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by jevoten 5y ago
> This is why I am very careful about how I make "useful" software and release it to the world without any solid way for me to get paid for my efforts. I simply do not want to be in a situation where my software that I develop
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by jevoten 5y ago
A good analysis of what open source enables - Facebook et al. were able to build their companies more easily using it. But you forget to compare it to the alternative, where there is no significant open source or libre software available. Y
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by jevoten 5y ago
You act like getting informed on the law is somehow contrary to hiring a lawyer, which is especially bizarre, since most of the advice was phrased as "in my experience X is likely to happen, but you should consult with a lawyer".
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by jevoten 5y ago
> That's not true. If I'm forced to see ads they might as well be personalized. Don't forget personalized prices, too. Or pushing on you the "premium" versions of products. We show that personalized prices and a
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by jevoten 5y ago
> Yes, we can do better by reducing the administrative burden, but that slice of the pie is less than 10%. Does this less than 10% include the time doctors themselves spend on administration? I've heard that filling out complicated
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by jevoten 5y ago
$768B is a parasitic drain on your economy that is accelerating the rate at which China is overtaking the US. The Soviet Union collapsed in great part because they could not keep up economically. The same is happening to the US now. Besides
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by jevoten 5y ago
It gets better - paraphrased from http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/... : In 2019, the Twitter executive for the Middle East, Gordon MacMillan, was unmasked as an active duty officer
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by jevoten 5y ago
> why did you ever expect the top executives of a multi-million (or in this case, trillion) dollar corporation to care about anything but profits and their own well-being? Perhaps he expected his government to incentivize/compel the
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by jevoten 5y ago
> This is almost always why DRM is used. No, DRM is used to extend control to media players and manufacturers via licensing. The rest are just excuses.
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by jevoten 5y ago
Is that against Twitter rules? Implying intelligence agencies would secretly do something untoward? Edit: The cached tweet: https://www.twitter.com/HardensBetter/status/146830497599857... Many think Epstein was c
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by jevoten 5y ago
A commenter in that Twitter thread claims it was banned "Because it was a dodgy account!", but doesn't explain how it was "dodgy" - any ideas? > if they're acting on behalf of powerful state actors, how can
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by jevoten 5y ago
> regulating the social media hours of their kids Parents can regulate the hours, but unless they regulate them down to zero, they cannot affect the adictiveness engineered into the product. Yes, the dose makes the poison, but I guarante
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by jevoten 5y ago
> she said “a lot of really awful racist things” [..] a link to a white supremacist video [..] his parents could not comprehend the reality of people being victimised because of their background, especially given his own [Jewish] family
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by jevoten 5y ago
Can someone explain how software for generic computers does not count as "software as such", which the EPC excludes from patentability [1]? What is the purpose of excluding software from patents, only to have the next paragraph (a