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by gnopgnip 6y ago
Where do you draw the line on what is political? Is wearing a mask political? What about calling someone by their preferred pronoun, or recognizing gay marriage?
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
Baking soda or salt is preferable for putting out a fire. Or sand or kitty litter. Water as a last resort. Flour and baking power can be flammable
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
CA has a law that requires companies to accept cancellations in the same way you can sign up, online for instance, but it is mostly enforced against more serious scams, not legitimate companies that make cancellation difficult
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
>Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, an adaptation of that work. The owner of a copyright is generally the author or someone who has obtained the exclusive rights from t
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
What specific version of one note are you using? The search in OneNote included with office is noticeably better than the OneNote for Windows 10 that is preinstalled. There is an addin, NoteHighlight2016 that adds code syntax highlighting.
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
To put another way, if you do not have permission of the original author it is a derivative work, there is no valid copyright(at least in the US, but also in many other countries). It is only if the translation(or any derivative work) was m
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
There is big difference between commercial use, and profit as far as copyright goes. Editorial, artistic, or educational is not commercial, and it gets a more favorable judgement for fair use, but profit is not prohibited.
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
They don't need to cover the entire US to cover some local news
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
It doesn't cost them anything to do this, see domain tasting or https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/epp-status-codes-2014-...
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
A carbon tax that covers 100% of the external environmental cost on all goods would mean a substantial change in the way people live. Tautologically, such a change is needed to stop climate change. A change like this would mean gas, interna
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
I would much rather get an ad from someone I shared my email address with than whatever random businesses decided to pay google/facebook/etc the most
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
It isn't just about customers, but also vendors and employees.
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
As an partial/joint owner of a property you always have the right to partition, even if you don't have a contract ahead of time.
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
Then can the capitol hill police throw congress in jail anytime they decide a law congress made was illegal? No. There is a system of checks and balances to address unconstitutional laws, and to correct laws that are bad but not illegal.
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" Letting some people get away with speeding and other minor crimes isn't seen as an corruption, or something that needs to be stopped. It is also stil
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
97% of Stanford student undergrads live on campus. At many other colleges students are not allowed to live off campus unless they submit a formal request and receive approval to do so, and 90%+ is common. Then there are other types of schoo
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
The fact that it is an attack no one had prepared for, and over $100m was spent as a result points to an insider.
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
Sure, there are reasons people buy products with restrictions. But if there is harm to consumers, antitrust regulations can be used to prevent predatory business practices
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
This is like in Amazon sold a fridge and said you can only shop at Whole Foods. Epic wants users to be able to shop at stores other than Whole Foods, not to be carried at that store without a markup
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
Even if the compilers are biased, isn't it reflective of what users would experience because most software is made with biased compilers?
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Preventative care is covered in the US as well, at no cost
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When I was last in Djibouti 2g coverage was spotty, something like 20% of the country had no coverage, no 3g.
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
Google doesn't pass or fail, it gives a score and leaves it up to the site operator.
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
Both can be true. It can be wetter on average, but drier during fire season
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
The RIAA has unsuccessfully tried to claim that "making available(for download)" is infringement. So there would need to be some amount of actual uploading to prove this as a civil case. But even if you only seed while downloading
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
"Copyright" means the rights holder has the following exclusive rights. The right to reproduce and make copies of an original work; The right to prepare derivative works based on the original work; The right to distrib
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
CA requires that employers reimburse employees for work related expenses, so there is no issue with expense kickback taking someone below minimum wage. Reimbursement is not earned wages, it is not taxed. It is true reimbursement could be lo
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
And going after those tiny pieces would involve a lot of other people who are innocent
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
If they were employees they would be required to be reimbursed for business expenses including commercial insurance, and mileage to cover gas and depreciation.
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by gnopgnip 6y ago
Because taxpayers in the state of CA are in effect picking up the slack when the employer fails to pay for sick and family leave, unemployment, and healthcare. This change didn't happen overnight. AB5 was passed 6+ months ago, after ov

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