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by patmcc 3y ago
It's also possible (likely?) that it's similar to the "US only country to vote against making food a human right" thing, where it's actually a bit more complicated than a single headline summary would suggest. At a
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by patmcc 3y ago
I think we're talking past each other? Yes, on real-world data, on a first pass, I doubt you'll get >99% accuracy. But you don't need to; you can do (something like) three passes, that each have ~98% accuracy, and the end
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by patmcc 3y ago
Clearly it's not been realized, I'm saying we should put in place and enforce harsh penalties for false DMCA notices, so such systems become realized. As an example - I want you flag photos with dogs in a set of many photos. I
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by patmcc 3y ago
Because an individual human can make errors, that's unavoidable. But a system made up of individual humans (and computers) can catch errors, refuse to submit a DMCA notice unless there's ~100% certainty, etc. Here's a sketc
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by patmcc 3y ago
Humans indeed make errors; I'm suggesting that the penalty for utterly false DMCA notices (i.e. saying my Hamlet monologue infringes the Star Wars copyright) be significant enough that rights holders put a modicum of effort into not
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by patmcc 3y ago
Why not? Are we to believe copyright owners can't reliably watch a video (or whatever) and know if it contains any of their content? Again, this is separate from the fair use question. I'm saying if the owner of Star Wars files a
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by patmcc 3y ago
If I own Star Wars, and someone does a review on YT that has many clips from it, I am 100% certain I'm the rights owner and hold copyright on those clips. I don't know if it's fair use, but that's not what the DMCA requi
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by patmcc 3y ago
Eh, I'm not sufficiently qualified to explain relativistic time dilation, but I'm quite certain it exists and we can count on it.
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by patmcc 3y ago
If my favourite sports team was in the championship (and the underdog), I could easily make the claim "team $NOT_MY_TEAM is the best in the world" and still hope that my team beats them. Not saying pg is doing this, of course.
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by patmcc 3y ago
(I'm going to make some assumptions, just consider the broad point, if you please) The girl guides are a non-profit; they teach kids about outdoor stuff, community, whatever, they do good works, visit old folks, etc. If for some legal
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by patmcc 3y ago
The issue with i.e. phrenology is that there's no association between skull shapes and behavior, as far as anyone can tell. There do seem to be a bunch of correlations relating to gender and behavior (although why exactly those corre
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by patmcc 3y ago
No, you're expected to call and set up an appointment with a banker who can sell you on some kind of business account that has appropriate services for moving money in that way. And yes, this will cost more and take more time than the
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by patmcc 3y ago
The FDIC isn't publicly funded, it's funded by premiums paid by the banks themselves (and the customers thereof, of course).
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by patmcc 3y ago
I agree, banks should have rules and regulations specific to their industry, just like cafes should industry-specific rules (food handling, tip distribution, etc.). I don't think "you can't fire a customer" is a good one
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>It would probably be more reasonable to make some sort of tightly regulated basic bank account that banks would be required to offer in some situations. Yeah, I'd be ok with this. Require banks to provide some MVP 'ban
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by patmcc 3y ago
Ok; can we do the same to your industry? Would you enjoy being required to serve incredibly unprofitable customers until you can (very expensively!) take them to court? If being banked is so critical (and it is, in modern society) then it
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>Banks shouldn’t be allowed to ban anyone. This gets pretty tricky - telling a bank they need to keep dealing with customers that cost them tons of money and are actively trying to defraud them (and other customers) seems awfully
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by patmcc 3y ago
Exactly. And I do think the truth lies somewhere in the middle - some software development creates capital assets, but lots does not. And either way it's very painful to change the rules entirely in a single tax year, especially for
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>Not in this case, which is the challenge and pain. You can have a company with negative profit, and have to pay income taxes on revenue. Incorrect; you can have a company with negative cash flow and have to pay income taxes on
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by patmcc 3y ago
If your contracting work is "company X hired me to write software Y" then any of your expenses (salaries, etc.) are normal expenses. For company X, Y is probably R&D (or a capital asset) and need to be amortized, as #2. Just l
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by patmcc 3y ago
Accounting (and taxes) does not match one-to-one with cash flow. It is very critical for any business to understand this. This bites many businesses, sometimes very badly. It's especially difficult when the rules change, as they have
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by patmcc 3y ago
Sure, it's reasonable to worry about that. But it's still not the case that you'd need to pay taxes on 0 revenue.
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by patmcc 3y ago
I think it's bad accounting to treat all software development as creating capital assets; some of it clearly is, and should be treated as such, although maybe 5 or 15 years is not the right amortization schedule for software. I like to
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by patmcc 3y ago
No accountant is saying you'd have to pay at literally zero revenue, unless they're very badly misinformed. The absolute worst case scenario would be having to pay taxes as if your revenue was nearly all profit - as if you had n
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>should be illegal if uncertified. I think this is the key part of the comment - yes, uncertified changes by anyone could feasibly be illegal. The FDA or similar should probably do code reviews.
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by patmcc 3y ago
This 'study' is little more than an ad for hot yoga. There's zero reason to think, given the article and study, that there's anything specific about hot yoga that's doing the work here. So, yes, wait until you can
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by patmcc 3y ago
A better study would be: 1) Control group with nothing (the 'waitlist' group) in this study 2) Hot Yoga 3) Hot, no yoga (sauna?) 4) Yoga, no hot 5) Other cardio/weight training edit: not sure I'm being snarky enough. Thi
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by patmcc 3y ago
Does anyone know what the long-term price of these is likely to trend towards? Like, is there some fundamental reason (materials, proess) that they'll always be 10x the cost of an LCD screen, or can we expect them to eventually get to
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by patmcc 3y ago
Has to pwn your DNS and SSL, you mean. If someone has broken that, they'll get my credentials when I have to login at some point. This seems to help mostly against servers improperly using cookies, servers improperly logging request
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>If someone steals this cookie, they can impersonate you. Right; but with WebSession, if someone steals the client keypair (and generated shared secret), they can impersonate you just as easily. Why would this be any more secure

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