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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
It isn't a criminal offence. It's a civil penalty that can be levied if they require you to register and you don't. The legislative text (it's an amending regulation—think a diff—but the underlying statute hasn't be
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
The legal rules around formality are somewhat complicated. To give you an idea, here are the broad laws in England and Wales. Not a lot of formality is required for most contract signing, and so long as the other side of a contract is sure
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
Obligatory TVTropes link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneOwnsAMac Mentioned therein: Apple won't allow their products to be used by bad guys. Hence the number of movies and TV shows
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
It is neither an endorsement nor an ad. It is a music video. Now, Nokia could have been paying her to use their phone during the music video - product placement is a thing, and you can see the brand logo in the shot. But I suspect if they w
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
You can read the complaint here - http://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-impact/education/federa... PDF - http://lawyersforcivilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/... Their le
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
You sure about that? If you look at s1(6) of the Retained EU Law Act [1]: > The revocation of an instrument by subsection (1) does not affect an amendment made by the instrument to any other enactment. If you read the Explanatory Notes t
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by lawtalkinghuman 3y ago
That would require Reddit to write code that meaningfully improves the site, rather than custom emojis and NFT nonsense.
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
First = highest undergraduate degree classification in the British system. Universities in the UK treat a degree from the US with a 3.7 or 3.8 or higher GPA as equivalent to a first according to Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.o
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
> Hackers mainly hack on things that personally affect them and things they find personally gratifying to work on. We're not talking about some rando hacker cranking out a cool Emacs module, these are projects backed by companies li
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
I mean, he pitched an app where one could "buy everything from a bitcoin to a banana" while simltaneously playing League of Legends and got $213 million from Sequoia Capital. That's pretty baller.
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
In the context of US copyright law, "literary work" includes computer software, because it has a pretty specific legal meaning. See 17 USC § 101 https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#101 > “Litera
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
That'd likely break a lot of CI workloads.
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
Google Finance is a much nicer looking product in terms of design, but the data it has is pretty weak. Yahoo Finance has much more detailed financials for a whole bunch of asset classes. For ETFs it has detailed performance data. For equiti
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
> I'm imagining designing a software product around this and presenting it to a C-Level Alternatively, imagine what the world would be like if we spent less time thinking about what C-suite executives think.
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
There's an important difference between people being able to do inefficient paper-based one-off `SELECT ... LIMIT 1` queries when needed and the entire world being able to find new and exciting ways to search, join and mix data at grea
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
> Web3 has a model of financial sustainability, but they've yet to come up with any other decentralized software that lots of people want to use In as much as any vague buzzword can have meaning, Web3's chief innovation seems t
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
Mostly I listen to podcasts but there's a few I listen to for learning, specifically a podcast discussing recent developments in law. I might try listening to these podcasts in Snipd (or with Airr) to try out how easy it is to clip rel
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
Houses are rivalrous goods. The whole reason IP is treated differently is that it's non-rivalrous. One theatrical company doing a production of Macbeth does not stop another. One orchestra performing a Mozart concert does not stop anot
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
Solution: don't use Tailwind.
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
The class attribute isn't just for styling though. See https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#global-attri... > authors are encouraged to use values that describe the nature of the content, rather than
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
Exciting new technology for styling web pages. https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
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by lawtalkinghuman 4y ago
> No way to set ESC as Caps Lock. You should be able to do this with Karabiner Elements.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
One might think the employees, investors and users might have some issues with "just shut the entire thing down".
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
It makes sense in terms of having fun.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
I took a look at "awesome-dapps" to see if there were indeed any awesome dapps that I could try. OpenBazaar - Closed Jan 4, 2021. https://twitter.com/openbazaar/status/1346104369566121986 SafeMarket - th
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> It's one for a legal-crypto startup but you can imagine selling some NFT being linked to a contract for transfer of copyright. Maybe nobody is doing this, idk, but they could. What's to stop the buyer unbundling the property
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
Became significantly less interested when I saw it had a cryptocurrency attached.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
Yep. Panic have always made tools that are mostly aimed at front-end web devs. Coda, the editor that became Nova, was marketed as a "web editor". Nova specifically still uses that phrase "web editor". Coda's main co
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> The governments are the ones out to kill you or otherwise materially destroy your life. Corporations just want you to buy stuff. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ibm-and-quot-death-s-ca... "IBM, primarily thro
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
The whole point of misusing legitimate purpose is they're trying to end-run around consent. It's a bad hack until one of the national data protection agencies decides to say "no, you can't do that" and then it goes

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