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by vanniv 7y ago
In most of the US, you can safely leave most things without watching them without much risk of theft. I mean, if you leave something that's a strong temptation (like a big pile of cash) it'll eventually disappear. Yeah, if you go
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by vanniv 7y ago
Umbrellas frequently get stolen via the self-justification of "I need it, I'll just borrow it" followed by laziness about returning.
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Well, you could, except that if cloudflare doesn't like your content, your site isn't actually on the internet.
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That seems the likeliest explanation
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For some reason, coronaviruses generally rarely affect children -- and those that get it rarely spread it to others despite children being fucking disease magnets. This seems not to be very well understood, but it is really interesting. So
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by vanniv 7y ago
This is a more-deadly-than-average coronavirus, or so it seems. It is really hard to tell, because it is still very new outside of China, and you can't trust any of the data coming from there -- so we won't really know for 2 more
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by vanniv 7y ago
The thing to watch is the southern hemisphere. There are very few cases right now in South America or Australia -- and so far I can't find any evidence of person-to-person transmission on either continent. If the outbreak continues to
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by vanniv 7y ago
"Many regulators disallow X" is not meaningful evidence that X is evil or a scam.
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Pay generally is higher in the US than the UK. US median income is $63,688/household UK median income is GBP29,400/household, or about $38,400 US There will be some differences due to how the two countries compute the figures (I b
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This is a terribly misleading headline. The actual story is: they developed a radically different risk model that assigned new rates to everyone, but, in an effort to retain customers, decided to spread increases over multiple years to decr
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by vanniv 7y ago
Honestly, the fact that opening an account is easy and that there are now nice, slick, easy-to-use trading platforms has done as much as the lower fees. When I opened my first online brokerage account back in the ancient times (2005), the b
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Requirements are fairly volatile -- but the real problem isn't that the requirements themselves are volatile but that the true requirements are so poorly understood (and, thus, the apparent requirements shift rapidly as understanding o
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I'm going to go with Betteridge's Law here, and say the answer is self-evidently "no"
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The context is basically the need for something bright to create the context required for the dark orange to be brown -- because otherwise it isnt dark.
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See, a show on that would actually be fascinating. Unlike the show the article describes, which looks rather like a standard political hate show like everything else has become. We are, though, seeing the dietary divergence you describe. M
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by vanniv 7y ago
This is an area of law which is still emerging. In my opinion, it is emerging very foolishly and nonsensically, but it is still emerging, and so much of it is not completely settled. Oracle V Google, for example, raised and then incompletel
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by vanniv 7y ago
Generally, the human applies creativity in choosing the location, angle, exposure settings, and timing of "pressing the button"
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Yes, any creative expression in the recipe might be protected by copyright. And dish names might be protectable as trademarks, especially if they are not merely descriptions of the foodstuff. The ingredients list and preparation steps, or a
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That's fascinating. Was that a design or utility patent? Oh dear me, it was a utility patent. They spent years trying to get it approved and ultimately abandoned the application (presumably realizing they were never going to get it) A
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it is super annoying. And then when you get to the bottom, the recipe itself is an animated gif
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In theory, if you stripped out absolutely all of the content except for the bare ingredients-list-and-procedures of the recipes (possibly you would also have to drop the names), you could make a recipe book called "all of the recipes e
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by vanniv 7y ago
I'm not an IP lawyer, I just play one on the interwebz, so don't pretend like this is legal advice, but: Yes, technically, you could patent a recipe, provided that it was sufficiently novel and sufficiently non-obvious to a practi
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by vanniv 7y ago
The classic example of this in copyright law is the recipe. A recipe can not be protected by copyright. This is one of the reasons that online recipe pages have turned in to long personal stories with (incidentally) a recipe at the bottom.
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We are really eager for the panic today, aren't we? C'mon, this is just absurd. We don't live in quite the same conditions were commonplace during the Black Plague
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by vanniv 7y ago
Science rarely if ever resolves political problems. Science influences them, on occasion, by providing evidence of facts -- but no conceivable scientific result could "settle trans rights" I mean, what scientific fact(s) could co
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by vanniv 7y ago
I think there is a bigger issue with the idea that, just because they don't remote-brick your cars today just because they feel like it doesn't mean they can't or won't someday in the future. I 100% won't buy a
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The real answer to the question, of course, is that people are at least somewhat rational, and so they're unlikely to race for high-risk, low-reward work when the opposite is plentiful. Young people will take high-risk opportunities on
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by vanniv 7y ago
Are we really supposed to get excited about Bloomberg whining about the evils of index funds?
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Very many. Jury trials are expensive as fuck , and you don't get a penny of it back if you win. The most common offenses charged are less-serious things like DUI, where first offenders are likely to receive penalties like a fine, mayb
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I have one of the Canon PRO-1000 printers. There was a really good sale going on a couple years ago, where I could get the printer + 2 full sets of inks for just the price of the inks. It is incredibly expensive to operate, especially at l

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