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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Because studying the planetology of the various other bodies in our solar system may spark novel ideas about how to successfully manage our own planet.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
So the publisher just gets to keep the author’s share of their joint contribution to the economy simply because it hasn’t been realized yet? If you want to stop inter generational wealth transfer, work to limit that directly. This is just
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Imagine that an author passes away between handing the manuscript to a publisher and the first printing hitting store shelves. Does the publisher owe anything to the author’s estate? Can another publisher immediately issue their own editio
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
That’s essentially right but the ability to use takedowns to bully the smaller fish comes from a slightly different source. What the DMCA safe harbor provisions both try and succeed to do is remove those intermediaries from potential copyri
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Though it may take some time, a counter-notice reinstating the content is supposed to be just as automatic as a takedown removing it. Presumably, failure to do so has similar risks to the ISP of their customer suing them for a DMCA violatio
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Honoring a DMCA takedown isn’t ever required, but ignoring one strips away the safe harbor protections for that specific content. This in turn makes you liable for any copyright infringement of that content as if you had published it yours
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The DMCA safe harbor provisions give middlemen/service providers some protections. So long as they are storing things at someone else’s direction and comply with takedown requests, they are protected from most copyright claims. This
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Personally, I’d be happy with the free monthly quota they offer. Unfortunately, I get charged for one of those views whenever I load a NYT page even if I didn’t realize that’s where a link would send me. They (and other similar paywalls) h
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Though it’s probably the most commonly used definition for complex exponentiation, e^i pi=-1 is not an axiom— it is derived from the basic rules of integer arithmetic expanded in scope until they make a closed system. And from this, we can
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I’ve found that the real value I get out of a nonfiction book is rarely the conclusion or any particular fact found within its pages. Instead, it’s a guide map for how to look at the sorts of things that the book is about and draw the sort
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The goal is policy change, and that requires convincing people to vote for things. The path that makes that happen is education, policy advocacy, and ultimately gaining political office. Direct action, however, tends to put more emphasis o
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The problem with most climate change activism is that it’s hyper-targeted against the offender du jour and all of the others are largely ignored. It’s a global-scale problem that demands global-scale solutions; the vigilantism isn’t doing
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s still paper, not cloth— the fibers aren’t woven in any particular pattern. It is made with the sorts of fibers you’re more likely to find in textiles, though: cotton and linen in place of wood pulp.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
For the print edition, the image is there to catch the eye of people that are interested in the general topic as they scan through the publication to determine what they want to read. I suspect it’s mostly vestigial for the one-article-per
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
After reading “As We May Think”, the thing that struck me wasn’t so much the predictions that Bush got right (which were many), but one particular technology that he missed: digital image processing and printing. Everything he describes is
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
At any given point in time, it's possible to calculate how much value a stock has already given to its bearer via dividends, and adjust those values for the changing purchasing power over of currency over time. Once a company dissolves
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
In fact, it was possible 100 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company (minus the autonomous part)
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
What it actually says is that a militia is necessary to protect a free state. Then and now, “militia” generally refers to those non-professional soldiers that may be called upon in times of great need. This would seem to at least cover ev
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Most highway pile ups are a result of drivers following too closely and therefore being unable to stop without hitting the brand-new stationary obstacle where the car they were following used to be.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
For financial products, there is a correct price but it cannot be known for certain until far in the future. Stocks in particular represent a claim on the future dividends of the company, whether issued during operation or at the dissoluti
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There’s a lot more that goes into the success of a business than the financials that investment services firms have access to. It’s entirely possible for someone that interacts with a company on a daily or weekly basis to have a better ide
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
From my (admittedly limited) understanding, this is not actually legal under the GDPR. Certainly the alleged (but not demonstrated) behind-the-scenes trading of personal info isn’t, but the shared id is also personally-identifying informat
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The downside of an XOR-linked list is that a single pointer to a list node isn’t enough information to traverse the list. Instead, you need to know the addresses of two adjacent nodes. They also don’t have an innate directionality to them
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The question is how can you be confident that the cases you’re putting into category D don’t actually belong in category U. The investigator is tasked with finding people who faked their own death; how can you tell the difference between a
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
You’re assuming there’s a common ground between the two sides of the inverter. If it’s allowed to float, whichever terminal is supposed to be lower at the moment can be connected to the DC ground while the other is connected to the stepped
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Option 4: output square wave power instead of sinusoidal and hope you don’t destroy the downstream equipment. In practice, isn’t most of that storage used as part of a boost converter to get a higher output voltage than you input? You eith
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> There's nothing smart about not benefiting from the new features today for the sake of saving a few hundred dollars. Sure there is. For every life-changing new feature, there are a dozen that end up not going anywhere. For the o
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
For the most part at Facebook, ongoing maintenance and business outcomes are the responsibility of the team that originally wrote and deployed the feature. The idea is to give the team (and ideally the individual developer) as much agency
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I don't understand how providing further distribution of these messages helps anyone other than the attackers, whose obvious goal was to get these messages seen by lots of people. Why else would they be posting them via a high-profile
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
People are social creatures, and have a strong innate desire to stand out and express themselves. If a game successfully creates a social atmosphere, selling cosmetic items can be a lucrative business. It's essentially the digital ver

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