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by limagnolia 7mo ago
I studied the MS antitrust case extensively when it was happening, and I agree that the abuse against BeOS was MS greatest antitrust offense. However, as a fan of BeOS, I see no evidence at all that Be Inc. would have been successful if MS
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
That is your opinion, but the judge disagreed with you. The decision may have been overturned on appeal, but as it stands, in that courtroom, the training was fair use.
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Does OpenTTD contain any Atari IP? I thought it was completely re-written, and did not include any of the original game assets?
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
It says they are giving up, throwing in the towel? It is my understanding it provided information about Googles plans and how it will impact users?
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Yes, but that isn't them giving up developing the app, that is them fighting back!
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Sure, there are things banks can do, and those are features they can market. But ultimately, if the state isn't pursuing criminals who prey on the vulnerable, then society as we know it has failed and we would need a new society, or a
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Why should the bank/institution be responsible for protecting individuals from themselves? They don't have police power- protecting people from bad actors is like, the reason to have a state. If the state wishes to farm it out
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
I don't see anything on NewPipe's website about not continuing development?
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
If my employer wants me to use a phone for work, they can buy whatever phone they want for me. I'm not going to buy a separate one just for them.
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
What is your definition of happy?
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Thats not at all what this ruling said. What the courts found was that an AI cannot hold copyright as the author. That copyright requires a human creative element. Not that anything that was generated by an LLM can't be subject to c
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
You don't think it possible for some one to die happy?
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
What do you mean by "extremely weak guarantees"?
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
I don't know about Italian law, but in the US tax evasion is pretty difficult in many cases to prove. It is illegal in the US to deliberately defraud the IRS to evade paying taxes, it is not illegal to make a mistake, or claim a deduc
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
In Missouri, the current proposal is to put it up to a vote, so Missourians will decide what they want. There are safguards builtin where the income tax is only phased out if there is revenue to replace it. Its an interesting experiment s
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Contact your senator and ask them. Call your senator's offices and ask to meet with them or a representative in person, they can schedule an appointment, and most maintain offices in major population centers in their states.
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Digital Restrictions Management has nothing to do with modern economics. It is political and legal theatre.
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Part of this judgement was that even though the law labels is as "civil" it looks and acts in fact like a criminal case, and so it doesn't matter what label they put on it, criminal standards apply.
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
I would like to see a comparison of capsicum and pledge/unveil. Is capsicum much more difficult to use? Is it inherently less secure?
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Actually, the fifth amendment only protects your right not to incriminate yourself. So you may be called upon to testify against your will against some one else (With some limited protections for spouses and such). However, if you were in
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
It should be noted that red light cameras were NOT found unconstitutional as a thing, BUT Florida (and many other states) implementation of them was. And I think the judge used very good, solid reasoning.
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by limagnolia 7mo ago
Why a single test at the end of the semester? Why not allow the student to demonstrate mastery at anytime during the semester when they are ready? Then they can move on to the next objective, or, if they fall short, continue to study until
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by limagnolia 8mo ago
Allegedly, though the local labor unions seem to disagree. I guess we'll have to wait for the facts to come out in court.
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by limagnolia 8mo ago
F-Droid build APKs themselves from source, so presumably 0, as they don't allow APKs to be uploaded. F-Droid does do some safety checks themselves already too, I don't know exactly what. Edit: Perhaps I am mistaken... but I think
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by limagnolia 8mo ago
How does the government handle charge-backs?
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by limagnolia 8mo ago
What source do you have the Gemini is profitable? Are you referring only to the chat app, or to Google'a AI Ventures division? Or including Google Cloud AI related revenue?
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by limagnolia 8mo ago
No pull request necessary, forks don't require approval.
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by limagnolia 8mo ago
The US Postal Service seems to derive upwards of 90% of their revenue (Or at least of the mail I receive) from similar scams. Are they going to have the same fines applied to them?
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by limagnolia 8mo ago
I don't even star the vast majority of packages I use... I usually only star repos I don't use but find interesting and may want to refer back to in the future. And completely excludes projects not hosted on Microsoft's GitHu
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by limagnolia 8mo ago
Graphene doesn't really try to stop you. They just don't spend their own efforts on making it possible. It is OSS so, your free to spend your efforts where you want to.

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