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Their new trick is online assignments with automatic grading. The access code for the assignment system will be something like $230 alone, or $250 bundled with the textbook. Departments save a few bucks on grading and pass on the costs to t
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The EFF covered this issue, it was an abuse of the DMCA. > First, youtube-dl does not infringe or encourage the infringement of any copyrighted works, and its references to copyrighted songs in its unit tests are a fair use. Nevertheless
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by pseudo0 3y ago
This seems like a natural consequence of the busted DMCA strike system. Even with legitimately transformative content, a big account risks a strike, days or weeks stuck in appeals, and no recourse against the entity filing a bogus DMCA. Eff
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That's a pretty common investing strategy. Take a HELOC, invest the money in index funds or whatever, and take a tax write-off for the interest. As long as the average return beats the HELOC rate (minus tax deductions) you come out ahe
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Defendants have a right to a jury trial, but can often opt for a bench trial if they want. Conventional wisdom is that the odds of acquittal are better with a jury, outside of unusual cases (eg. an extremely unpopular defendant). Describing
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Working as intended. SBF repeatedly violated his bail conditions, his situation is completely self-inflicted, and no one cares about his whining.
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The two issues are intertwined, and from their perspective the real risk is likely relying on a US company during a time when US/China relations are quite tense. But Apple repeatedly having 0-click 0-day iMessage exploits being used in
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Here we go again... NSO Group has a long history of 0-click, 0-days against iMessage, and just a few months ago Kaspersky caught a different zero day iMessage exploit targeting their staff. If Apple repeatedly fails at securing their device
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The trick is getting an objective assessment of how strong the case is, the risks, opportunity cost, etc. There are a lot of lawyers who are perfectly happy to tilt at windmills for $500 an hour until you run out of money.
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Decreasing in real value, sure, but people hate the idea of a nominal loss when it comes to selling their house. And with inflation still higher than usual, it's entirely possible to have a 15-25% loss over five years in real terms whi
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After it came back, I killed it permanently with uBlock origin. Yet another reason why Google wants to kill adblockers I guess.
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That's how it is supposed to work in theory, in reality emergency vehicles will use whatever lane has open space. If that happens to be the middle lane or right lane, or sometimes even the shoulder, they will go there. Eg. Let's s
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You would think... During COVID I discovered that my upstairs neighbor had a regular aerobics time that apparently involved jumping or skipping or something. Weekday mornings, like clockwork, despite having a gym in the building. There are
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Road noise is mostly white noise when indoors, and reduced to nearly inaudible by good windows. The really disruptive noise is caused by increased density - the apartment above with a subwoofer or an exercise routine that involves dropping
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That's a tricky spot, since 300k ARR does not leave a lot of room for profit after paying people to do sales, support, bug fixes, etc. That seems more like solo founder bootstrap territory, maybe with support from a startup grant, incu
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If cops can't qualify for a NYC mortgage and are forced to live in NYC, many will quit. They have very transferable skills and there are loads of police departments with staff shortages in places where housing is affordable on a police
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Right out of the article you linked: > The starting salary for an NYPD officer is $55,910 without overtime. Meanwhile, the required annual income for a person living alone in New York City with no children is $53,342, according to an MIT
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by pseudo0 3y ago
9/11 got us the Patriot Act, the TSA, an invasion of a completely unrelated country that killed around 600,000 people, and a few trillion dollars in unnecessary military spending. Knee-jerk responses generally don't end well, spea
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That tends to happen when you have a small population and an outlier event occurs in a given year... Your entire country is the size of a large US city. If you calculated NYC's murder rate and included 9/11, it would also be prett
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It's not even a rounding error in our national murder rate. We are currently at over 20,000 murders per year in the US, and it's rare for more than a handful to be linked to white identity extremism in a given year. The real &quot
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Your response below did not address the substance of my argument. I linked to primary sources, people interested in this discussion can go read them and come to their own conclusions.
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They were attempting to subpoena tech companies and websites where the video was reuploaded, demanding user information and IP logs for anyone who accessed the video. I'm unsure of how many video hosts actually complied, given how many
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Charges were laid in 35 cases [0], and a 16 year old pleaded guilty to possession of the video [1]. I'm not sure if the disposition of the other 33 cases has been determined or reported on by news outlets. [0] - https://www.
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Here is the text of the law [0]. It defines "objectionable" content with CSAM as the first category, and then a number of other categories that would be First Amendment protected speech in the US. Possession alone carries a 10 yea
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You've got New Zealand using CSAM laws to prosecute people who watched the Christchurch video, Canada using emergency power to freeze protestors' bank accounts, and the UK with ubiquitous video surveillance and butter knife contro
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The same outlet also covered Google: https://www.mintpressnews.com/national-security-search-engin... Here's another good source about Google's revolving door with government during the Obama administration: https
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There was some good reporting on this issue in the Twitter Files. For example, Jim Baker, the general counsel at Twitter, used to work for the FBI. Musk fired Baker for his role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story. https:/&#x
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Too bad they didn't touch on the net neutrality issues at play here. Washington passed a state level net neutrality law, and KF might end up being the test case. They have filed a complaint with the AG and are waiting for a response.
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Often the problem is bait and switch. For example, I went into the Witcher series expecting a show focused on Geralt, like in the games and books. Over the seasons it progressively devoted more screen time to Yennefer and Ciri, effectively
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> Turns out, when women have the option to turn off their reproductive capacity, people opt for "hmmm nows not a good time I think I'll do it later" often enough that the population goes extinct. Or we have a society and a

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