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by sjy 6y ago
(In computer science, physics and mathematics.)
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by sjy 6y ago
Some say that copyright infringement is stealing, and some say that the decline of the news media could be reversed by extending copyright to prohibit the unauthorised posting of links to, or snippets of, news content: https://en
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by sjy 6y ago
It’s unfortunate that the actual submission by Facebook hasn’t been published and the linked article provides little background on the “mandatory code of conduct” proposal Facebook is responding to. This relates to a concepts paper the Aust
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It’s not roughly equivalent. I often look at the free previews on Amazon and Google Books to check print citations or read a few pages from a chapter of interest, but usually the pages I want to read are unavailable. An online equivalent to
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by sjy 6y ago
The Temporary National Emergency Library illustrates the qualitative difference between $0 and $10. It would never have been feasible to make print copies of an entire library collection instantly available to billions of people.
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The question isn’t whether they’d work for free, it’s whether they’d work if it was impossible to generate revenue through enforceable copyrights. We know that even under these conditions, some authors would work for free, others would be p
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by sjy 6y ago
> how do we get the benefits of the GPL - especially receiving things like source code - if we no longer have copyright? It’s not obvious to me that enforceable copyleft licences have increased the availability of free software to such a
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by sjy 6y ago
I think this is why the debatable proposition that samples used in hip-hop and mashups need to be cleared with the copyright holder (rather than being fair use) has never been decided by the Supreme Court. Nobody ever sued Girl Talk over it
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This was a nice read, but I felt cheated when I realised that it wasn't a real transcript from 1990 with funny pictures from 2020. I'm more interested in the history of what people were actually saying in 1990 than fiction about w
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All universities have pretty serious problems at this point, but we can't write off all of academia as a "corrupt money-pit." It sounds like you are generalising from your own experience at a single institution, and there are
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This was also an incentive for me to adopt a similar system. As the web gets bigger, it feels as though search engines are losing the SEO arms race and it’s harder to rediscover things I remember reading online in the past. As well as writi
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by sjy 6y ago
Would you mind sharing what caused you to abandon TiddlyWiki? I like the look of Notion and Roam, but I don’t like SaaS. I’m a few weeks into customising a TiddlyWiki instance and I am becoming quite committed to it. It seems to have the ri
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by sjy 6y ago
Facebook users are perfectly capable of reading websites and sharing them on Facebook using a URL. It’s not necessary for bloggers to embed Facebook’s code and logo on their website to enable this.
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Can’t you just use a Let’s Encrypt cert? The domain needs to be publicly resolvable, but it doesn’t have to resolve to the same IP returned by your internal DNS, and you can use wildcard certificates if you don’t want your internal subdomai
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by sjy 6y ago
A “privacy impact assessment” was performed by an independent law firm, reviewed by an independent statutory authority responsible for privacy protection, and published before the app was released. https://www.oaic.gov.au/up
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by sjy 6y ago
This is a pretty old-fashioned and US-centric perspective. The Wikipedia article explains that sovereign immunity never really worked like this in Australia, and the United Kingdom passed a Crown Proceedings Act to overcome it in 1947: htt
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by sjy 6y ago
This is the question I’ve been wondering about, but currently it’s still not clear that you need to do this. I installed the iOS app out of curiosity, and it didn’t tell me I had to leave it foregrounded. However, a few minutes after exitin
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by sjy 6y ago
It’s inaccurate to call it “Peter Dutton’s give me your password law” – it’s been around since 2001 (although the maximum penalty was increased from 2 to 10 years in 2018), and there are equivalent laws in most developed countries. As far a
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by sjy 6y ago
That last point is wrong – section 6 of the determination says that “a person must not collect, use or disclose COVID app data“ unless it is for one of the whitelisted purposes in subsection (2). COVID app data includes data that “has been”
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by sjy 7y ago
Running doesn’t (substantially, probably) increase the rate at which you shed the virus, though – so the droplets are spread over a larger area, at a lower concentration. You need to keep a greater distance to guarantee zero exposure, but t
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by sjy 7y ago
No, because if the government wants to inspect DRM-encrypted media for some reason they can simply play it like any other customer, or order the company that encrypted it to provide an unencrypted version.
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by sjy 7y ago
Generally when people say “90% of child sexual abusers are known to the victim” they are referring to “contact sex offenders.” All child abusers take advantage of vulnerable children, but children are more likely to be physically vulnerable
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by sjy 7y ago
Show someone an animation of the lily pads doubling every day and ask the same question and you’ll realise that they understand exponential growth intuitively, they’re just not good at word problems.
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by sjy 7y ago
Population and GDP also grow exponentially, but we’ve been watching those numbers go up for decades. Most things that grow do so exponentially. Growth always comes to an end, but that often happens well before the rate of change becomes “ab
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by sjy 7y ago
What “numbers” were you doing back in December? The virus had not spread outside of Wuhan, or been named or sequenced, by that point.
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by sjy 7y ago
That's right. It's not beyond the point because in both countries, these millions of casual retail and hospitality workers are the source of the risk discussed in the article (they won't self-quarantine because it would cost
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by sjy 7y ago
I’m a little skeptical of that sick leave data source, since it claims that Australia offers 6 months or more “paid leave for personal health needs through employers and the social security system,” while Australian unions are campaigning f
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by sjy 7y ago
The ability to shop around between cloud providers.
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by sjy 7y ago
That’s a really interesting point. I learned CSS back in the early 2000s and it was easy. Not only was there less to learn, the resources out there were high quality. It was clear that CSS was the new “best practice” and the alternatives (t
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by sjy 7y ago
Can you use `bindsym ctrl+r seat - cursor press button2, seat - cursor release button2`?

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