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by ikeboy 6y ago
I'll refer you to my post arguing against this exact claim: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/dr74i0/life_i...
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by ikeboy 6y ago
You're just repeating the premise. Why does a growing economy require a growing population? There's not a very strong correlation between population and GDP per capita - the US has the highest GDP and there's several countrie
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Sure, but why do you need an increasing number of them?
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Why does the economy require new entrants?
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I responded to a comment saying no court has ever disagreed with a reading saying perjury only applies to the authorization part, with two examples showing otherwise. As far as I know, every court to have considered the issue has said that
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by ikeboy 6y ago
>historically high price relative to the estimated earnings potential It's high compared to expected earnings over the next year. Which is to be expected, because the ratio of expected lifetime earnings over expected 12 month earnin
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by ikeboy 6y ago
There's no private cause of action for perjury. I agree that it would be nice if some ambitious DA would go after some of the people abusing DMCA or other infringement claims. Or perhaps someone in a state that allows private prosecuti
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Courts have interpreted the statute to mean that perjury applies to a good faith belief in infringement as well. See two cases cited at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198236
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by ikeboy 6y ago
>From the day the text was proposed, the fact that the only thing thar a DMCA takedown required to be sworn under penalty of perjury was that the complaining party represented a rights holder has been a frequent point of criticism. This
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by ikeboy 6y ago
>This is not how the counter DMCA notification system is supposed to work. Upon receipt of a counter DMCA notice, you are required to forward the notice to the original sender, and restore content within 10 days. This is wrong. The DMCA
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Google sued someone last year for false claims, settled for 25k. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16074437/youtube-llc-v-... I'm involved in a lawsuit against a large company that made false claims of inf
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by ikeboy 6y ago
What lawsuit are you referring to? There's no requirement to respond to counter-dmcas.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
You could list the contact info on a different page and just link to it "to contact this author, click here"
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Perfect hedges are impossible. TIPS are a far better hedge for inflation than Bitcoin.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
TIPS are a risk free hedge against inflation. Bitcoin is ... not that.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Highly recommend "lying for money" by Dan Davies, a very readable account of a wide range of business frauds.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nynd.113766... here's another recent case awarding $86k for false DMCA notices. Here's one from 2014 https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/g
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by ikeboy 6y ago
>A required retraction is not much of a legal sanction. It gives somewhat of a hint about the nature of the settlement, which in most cases is private. There do seem to be a decent number of settlements; my guess is the most egregious ca
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by ikeboy 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Policy_Group_v._Diebold... .
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I think I only did one edit to add the cases, won't edit that comment any more. I did disclaim that those are broader than DMCA. I'm well aware of the distinctions. You're looking only for final judgements? I have a handful w
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Depends on what your criteria is. Google settled for 25k with someone who submitted fake notices to YouTube. Given that most litigation ends before a decision, it's likely there's been other private settlements. More broadly than
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by ikeboy 6y ago
From your first link: >Based on this analysis, we estimate that 91% of all anti-net-neutrality submissions, and 79% of all pro-net-neutrality submissions, came from bots. Their survey data is mostly inconsistent with the WSJ data. See h
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Nope
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by ikeboy 6y ago
There were large numbers of comments on both sides made by people who denied writing them when asked. WSJ found thousands of people who denied writing a particular pro-NN message with their names attached.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
This is a technical legal point. You can be forced to produce information you have, but generally not to create new information.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Yes really. Suppose there's a hundred different possible sounds, and each sound has a 1% chance of randomly correlating . The probability of at least one sound correlating would be very high, but once that's identified you would c
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I've seen this mentioned a few times now on HN as a drawback of Ubuntu. Are multiple monitors really that much of a benefit that so many people use them?
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by ikeboy 6y ago
But coughs is not the only relevant variable. You'd have to analyze everything that could plausibly be used as an accusation of cheating. Looking only at coughs is already falling prey to selection bias.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
This neglects selection effects. There's a reason he's watching this episode instead of other episodes - if the studio investigates every large win and only makes noise about it when they have some level of evidence, as here, then
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by ikeboy 6y ago
1. This is not true. Amazon still commingles inventory with 3p sellers. 2. For Apple specifically, Amazon blocked everyone but an Apple provided list of authorized sellers, so you're pretty much guaranteed to get an authentic product.

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