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by mike_d 3y ago
Refusal to transfer ownership between accounts would amount to tortious interference, at which point Tesla would be liable for at a minimum whatever the buyer was willing to pay for the vehicle plus legal fees. This is of course a hypotheti
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by mike_d 3y ago
American law has many provisions, among them the First Sale Doctrine, where once money has changed hands a seller cannot restrict your use of a product. Our Supreme Court famously applied this to inkjet cartridges, saying a printer maker ca
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by mike_d 3y ago
This is another situation where you can put anything you want in a contract, even if it is blatantly unenforceable. This is why contracts have severability clauses.
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There is probably a lot more money in that. The cargo will still be an insurance loss, but recovery of loads that can cause damage to marine environments are subject to mandatory reporting and fines. If you could build a device to detect th
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by mike_d 3y ago
How do you get them onto the iPhone tho?
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Adult Sweetness I'm sorry, what?
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by mike_d 3y ago
The actual scam here didn't play out, so NYTimes does not have the full story. What happens is they truck the load to a yard and open it up. The contents of the trailer are then stolen and dumped into the gray market. If it has no valu
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by mike_d 3y ago
According to a study from CargoNet the total theft of cargo containers in 2022 was 1,778 units for a total of about $220m. By comparison about 10,000 cargo containers fall off of ships every year. The problem is well below the threshold whe
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by mike_d 3y ago
Aside from being fired and going to jail, of course there is nothing to stop them. It is kind of an illogical argument.
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by mike_d 3y ago
> how sharing takes place in spite of those controls Sharing takes place because countries have mutual data sharing agreements. It is up to the receiving country to comply with domestic laws. For example if GCHQ has a dish pointed at a f
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by mike_d 3y ago
This is an often parroted conspiracy theory rooted in novices looking at leaked documents and not really understanding the context. Just because GCHQ shares data with NSA it does not mean the program lacks controls that protect American cit
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by mike_d 3y ago
There have been reports of UV-C bulbs being repackaged as "party lights" and sold on eBay/Amazon/etc. So it is possible they had no idea.
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by mike_d 3y ago
It will never happen because if you can get large amounts of anhydrous ammonia or something you can convert into it you can make large amounts of meth.
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by mike_d 3y ago
There is a ton of professionally produced content on YouTube. Mr. Beast for example spends between $1 and $1.5 million to produce each video. By comparison your average TV documentary costs only $500k for an hour of content. NileRed, a popu
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by mike_d 3y ago
The whole unit is basically a thin Airforce wrapper to manage software developers from CACI and Chenega building stuff for USCYBERCOM.
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by mike_d 3y ago
If you happen to attend DEFCON the Ham Radio Village is awesome. They run exams you can take and will help you to understand any questions you missed. https://hamvillage.org/
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by mike_d 3y ago
It is clever marketing. Your object in R2 is stored globally as in it might reside anywhere, but they do not actually replicate the object globally.
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by mike_d 3y ago
Cloudflare is just reimplementing every service that Akamai has had for 10 years. The only difference is Cloudflare is going after the <$100/mo customer.
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by mike_d 3y ago
There is no data locality. If your workload is in AWS already you might save money by keeping the data in the more expensive S3 vs going out to Cloudflare to fetch your bytes and return your results. If you don't mind having your bits
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by mike_d 3y ago
Because CockroachDB is a vendor that abstracts away all the thinking parts of running a database cluster. They do regional sharding, clustering, consistency, etc. for you. They could have just as easily dropped in Oracle. You pay for expens
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by mike_d 3y ago
I can't seem to find you on the list of registered data brokers in the State of California [1]. I'm submitting a complaint to flag it to them now. 1. https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers
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by mike_d 3y ago
Dozens of companies buy location data from mobile apps, ad networks, cell networks, wifi networks, etc. and resell it. Some of the platforms will let you geofence your store then track phones back to where they "go home" to charge
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by mike_d 3y ago
You keep saying that in this thread, founder of what? Snowflake?
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by mike_d 3y ago
> one person owns the worldwide artistic rights to Vantablack Not that it really matters. The "artistic rights" were a one off marketing gimmick. You can't actually buy Vantablack as a paint. You have to have approval from
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Assuming this is true, the decision seems fair. If Tesla was able to live up to their marketing (calling the feature "Autopilot" and "self driving") it shouldn't have mattered what the occupants BAC was.
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by mike_d 3y ago
There is a great video from Level 1 Techs where he explains why he started making KVMs and why it is an extremely hard problem. (Edit: I can't seem to find the video now, it might have been on another channel, but I'll keep lookin
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by mike_d 3y ago
Apparently nobody ever told him when the police officer says "do you know why I pulled you over?" your answer shouldn't be "I didn't know it would be a multiple choice question!"
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by mike_d 3y ago
> I agree it's probably against UK law, but why use harsh counter-terrorism laws to deal with a speech matter When the speech is promoting and supporting a terrorist organization (according to UK law), the police have a reasonable e
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You have no idea how much justification it takes to reject orders. It is not done lightly.
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by mike_d 3y ago
> Temporarily slowing down down 99 scammers is not worth stranding one normal person in a foreign country with no means to access their money and no means to recover their account. To that one person it obviously isn't worth it. To

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