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by sjy 6y ago
There have been at least five mass extinction events in the last 500 million years. The most recent one wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs, after they had dominated the earth for 100 million years. Tool-using apes with language have been aro
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by sjy 6y ago
The bill says “the responsible digital platform corporation must ensure that the supply of the digital service does not, in relation to crawling, indexing, making available and distributing news businesses’ covered news content ... differen
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by sjy 6y ago
Yes, if you assume that both parts refer to the same “go.” But “have a go” here means something like “work hard and contribute to the economy.” It doesn’t refer to possessing the thing you “get” in exchange, ie. money.
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by sjy 6y ago
The stated rationale for the law is not copyright infringement, so fair use is not relevant. It’s an attempt by Australia’s competition (antitrust) regulator to address an alleged market failure: “The proposed bargaining code is intended to
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by sjy 6y ago
> Are we really saying that people cannot stop using social media? Are we saying that people don't think it's bad for them? Yes, that’s part of the definition of ‘addictive.’ Internet and social media addiction is well document
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by sjy 6y ago
> There is no acknowledgement at all of the value search engines provide to media organisations by the links provided. The bill deals with this in section 52ZZ(1)(b), which says that in determining the remuneration to be paid to a news b
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by sjy 6y ago
This legislation is supposed to be a kind of antitrust (ie. competition law) regulation. It came out of an inquiry by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The stated purpose of the law is to remedy a 'bargaining power im
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by sjy 6y ago
I’d say it probably has something to do with the collapse in union membership, deregulation and growth of the finance sector, and capture of the political system by those who can afford billions of dollars worth of advertising, but it’s a c
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by sjy 6y ago
Governments with unstable currencies sometimes impose restrictions on the ability to buy and sell them, and bitcoin makes it easier to evade these.
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by sjy 6y ago
It looks like there was a listed short squeeze fund, SQZZ [1], which closed in 2018 only for lack of investors [2], so the SEC doesn't seem to have a fundamental problem with the strategy. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archiv
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by sjy 6y ago
I recommend Schmidt and Frank’s article on the Silurian hypothesis [1] for a surprisingly different take on this. The full text is on arXiv [2]. “We summarize the likely geological fingerprint of the Anthropocene, and demonstrate that while
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by sjy 6y ago
You can’t “counter-sue” for misuse of copyright, nor is it a “normal punishment.” It’s a defence you can use to avoid liability when someone else sues you, and an exceptional one at that [1]. As noted on Wikipedia, the court in Lasercomb [2
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by sjy 6y ago
I’ve thought about this but I assumed it would be too hard to get Synergy installed on employer or client-provided computers. It sounds like you’ve used this setup with multiple clients – is it normal in your field of work to get local admi
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by sjy 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach
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by sjy 6y ago
> You can't really reproduce that with any popular desktop operating system. If you’re running Docker, you’re running Linux, and you can use the same kernel features as Docker to sandbox applications yourself. This way, you only inc
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by sjy 6y ago
Other people recommended this to me when I was building a tiny home server, but it’s really not in the same league as a Raspberry Pi, 2-bay NAS or i3 NUC. It’s a real server, which is 4 times the size and can draw 10 times as much power.
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by sjy 6y ago
I like GoodReader for this. It’s the only app I’ve found that stores my annotations in the PDF files themselves, and allows me to keep my PDF library in sync over SFTP, Dropbox, etc. so that I can read and annotate documents on non-Apple de
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by sjy 6y ago
> It's waaay more expensive to interpret and render, so it affects battery life. Interesting – I never noticed a difference in battery life when I was reading MOBIs and PDFs on my Kindle, but the slow refresh rate made scrolling thr
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by sjy 6y ago
The government expressly disclaimed any such burden. See Ulbricht’s (unsuccessful) petition for certiorari [1] linked elsewhere in this thread: > The sentence was based on judicial findings related to allegations of serious crimes that n
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by sjy 6y ago
How is it “natural” for many industries to coalesce into oligopoly? This requires a legal system with strong property rights for corporations and lax competition law enforcement. These conditions have not always existed. You can argue that
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by sjy 6y ago
50 years ago the two top companies in that list had just started defending expensive and long-running antitrust cases. IBM changed its behaviour to settle these cases, transforming the computer industry, and in AT&T’s case the litigatio
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by sjy 6y ago
I’m an average person buying a Pi and slapping a media centre distro on there with default settings. I’m pretty sure LibreELEC takes care of the logging issue: https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/15079-rpi-logging-to-ram&
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by sjy 6y ago
The distinction is the existence, from the developer’s perspective, of a separate step called “compilation,” which produces an executable artefact which can be distributed but not converted back to the source code. It’s about programming in
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by sjy 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_51(i)_of_the_Constitut...
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Interesting – I had assumed this was a state responsibility, like vehicle registration, driver’s licences, and road rules. After all, the constitution doesn’t give the federal government the power to regulate cars. But it seems that it does
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by sjy 6y ago
I think you want the “delete” button.
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Yes, that is my assertion – it’s impossible to verify that you have considered and correctly interpreted all relevant law, although it should be rare for professionals to make a mistake, especially after extended research. I’m curious as to
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by sjy 6y ago
Work is being done on this – here’s some in the human rights context: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10506-019-09255-y But the outcome of high-stakes commercial litigation is much more complex than “wi
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by sjy 6y ago
The last century has seen a huge increase in the quantity of law that is written out explicitly in statutes [1], rather than being worked out on a case-by-case basis according to the common law method. This is an attempt to “improve the lan
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by sjy 6y ago
The current buzzword for this is “rules as code” and many governments are exploring it. You’re right that it is particularly relevant to complicated financial laws like the tax code, and necessarily has been done in a limited way by tax sof

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