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by stubish 2y ago
This effort is just starting up? Flying Whales expect to have an airship in 2025 and be operational in 2028 per https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-11/outback-town-launches... . Not that this is a race; better if
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by stubish 2y ago
The consequences are being sued. Turns out though that this is ineffective, as you need incentive, resources, and time to take that action. If Google had asked for damages, maybe it would have kicked off an Ambulance Chasing industry, but f
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by stubish 2y ago
Without brain activity, all that can be demonstrated is the recollection of being conscious. It is well known that we can recall lots of things that never happened, with our brains filling in the blanks with invented details.
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by stubish 2y ago
As an Australian, I find it fascinating that New Zealand is using Australia as a role model for climate policy. One of the two major parties plans to drop out of the Paris Agreement entirely, retargetting everything to 2050 for the next g
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Giant 'gurgling' earthworms living under Gippsland farms(abc.net.au)
8 points by stubish 2y ago|2 comments
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by stubish 2y ago
A free market just works this way, and various regulations exist to keep it a free market by stopping things like collusion, corruption, fraud and monopolies. However, in order to protect creators rights, other regulations we call copyright
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by stubish 2y ago
No, you can't not watch it. Popular media becomes part of popular culture. Your culture, my culture. It surrounds us and affects us, no matter our choice and even before we are of an age we can legally make such decisions. Mickey Mouse
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by stubish 2y ago
Yes, the copyright laws setup in the 18th century and since are all about protecting creator rights. But the other half of the equation is consumer rights. Consumer rights tend to get trodden down in the name of profit, so we now have the s
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by stubish 2y ago
She makes no claim about being wiped 'because she's a woman'. Her anecdote is that another woman 'essentially said that the only other woman during her tenure there was an office manager'. She is citing, with video
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Expected to start construction next year and be producing in 5 years. It takes us longer than that to pick a site and start the ecological and social impact assessments.
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China to build first-ever thorium molten salt nuclear power station(abc.net.au)
9 points by stubish 2y ago|2 comments
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Maybe not with the existing rules. I expect regions with more consumer friendly legislature might stop exclusive licensing deals (Game of Thrones exclusively on) and vertical integration (of course Disney content is exclusive to the Disney
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For a while. Over here we expect to lose one of our three commercial TV stations in the next few years, because the market (ie. ad spending) has been moving online. Regional broadcast stations are already shutting down, because it is not wo
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by stubish 2y ago
One interesting aside in this article was that the crows don't teach each other how to make tools. But a child might steal a tool from a parent and work it out. This demonstrates the problem solving type of intelligence, working out h
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by stubish 2y ago
Scientists need evidence, rather than just assume intelligence because 'it is obvious', or that other species think the way we do. So just because we see a crow using tools, we should not assume that they learn from their parents
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Why Wind Energy Is in a State of Crisis(distilled.earth)
5 points by stubish 2y ago|1 comments
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by stubish 2y ago
Your question begs the answer. An AI cannot learn, legally speaking. It is not a legally recognized actor. The person building or operating it is who is involved here. Much like legally the photographer is involved in copyright law rather t
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by stubish 2y ago
This would require a legal contract before allowing anyone to view your work. Nothing stopping you doing that today with existing laws.
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It would be the same as taking a photograph of a copyrighted work. You own the copyright of the photograph. But you cannot sell it without permission, or you violate the copyright of the original rights holder. Or maybe it would be the same
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by stubish 2y ago
Since we are discussing copyright law and not physical laws, it doesn't matter if a machine intentionally created new work. The machine does not get copyright. The operator or owner of the machine might.
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Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine(news.griffith.edu.au)
196 points by stubish 2y ago|223 comments
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by stubish 2y ago
This isn't addressing unpaid hours, just the expectation than your boss or coworkers can communicate with you after hours. Unpaid hours is already illegal. How to enforce that in the education system without it collapsing is the open q
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by stubish 2y ago
Nuclear power plants are unrealistic to build in short time frames, such as trying to meet agreed green energy targets. Part of the Nuclear proposal being put forward by Australian conservatives includes dropping out of the Paris Agreement
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by stubish 2y ago
I think most of the world is aware that all electronics including things like iPhones are made in China, even when they are not. It is just assumed , except for a few Japanese brands people might assume are actually made in Japan because t
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by stubish 2y ago
Imagine a world where GPLv2 was found to be unenforceable in a major jurisdiction such as the US. It has been a serious worry in the past. A CLA lets a project survive that situation. But I don't know if it is possible to have a CLA th
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by stubish 2y ago
Could this backfire on Apple? Patreon may not be able to point out to users that they will save 30% if they use the web interface, but thousands of creators will, guiding them along with a few choice words about Apple.
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by stubish 2y ago
Oh, yeah. If you do manage to control schema drift by back porting, PostgreSQL will pick consistent names. But you can still trip over the inherent race condition there if you don't specify names explicitly. We always considered automa
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by stubish 2y ago
Differently named is a different problem. The way we avoided that problem was that dev databases were built with the same tooling used to update staging and production systems. But you still have to be careful to ensure any manually applied
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by stubish 2y ago
I understand, and the same with PostgreSQL. The only time you might need IF NOT EXISTS is when you are juggling multiple DB update scripts from different development branches and want to avoid dependencies (and probably creating a new probl
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by stubish 2y ago
I expect Mozilla will become the default search engine, redirecting queries to the search engine that pays the highest referrer fee or cut of the ad revenue. Which will be Google.

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