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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>I can only assume it's dogma or an opportunity to bill insurance for costly unnecessary surgery. This may be specific to location, but would it be the same dentist recommending the treatment as performing the surgery? Here
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by patmcc 2y ago
Sure, I don't mean literally nobody, just 'nobody' in the statistical sense - from the comment I replied to, "the likelihood of going from severely obese to normal weight is 1 in 1667."
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>Studies show it just doesn't work. It's not that "eat less and exercise more" doesn't work, it's that nobody does it, because it's really, really hard. Calories in/Calories out is both com
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>WP Engine's business is built on violating the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks, 8% is typical for a franchise fee. They confuse customers in the marketplace who think they're official WordPress. You make three cla
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by patmcc 2y ago
If this is true, you need a better lawyer.
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by patmcc 2y ago
This looks like a very cool project and I'm happy to see it. But please, to the author: give us some real price comparisons! I don't know how much a wheelchair costs. After reading this article, I still don't. Just be crystal
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by patmcc 2y ago
Huh, that's very interesting - https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/205... I though part of Matt's point was that Automattic "gave back" to the foundation?
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by patmcc 2y ago
The foundation owns it - https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=78826734&caseSearchType=U... A claim I've heard is that the for-profit company has the exclusive commercial license (along with the right to grant sub-lic
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by patmcc 2y ago
I'm also very curious, given his other statements and how he seems to conflate actions of the foundation, automattic, his own person, and wordpress.org, whether these contributions are his or one of theirs. And to what causes, at t
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by patmcc 2y ago
Trademarks are largely (but not exclusively) about preventing consumer confusion. I can offer a course called "Learn how to use Excel like a pro" and not get sued by MS, as long as I'm not making it seem like I'm Microso
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by patmcc 2y ago
Definitely bad IP advice, but I think it helps WP Engine to be able to say "look even all the various 'official' Wordpress sites said our name was fine for years".
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by patmcc 2y ago
This situation might kill one of WP Engine or Wordpress.com, but I sure wouldn't bet on it being WP Engine that ends up in the grave.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Except Wordpress even explicitly suggests using wp in the domain: https://wordpress.org/about/domains/ >>>we ask if you’re going to start a site about WordPress or related to it that you not use “WordPr
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>All other WordPress-related businesses or projects can use the WordPress name and logo to refer to and explain their services I think the policy is somewhat vague on this; does 'Wordpress Hosting' refer to and explain the
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by patmcc 2y ago
I'm now expecting we'll see a couple things in the next few years: 1. An explosion of residential proxy networks and other stuff to circumvent blocking of cloud IP ranges, for all the various AI scraping tools to use. 2. A corresp
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>and it's legal to scrape publicly available data, even if the websites hosting it try to block it Is that something that's been fully decided? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps
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by patmcc 2y ago
I suspect it's going to matter a lot where the pager was relative to the person at time of explosion. Someone holding it in a closed fist vs reading it vs in a backpack vs in a pocket could all have very different wound patterns.
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by patmcc 2y ago
How do we know only a tiny fraction were Hezbollah? (I don't think we know either way who owned these pagers)
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by patmcc 2y ago
Australian federal government, if anyone else didn't recognize the domain immediately.
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by patmcc 2y ago
As someone said way back in 1979 (an internal IBM training document, afaik) "A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never make a management decision"
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by patmcc 2y ago
IT doesn't steer the ship in banks (and bank-like orgs). IT gets a mandate from the real decision makers that they have to choose something that does x, y, z - see "Regulations which strongly suggest particular software purchases&
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by patmcc 2y ago
It's statically ensured, the same way I can trust if you generate a Bitcoin address right now it won't have a few thousand bitcoins in it.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Yeah, as I said in my comment, the primary way to pay for it is to adjust marginal rates so that it's (mostly) a transfer from rich to poor. If you're rich, you'll get a $1k UBI and also pay $2k more in taxes (or $4k, or what
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by patmcc 2y ago
Most UBI proposals assume a functioning healthcare system, which would deal with most of those needs. Probably not all, so you could certainly have additional programs as needed.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Because the food needs to come from somewhere?
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by patmcc 2y ago
You'd adjust marginal rates so the poor would (net) benefit, the middle class would about break even, and the rich would pay more. Napkin math on that isn't that bad, especially if you chop a bunch of other welfare payments (and t
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by patmcc 2y ago
There's a server. You can ssh into it, but you don't have root. You don't know if it'll have python (2 or 3), perl, ruby, node, whatever. You need to write a cronjob that'll run every 5 minutes, or a script that&#x2
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by patmcc 2y ago
It's incredibly believable if you remember there are equally many (very quiet) folks with portfolios down 20/40/60%.
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by patmcc 2y ago
Makes it easy to drop it into a k8s cluster, maybe?
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by patmcc 2y ago
>>>that collides with the structural misrepresentation built into the US electoral system. I never know quite how to respond to this, because (as an outsider) the US electoral system has been designed in a way that is misrepresenta

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