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by sjy 7y ago
The general principle of removing DRM is forbidden, at least in the US, which is presumably why DRM removal tools are distributed through the same shady web sources as pirated content. "No person shall circumvent a technological measur
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by sjy 7y ago
Do you use these libraries? I see them around from time to time, but I've never been tempted to borrow from them. Usually there's nothing more than a random selection of popular novels from the last 20 years.
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It could be longer than 100 years. I recently tried to find a copy of an article published in 1932. I can't find any version online and the nearest print version is in a library 1,000 km away. I asked the library if they could scan it
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I think that attitude is part of the problem. If you're competent, it's usually much easier to find a new job than it is to take on entrenched cultural and funding problems that create risks. This further entrenches the problems b
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It feels harsh to call him naïve because I'm sure I wouldn't have had any more insight, but it is surprising how little we knew about the science of language pre-Chomsky, considering that we have been learning languages for millio
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by sjy 7y ago
It's worth checking that claim against the Ninth Circuit's decision [1], because the court said: > We emphasize the narrowness of our First Amendment holding. We do not hold that all software is expressive. Much of it surely is
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by sjy 7y ago
> Bankruptcy just means loosing everything for its _members_. Surely it's typical for credit unions to have deposit insurance? If not, there should be regulations in place to ensure people understand that they are basically just sha
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It's not sufficient to put a bill to a vote, of course, but it's not worthless. Other recommendations could have been "prosecute Equifax executives for breaking existing laws," or "do nothing, because federal regula
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What HBO’s Chernobyl got right, and what it got terribly wrong(newyorker.com)
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What do you find suspicious about it? You've acknowledged that they're presumably taking care to comply with the letter of the law. As long as legal advice is being provided by lawyers whose ethical duties override their personal
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Does your experience with Atrium suggest that this kind of functionality is feasible? Even developing a 'law as code' platform where NDAs can be written by computer experts in a DSL, formally analysed and compiled to English seems
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Putting aside the real issue of advisors not acting in their clients' best interest, the distinction between 'advisers' and 'advisors' seems to be a myth based on an assumption by the Small Investors Protection Asso
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by sjy 7y ago
I think that it would be more accurate to describe "14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud" and "a plot to launder $1.2 billion from Venezuela's state-owned oil company" as fraud and dishonesty, rather than re
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by sjy 7y ago
Can you provide an example of a person in the financial industry who went to jail for violating regulations of the kind you are talking about, as opposed to fraud/dishonesty?
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Simplicity. Neurological development takes place at different rates for different people, but it's an invidious thing to measure, so it's best not to try, at least until neuroscience gets better.
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by sjy 7y ago
Thank you for the citation. I was not familiar with the Burke quote, or any other support for the view that common law judges have an "independent duty to pursue the truth." I still think this proposition goes too far, as you se
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by sjy 7y ago
It's not a manuscript authoring tool, but I thought we were talking about alternatives for 'perfect typesetting.' I don't think there's any tool that is ideal for both authoring and typesetting, but since we do have
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by sjy 7y ago
I accept that the word 'raid' isn't ideal, but I don't think it's 'incredibly misleading' when accompanied by photos that make it quite clear there are no armed men storming the building. What word would y
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by sjy 7y ago
> Constitutions far outdated the very concept of natural law Really? I would trace the concept of natural law at least back to Aquinas (13th century) if not antiquity. Constitutional law as part of a secular democracy, on the other hand,
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by sjy 7y ago
Thank you for sharing your story. It is important that Australians understand the way the messages our government sends to the outside world are perceived by the people targeted by them.
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by sjy 7y ago
I think most journalists would argue that they should have the right not to have their email searched by police to discover a source's identity, even if, as a matter of law, they don't.
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Why do you say that the ABC intentionally misreported the situation? An ABC journalist live-tweeted the execution of the search warrant and claimed that he was the first to live-tweet an AFP 'raid' [1], which I think is valuable p
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by sjy 7y ago
That's a great point about slide rules and precision. I wish more people understood it. I am sick of seeing statistics where n < 100 reported to 4 significant figures.
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by sjy 7y ago
I assumed your parent was using 'morally' as it is sometimes used in mathematics: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1434043/sources-of-...
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I much prefer the user experience of HN to any other web forum. Everything loads instantly, everything has a URI, there are no extraneous distractions. I think the people behind HN just share my aesthetic preferences; they're not inten
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by sjy 7y ago
Wouldn't it be nice if Word actually provided some kind of UI for working with the underlying XML, like the old WordPerfect 'show codes' feature?
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What industry are you talking about? Email doesn't scale to the size of a detailed report; I've been criticised for sending 'wall of text' emails that were barely over 1,000 words. I'm sure you weren't entirely
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I'd like those features too, but unfortunately for reference material I find annotation and pagination more important. Annotation is broken in HTML/EPUB because there's no way to make my annotations portable across devices wi
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> Word documents can be edited by people who have access to an appropriate version of Word ... LaTeX ones are greppable, searcheable, etc. They also 'age' much better. I can still LaTeX most documents from 20 years ago I really
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by sjy 7y ago
I think the best use case for Markdown is when you specifically want 'not too rich text' – for example, I like the way it's used on Stack Exchange. It needs to be combined with another tool, like a web application, to take ca

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