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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
under the DMCA the minimum penalty for an illegally downloaded file is $750 ( https://copyrightresource.uw.edu/copyright-law/dmca/ ) "Anthropic had no entitlement to use pirated copies for its central library..
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
not if you fork an open source os and add /etc/passwd you haven't been
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
That "instead" later got swapped for "in addition" in a clarifying comment that makes this feel a lot less gross afaic
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
In fairness, non-competes are evidence of both what the commenter you're replying to said and what I said to instigate the reply. The capitalist absolutely does want to be left alone to trade as he sees fit. He also wants his competito
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
what is his end goal in being left to trade as he sees fit? is it maximizing profit? is that the fundamental goal of all actors in this system?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
time to put a pebble on the pile of anecdotal evidence for exercise as a life-changing nootropic. for two years now I've been doing 20 minutes of resistance training and 20 minutes of cardio every day and it helps so much with everythi
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I'm taking >run DOOM as the new >cat /etc/passwd It doesn't actually do anything useful in an engagement but if you can do it that's pretty much proof that you can do whatever you want
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
Had they followed through with that, it would be compulsion and the comparison to slavery would have been warranted. And the devs did exactly what I would have and what they should do, which is to withdraw any software they're not will
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
Capitalists don't like markets, or at least not the markets that we're told capitalism will bring about. Those markets are supposed to increase competition and drive down prices until companies are making just barely enough to sur
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
this. it's changed several times over its lifetime and every change until recently has made it a better thing for the average person to use. We're out of the discovery phase and into the encirclement and exploitation phase.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
so it's off by even more than a half mill?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
when is labor required of FOSS? I always assumed that I was perfectly free to not write FOSS but I'd be interested to find out in what manner I can be compelled to do so. Keep in mind that asking, even asking forcefully or impolitely,
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
it's interesting to me that this article specifies subjective well being everywhere but the title. it's also interesting that my comment displays an innate distrust of institutions.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
if there are no consequences to violating a law is it a law?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
your insistence that people doing what they want on their own time and then disposing of the product as they see fit is "slave labor" undermines your otherwise valid point.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
no, AI hasn't made "learn to code" obsolete its just made AI part of "learn to code". This is like asking if microwaves have made cooking obsolete because now the average person can make a burrito using only a micro
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
This. When I was a bartender it wasn't uncommon for the last little bit of free cash I had at the beginning of the work week to be (barely) enough to get me to work
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
it's reasonable to assume that this represents the amount of rice japan should allocate per-peasant in a functioning economy with other food sources. it would be meaningless and absurd to develop a standard for the amount of rice one w
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
I'm a man, have ADHD, went to public school and was supported and not medicated. Your argument is directly counter to my experience as the person you claim to be protecting and since you used a supersonic jet to fly off the handle you
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
>Arm muscles
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
in a nation of 400 million people you only need 5 to agree with you (if it's the right 5) and then the 6 of y'all are "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" and the 399,999,994 of us are out of t
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
You're just kicking the can down the road. "Who decides what's obscene?" "The average person." "Who decides who the average person is?" In your own argument you keep pointing to how arbitrary and abus
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
As of right now it means they can still be kidnapped and deported while we figure out what that means.
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
oh boy, another AI product I don't want, didn't ask for and won't use. Are they ever gonna run out of investor money to burn on this shit?
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
Not if I get to pick what's obscene
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
>Google employees have until Feb. 20 to apply for the buyout and will find out by March 25 if they were approved, according to CNBC. "Your voluntary buyout has been denied and we are terminating you for cause due to poor attitude an
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
Even in this description you deferred to your own personal interpretation when you said "I don't think much of the content of Wikipedia is describing sexual content in a patently offensive way". Someone might, or might find i
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
doubly so because you can create the cat pictures and make them technically accessible just by hosting them but you don't have to provide equal means of access between the cat pictures and the "cat" pictures. Users are guided
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by reverendsteveii 1y ago
One difference is that there are absolutely no people involved with the current political power structure who are openly saying their end goal is to marry dogs. "“Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it

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