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by otterley 1mo ago
I don’t follow the logic. Since when does the act of meeting with someone mean you’ve adopted their beliefs? Do you adopt the beliefs of everyone you’ve met? What if you've met both a Zionist and an anti-Zionist? What does that make yo
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by otterley 1mo ago
Why is anti-Zionism necessary if your business fundamentals are strong?
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by otterley 1mo ago
It's more about where your money is going, since it's a prepaid offering.
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by otterley 1mo ago
Seems fraudulent. Who’s the operator/owner? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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by otterley 1mo ago
> There's no such thing. Spinning off companies happens all the time.
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by otterley 1mo ago
That’s one half. The other, more interesting half, recognizes that unscrambling the egg is difficult, so we must take more precautions before scrambling it in the first place.
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by otterley 1mo ago
It seems disingenuous, or at least antisocial, to insist that you are correct about a broad and unqualified statement you made while also declaring that you meant something narrower all along.
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by otterley 1mo ago
U.S. states are sovereign entities despite these limitations. See, e.g., Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706 (1999) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/527/706/ "Although the Constitution esta
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by otterley 1mo ago
Why would any rational person want to pay to read falsehoods?
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by otterley 2mo ago
It doesn't matter. Don't sneer or insult people here. If you want to do that, there are other venues you can choose.
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by otterley 2mo ago
Line-drawing exercises are frequently difficult. :-)
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by otterley 2mo ago
That’s my opinion, yes. What, specifically, do you have against it?
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by otterley 2mo ago
That’s a great question, and is why we have these debates, and have courts to adjudicate disputes. I don’t have all the answers, but the gap between these different behaviors seems pretty wide to me. Autocomplete doesn’t really work until y
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by otterley 2mo ago
Hey, knock it off. People are going to disagree and we need to respect each other in so doing. Since you’re apparently new here, please familiarize yourself with the HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines
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by otterley 2mo ago
That’s not what we’re talking about, though. That’s mechanical transformation, and isn’t the same thing as code that’s generated on demand from scratch, based on plain-language intent. Surely you know the difference, right? I assume you’ve
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by otterley 2mo ago
I suspect that in the future, lawyers are going to start counseling businesses to implement line-by-line provenance of their source code so they’re prepared for future copyright infringement disputes. Business leaders may also start wanting
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by otterley 2mo ago
Which ones are you thinking of? Were they actually generating code, or were they loading in templates or mechanically building interface stubs?
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by otterley 2mo ago
To be clear, the Copyright Office is providing guidance and a particular (respected) interpretation of the law. Their opinions do influence courts, but they do not constitute law themselves.
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by otterley 2mo ago
A traditional IDE isn’t writing code for you.
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by otterley 2mo ago
Conspiracy to commit crimes isn't protected political speech, though. If the service was primarily used by radical leftists for election campaigning, that'd be a different story. The Government claims it was for the former.
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by otterley 2mo ago
Everyone can use Gmail, Fastmail, Protonmail, Signal, WhatsApp, or many other providers free of charge provided they follow the providers' ToS. There's no shortage of service providers out there that are open to all. People can al
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by otterley 2mo ago
I suspect they had plenty of notice that they were on thin ice, and had they consulted attorneys, their attorneys would certainly have advised them to stop. I know I would have. Criminal organizations tend not to care what their lawyers thi
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by otterley 2mo ago
OK, so someone wrote a book and was wrong at the time. Times change. It's like saying in 2003 that nobody should launch a social network because the first one, Six Degrees, failed to take off. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by otterley 2mo ago
No it isn’t. Sometimes it’s security, or making the most out of limited resources. Besides, not all profitable ventures are bad.
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by otterley 2mo ago
It’s all about mens rea. The law distinguishes between people who provide services to anyone, and people who intentionally market their service to criminals, even under coded language. In this case the provider didn’t just allegedly market
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by otterley 2mo ago
> they are designated as terrorists instead of sanctioned with the normal OFAC route. It was both. The Treasury went the OFAC route while the State Department designated them a terrorist: https://home.treasury.gov/news&#x
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by otterley 2mo ago
They're not being targeted for terrorist activity per se; they're being targeted for providing material assistance to terrorists. Per the Treasury Department: "The Autistici Inventati is an Italy-based far-left organization t
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by otterley 2mo ago
I'm curious. What convenience, specifically, are people benefiting from by using musl?
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by otterley 2mo ago
Nobody’s assuming that. A well-functioning business compares opportunity costs with all those considerations in mind.
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by otterley 2mo ago
Nobody’s assuming that. A well-functioning business compares opportunity costs with all those considerations in mind.

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