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by pavlov 7mo ago
If anything, the SCOTUS decision would seem to imply that generative AI transformations produce no additional creative contribution and therefore the original copyright holder has all rights to any derived AI works. (IANAL)
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by pavlov 8mo ago
All I want is a MacBook Pro with a funky color like citrus. I always buy the new color option from Apple when getting a phone, it helps me keep my device generations apart. But Macs have been sadly boring in recent years. "Starlight&qu
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by pavlov 8mo ago
If I look at the Notion and Linear desktop apps, they’re essentially identical in styling and design. They’re often considered the best of today’s web/Electron productivity apps, and they have converged on a style that’s basically what
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by pavlov 8mo ago
They're not direct function calls, but sugar for objc_msgSend(): https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ObjectiveC/objc_ms...
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by pavlov 8mo ago
Also Panama's population and land area are an order of magnitude smaller than these Middle East states, and they were already an American client state in the past.
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by pavlov 8mo ago
The killings of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were so amazingly successful in stabilizing those countries that Americans keep repeating the pattern.
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by pavlov 8mo ago
I lived in the US for years (including Jan 6 2021) and I’ve seen how this playbook was executed in Russia. From my POV, Americans are hopelessly naive about their institutions holding up when it’s been demonstrated so many times that the gu
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by pavlov 8mo ago
What are the states going to do with their local election results when the officials in Washington ignore them due to some manufactured state of emergency? He already tried to get specific states' election outcomes discarded from the c
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by pavlov 8mo ago
The US President in 1944 was someone who wanted to have elections. In 2026 this is not the case anymore. How much of a difference it makes, nobody knows.
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by pavlov 8mo ago
Really? Has it meaningfully changed since 2022? Everything they promised like payments and a "super app" seems to have fallen by the wayside.
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by pavlov 8mo ago
They really changed the stock ticker to XYZ during the web3 hype years, just because lot of the scammy crypto startups used the .xyz TLD? Sheesh... That's like Atlassian changing its ticker to "VIBE" in desperation. Look kids
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by pavlov 8mo ago
The weirdest tech story in Finland right now. The founders have sketchy track records. They do a carefully managed social media build-up. There are credible rumors that they’ve been simultaneously raising money by cold-calling moderately we
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by pavlov 8mo ago
1300 was a breeze but then I got stuck. (What did the strong and stiff wife do in 1200? I’ll never know… Edit - on second reading, I’m getting the picture, seems like medieval Tarantino.) I thought my Swedish and basic knowledge of Icelandi
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by pavlov 8mo ago
My Facebook is honestly nice, it’s the most relaxing social media for me. The promoted posts are books and artists and occasional gym content. Ads are relevant or at least not annoying (SuitSupply seems to think I’m their ideal customer, an
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by pavlov 8mo ago
Looking at the results, it's obviously not great that there's no reasonable process to update the constitution. It's the most dysfunctional democracy in the West. Change that seems inevitable in retrospect often feels like a
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by pavlov 8mo ago
Well, that's why I wrote "not impossible" rather than "likely"... These things can be fixed even though it's difficult. Sometimes the pressure just boils over. Americans are a lot more defeatist about their po
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by pavlov 8mo ago
Almost all legal experts said from the start the Trump’s approach to tariffs was unconstitutional. So who else could be to blame for the flip-flopping? The executive is supposed to uphold laws made by Congress, not throw spaghetti at the Su
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by pavlov 8mo ago
There are many countries that have functioning constitutions that are regularly revised. It’s not impossible for the USA to get there one day.
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by pavlov 8mo ago
If you don’t think the president did anything wrong, then whose fault is it that those businesses are suffering from flip-flopping policy?
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by pavlov 8mo ago
Directed by fashion photographer Bruce Weber. A tremendous artifact of the late 1980s transitioning to the Nineties. Official HD version is available too: https://youtu.be/NVC-jusXGno
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by pavlov 8mo ago
> “The AI handles the scale. The human interprets the meaning.” Claude is that you? Why haven’t you called me?
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by pavlov 8mo ago
Smart contracts? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time... The article is painfully obviously AI-written.
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by pavlov 8mo ago
It’s hard to imagine computing that would be a bigger waste of energy than Bitcoin, but this is is a contestant.
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by pavlov 8mo ago
But they seem to also believe in heavy-handed government intervention to prop up failing businesses. For example Trump's recent announcement that he'll require the military to buy coal power on long-term contracts: https:/&#
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by pavlov 8mo ago
These hopeful incantations are a kind of cargo cult… But when applied to programming, the wild thing is that the cult natives actually built the airports and the airplanes but they don’t know what makes them fly and where the cargo comes fr
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by pavlov 8mo ago
This is one of the things that makes sci-fi stories set on Moon and Mars colonies more interesting than generic space opera with abundant/unexplained resourcing. Unfortunately the Moon/Mars genre has been tainted by Heinlein’s “Mo
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by pavlov 8mo ago
There’s a 1960s Stanislaw Lem story about this.
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by pavlov 8mo ago
> “at some point of his time in United States, he was illegally present, probably for a while” How do you conclude that from the facts in the article?
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by pavlov 8mo ago
The Finnish importer tried this. They decided to call the movie “Rita Hayworth – avain pakoon”. It means “Key to the escape”… These people would have presumably called Planet of the Apes “Distant future in Eastern United States”…
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by pavlov 8mo ago
“Sincere” and “authentic” are very much taste factors calibrated by whatever was the media environment when you were growing up. Most people think the best year in pop music history was the one when they were 12. There’s a similar effect ab

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