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Removing copyright allows a company to take something that is in the public domain, make changes to it and not release the changes . Yes, the GPL is a hack on the distribution of derivative works... but without those teeth to bite with and
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It protects the photographs that I've taken from the rich to be able to steal it and reproduce them much more cheaply than I can. It protects the open source contributions that I've made from the rich, by being able to take th
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Every bit of open source is founded on the license enforced by copyright and the ability for the creator to authorize the creation and distribution of derivative works. Without it, anything that is published could be taken (once the copyrig
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This is country specific (as is copyright itself). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_architecture_in_t... https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/120 > The copyright in an
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by shagie 2y ago
(1) ask a lawyer if your tweaks were sufficiently creative to justify a copyright. (2) the work produced by the AI photo generator may itself be sufficiently derivative of other works that your work is also derivative and the original autho
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My take on it... The models are not copyrightable, they are a derivative work of the collection of works that went into producing them as they are a mathematical transformation of that data. Related to the other famous example - https:&#x2
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I love Ted Orland's panorama photographs - https://www.anseladams.com/products/tree-in-snowstorm-yosemi... and https://www.freestylephoto.com/making-holga-panoramas While he shoots with the cheape
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https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/docs/compendium-12-22-14.pdf Section 313.2 The copyright office said that photographs taken by monkeys nor murals painted by elephants are works that may be copyrighted. This is ba
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A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904798 ( 366 points | Jan 14, 2016 | 193 comments ) The actual reason behind F.lux for iOS being pulled - https:/&
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The magic file (man magic / man file) is a neat one to read. On my Mac, this is located in /usr/share/file/magic/ while I recall on a unix distribution I worked on it was /etc/magic The file itself h
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The double slit experiment has been replicated even with fairly hefty molecules. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0663-9 > Here, we report interference of a molecular library of functionalized oligoporphyr
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That's disappointing... and I see that Athabasca Falls also had a fire ( https://youtu.be/kljQc4ycIs4 ). I don't have any great photos from Athabasca area... some of the other photos... https://imgur.co
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Going to Waterton, as I said, I was prepared for camping... got to the gate and the ranger looked at my car and informed me that the campground was full. However, camping was my backup if my first choice was not available... staying in t
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In '09, after getting laid off I did a road trip around with provisions for "I could go camping if my road trip took me that way." No fire arms or criminal record.. but I'm getting to that. So, going from Seattle up to
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The next most famous stoic would then be Epictetus who influenced Marcus Aurelius and is cited in the Meditations. > Epictetus (/ˌɛpɪkˈtiːtəs/, EH-pick-TEE-təss; Ancient Greek: Ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos; c. 50 – c. 135 AD) was a Gre
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius > He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative
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It's banned in some places for vehicle safety issues. https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2025/02/20/tesla-cybe... There's size and weight. Rounded edges for any protruding parts. Crump
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by shagie 2y ago
When you're driving through North Dakota and see the red clinker in the cliffs along the highway... https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/ndnotes/ndn13_h.htm and https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/documen
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Digging, there's https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli For graphviz, the "problem" with it is that it truly is general purpose and trying to make a general purpose syntax for diagrams is difficult.
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Mermaid - support in many markdown rendering pages. Embedding a ``` block in Markdown and having it versioned as text is the big win. Graphviz - same basic reason as Mermaid, though no markdown support. Versioning text is a lot easier tha
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The challenge would be to move the film around multiple axis at a range that would be useful. https://www.canon.com.cy/pro/infobank/image-stabilisation-le... > Optical Image Stabilisation is effective with move
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The SLR lenses are still in wide production. https://www.nikonusa.com/c/lenses/dslr-lenses/overview The Z lenses are for the mirrorless bodies and only work on the mirrorless bodies. https://www.
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The traditional Nikon mount has a small screw that is turned. The camera autofocus speed is limited by the amount of torque that can be applied to the screw - which can make focusing some of the heavier lenses slower. https://ww
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What is the market? Is it possible that "the market" has wages that are higher than the company's revenue per employee?
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> Why is it that employees can get more money/promotions from a company they have no relationship with, than from a company where they've already been working for multiple years and have more company-specific knowledge than the
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https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-be... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474893 (2017) (133 points | 130 comments)
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There's also the "we can only pay a third of what Google paid you..." and given two candidates that interview equally well, one is former Google and appeared to be making $300k and another is from somewhere where they were ma
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One of the 'neat' things that you can do is look at the '29726230' and find out the ID of the person doing the advertising... since this is badge related. https://stackoverflow.com/users/29726230
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I'm not the one making the initial claim. I do agree with Tyson in that the reasons for the space race were "we need to beat the Russians" and when the US won the space race, the political will to continue with the dreams &#x
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There was also that period of time when Ricochet was available in some places. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service) Wireless 56k baud. So you could take your luggable laptop circa 1994 with you an

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