lakecresva

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by lakecresva 4y ago
I meant each author who accepts their offer and assigns their copyrights, not each contributor to an individual project.
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by lakecresva 4y ago
What you seem to want is pro bono representation, which is just not what they're offering. It's apples to oranges. Achieving something that approaches your idea of fairness would require negotiation and the maintenance of an ongoi
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by lakecresva 4y ago
I can't speak for them, but I can tell you that would add an enormous amount of overhead and risk for the lawyers involved. If you assign them your copyrights, their job is just to find GPL violations from the pool of projects they hav
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by lakecresva 4y ago
The relicensing language is not entirely unreasonable in my opinion. There are huge portions of open source copyright thinking that have never actually been analyzed by an appellate court, and none of it has ever been seriously examined by
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by lakecresva 4y ago
Because 99.9% of developers aren't willing to suffer the time and expense of investigating violations and enforcing their copyrights in federal court.
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> There's the theoretical possibility of a copyright claim for the text of the AGPL, where the AGPL's copyright holders disallow derivative works There's also a pretty clear case for promissory estoppel since their FAQ (wh
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by lakecresva 5y ago
You don't need a CLA. Github's ToS are set up such that contributions you get from other github users are licensed in the same manner as your repo unless the contributor gets you to agree to accept them under some other license :
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by lakecresva 5y ago
The functional stuff in Nickel is really pretty vanilla, and the syntax seems much more inspired by ML than Nix. There's some info in the repo's `RATIONALE.md` that specifically answers "how is this different/better than
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by lakecresva 5y ago
I also wrote a version of Bernardy's pretty printer, but I never did come up with a satisfactory way of formatting text together with code. The best looking solution of splitting on whitespace and making each word a group, either tacki
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by lakecresva 5y ago
An investigation, and the legal system. Corporations exist because they make a deal with the state. In exchange for limited liability, they're required to respect the corporate form which entails things like meeting minutes, preservati
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Those things have legal remedies, the US legal system has just decided that the investor class should be absolved of any risk or liability. If you intentionally underbid to win a contract, you've committed fraud and are supposed to go
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Apparently this is the statute: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2271.htm
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by lakecresva 5y ago
I didn't realize you assumed a loss through the entire thing. Sure, if you ignore the realities of the US property market and begin with the assumption that your home is going to lose six figures in value every few years then yeah I gu
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> Paying property taxes and mortgage interest and insurance and maintenance and real estate commissions are also throwing away money. I don't understand, do you think landlords don't pay tax, insurance premiums, or maintenance
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> Factoring in the % costs from before, that's a cost of $140.4k. For a married person with a million dollar home, they'll make ~$150k back from the section 121 nonrecognition provision alone if they ever sell, not to mention t
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> So why stress yourself out over piece of paper. You sound like a propaganda billboard from "They Live"; it's pretty incredible to call a property deed a "piece of paper". Setting aside the financial and psychol
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Their section on development tasks mentions fleshing out std and improving array/mutable reference programming, so I think it just hasn't been redone yet. It seems like they spent a lot of development time recently (with great suc
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> all shares of Class B common stock will automatically convert into shares of Class A common stock on the earlier of (i) the seven-year anniversary of the closing date of this offering... This is an interesting olive branch to class A s
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Could not agree more with this. Thanks for the interesting article and your work on zellij.
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by lakecresva 5y ago
You have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Even if we're playing by the book, the Supreme Court can choose not to grant cert because they believe a compelling circuit split hasn't yet emerged, stare decisis, they
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Any decision in a civil case that has the weight of a final judgment can be appealed by the affected party. The cause of action in all of these cases alleging a violation of civil rights (like the right to silence during a terry stop) is 42
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by lakecresva 5y ago
The Supreme Court should just not be allowed to select the cases they review. If lower courts and legal experts think there's a genuine circuit split or pressing legal issue that needs to be resolved, they should be able to force the S
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by lakecresva 5y ago
This information is required to be in the articles of incorporation which are filed with the secretary of state. For public companies you can usually just google e.g. "Apple articles of incorporation" and the sec's copy will
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> The mortgagee in that case applied to the court for relief, and had to make ongoing payments during the period that relief was granted. The relief did not put the creditor at a substantial risk of bankruptcy. I'm not sure how thes
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> So, if there are some limits, why not understand those in terms of what that very section explicitly lists? Because the list ends with "and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary.", and the text forces you believ
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Asked and answered by the Supreme Court a hundred years ago in Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell. In times of emergency (in that case it was the depression), the federal government can delay the repayment of debts without run
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by lakecresva 5y ago
This comment is somewhat disingenuous. The full text of the statutory provision (42 U.S.C. § 264) is : "The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are
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by lakecresva 5y ago
> Why is it appropriate for a union to determine who has the right to accomplish specific tasks It's just an exclusivity clause. The employees and management willingly entered into a contractual agreement containing a provision that
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by lakecresva 5y ago
This sounds more like someone who just wants to blame a series of poor management decisions on those damn unions. It's management's responsibility to make sure they have the right people on hand when they roll out an update to a m
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by lakecresva 5y ago
Nushell has a 'to json' command. The tables are just nice to look at, it's not a data format they're expecting people to parse.

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