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by troad 4y ago
Ah, good old year 4,294,967,295.
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by troad 4y ago
Yes, legislatively-sanctioned rent seeking is common in Europe. In what way has the existence of such a scheme ameliorated the excesses of copyright law in Europe? Copyright terms are the same in Europe as in the United States (life + 70),
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by troad 4y ago
I am opposed to copyright in its current form, but this is a very naïve suggestion. How exactly do you distribute the fee among authors? Who collects it? How does dispute resolution work, if I don't feel like I'm being compensated
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by troad 4y ago
Ah, I see, thank you!
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by troad 4y ago
Cognates and illustrations definitely assist, and the book uses both freely. Chapter 1 begins with a map, for example. It’s a very clever strategy, one especially well suited for teaching Latin to people already speaking an Indo-European la
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by troad 4y ago
You are entirely correct in your criticism of Rosetta Stone, but LLPSI genuinely takes a very different approach. (I've done both, though for different languages.) LLPSI is carefully structured, precisely to teach things like declensio
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by troad 4y ago
Why in Italian? Athenaze has an English version as well. Is the Italian version substantively different or improved?
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by troad 4y ago
Why does it take the author of the linked piece thirty-six paragraphs to make what was already a widely known point, that Uber isn’t profitable? It’s not like the piece is particularly rich in elaboration or explanation, it just seems… verb
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by troad 4y ago
This is ludicrous. Food labelling long predates the EU, and appears to have started in the United States sometime around the 1930s on a voluntary basis. Food labels predate the EU even in Europe, by many years. The idea of VAT dates back to
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by troad 4y ago
Your assumption appears to be that gay teens are not already on the existing adult Grindr, lying about their age, and being forced to wade their way through some of the darkest, seediest corners of the Internet. I don’t know much about his
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by troad 4y ago
Believe it or not, they mostly don’t. It tends to be fairly binary. Corporations have legal personality, including separate tax identity, so no pass-through taxation. Sole proprietorships have pass-through taxation, but no legal personality
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by troad 4y ago
I grew up in Australia. We somehow mysteriously managed to have expiration dates on food too, despite our distance from Brussels. What developed country doesn’t have expiration dates? The EU is great at taking credit for things it had very
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by troad 4y ago
> Bad execution can ruin good ideas. There’s no good idea that the EU won’t find some way to execute poorly, alas.
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by troad 4y ago
I’m glad every time I see a family win over an irrational and power-hungry HOA, and I’m doubly glad they get to keep their ecological garden. The new law is a start, but I would love for further state laws to eviscerate HOAs completely. I d
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by troad 4y ago
And mine is that that’s, respectfully, incorrect. There’s no partisan canard more banal than “other side dumb”. If you can’t understand why millions of well-intentioned people make different choices to you, what beliefs lead to those choice
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by troad 4y ago
> Khudaverdyan obtained more than $25 million for these criminal activities. I wonder how much economic value he created for “hundreds of thousands” of consumers by removing T-Mobile’s artificial restraints on competition.
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by troad 4y ago
Gross. Locking phones to a carrier is clearly an anti-competitive practice that should have been found to be illegal ages ago.
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by troad 4y ago
That’s, respectfully, very ignorant of the US right. Contrary to what Twitter would lead one to believe, Congresspeople like MTG wield absolutely no influence over the politics of the right, whereas the 2019 conflict over the future of Fusi
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by troad 4y ago
For many decades, there have existed commercial apps native to the Apple ecosystem, often from small/mid-sized studios, which would use native UI to signal their premium craftsmanship. I think that for many long-time Mac users, seamles
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by troad 4y ago
> In the US right, "free speech" is often code for "the powerful should never experience criticism or accountability". This is just your partisan blinkers talking. Someone on the right could equally say “social justic
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by troad 4y ago
I wish East Slavic languages were more consistently transliterated into something like Czech. I don’t understand the trend to transliterate into English, where you end up with hard to parse compounds like “shzh” and idiosyncratic mixes of Y
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by troad 4y ago
I think they’re just having fun with the title - I don’t think lwn tries to be “click baity” in the news media sense. You pretty much know what you’re going to get on lwn.
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by troad 4y ago
There's been a trend of putting 'no copyright infringement intended' on top of blatant copyright infringement and thinking they're fine. This is nuts. Legally, it's about as sound a defence as chasing down a crossin
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by troad 4y ago
Really? I'm curious to read more. It works very well for me under Ubuntu these days, but if I can get it working equivalently well on NixOS I may legitimately consider switching.
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by troad 4y ago
I would expect something like Steam gaming on my dual-GPU laptop might be one deep mineshaft of "nope" on NixOS.
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by troad 4y ago
I apologise - I double checked and I was wrong about the search results. I get those results on DuckDuckGo, not Google. Not great for DDG, but not the same as Google results. I understand and appreciate your point, but I'm going to hav
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by troad 4y ago
This just doesn't reflect reality at all. There are vast drops in the domestic production of things like cars (-85%), motors (-70%), and white-goods (-50%) due to a collapsed import chain. (Russian government source: https:/&#x2F
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by troad 4y ago
> Sure, you won't get iphone, porsche or gucci wares for that This is where your argument breaks down. Russia imports vast amounts of manufactured goods that it doesn't have the capacity to make itself, including basic military
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by troad 4y ago
If I google the word 'gimp' in a private browsing tab (so not logged in, no cookies, safe search on), I get these three links - with Google showing the article images! - in a news box after the third result: https://www
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by troad 4y ago
I don't really understand this narrative, that the media are going soft on FTX or SBF. The NYT did do one soft-ball interview, to their discredit, but that was well before we knew the full extent of the wrongdoing and they've been

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