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by kemitchell 2y ago
> not a person who turned off Ukraine's starlink access on a whim based on his personal opinion of an international event I marked this story to follow up on when it broke, because it interested me. I'm no Musk fan, but I did f
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by kemitchell 2y ago
I'm a native English speaker going on twenty years of acquired Russian, since college. "Russkie" in English doesn't correspond to the plural form in Russian to my intuition. It's the singular, then pluralized in the
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by kemitchell 2y ago
When teaching beginners shell, it's natural to teach `ls` for listing directory contents. It's also natural to extend from `ls` to `ls | ...` for processing lists of files The important point to get across is that pipes let us bui
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by kemitchell 2y ago
Thanks so much for taking time to share links and notes!
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by kemitchell 2y ago
Any sign of the latest draft they're referring to? I didn't see a link in the post. The May 23 Innovation-Data-Commerce markup? I'd be interested to see what kind of non-discrimination provision was removed. A rule against
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by kemitchell 2y ago
Reading just the syllabus, I was surprised to see no mention of accountability. Quick Ctrl+F searches for "accountability", "appeal", and "review" gave no results. "Reputation" appears, but in a secti
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by kemitchell 2y ago
I'd take this as a moment to celebrate a guy who's done a lot of great work without having his name bathed in limelight. Not a prompt to wring hands about succession or security bobbles in other people's projects. I don'
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by kemitchell 2y ago
Thank you for this context. Giving a bunch of projects $300 a month in credits for six months is still far more than nearly any company does. I wonder if they had projects legitimately consuming more than $300 a month of their services.
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by kemitchell 2y ago
There's a not entirely rigorous, but empirically weighty analogy here to Silicon Valley. Why don't startups just fly into SFO, rent an AirBnB for a few days, hit Sand Hill Road, and split back to wherever overhead is cheaper?
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by kemitchell 2y ago
The line about being the voice of "little tech" rubbed me pretty hard the wrong way. Nothing's stopping me or my clients from contacting senators, reps, and regulators, joining political organizations, or signing open lette
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by kemitchell 2y ago
I've long used a toylike "Lists and Maps of Strings" format for personal recordkeeping and automation. https://www.npmjs.com/package/lamos I've never gone back to formalize the grammar or otherwise
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by kemitchell 2y ago
I practice law in California. Lawyers absolutely read every word of court decisions—citations, notes, appendices, concurrences, and dissents. Usually multiple times. But that tends to happen when looking to cite, criticize, or argue about a
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by kemitchell 2y ago
> Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors An astounding milestone for the English language. Imagine what this sentence possibly could have meant in 1990.
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by kemitchell 2y ago
The whole history of shareware was badly neglected along my path into the industry, as if all those people set sail sometime in the 1990s and were never heard from again. In fact they continued in parallel, and still show very obvious influ
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by kemitchell 2y ago
Enjoy some Tarkovsky.
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by kemitchell 2y ago
I recommend only with three serious reservations: Viewers should be well aware of the Kuleshov effect. Viewers should understand that Curtis is highly selective in what he takes and puts together. Viewers should carefully consider any decis
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by kemitchell 2y ago
Where do statutes or court decisions say that? To my eye, none of the authorities quoted in the article do. It's merely implied.
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by kemitchell 2y ago
The authors seem to be torching a semantic straw man here. The same abuse of terms affords their spicy title. I'm not a UK lawyer, but the law they quote says nothing about the logic machines are programmed to follow presumptively cr
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by kemitchell 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...
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by kemitchell 3y ago
I wonder if software really deserves its own economics. If you haven't read Hal Varian's Information Rules , I highly recommend it. Check the publication date, then read it anyway, then reflect on the publication date when you&#x
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by kemitchell 3y ago
Clearly Wasmer wants to do WebAssembly. But for a whole new, general-purpose programming language, what's the case for that target, versus, say, LLVM intermediate representation?
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by kemitchell 3y ago
Did you read the guide I linked to above? From its first paragraph: > In this guidance, we provide a framework for analyzing whether a digital asset has the characteristics of one particular type of security – an "investment contrac
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by kemitchell 3y ago
More than 200 years of Supreme Court decisions show there's no one "the spirit" of the constitution we can consult via Ouija Board on Capitol Hill. There are many, and they often disagree. Fortunately, we have institutions wh
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by kemitchell 3y ago
The US government also issues cash.
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by kemitchell 3y ago
The SEC doesn't set the legal standard for what is or is not a security. The courts do, based on the statutes passed by Congress. Here's a guide they published: https://www.sec.gov/corpfin/framework-investment
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by kemitchell 3y ago
> Note though that the fraud that the prosecutor addresses here doesn’t have anything to do with crypto per se. As in, it’s not about securities laws, or even AML stuff. That's playing pretty tight with definitions to push "cry
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by kemitchell 3y ago
People put money into FTX to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. FTX appropriated assets for a hedge fund that bought and sold cryptocurrencies. Why did they think they could run an exchange without complying with the laws for those? It was for
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by kemitchell 3y ago
MIT certainly doesn't say it can't be revoked. But do you really think it's inherently revocable at will , in all or even many practical circumstances? From the US law perspective, I understand that some courts have decide
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by kemitchell 3y ago
I wrote that post. I generally advise developers, and believe most of my US colleagues also advise developers, to treat past releases under MIT and BSD terms as irrevocable, even though they don't explicitly say they are. But that con
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by kemitchell 3y ago
I don't doubt your conviction. It's easy enough to stand up a website, but naming things and yet another public license change ain't nothing. I've guided companies to decisions on all these licensing choices. Decisions

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