rdmond

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by rdmond 4mo ago
> That only works if all the libraries coordinate to determine which one will hold the last copy, and if the expense of moving such books around on request does not exceed that of storage. Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and NYPL coo
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by rdmond 2y ago
In fact, in the US, around half the population goes to a library at least once a year https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/09/libraries-20... https://www.ala.org/news/2019&#x
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by rdmond 3y ago
This already sort of happened in 2008 when Chuck Close forced someone to stop distributing a Photoshop plug-in that imitated his style. https://hyperallergic.com/54104/my-chuck-close-problem/
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by rdmond 5y ago
Weiss (unsurprisingly) gives a really bad-faith mischaracterization of this. What the prosecutor noted was the defendant's frame of mind because they had to in order to calculate what sentence to ask for. It's not political, it&#x
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by rdmond 5y ago
> "The law against breaking DRM isn't wrong but only because it is actually useless." No. Your right to distribute a copy doesn't imply your right to get one in the easiest way that you can imagine. > That's t
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by rdmond 5y ago
> Suppose Bob was the copyright owner, last year, before the work entered the public domain. He never distributed any copy without DRM, so no DRM-free copies exist. This is fine? Section 1201 of the DMCA was created to eliminate the publ
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by rdmond 5y ago
Spartans spoke a different dialect of Greek (Doric) than the Athenians (Attic) and it used to be fairly common to translate bits of Doric as if they had been spoken by a Scottish Highlander.
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by rdmond 7y ago
Cars are prevalent because they take up a lot of space, but car ownership is not. Not even 25% of people in Manhattan own car. Even in Staten Island 17% of people don't have a car. https://blog.tstc.org/2017/04&#
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by rdmond 7y ago
Sure, but every time NYC "car culture" questions come up, people start wringing their hands about people who need to drive to work. If we're talking NYC that's a low percentage of people who do drive to work (whether the
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by rdmond 7y ago
Nobody who lives on the Upper West Side is driving to work. They circle looking for spots when they have to move their cars for street cleaning and when the get back Sunday night from their country houses. https://nyc.streetsblog
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Signals: The Little Blue Box(espn.go.com)
2 points by rdmond 11y ago|0 comments