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7y ago
This would be coming from the SpaceX manufacturing facilities, and doesn't SpaceX make life support systems for their Crew Dragon spacecraft?
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7y ago
But this obviously isn't the case with seasonal viruses such as influenza or coronavirus.
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7y ago
In order to use them in a movie you have to pay for them. iPhones are not free. However you could buy them secondhand to avoid paying Apple directly.
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No copyright law applies to the copying of a work, not its distribution. If they made any copies of the work (which they would have to if they were loading them into memory for processing) then they need to comply with copyright law. > &
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7y ago
He actually seems to use the term to refer to both concepts. Quoting him "What you don’t use, you don’t pay for. And further: What you do use, you couldn’t hand code any better."
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Obviously neural networks created with current technology are not persons in any sense, legal or otherwise. I think the more interesting questions are whether the operator of the neural network is the legal author of its creations and wheth
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7y ago
What is the liability of directors limited to?
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Limited liability has nothing to do with employees and managers, it applies only to shareholders. Shareholders and corporations would love to push more liability onto their employees, but it is labor law that prevents them from doing so, no
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I need to invest my money in something[0]. If Exxon has a good track record of only incurring liabilities which they can cover using revenue (which they do) then I would invest with them over some other company without such a record. [0] h
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But Boeing and Exxon both are still around and still profitable and did not need to fall back on the principle of limited liability to protect their shareholders. So if anything that would indicate to me as a shareholder that both companies
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But limited liability comes into play in none of his examples which is why he appears to be conflating issues. All of the examples he gives are of companies which had enough money to cover their liabilities (none of them went bankrupt due t
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You obviously can't discharge criminal restitution in bankruptcy. You can discharge civil judgements in most cases, but intentional fraud can be non-dischargable if the creditor files a adversary proceeding. I guess if they won the cri
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7y ago
The US had a pretty extensive foodstamps program. It still exists but is slowly getting killed off. Even so there are multiple states in which 20% of the population has their food paid for by the government.
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Being 100% electric is a pretty huge advantage, I wouldn't underestimate it. While I don't own a Tesla myself I have only heard good things from people who do.
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But there are many different ways cognition can be effected, white matter isn't the only brain matter. Also this study wasn't specifically about lead.
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7y ago
I think the claim that he was stopping by for lunch is important to report on. But it should have been presented as a claim along with the source of the claim, rather than just asserted as fact.
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Your first link says the mechanism is unknown right in the beginning. Third link doesn't mention mechanisms at all. Only the second link attempts some guesses. But it still concludes that "It is beyond the scope of this paper to t
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Article says > It's not clear precisely how pollution impacts cognitive decline, though Chen suggests that pollution may have a negative effect on the brain's white matter, which could vary between men and women. As NPR has rep
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> According to the regulations interpreting the FLSA, “a stenographer who reads a book while waiting for dictation, a messenger who works a crossword puzzle while awaiting assignments, [a] fireman who plays checkers while waiting for al
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Its to allow them to continue monitoring his activities going forward, without the need for annoying warrants and physical searches.
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What you you prefer? The year/month based versions that some operating systems use seems like an ok fit.
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But the license is for an SDK that talks to the API not the API itself which is what they reimplemented. It's like if Google claimed that since Oracle once released an Apache licenced Java application that means they can reimplement an
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Yeah except they get their insurance through their employer, so probably American.
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They already were keeping up with hosting costs at least with the old Reddit gold donations. Also profits pay for non of the things you listed, profits pay for investors.
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Google turned up https://www.humanesociety.org/liberiasanctuary
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Don't stock buybacks basically transfer wealth from the company to the shareholders? The major advantage this has over other means of transferring wealth is that shareholders get to realize their gains with only capital gains tax appli
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That is an argument which no one has tested in court yet. But it seems unlikely to succeed as the law doesn't specify any requirements on how “biometric identifiers” such as face geometry are collected. And indeed the courts appear dis
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I have to point out that his exact argument has been made and rejected by the courts in multiple cases already. > Shutterfly maintains that by excluding data derived from photographs from the definition of “biometric information,” the Il
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BIPA requires the consent of the person that the biometrics identify. However it specifically excludes photographs from the definition of biometric information so its not clear how it applies in this case.
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But if the WASM was compiled from javascript or some other language that isn't very C-like then the de-compiled C or C++ code is going to be very difficult to follow. At the very least with obfuscated javascript you are going from js =
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