
The Paramount Decrees way back in the 1940s/1950s: that's why Hollywood studios cannot produce movies and own the theaters which exhibit them. It's also similar to the (much more complex) reasons TV Service Providers (Direc
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by bradchris 3y ago
It’s called politicking. It happens between any group of people of any size greater than 1: what priorities to focus on, what to apply extra scrutiny to, what to leave alone for another day, etc. In our government, that’s a big part of what
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by bradchris 3y ago
If we had a strong executive branch right now, we’d have already threatened to launch an FTC inquiry to break up Amazon and or nationalize SpaceX in response, merited or not. The pure shock of the prospect of breaking them up would spook in
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by bradchris 3y ago
Funny enough, I actually think it’s a bad idea to go after either: both of those institutions, ultimately, are checks on the State — and historically, when a state turns to fascism, universities and religious organizations (save the “favore
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by bradchris 3y ago
On the other hand, you could also argue that if AI takes all financial incentives from professionals to produce original works, then the AI will lose out on quality material to train on and become worse. Unless your argument is there’s no n
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by bradchris 3y ago
Well, there’s the entire history of Dole and also the United Fruit Company in South America. In more recent history, Exxon has a checkered past when it comes to using force against sovereign citizens, often employing paramilitary organizati
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by bradchris 3y ago
But would you let them? Alone, I mean. No pre-set plan, no parental supervision, just a “I’m going to go meet my friends on this summer day, I’ll be back before dinner.” For purposes of illustration, assume these kids are aged 9-14, or ther
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by bradchris 3y ago
Considering Texas has categorized it as child abuse, and begun investigations on by-every-metric very loving parents to take custody away from them, even for those who transitioned prior to any law changes (and the fact that Texas has some
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by bradchris 4y ago
> people actually doing things out in the world Those were the people who were previously verified? I.E. they were notable enough to a _large enough cross section of twitter users_ in some way shape or form. Sure, members of the media we
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by bradchris 4y ago
Similar to the reason mortgage APR will differ among seemingly similar homebuyers at the same point in time (and even then, only after you actually send over your financial documentation can you see your rate), my guess would be one can&#x2
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by bradchris 4y ago
So what about Bachelor and Baccalaureate both being words that have their pre-Latin roots in Arabic: Bihaqq Al-riwayatt (“the right to restate the learning to somebody else“). Or the fact that ceremonial graduation garb in the EU and US, f
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by bradchris 4y ago
By that logic, FDR was so far left he broke the scale! In the… 30s. And yet he was considered then (and now) as less socialist / more politically to the right than many leaders in Europe at the time. He was our most progressive preside
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by bradchris 4y ago
Every, and I mean _every_, successful revolution was due to the governments/rulers/aristocrats/elites thinking they could successfully quell a revolution with force and distance themselves from the mobs. In the French revolut
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by bradchris 4y ago
"Hospitals barely make money as it is, I don't see how this is a sustainable solution. Paying more does not create capacity in this industry." The problem is – and this may be very bizarre in a society as capitalistic as the
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by bradchris 4y ago
I'm on Twitter most every day; I don't follow Elon Musk (I try not to follow any big twitter accounts, rather than curate interesting smaller accounts); I didn't see the poll until two days after it was already closed; I thin
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by bradchris 4y ago
I mean, the poll is biased in that most people who saw it are followers of Elon Musk already (and the split is probably 60-70% people who like him, the rest being journalists, people curious to see what he has to say, and yes, people who di
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by bradchris 5y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/company/Tesla/salaries/ I mean, based on the objective aggregate information we have available, they pay much less than FAANGs. I said nothing about Tesla not being able to keep a staff
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by bradchris 5y ago
Well of course we live in a dollar-denominated capitalist hegemony today, and with globalization as it is anyone who wants to be a part of the world stage needs to put up or shut up, especially with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 (whi