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by fatbird 7y ago
Yes, it's legal to paint copies; it's selling them as real that's illegal (you don't need to make it obviously a copy). The artist claims he didn't pass them off as real, but that's his defense. He's bee
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by fatbird 7y ago
Part of Taber's point was that it's harder to scale up than down. This is solved technology, and their failure to make miniaturized versions work at all is a further indictment of their project as a harvester of investor funding
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by fatbird 7y ago
To what "ethno-religious viewpoint" are you referring?
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by fatbird 7y ago
> Stallman made questionable, but reasoned statements. These problematic statements were made in the context of someone who has a long, long history of upsetting, angering and offending people with bad behaviour. People in CSAIL kept pl
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by fatbird 7y ago
I hate that the parent is being downvoted. It speaks to the poor quality of the community at HN. Parent is absolutely right: twenty or thirty years ago, you were driven from the public sphere for merely a fraction of what passes today as
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by fatbird 7y ago
Everyone put plants in their office to passive aggressively shield themselves, because RMS hates plants.
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by fatbird 7y ago
Agreed, and I would that there's no such thing as "anonymously" except with respect to offical records. All the office staff knew it was Epstein. Donors outside the circle (like Bill Gates) knew Epstein was an agent of the
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by fatbird 7y ago
Lawrence Lessig just asserted on Medium [0] (without specific evidence) that the anonymization of Epstein's donations was done at the direction of MIT. If true, that loops the Institute generally into the whole scandal, where previous
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by fatbird 7y ago
Epstein at the time was known to be convicted of sex trafficking in 2008. That alone is sufficient reason to suspect that a couple young escorts are part of a continuing crime, but Zuckerman said that people generally believed that Epstein
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by fatbird 7y ago
I lost some respect for Lessig on reading it, and it has nothing to do with disagreeing with him. It's that his essay presents itself as a tortured apologia for his support of Ito, but is an implausible, badly-reasoned rationalization
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by fatbird 7y ago
Yes, this. Doing the right strategically for maximum effect is better than merely doing it for performative effect.
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by fatbird 7y ago
Over years and years of arguing online, I started to notice that few people change their minds. For most, argument is a sort of self-confirming rehearsal. You're being challenged to see if your articulation holds up to their assault,
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by fatbird 7y ago
I think you put your finger on it there: Klingon honour culture. In other words, there's an admirable culture underlying the exterior brutishness; a human in Klingon society had something to grab onto that they could respect and work
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by fatbird 7y ago
Criminal background checks on investors is considered basic due diligence for any fund.
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by fatbird 7y ago
I'm not arguing for more or less regulation. I'm arguing that we have a societal interest in having some direct or indirect regulatory handle on many jobs that don't obviously require it, and cases like you're raising o
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by fatbird 7y ago
You ignored the substance of my point: a dishwasher is an employee of a licenced/regulated business operator, who is answerable to a regulatory regime. The state has a regulatory handle on the dishwasher already, and doesn't need
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by fatbird 7y ago
In point of fact, barbers and hair dressers are virtually always independent contractors sharing a shop space. It's basically never the case in North America that they're employees; this saves the shop owner all sorts of hassle,
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by fatbird 7y ago
Look up Typhoid Mary [0]. We don't licence dish washers because running a restaurant requires adhering to a large body of commercial food safety law that requires the restaurant owner/operator to maintain standards of hygiene. I
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by fatbird 7y ago
Note that cosmetology isn't just hair-washing: it covers a wide range of applying a variety of substances to people's hair and skin, often near orifices that more easily absorb toxic subatances like eyes or mouths. Note that the p
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by fatbird 7y ago
Leave it to the HN community to view a lice outbreak as an acceptable price to pay for the freedom of the market.
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by fatbird 7y ago
No, it's not. But no personal decision is made in a void. Locally rational decisions are often inexplicable to people who've never struggled with money.
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by fatbird 7y ago
Because without minimal standards for sterilizing tools, hair dressers can spread lice. Basic licencing requirements give the municipality a chance to ensure that everyone washing hair has been told about basic hygienic standards for washi
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by fatbird 7y ago
But what it usually requires is an eight hour course in which you're told repeatedly that you need to sterilize combs in a solution that kills lice so you don't spread lice. Let's not pretend that licencing requirements are a
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by fatbird 7y ago
Well, yes, that's right: the return value of an assignment expression is the left side's value, which is what makes the assignment/evaluation work.
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by fatbird 7y ago
Agreed, but the anarchy of JS was a result of a dead standards process between the major vendors that resulted in de facto freeze. The anarchy is direct result of a stewardship body not evolving the language to meet evolving needs.
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by fatbird 7y ago
The unix philosophy of simplicity was on a per tool basis, not function or line of code. The walrus operator is Python version of what we can do now in C or in JS, doing plain assignment in an expression while evaluating it for truthiness.
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by fatbird 7y ago
All you're doing then is moving the evolution of the language into the common libraries, community conventions, and tooling. Think of JavaScript before ES2015: it had stayed almost unchanged for more than a decade, and as a result, kn
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by fatbird 7y ago
Linus has demonstrated incredible long-term effectiveness as a software developer, both creating and then shepherding two of the most important pieces of software of the last 50 years. But he seems qualitatively different than Ballard. I&#
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by fatbird 7y ago
Yes, these are implementation specific problems. I think the article wasn't saying "just use ECC instead", it was saying "use ECC instead because it has a widely recognized and standardized implementation path that&#x27
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by fatbird 7y ago
The author isn't considering an alternative strategy, which is to address security issues in-place (i.e., without upgrading Django). This means keeping up on them and substantively addressing them through configuration or possibly cus

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