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by sjy 4y ago
“For years, it was assumed that stimulants had paradoxical calming effects in ADHD patients, [while] stimulating ‘normal’ individuals … It is now known that low doses of stimulants focus attention and improve executive function in both norm
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Time for a U-turn on IR35 freelancer tax rules(ft.com)
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by sjy 4y ago
Companies exist to limit the liability of shareholders / investors, not principals. The idea is that you can buy equity and receive dividends if the company goes well, without standing to lose more than you put in if the company harms
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by sjy 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon
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by sjy 5y ago
VBA macros aren't supported. Last time I checked even conditional formatting wasn't supported, although I see now it was added in January 2022 [1]. Even so, as with many other features, the web UI is different and more limited. Li
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by sjy 5y ago
The effects of education on democratic participation, workforce participation and public health are all explicitly assessed in Caplan’s book, particularly chapter 6. This comment tends to prove the point he makes in the article: “Quantitati
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by sjy 5y ago
Outline numbering, cross-references and tables are all common features of contracts which are difficult to capture in plain text.
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by sjy 5y ago
> “It is inconceivable,” said Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, at the first national radio conference in 1922, “that we should allow so great a possibility for service, for news, for entertainment, for education, and for vital comm
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by sjy 5y ago
Most other countries solved the issue a century ago with Torrens title.
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by sjy 5y ago
The article is talking about subpoenas – court orders for disclosure of relevant records, which override ethical and contractual confidentiality obligations, unless the person holding the confidential documents persuades the court to quash
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by sjy 5y ago
> Meta is alleged only to have superimposed a fact-check label on the Fire Video, describing Climate Feedback’s conclusion that the video was “missing context.” Stossel does not claim that label is actionably false—presumably because it
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by sjy 5y ago
You can accept that the brain is governed by physical laws, without conceding that the brain can be simulated. Emulation on the atomic level may not be computationally feasible. The emergence of human behaviour from a less detailed simulati
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by sjy 5y ago
Stephen Thaler is filing junk patents in his own name, naming his software as the “inventor,” and challenging the various patent offices when they reject his defective application form without examining its merits. As the dissenting judge s
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by sjy 5y ago
That’s a necessary condition for any bill to pass, but as explained in [2] and [3], this one followed an exceptional procedure which reduced the opportunity for parliamentarians outside the two major parties to consider, propose and persuad
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You’re quite right, but it is exceptional that the bill passed the House of Representatives on the same day as its second reading speech, and passed the Senate on the following day [1]. This means that there was little time for debate and a
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by sjy 5y ago
The AAT is basically what’s known as an administrative court in other countries [1], or a consolidation of the numerous tribunals presided over by administrative law judges in the U.S. [2]. The average person in Australia is most likely to
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by sjy 5y ago
Katz v. United States held the opposite: “The Government’s activities in electronically listening to and recording the petitioner’s words violated the privacy upon which he justifiably relied while using the telephone booth and thus const
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by sjy 5y ago
Afterpay bears the credit risk, not the merchants. Search for the keyword "net transaction loss": https://afterpay-corporate.yourcreative.com.au/wp-content/up...
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by sjy 5y ago
A confidential settlement does not mean that a licence has been “tested in court” or “litigated and upheld.” It means the parties thought the risk of losing was high enough to justify a settlement. The state of the law remains uncertain bec
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by sjy 5y ago
The unprecedented number is 11. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australian-mps-call-...
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by sjy 5y ago
The notion of fairness is contestable, but that does not mean we cannot progress past Perry’s second stage of development [1] (“it’s all subjective”). Fairness can be equated with due process or natural justice, which in a workplace relatio
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by sjy 5y ago
Using copyright works to train an AI may qualify as fair use, meaning the terms of any copyright licence can be ignored, as argued in this blog post by reference to the Google Books litigation: https://juliareda.eu/2021&#x2F
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by sjy 5y ago
Perhaps it’s not so different from a search engine like Google. The article cites Google’s successful defence, under US copyright law, of its practice of displaying ‘snippets’ from copyrighted books in search results. There is a clear diffe
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by sjy 5y ago
> If he's committed a crime, charge him with it and give him his day in court. Isn’t this exactly what the government has done? https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1289641/downl... The
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by sjy 5y ago
If the model is a derivative work, why wouldn’t works generated using the model also be derivative works?
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Put some keywords into Google Scholar and you will find heaps of research on this topic. Here’s the first one I found. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/eej.2014.22 > We estimate several models with an
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by sjy 5y ago
That’s what Apple says, but isn’t it a bit early to conclude that Epic’s arguments (relevantly, that Apple is illegally monopolising the market for iOS app distribution) are doomed to fail?
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by sjy 5y ago
That’s the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution came 11 years later (and did not, even then, include the Bill of Rights).
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The article quotes the part of the Signal blog that said “a real exploit payload would likely seek to undetectably alter previous reports, compromise the integrity of future reports (perhaps at random!), or exfiltrate data from the Cellebri
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by sjy 5y ago
The DOJ publishes legal guidance on prosecuting computer crimes [1], which includes this relevant passage: > An attacker need not directly send the required transmission to the victim computer in order to violate this statute. In one cas

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