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by sjy 6y ago
Check out http://austlii.community/wiki/DataLex . In Australia we are fortunate enough to have AustLII publishing virtually all Australian laws and court decisions (at least from this century) for free in a somewhat con
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The news media is called the “fourth estate” for a reason. Many people believe it is a foundational element of democracy. I am one of them and I am “upset/perturbed” at the news media’s decline. You seem to accept that it is in decline
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by sjy 6y ago
My point isn’t about coding versus learning languages, it’s about open-ended creative activities versus ad-sponsored iOS games. Don’t get me wrong, I like playing the games too!
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by sjy 6y ago
Don’t most streamers use complex setups involving professional-grade AV equipment, custom-built gaming computers, and complicated software like OBS to glue it all together? I don’t think you can learn how to do all that stuff by spending lo
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by sjy 6y ago
Has anyone ever learned those languages on an iPad though? Even if you know a few languages already, learning a new one by writing software on a device with a small screen, no keyboard, no filesystem, no native app IDE, no browser debugger,
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by sjy 6y ago
Many HN readers earn a living from programming skills they developed by exploring computers aimlessly as kids in the 1990s and 2000s. I’m a Duolingo addict who has used the app daily for more than three years, so I do think it’s a fun way t
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by sjy 6y ago
In Le ton beau de Marot , Douglas Hofstadter talks about how writing the book using 90s-era desktop publishing software allowed him to spot widows, orphans and other typographic ugliness as he was composing the text, and he would fix these
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by sjy 6y ago
That’s interesting. Have you had similar professional experience in both English and German-speaking workplaces? I would have expected a greater emphasis on good writing in European countries with more multilingualism.
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by sjy 6y ago
I’ve submitted job applications that asked me to include a writing sample, and have also asked job applicants to edit a page of bad writing riddled with errors, for positions where writing or editing skills were important.
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by sjy 6y ago
The detail of the “publicly available password” case [1] is quite interesting. It’s not directly analogous to the YouTube system, but as the EFF points out, the RIAA’s reliance on German law has its own problems. > When Petrolink learned
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by sjy 6y ago
The principles are essentially the same, but they are discrete copyrights which could be owned by different people.
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by sjy 6y ago
An interesting question along these lines arose recently in relation to an Australian password disclosure law that related to accessing “computers,” which was used to compel disclosure of a smartphone passcode. To HN readers and the digital
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by sjy 6y ago
In this case a “browser” is a YouTube client that copyright holders are happy with, because it doesn’t provide any simple way of saving offline copies.
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by sjy 6y ago
You could look to the legal system in the United Kingdom, Canada or Australia, which has the same basic structure, without the bizarre political pageantry surrounding the appointment of apex court judges. In these countries judges are not c
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by sjy 6y ago
No, I’m agreeing with pjc50 that claims like “the security and protection of property under the rule of law should be a human right” deserve skepticism, if they mean that Western democracies should provide more legal protection for property
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by sjy 6y ago
My point is that the courts decide what constitutes “fair use,” and based on past decisions, I don’t think they would agree that using Funkwhale to share 10,000 tracks with 10 friends counts. Until a court says otherwise, it’s not FUD, bull
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Most Australians found the argument that plain packaging laws amounted to an unconstitutional acquisition of tobacco companies’ intellectual property ridiculous. Ultimately, the courts agreed, but the argument does follow from the premises
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One difference is that blank CDs cost money. In the Betamax case the cost of blank tapes was one reason why time-shifting was not seen as a serious threat to the market that copyright laws are intended to support, because it made it hard to
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by sjy 6y ago
Which copyright law are you talking about? My impression is that streaming a reasonably large collection of copyrighted music (say 10,000 tracks) to a reasonable number of friends (say 10) would not be considered fair use by U.S. courts. Th
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by sjy 6y ago
I agree with the last paragraph of your comment. However, the “wholly selfish” economic argument for “diverse” workplaces is management consultant bullshit which is not supported by the evidence. Here’s an excerpt from the first article tha
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by sjy 6y ago
I don’t think this is an accurate summary of the book. The satirical history of the “modern education system” in chapter 3 describes how funding for public education was increased, and students were aggressively streamed into different scho
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by sjy 6y ago
> a music platform where something I purchased can be shared for free to millions of people That doesn’t seem to be the intent or reality of how Funkwhale is used. All of the public pods I saw had less than 200 members. I imagine you’d r
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by sjy 6y ago
Is there a school out there that doesn’t investigate and punish students who cheat or plagiarise? There are certainly differences in strictness, but I thought the “honor code” you describe was a basic policy at all institutes of higher ed
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by sjy 6y ago
McDonald’s have been selling a new plant-based burger called the McVeggie in Australia all year. https://mcdonalds.com.au/menu/mcveggie%E2%84%A2
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Where do the existing "readily available, off-the-shelf encryption solutions" mentioned in the link fall in this dichotomy? Are they unbreakable because no network administrator can read my WhatsApp messages? Or are they broken, b
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You're going to be very disappointed by the other human rights then. They're all about proportionality. Even the right to life can give way "when a public authority (such as the police) uses necessary force to … stop a riot o
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by sjy 6y ago
I don't see any proposal to "weaken protocols." Why would the government try to mandate the use of provably unsound end-to-end encryption, weakening security for everyone, when it could just order Apple and Google to spy on t
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by sjy 6y ago
It is much more difficult to get data off an E2E communication device these days because mobile OSes use cryptography to mitigate the consequences of loss and theft. That is why law enforcement agencies want "the support of service pro
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by sjy 6y ago
> All most people need to do is run a couple processes on a couple hosts … You can have all of that with, say, systemd (ugh) Why ugh? I do have all of that with systemd, and it’s great. Rather than running each service in a separate file
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by sjy 6y ago
Maybe “arguably illegal”? The RIAA’s argument is that youtube-dl is a tool for circumventing copyright protection, which is related to the concept of piracy or copyright infringement, but prohibited by different laws. Marketing a circumvent

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