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by jawns 6y ago
Auctioning guardianship responsibilities seems like it will attract people or organizations who are primarily financially driven and looking to do the bare minimum, or who have to bid so low to compete that they don't have margin to do
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by jawns 6y ago
I'm going to give you a slightly long-winded answer, but I think it's important to spell it out, because there is a lot of confusion about how the IA's scheme affects authors. When an author writes a book, the laws grants the
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by jawns 6y ago
I think if the IA had contacted authors and said, "Hey, would you be willing to make your book available for lending as part of our national emergency program?" the average author would have been willing to opt in. But IA did not
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by jawns 6y ago
I appreciate your thoughtful response and want to address a couple of points. I am an author, but I am also an advocate for copyright reform. I would like to see copyright duration changed to something more sensible, such as its pre-1976 l
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by jawns 6y ago
Yes, although I have my gripes with IA, I fully support the CDL model, and I think there is strong legal justification for it. The inherent differences the publishers list -- the speed at which ebooks can be lent, the fact that they don&#x2
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by jawns 6y ago
Yes, I agree with you, and I think IA's uncontrolled digital lending was a gross violation of copyright. I was just explaining the Controlled Digital Lending system because the person to whom I was responding was saying that all forms
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by jawns 6y ago
Hi, I'm an author, so I have a vested interest in copyright being respected. Are you familiar with the first-sale doctrine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine It basically says that once a person bu
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by jawns 6y ago
I am an author, and several of my books were published by one of the publishers who is a party to the suit. Unlike these publishers, however, I support Controlled Digital Lending. I think it's closely analogous to print lending in eve
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by jawns 6y ago
> The publishers need to prove the Lending Library loaned more [copies] of each claimed work than what was locked away in physical libraries that were closed. The Internet Archive suddenly gets the right to distribute books owned by a pu
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This doesn't get directly addressed in the article, but the problem goes beyond Americans not making babies. It's also a problem with making families. In 1968, only 7% of parents with a child in the home were unmarried. In 2017,
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I couldn't buy a car because my email address was 'invalid'(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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You don't see any benefit in his sharing details about this incident in a blog post so others can avoid his mistake?
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The best "I told you so" is the silent kind. An "I told you so" is always preceded by a challenge to your authority. The other person should have had reason to believe that you knew what you were talking about, but they
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by jawns 6y ago
So the founders need to research every potential company that could join their pool to figure out how to rank them? Seems like that takes a lot of time to do right.
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Show HN: A Kid's Guide to Distributism(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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I've heard this "you can choose one but not the other" argument for years, and it reveals some incorrect assumptions about religious beliefs. Ask religious believers (or non-believers) if they can just up and choose the rever
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You're being downvoted, I assume, for breaking HN guidelines, specifically around the accusation of brigading: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Did you mean to say 180 degree turn?
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You are going to find this effect in any strong community where social capital is present and influential. There's nothing specific to Utah's LDS community that leads to MLM peddling/participation. It's just that this co
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by jawns 6y ago
I read a profile a few years ago about a poor Mexican town whose male residents almost all spent the early part of their working years in one particular rural area of Delaware. They would work hard and send back a substantial amount to the
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Metal-Eating Bacteria Predicted over a Century Ago Discovered in Lab Accident(sciencealert.com)
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Situational Awareness for Cybersecurity Architecture: 5 Recommendations(insights.sei.cmu.edu)
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With a degree no longer enough, job seekers must prove their skills in tests(hechingerreport.org)
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UK, US, Canada accuse Russia of hacking virus vaccine trials(apnews.com)
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by jawns 6y ago
Those assets are, in large part, the church buildings themselves. They are not liquid assets. Indeed, they are even more illiquid than most other real estate, because the market for church buildings, all of which are constructed to meet t
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by jawns 6y ago
I'm a Catholic, and although I believe in my church's doctrine, I don't always come to the defense of my church's leaders. Here's how I see this: Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Espinoza v. Montana Depart
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by jawns 6y ago
As the PROBLEM statement says: > it would be difficult for them to quickly prove their authenticity Yes, you could tell them something that happens tomorrow or the next day. But if time is of the essence and you can't wait until to
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by jawns 6y ago
I hope this counts as weird enough ... PROBLEM: If time travelers from the future were to visit you, it would be difficult for them to quickly prove their authenticity. SOLUTION: Temporal passwords. At the start of each year, you devise a
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Human foosball: New form of soccer developed for pandemic(apnews.com)
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by jawns 6y ago
> At DuckDuckGo, we do not collect or share any personal information. > These requests are anonymous and the information is used only by us to improve our products. There are some philosophical questions here, like: What information i

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