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by tpmoney 1y ago
Lots of anti-kickback / fraud regulations don't require an immediate exchange in order for it to still be a violation, just that you are getting special treatment for having / being part of the group covered by the regulation
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Neither does switching pharmacies. You can today go to 3 different pharmacies and fill 3 different prescriptions as long as you actually have those prescriptions sent to those pharmacies.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
At what point do you cross the line from "legitimate use of a work" to illegitimate use? If I take my legally purchased epub of book and pipe it through `wc` and release the outputs, is that a violation of copyright? What about 10
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> It is not fair use when only a couple of oligarchs have the money and grifting ability to build the required data centers. Seems like a good argument to not lock down the ability to create and use AI models only to those with vast sums
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by tpmoney 1y ago
There was also the lawsuit against google for the Google Scholar project, which is not only very similar to how AI use ingest copyright material, but even more than AI actually reproduced word for word (intentionally so) snippets of those w
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by tpmoney 1y ago
They probably get to that conclusion because the courts have rules that AI uses are protected under fair use, and so yes changing that would be an expansion of copyright.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
The fair use test (in US copyright law) is a 4 part test under which impact on the market for the original work is one of 4 parts. Notably, just because a use has massively detrimental harms to a work's market does not in and of itself
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by tpmoney 1y ago
That has nothing to do with what the provider does or doesn’t charge. The government gets to pick what their reimbursement rate is.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Not for food stamps, but here's the feds going after a pharmacy for gift cards and co-pay waivers from 2015: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/pharmacy-company-agreed... Here's one for a pharmaceutica
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by tpmoney 1y ago
It a consumer protection and fair competition thing (and probably anti-fraud too). There are similar rules in place for medicare/medicaid too. Gifts of any kind to induce a patient to choose your facility over any other are forbidden.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I'm not sure I buy looking at the numbers of poor people without indoor plumbing but with internet access tells you about what they would actually prefer all things being equal. Internet access seems much cheaper to get and maintain ac
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> If even AWS—with their resources and institutional knowledge—can struggle when senior folks leave, what chance do startups have? My personal crusade is trying to convince anyone who will listen to me that the value of a senior employee
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Slower is only a problem if you're waiting on the machine. I recently purchased one of those "all in one" heatpump washer and dryers. It is indeed on a per wash basis slower than my old separate washer and dryer. But over the
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> This is pure copium. Generally, people want rapid technological advancements, not being sold minor improvements at premium prices. Do they? I'm pretty sure it's an annual tradition around iPhone releases for all sorts of peop
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Long time Apple customers? Almost certainly. Apple has a history of having conflict with their chip makers and other component vendors. For the longest time, Apple wasn't big enough for those vendors to bother with doing anything Apple
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Apple is the company where every new iPhone release is both simultaneously boring, not worth it and a sure sign of their impending collapse and also somehow a vicious treadmill which forces people to upgrade every year, throwing out their o
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> In my prior comment, A = disclosures in journalism, B = disclosures in editorials. They are not the same thing in a way that can be applied to a singular Bernie. I can see that reading but even with that, comparative numbers are still
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by tpmoney 1y ago
The issue is that the followup contradicts the idea that there has been a change of any note. If I tell you in one breath: "Bernie Sanders has reduced is fighting for civil rights in worrying ways" And in a second breath tell you
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Great, and that's followed by > Even now, the newspaper's reporters do so as a matter of routine. So, we know they "resolutely revealed" this in the past (but that is of course not the same word as "unfailingly&q
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by tpmoney 1y ago
They're going to have to fix their food quality problems too, especially if they're going to bake in (pun not intended) a wage hike for their staff. The last handful of times I've gone out to standard faire American restauran
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Do Editorial and Opinion sections of news papers do "conflict of interest" disclosures as a matter of course? It seems like it should be assumed that an Opinion article is expressly a biased article, written by someone with an int
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> and LLMs are probably transformative enough to be fair use, though that remains to be seen. Arguably, at least in the US, it has been seen. Unless someone comes up with a novel argument not already advanced in the Anthropic case about
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by tpmoney 1y ago
The whole license effectively limits using the software to hardware and software that existed prior to 2015, and only if you downloaded it from the original site in the original language (after all, an automated translation of the page or m
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> Does an AI "reading" source code that has been otherwise lawfully obtained infringe copyright? To the extent that this has been decided under US law, no. AI training on legally acquired material has been deemed fair use.
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I've had this idea kicking around in my head now for a few months that this is an opportunity to update copyright / IP law generally, and use the size and scope of government to do something about both the energy costs of AI and c
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by tpmoney 1y ago
On the other hand, your perspective is shaped by not being dismissed by the vast majority of the people you encounter for that shortcoming. I would imagine you might feel very differently if every person you met treated you as an imbecile b
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I'm not the OP but I've been thinking about this for a little bit since I read your question. Part of me says no, what could be more Sci-Fi than a complete and comprehensive story written by a computer. Who wouldn't want Data
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> People could host websites on the Blockchain from beyond the grave... This is precisely why something like this isn't a popular solution lots of people are working towards. Domains broadly speaking aren't a finite resource, b
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> People could host websites on the Blockchain from beyond the grave... This is precisely why something like this isn't a popular solution lots of people are working towards. Domains broadly speaking aren't a finite resource, b
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> Isn't this just the principle of transparency itself? For pure transparency, sure, but most of the liquid glass effects aren't pure transparency and there's a lot of different ways you can modulate the effect. Perhaps th

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