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by ikeboy 6y ago
That wasn't my criticism. I critiqued a specific proposed law, which would indeed run afoul of the first amendment.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Plenty of companies reject a large portion of their DMCA complaints that they believe don't represent infringement. Look through some transparency reports. In the absence of the safe harbor, companies would be taking down far more cont
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I explicitly pointed out that laws regulating contracts would be fine. That was the second example. The first example made no mention of contracts. Re DMCA, as you note, there's no requirement to take down content after receiving a not
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by ikeboy 6y ago
>A state consumer protection law that requires a reasonable person standard before deleting user-generated content. This violates the 1st amendment by compelling speech. If you want to pass such a law, section 230 isn't your biggest
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by ikeboy 6y ago
This [0] has numbers from 2015, which are older, and it doesn't have a full breakdown, but it says that 200 grams (or around 7 oz) would cost $2.67 as the cheapest option through China Post. The next option is 500 grams which is 17 oz,
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Where is your source for the $1.90 number here?
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by ikeboy 6y ago
That timeline makes sense. Ten years ago the UPU rates were lower than in recent years.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Many years ago it was possible, not recently. UPU rates used to be lower before 2015 or so. Also, for small, light products, it's absolutely possible to ship below $1. Full 5-digit pre-sorting and injection for a 1 oz flat costs 43 cen
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by ikeboy 6y ago
My understanding is Amazon roughly passes through their costs on FBA. Regardless, I pointed at the cost that anyone who ships reasonable volume and does similar sorting to China Post can access.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
And as I pointed out in the comments then, Amazon charged $3.28 for delivery in two days at the time.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
That's certainly possible. I'm sure they lose money on some packages. But it's nowhere near the difference that people claim.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I was not doing a comparison, I was showing how the NPR numbers were dishonest. NPR claims that it costs $6.30 to mail something across the street. They never give a specific number for a shipment from China to compare to. Prices have gone
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I've previously critiqued the mighty mug example. It has the exact issue I pointed to above - comparing the US retail rate to an international sorted rate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21073682
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I've done the research several times when I've seen people making specific claims with specific prices, and each time I found it to be false. The cheapest USPS shipping for your dimensions and weight is $2.05 currently with parcel
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by ikeboy 6y ago
International shipping prices went up across the board around then because of the face mask rush. The UPU change mentioned only happened in July.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I'll ask again for a source. It should at minimum lay out the size and weight of the package, so I can verify the actual cost.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
>Thanks to the UPU, Before July it was cheaper to mail a package to Chicago from Shanghai than to shop to Chicago from Dallas. Do you have a source on this? Most claims of this nature that I've seen fall apart on investigation - usu
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Where are they getting public domain opinions that CL doesn't have? Are these states or counties that CL doesn't scrape? It would be nice to have a breakdown by jurisdiction. Also, by "case" do you mean "opinions&qu
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by ikeboy 6y ago
I don't see a breakdown by source. What does this have that courtlistener doesn't, for example?
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by ikeboy 6y ago
All cause mortality means the rate of deaths from all causes. You measure the effect of something else, in this case exercise, on this rate.
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It's Charisma, Stupid (2004)(paulgraham.com)
2 points by ikeboy 6y ago|0 comments
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Court Dismisses Charter’s Claim of ‘False’ RIAA DMCA Notices(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by ikeboy 6y ago|1 comments
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by ikeboy 6y ago
What about an Apple watch or another smartwatch?
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by ikeboy 6y ago
This is mildly misleading. RIAA's argument is mostly about the marketing for use with copyrighted content. The statute clearly doesn't say what EFF is saying RIAA thinks it says, and I don't see any indication that RIAA actua
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Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests(torrentfreak.com)
287 points by ikeboy 6y ago|148 comments
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Every notice is. This wasn't a notice. The recourse is filing a declaratory judgement to establish the legality of the code.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
This isn't a 512 notice, so a counternotice is not possible.
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by ikeboy 6y ago
It's not a direct match, but that's to be expected in an underexplored area of law. To get really precise, I'd probably argue along these lines: 1. Declaration that YouTube's rolling cipher isn't an effective access
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by ikeboy 6y ago
Yes, technically I'd be going for a declaratory judgement of non-circumvention. It's been done before. Matthew Green brought a declaratory judgement case on section 1201, although in different circumstances - see https:/&#x2
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by ikeboy 6y ago
>One of the earliest illegal prime numbers was generated in March 2001 by Phil Carmody. Its binary representation corresponds to a compressed version of the C source code of a computer program implementing the DeCSS decryption algorithm,

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