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by jjmarr 2y ago
Copyright itself is arguably theft sponsored by the state, because information can naturally be freely used/shared by all of humanity. Creating property rights in information reduces the collective knowledge of humanity (the commons),
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It's tricky, as a lot of what makes Wikipedia good is an accumulation of policies and practices that force you to use its features. You can't just install MediaWiki or Confluence and expect it to be good. As an example, orphan art
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by jjmarr 2y ago
That sounds like what is happening in the OP. Someone is now directly harming Nintendo's interests by sending fake DMCAs.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It doesn't look like the XML data is freely accessible. If I could get access to this data as a random student on the internet, I'd love to create an open source tool that generates an interactive visualization.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I go to university next to a safe injection site. It's very clear what addiction leads to.
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Deletion, departure, death: Experiences of AI companion loss(journals.sagepub.com)
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by jjmarr 2y ago
As the original commenter said, it is cheaper to pay for childcare than it is to pay money to an employee, have that salary be taxed, and then have that employee pay for childcare with the after-tax salary. Said employee can also drop their
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Could this have an impact on other prion diseases like variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow) disease?
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Wikipedia has a functioning appeals process in the form of RfCs, third opinions, and other dispute resolution processes (listed at [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution]]). American police officers don't have that.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The Ancient Egyptian god Thoth invented writing and presented it to the King: "This invention, O king," said Thoth, "will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Threadripper was an entire product line launched from below at AMD, famously. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2017/09/05/amd-ry...
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by jjmarr 2y ago
What's the order of magnitude of the amount of data sources? 100s, 1000s, tens of thousands?
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by jjmarr 2y ago
MI300X already leads in VRAM as it has 192 GB. For local inference, 7900 XTX has 24 GB of VRAM for less than $1000. At what threshold of VRAM would you start being interested in MI?
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It is open and they regularly merge PRs. https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Altitudes for aircraft use feet worldwide, to be fair.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
The point of "No Russian" is that the mass shooting was unjustified. You're an American who has infiltrated a terrorist group, and you go on a mass shooting with them to maintain your cover. Then, at the end of the mission, i
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by jjmarr 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_signal Salaries going up in tech are an indication that there are not enough programmers. Most growth in the US economy is now based on programming/technology.
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Literally the post in the OP, which linked this post by Brian Krebs: > A Canadian man who says he’s been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce scam is seeking to clear his name. His case appears to involve “triangulatio
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by jjmarr 2y ago
What's crazy about the original story is that you can buy something on Amazon with your own credit card from a highly rated vendor and go to jail because the seller was involved in a criminal enterprise!!! I know Amazon marketplace s
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by jjmarr 2y ago
> A double-entry system is an accounting method that tracks money at both its source and destination. There's an entire section on double-entry accounting in the article. The tl;dr is that if you take money out of an account, you ne
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by jjmarr 2y ago
That already happened, except Reddit, Facebook, and Hacker News don't pay for the content they aggregate. People dodge paywalls in the comments, and many don't even bother to read the story. What would a paid solution offer over t
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by jjmarr 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Colloid... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria There are entire groups of people that sell colloidal silver as an alternative health remedy e
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by jjmarr 2y ago
I would imagine people would go into your house + every warehouse, and just start looting everything. Most people do not have a large supply of non-perishable goods and will likely try to take yours. My point is the "vast quantity of g
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Honestly, lots of practice. I've been playing Roblox since 2008. Roblox has also always been text chat, so if I wanted to talk trash AND get kills, I had to be fast. That + a physical inability to handwrite so I've typed virtually
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by jjmarr 2y ago
It's working out great for me, actually, as the entire Canadian tech industry is based on outsourcing. We're less of a national security risk as an American client state. For critical infrastructure though, outsourcing is the wron
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Because it's objectively cheaper to outsource food production to countries with low cost of living. In an economically efficient world, all food in North America would be coming from Africa instead of going to Africa (see Dead Aid)
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Steno will get you to 200+ wpm, not 100. I've been trying to learn steno on and off for 5+ years. The problem is I already have 150 WPM on qwerty and I cannot think of a message on Teams faster than I currently type. The opportunity co
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by jjmarr 2y ago
You're right. I was going to tell you about what a nightmare infoboxes are, but my experience is clearly out of date. I guess I'm used to a large public failure killing a project. I'm extremely impressed by the experience now
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Nobody can do Agile right because there's no one-size fits-all process. There are Agile approaches you can use and see if they work for your team. The motto is "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" because i
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by jjmarr 2y ago
Speaking as someone who attended a public high school with competitive admissions, the students are much more important than the teachers or the education itself. Being around a group of talented and driven people motivates you to do well.

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