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by pavon 1y ago
By BLS statistics, 50% of married couples today both work[1], which is the same as it was in 1978, and lower than it was for most of the 80's and 90's[2]. There are some caveats to those statistics. They cover all married couples,
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by pavon 1y ago
In this case, I'm guessing the FTC knew it was a long shot and took the Hail Mary pass anyway. If they had done the preliminary regulatory analysis the ruling wouldn't have been completed during the Biden administration. So they g
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by pavon 1y ago
That is a decent argument against the law requiring the analysis, but it is not a good argument that judges should let the FTC violate the law.
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by pavon 1y ago
So by analogy, Zigbee is like USB in that it encourages certification through trademarks, while Matter is like HDCP or Blu-ray in that it enforces certification through technical means (cryptographic signatures)?
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by pavon 1y ago
The judge did use some language that analogized the training with human learning. I don't read it as basing the legal judgement on anthropomorphizing the LLM though, but rather discussing whether it would be legal for a human to do the
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by pavon 1y ago
There is another case where companies slurped up all of the internet and profited off the information, that makes a good comparison - search engines. Judges consider a four factor when examining fair use[1]. For search engines, 1) The use i
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by pavon 1y ago
> I wish there was a way to turn off the nagging too. Why can’t Firefox trust my corp IT to follow their process? That is definitely possible. In my corporate environment, I don't get any nags or prompts to update, and when I go int
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by pavon 1y ago
I've seen something similar in Windows corporate environments where Firefox is updated while you are using it, and the only indication that it has happened is that Firefox insists on restarting before you can load any more pages, altho
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by pavon 1y ago
I'm guessing that is an illusion due to refraction through thick (plexi)glass. Otherwise, if the bills really are where they appear, then there would have to be some partial (cut) bills along the edges for everything to line up properl
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by pavon 1y ago
This isn't like some other legal questions that go decades before being answered in court. There are dozens of cases working through the courts today that will shed light on some aspects of the copyright questions within a few years. Q
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by pavon 1y ago
Does it have Reveal Codes? :P
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by pavon 1y ago
It depends. I'd like to argue that you have to enter the information one way or another, why not share it and save others the work in the future, but in reality it is often quite a bit slower. MusicBrainz likes to collect more informat
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by pavon 1y ago
Even with digital releases, MusicBrainz often has more detailed metadata than the original files. And if you have a mixed library of rips and digital purchases, it is nice to use a tagger like Picard to enforce consistent directory structur
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by pavon 1y ago
Part of the difficulty is that artists/labels aren't always consistent about the formatting of song titles. Its not uncommon for the capitalization to vary between the back cover of the CD, the printing on the CD itself and the li
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by pavon 1y ago
Purely due to industry norms, no laws that I am aware of. For example Tesla makes it much harder for third parties to repair vehicles both by not making parts available and by using DRM/part-pairing/phoning-home to require authori
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by pavon 1y ago
The article didn't nail down an exact reason. Here is my guess. The quote from Andy Hertzfeld suggests the limiting factor was the memory bandwidth not the memory volume: > The most important decision was admitting that the softwa
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by pavon 1y ago
Yeah, the icon style is the part I care about the least when taking about flat design. It is the fact that it removes all visual affordances that something is interactive. Clickable items that don't look like buttons or hypertext, they
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by pavon 1y ago
Burritoing a bird is a safe and relatively easy way to restrain it while handling it. It can't flap its wings to fly away, it can't claw you with its talons, and it is far less likely to hurt itself resisting. And yes, they do app
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by pavon 1y ago
Any TOTP where the user enrolls it on account creation, without going through a third-party service. Or SMS on a burner phone. Both are pseudonymous, since using the same authentication at multiple sites could be linked, but neither have to
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by pavon 1y ago
For banks an other cases that (1) need to know you true identity, and (2) provide no expectation of privacy regarding sharing the existence of accounts with the government, a government run authentication would be fine from a privacy point
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by pavon 1y ago
In many states, including CA, individuals can post a bond instead of carrying insurance. Companies with fleets of vehicles can also self-insure. In both cases the car owner is liable to pay any damages that insurance would normally pay.
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by pavon 1y ago
Under the Bayh-Dole Act state universities do the exact same thing. They patent their research and license it to private companies. Their discoveries are no more or less open to the public than with private universities.
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by pavon 1y ago
Since we got a bidet we use more toilet paper for drying than we used to use for wiping. Perhaps the full-size ones work better, but the fans for add-on bidets are worthless.
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by pavon 1y ago
Ha, I'm trying to remember where I learned that as well. I know we covered it in drafting where we learned an 8.5x11 A paper is half a sheet of 11x17 B paper which is half a sheet of 17x22 C paper, and so on. But I thought I knew the s
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by pavon 1y ago
Yes, but it is a lot more work to run an internal CA and distribute that CA cert to all the corporate clients. In the past getting a public wildcard cert was the path of least resistance for internal sites - no network access needed, and yo
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by pavon 2y ago
And the basic syntax of HTML is based on SGML which was standardized in 1986, and which in turn was based on GML and COCOA from the 1960's.
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by pavon 2y ago
Tavis makes some good arguments, but since that post I've seen a couple real-world situations where reproducible builds are valuable. One is where the upstream software developer wants to build and sign their software so that users kno
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by pavon 2y ago
While some of the residential IPs are from malware, a lot of it is from residential IP proxies, where people are paid to run proxy software from their home. If it starts getting around that people who run this software quickly become blocke
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by pavon 2y ago
> And again something you can't discount here is that Eric himself has written extensively about NASA frequently carrying out/endorsing poor decisions (SLS/Artemis being the low hanging fruit there) owing much more to poli
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by pavon 2y ago
Travel time to Mars is 3-9 months depending on how fast you travel, probably still to early to know where a Space X Starship trip would fall in that range. The 5 years is referencing Musk's latest optimistic prediction for when the fir

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