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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Those aren't payday loans, but interesting nonetheless.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Companies don't care about jack shit. Tim Cook doesn't "believe in" privacy, he thinks it helps sell devices (and that lack of privacy could lead to scandal that would hurt sales).
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
I wonder why Microsoft doesn't make Edge a privacy-oriented browser. I'm surprised they think they can make more from the data economy than they would gain by seriously hurting Google et al.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
People believe what mass media tells them about Ukraine. That is, it's not that they're believing random pictures, it's that they're believing things that CNN (or if they're predisposed more sympathetic to Russia, R
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Eh, as the technology becomes better and more widespread, the likely result is that people take compromising pictures less seriously, because everyone knows they're more likely to be deepfakes than real. It will be ubiquitous. People w
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
2008 would be too long ago for web stuff, but in Windows land, that’s plenty recent. Win32 APIs are forever.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
That’s not true for younger people. The risk of the vaccine is probably higher than the risk of the virus for them. Search elsewhere in this thread.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
You by definition can’t be actively driving. You’re just watching. It’s active driving that keeps you alert in the first place.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
The problem is that people can’t actually take over fast enough necessarily. If you’re not actively driving, then you can’t just immediately react.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Yeah, despite all the hype, MacOS is one of the least technically sophisticated operating systems in common use. Their main advantage over other systems is power management, and a large part of that is attributable at least as much to contr
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
I guess it's a matter of weighing the potential upside of selling you on more Apple products versus the downside of making Macs and iPhones less functional (w.r.t. interoperability with other devices).
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
I suspect Apple Music is on Android for the benefit of Apple Music users who have multiple devices, some Apple some not, and want a music service that works across all of them.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
No no no. You cannot respond to a hacker with deadly force, except in a special circumstance where you reasonably fear imminent death or serious bodily injury. I’m not going to sit here and argue with your other misguided points, but th
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Not to be a negative nancy, but in all likelihood there’s serious vulnerabilities in the AOL client. If you connect to this, anyone else connected to it can probably pwn you. So maybe run it in a VM or something.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Under US law, it is illegal to give the government large categories of user data, even if you can legally sell that data on the open market to private parties.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
And in Germany, it’s literally a crime to have certain opinions and discuss them. Edit: downvote away, but this is literally true.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
It’s easy to refuse requests from Chinese law enforcement if you don’t have offices, employees, or assets in China. Meanwhile, European countries recognize the legitimacy of each other’s court systems and will enforce judgments and orders a
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Yes, it is often pedantry and not offered in good faith, but in fairness, the legal definition of "monopolization" requires that you either have a monopoly (defined, loosely, as a high-enough marketshare), or, if accused of &quot
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
No, this is arguably "monopolization", which is illegal under the Sherman Act. Even the 9th Circuit, which has adopted an implausibly broad reading of 230, does not think that 230 is a defense against antitrust claims.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
What is the obstacle to connecting codium to the VS Marketplace? Technical or legal?
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
A huge number of projects just license as "GPLv2/3 or later"
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Lmao, so 40 hours a week is exploitative and abusive?
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
It’s not assuming the worst. The whole point of the veil is that you don’t know the circumstances of your birth and what traits you are blessed or cursed with.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
These things aren’t “once in a lifetime,” and in any case, a single human life will coincide with thousands of “once in a lifetime” events. Economic downturns, war, and disease are perennial human conditions. COVID was deadly, but if you f
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
I think one big problem with Rawls’s position is that it has no room for desert (as in, the idea that people can deserve their fates). His thought experiment wants me to consider the risk that I be born a very bad man. But why should I w
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Yeah it’s jarring when you see what teenagers post online about this. They really believe that they and their friends are going to drop dead from climate change.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
To the first question, it depends. If it's something you're building for a business, and its reliability is important, then you probably should understand code you're copy-pasting. For a hobby project, it's probably not
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
This is awful advice. Go to the highest ranked university[1] you can get into and afford because for the rest of your life, people will assume a lot about you based on that choice. It will open more doors than you expect. Your friends will
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
They both cut in the same direction: preserving the status quo. Don’t go around removing stuff you don’t fully understand. And don’t go around adding stuff you don’t understand.
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by legalcorrection 4y ago
Maybe moving to a specific instance of Rice's theorem is clearer. My point is that while he can't solve the halting problem—i.e. he can't reliably determine whether any arbitrary program will halt—an infallible programmer can

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