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by olliej 3y ago
There was never a penalty for incorrect DMCA claims. Unless you mean perjury? Perjury does not have any meaningful penalty because you can always claim "I honestly believed this claim was correct, but now I see how I was wrong" -
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by olliej 3y ago
I love presenting this as being google facilitating the fraud. They're literally doing what the DMCA requires, and everyone at the time it was passed said would be abused: Companies are essentially required to assume claims are legitim
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by olliej 3y ago
Someone really needs to test how these “personality tests” are actually “testing” people. This feels very much like “let’s launder bias by using ‘algorithms’ that do the discrimination because they’re trained on existing bias”
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by olliej 3y ago
I was joking - I believe the example error message was one from one of the old basic interpreters (I just honestly can’t recall if it was qbasic, c64 basic or what
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by olliej 3y ago
I find the general scheduling of high cpu tasks to be annoying - start enough compilation threads going and you get network stoppage :-/
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by olliej 3y ago
Hooray for intentionally confusing brand names creating terrible sounding headlines :D [edit: it reminds of I think McDonalds being told off in NZ for using "All Beef" branded hamburger patties or something in the 90s or something
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by olliej 3y ago
Maybe gwbasic? :D
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by olliej 3y ago
Thanks, yeah the motion itself just says “look at our memorandum”
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by olliej 3y ago
Lawsuits do not damage your reputation, that's BS made up by people who don't want to pay for services. If you get into a position where mediation is happening, that means you have a piss poor contract, and you should get a new la
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by olliej 3y ago
Client didn't pay? then they shouldn't have any rights to any of your work. Mike monteiro's video on the subject is good watching, but the key element is their is no transfer of ownership or IP rights until full payment.
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by olliej 3y ago
2 out of 3 died from causes unrelated to smoking, means that 1 out of 3 died from something that was not able to kill others, except via second hand smoke, which is ignored. There are very few things where we accept 1:2 fatality rates at al
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by olliej 3y ago
I'll take it as being tough when companies are financially liable for data exposure along the same lines of HIPAA. Maybe something akin to: * $10 per element of data not directly required for legal purposes or for the direct provision
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by olliej 3y ago
I loved these books growing up, also Osborne puzzle adventures. I'm so sad that the entire genre seems to be gone :-/
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by olliej 3y ago
It's interesting to see the performance numbers for JSON parsing in the context of parsing performance specifically. I guess this is largely a domain specific detail, as my experience was in the context of JS engines. For JSC at least
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by olliej 3y ago
Can you define what "leftist" that should be surveilled when literally all politics is a spectrum of left to right? Certainly in the US the majority of politically motivated violence for decades has been by people explicitly on th
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by olliej 3y ago
FFS what kind of utter assholes think this kind of thing is remotely ok.
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by olliej 3y ago
The solution here is simple: If you advertise something as being "bought", then removing access should require a full refund, plus inflation and/or interest, and have any contractual term that attempts to undermine the plain
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by olliej 3y ago
No. Popper was not using the "paradox of intolerance" to be a bigot attacking the rights of others. What Popper did was give a name to the behavior bigots were already demonstrating. Bigots don't say "you have to support
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by olliej 3y ago
Farmers were peaceful because they were in a position of privilege over many other businesses. It was being subjected to the same pressure that everyone else was that caused issues. I get that that would be a hard transition, but you don’t
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by olliej 3y ago
That’s the case in the US as well. What do you think agriculture subsidies are? If you want countries that don’t subsidize agriculture that has been Aussie and NZ since the 80s iirc. Though I haven’t lived in those countries for a decade or
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by olliej 3y ago
I have a problem with “surveilling nazis”. If they’re not actively committing criminal acts, and there isn’t a warrant demonstrating with specificity that the particular facility or group is involved (e.g the same requirement for any other
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by olliej 3y ago
On the other hand in the US police routinely kill unarmed people, which seems like it’s much worse for personal freedom. Do you have freedom to consider your rights when doing so gets you self-defenced to death for not cooperating?
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by olliej 3y ago
Wait it’s not that monitoring an entire community is illegal, it’s just that they didn’t haven’t sufficient justification in some cases? Wtf
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by olliej 3y ago
I'm not a coffee connoisseur (and honestly could only spell that because of autocarrot), but for me beans are hands down more important than any other part of the brewing process until you get to absurdly expensive. So we got a Krups g
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by olliej 3y ago
Why have any other browser engines at all? Why not just require everyone use chrome? If you think you are "pro open web" but don't see the value in new browser engines (rather than just Safari, Firefox, and endless Chrome ski
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by olliej 3y ago
Without the associated account+password you can’t activate a stolen apple device, regardless of region.
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by olliej 3y ago
Swift is doing it, so rust can as well. There's also degrees of interop - there's "rust can call a c++ dylib directly" but there's also "rust and c++ can be co-compiled". The latter is the critical path fo
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by olliej 3y ago
It looks like DRM removal might be a post-2009 thing? (from wikipedia) Music on the iTunes Store was the original use case for the development of the FairPlay DRM scheme (such friendly naming!). It was apparently the SJ "Thoughts on Mu
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by olliej 3y ago
No, the company should be civilly liable, the individuals have criminal liabilities. Alternatively, who is going to jail if a company is found guilty of a crime that requires jail time, if not the executives and board of directors? Again by
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by olliej 3y ago
I didn't say that no one other than executives are responsible. I'm saying that the executives making the decisions, and being compensated for the risk/responsibility (again, this is their own justification for exorbitant com

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