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by woofie11 6y ago
I'm pretty sure I know what constitutes a proof, and that wasn't it. The core reason this did not constitute a proof is because physical security people misapply lessons from that domain to digital, and software engineers misapply
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Poland was closest to west Slavic countries, but until recently, it's been culturally closer to east slavic/south slavic than to Western Europe. Rome has been nonexistent for centuries, but the foundations of cultures for most of
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Poland has been in an awkward position where it was politically allied with the West, but culturally similar to the East. The Eastern countries weren't ones one wanted to be politically or economically connected to, though. This gave P
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We did, although we didn't experience great incarnations. The Polish-Lithuanian Empire had some aspirations along those lines, but was dominated by Poland. Most of the Slavic cultures are culturally closer to each other than to Western
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No. In other words, controlled or monitored physical access. If I have access to a keyboard connected to CPU, that's a form of "physical access." IO devices are part of the computer.
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> One less reason for Russia to exert its influence by preaching pan-slavism and "russkiy mir". Pan-slavism isn't a bad idea. The bad idea is dominance of pan-slavism by Putin or the latest incarnation of the USSR / R
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No. That's not a general rule. Many universities have computer labs. The computers are in a locked cabinet, with a keyboard, mouse, and monitor exposed. For that matter, many shopping malls have information kiosks, retail stores have d
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by woofie11 6y ago
To be clear, what the RIAA did isn't illegal. They sent a letter. I'm allowed to send a legal demand letter to you demanding 5 donkeys and a cow for having an insulting username, and even phrase it in Very Intimidating Ways. You&#
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As well they should! Following the laws is part of not being sketchy. github went way above-and-beyond here. It is under no obligation to: 1) Enforce an invalid DMCA request 2) Take down forks and repos from other users, without DMCA reques
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gitlab isn't evil. One of my short life lessons is that, in general, when I do business with evil, sketchy, or nasty organizations or people, I generally come out behind. If the good guys have an inferior product and charge double, I&#
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No. I didn't write "Intentionally murdering possibly thousands of people" or "Intentionally delaying a vaccine" I wrote "We're talking about announcing a result a few weeks earlier versus later." And
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Rate of mutations is directly proportional to number of viruses out there. We're having exponential growth in the amount of COVID19 (with a slow exponent, with social distancing, but exponential none-the-less). That we've seen mut
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This is exactly the point of preregistered hypotheses. Odds of conspiracy, with a clear hypothesis and confirmation of that hypothesis, go up drastically. That happened here. It wasn't a super-unlikely hypothesis either. We're tal
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Counterargument: The power supply is overrated. You want to start with high-power but lousy switching power supply. You want to position it far and shielded from your amplifier. You want a decent ferrite bead on the cable, and a decent bypa
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No, it's decided by electors, who will probably meet in December. Before then, we can expect shenanigans, and we don't have a constitutional president. After then, we do. We have an indirect democracy. Electors, in abstract, could
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Nah. Sensors. Sensor tech. It's hugely different from mainstream electronics or putting things together from standardized components. Sony took that lead, with Samsung and a few other close behind. Each time Nikon sells a camera, Sony
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> The one area that Intel has managed to maintain superiority is quality. Intel is still the thing to buy if you want minimum glitches. This is kind of a big one, and why I prefer Intel. I can't see it continuing, though. Intel will
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There's a difference between "illegal" and "not legally required." * RIAA was legally welcome to send a DMCA letter which didn't conform to DMCA requirements. Anyone can legally send a legal demand letter sayin
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by woofie11 6y ago
Op said "Almost all of the lawyers at HN, and the lawyers at the EFF, and the guy at Popehat, are all generally in agreement that there was nothing wrong with what the RIAA or what GitHub did" OP lied. The EFF never said this. I c
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I just looked over your post history. You've posted a whole bunch of posts which are both legally wrong, and show either fundamental, basic reading comprehension issues with your sources similar to the one in this thread, or you'r
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Only that's not what the lawyers at EFF, the lawyers at HN, or others have said. What the EFF actually said: https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1319787243184123904
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by woofie11 6y ago
Filing or not filing a counter-notice isn't just a question of who is legally right, but also of who can afford a litigation. I doubt the youtube-dl authors have the budget to fight this. The EFF has commented on this: https:/&#x
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> The TOS says that Github will take down the offending content (or if, necessary, account) No. It doesn't say "offending content." It says "repeat infringers of this policy," referring to the aforementioned para
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No, I think the first step to getting the state to switch is to demonstrate a proven model. Starting with something some parents or sponsors can afford is a reasonable starting point. If this works for affluent parents, it's not ha
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> You need to re-read the Github TOS, because this is absolutely covered by it already (see Section F of their TOS). Section F says they can take down RIAA's account, not mine. Here is the section in full: "If you believe th
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by woofie11 6y ago
You break your own ToS and DMCA policies by banning users who repost youtube-dl code. You potentially also lose your safe harbor restrictions in the process. Let's pretend for the moment that the original youtube-dl DMCA had been valid
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> Debasing the currency is a terrible way of going about that, but appears to be what we as a society have decided upon. Why? It seems the least evil of all possible evils.
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A genuine expansion of the money supply might take time to reach consumers, but it WILL reach consumers. Thought experiment. A crisis, COVID2029, puts everyone out of work for a year: 1) I print 9 trillion dollars, and allow 300 million rec
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There's a line between hyperinflation (spiraling out of control) and high inflation. My opinion has been and continue to be that to deal with the crisis, we would need to roughly double our money supply, and use that to prevent structu
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Typical cost of schools is $10,000 per year. If you're doing $200/month, it's pretty good! If you prove results, it's a question of figuring out how to work politics. But first you gotta prove results.

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