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by jumelles 6y ago
Any worries about over-expansion of the public domain on legislature-produced works seem very strange to me. Why does anything that lawmakers produce deserve to be copyrighted? They are elected public servants.
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by jumelles 7y ago
It hasn't been government-operated since 1970.
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by jumelles 7y ago
Trump is inexplicably balking at actually using the Defense Production Act: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/488526-frustration-mou... > But in a subsequent tweet on Wednesday evening, Trump indicated that
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by jumelles 7y ago
Yet.
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by jumelles 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/coronavirus-quarantine... > The C.D.C. rewrote its quarantine guidelines in 2017 and they have never been tested in court. The Supreme Court has also never dealt
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by jumelles 7y ago
This argument doesn't negate the fact that a "flatter curve" means fewer people in hospitals (or turned away from hospitals) at a single time. The fact that we probably can't slow the virus enough to prevent overloading
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by jumelles 7y ago
This sort of interactivity would be perfect for Wikipedia.
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nCoV-2019 is the virus and COVID-2019 is the disease.
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COVID-19 is the name of the disease caused by the virus, which is known as SARS-CoV-2.
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> There were also security breaches that put Crypto under clouds of suspicion. Documents released in the 1970s showed extensive — and incriminating — correspondence between an NSA pioneer and Crypto’s founder. Foreign targets were tippe
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by jumelles 7y ago
One of the issues was that the app needed to be installed outside of the App Store. It seems that by being an app and not a website another hurdle was introduced.
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by jumelles 7y ago
> “I still haven’t been forgiven by God for the covering up I did last year,” one of the employees says in messages from 2018, apparently in reference to interactions with the regulator. > “Would you put your family on a Max simulator
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by jumelles 7y ago
You choose by voting for people to represent you.
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I really hope this isn't too little too late. The sale should be stopped.
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by jumelles 7y ago
Well that's the total opposite of what the planet needs.
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by jumelles 7y ago
I can't believe it's taken them this long for proper 2FA.
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by jumelles 7y ago
Copyright infringement isn't theft. All of the creators have already been paid. Arguing that piracy will "bring an end to content creation altogether" is pure hyperbole.
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by jumelles 7y ago
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1192518085997137920 "On November 5th, @Gfycat announced they were going to delete scads of content off their site in 15 days. @archiveteam began trying to download some of
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by jumelles 7y ago
What format does the music come in?
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by jumelles 7y ago
There are millions of families in the US living below the poverty line.
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by jumelles 7y ago
Absolutely. And it's important to keep in mind that were it not for unions (SAG-AFTRA and IATSE mainly) it would likely be a very different story, with low wages and unsafe working conditions.
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by jumelles 7y ago
What sort of CLI interface does XC have? Can I finally replace keepassc?
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by jumelles 7y ago
The key here is that the executive branch of the US government doesn't get to do these things in a vacuum - both Congress and the Supreme Court temper its power, and though elections in the US are far from perfect they are still free.
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by jumelles 7y ago
If you're using bc for the first time, be aware that you almost certainly want to run bc -l -- otherwise no decimals will be displayed and you'll get whole number answers to everything. The -l flag changes that behavior to instead
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by jumelles 7y ago
> Mr Hauer is a sociologist so this seems a bold claim He also has a PhD in geography from the University of Georgia.
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by jumelles 7y ago
> One man told a deputy that they were conducting a vulnerability study and handed the deputy a piece of paper, which he described as his "get out of jail free card," containing the names and contact information for three state
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by jumelles 7y ago
The fact that the government doesn’t get to step in and insist on sanitized portrayals of American life is a huge part of why Hollywood has the soft power it does. Even the ratings system is technically opt-in and was set up by the studios
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by jumelles 7y ago
"What drinks do you have?" "Can I get combo without the drink?" "How much cheaper is it with a water?" "My kid wants the rainbow Happy Meal toy, can we have that one please?" "What time did you s
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by jumelles 7y ago
Everything Boeing does now is going to be put under a microscope by the press (at least) for probably years to come.
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by jumelles 7y ago
"Restore from backup" really ought to be the default response to ransomware. That will probably never happen though...

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