lawtalkinghuman

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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> you cannot use all the free tools that startup founders outside of the EU can use. You can use the ones that don't infringe on user privacy.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
Hide My Email in iCloud. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210425
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Yeah, I saw it had a subscription model for VIP users. I'm guessing they're not getting Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates level rich off it though.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> Does everything require a money motive? On HN, apparently. See the recent thread on Wordle. The reality is likely to be: they make a very small amount from ads and user donations that might, if they're lucky, cover the costs of ho
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
That's literally how things work now. ~99.99999999% of contractual agreements are not litigated. The legal process is there as a slow debugger when it all goes wrong. But most of the time, things don't go wrong and people work out
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
The question is: does the legal framework override the results of the smart contracts and blockchain records? If so, you don't need the crypto. If the crypto cannot be overriden by the legal framework, you don't need the legal fra
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> If you know someone had to burn $10 of electricity to make an authentication, it hurts more to get banned. Metafilter charges $5 to get an account. If you can't afford the $5, you can email the mods to join for free. SomethingAwfu
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> as for the banks and institutions and companies losing all of their money? that’s a new blockchain problem for sure No, that used to be a real-world problem for banks until laws were passed that more tightly regulated financial institu
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
mysqldump | sha256sum
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
So long as "number go up", nobody cares. The moment number start going down, there'll be a magic new buzzword (ICO, token, smart contract, enterprise blockchain, DeFi) for people to speculate on and distract from the fundamen
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
Good thing crypto exchanges don't charge fees.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> it seems like it has some real advantages from a business perspective Even if homeopathy is just placebo, homeopathy has better marketing.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
OSM is making a volunteer-run open source GIS dataset, not an unregulated speculative securities offering.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
DMOZ still exists but is now known as Curlie. https://www.curlie.org/ It's not very active though.
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No.
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Good thing Amazon have never specifically marketed Alexa devices for kids. Oh, wait. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNdZAgij-K0
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
Insufficient consumer demand, and the economics of it don't work for publishers/creators. There've been plenty of attempts - Flattr, Coil, Dropp. If people want it, it could be built but there doesn't seem to be much mar
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> The flaw is in thinking USPS is even slightly interested in innovating. They're not. If the political system stops public sector organisations innovating, they won't innovate. See, for example, BT in the UK, who were looking
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> all it takes is... discipline Just don't buy any cigarettes. Easy. Cravings? Pfft. Discipline is hard, and sometimes solutions can be built that help make things easier. Vaping as an off-ramp for smokers. Screen Time on iOS as a w
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
I can totally see Nintendo wanting to enable you to bring your collection of fancy, rare high-powered guns from Borderlands, carried by your favourite shiny Pokémon, into a no-holds-barred Mario Kart match so you could turn a fun all-ages r
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> Decentralized proof of ownership I mean, the 'ownership' is as real as "buy a plot of land on Mars" scams. An inefficient distributed database filled with assertions of legally unenforceable pseudoproperty rights se
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
The original post did not use money laundering in the legal sense but in the ordinary language use sense of the phrase.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
Regarding this week's SPLC report: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/585306-bitcoin-surge-a... https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/12/08/bitcoin-adoption-am... https:&
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
Not really since it's true. It isn't markup, it's a configuration file format. "<em>This</em> is a markup language" since there is text which is marked up. YAML/JSON is a way to serialise fairl
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> depressingly incremental step Courts, by their nature, answer only the questions put to them to resolve a partifular case or controversy.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
> grievance-driven person Radical solution: don't discriminate against people at work and then they won't have any grievances.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
The continued survival of the NATO alliance surely rests on whether people get timely updates about delays on the Hammersmith and City line.
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
I was being snarky about the quality of the information, but the privacy issue is the important one. If the key variable is the search engine, then, yes, you probably don't want to be feeding details of your possible mental health prob
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by lawtalkinghuman 5y ago
I'd trust Wikimedia's privacy policy a hell of a lot more than I'd trust TikTok's. Also, the English Wikipedia article on cognitive behavioural therapy cites Cochrane reviews, psych textbooks and a whole volley of journa
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In England and Wales, all three types of fraud covered by the 2006 Act have as substantive elements of the offence a requirement that a defendant intends to either "make a gain for himself or another" or "cause loss to anothe

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