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> in that it assumes the law has a purpose of minimizing the circulation of an individual book That's exactly what it's about. Publishers lost the battle of banning libraries, but have won and keep winning everything about digi
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> Yes, but this case was not about digital presevation but lending out scanned traditional books without proper controls, presented as some sort of a social welfare project. Choose your battles. People were banned from exiting their home
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I find English-law's way of legislating through the judiciary terrible. When a new situation appears (like whether machines should be allowed to learn on copyrighted works), the legality of the situation should be decided explicitly by
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> What they could have done was stayed as an open research org [...] and focused on sample efficiency and cultivating copyright free data sets. Ironically, if they stayed a non-profit research org, they could explicitly use copyrighted w
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This is not just Japan. I've seen two stories in Romania of a village with a single inhabitant: a 70+ year old man. One of them has three dogs. When he dies there might not even be remains to be found.
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It's kind of silly to complain about not abiding by the model license when these models are trained on content not explicitly licensed for AI training. You might say that the models were legally trained since no law mandates consent fo
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In this context, true name does refer to magic powers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_name
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If you ban slurs against minorities you should ban slurs against majorities. And, yes, c**ender is a slur. It's only ever used by its opponents and in a negative context.
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I don't understand what he's saying. Is he saying that if Tik Tok is banned, everyone can just build a Tik Tok competitor with LLMs? But Tik Tok functionality is not the impetus for its banning. The issue is that it's control
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So you're saying that "China will effectively take over Taiwan's economy", but it "would be foolish for Taiwanese to try to block China out economically". If you're using the economy as a weapon it makes c
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I don't think calling him "Kissinger's buddy" works as a smear since Kissinger was very friendly with China. I'm not trying to defend Schmidt, but you're naive if you think the US shouldn't develop AI weap
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The US and Australia are part of the five eyes. They have a very strong connection and a similar culture. It is China who is trying to assert more influence around the world, including the US (e.g. Midjourney doesn't allow criticism of
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> He was predominantly stealing US intellectual property, films, TV shows and music and the like. But they have no jurisdiction as he was not doing that IN the US. When the Pirate Bay guys were persecuted, the US got Sweden to convict th
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This is sickening. How has he not been arrested? She was not on trial. Can judges cast judgement on people who haven't been accused of anything? I obviously don't know anything about the legal system, but isn't holding someon
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I used to use it, unfortunately it doesn't work so well with titles. It lowercases unknown acronyms and initcaps all words even in languages which Do Not Use This Capitalization For Titles.
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It's a tax in all but name. It's not fair to the taxpayer to have to pay for a broadcaster which is biased against you. Even Media Bias agrees that the BBC is left wing: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/ .
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What the GP is complaining about isn't Unicode in general but Unicode Emoticons[1]. Characters can represent any thought, but emojis represent only what the committee agrees to, and the committee seems quite political. What they should
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> And 15 percent of the core workforce is 17,500 people who are going to get pink slips That's more than Oprah! Oh, wait, pink slips also means getting fired. American English is a bit ambiguous at times.
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And it doesn't make any sense that it's missing because it was annexed in 1951 a year with no duplicates (unlike 1949 when many countries changed).
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I'm not sure what "Marshall Islands vs Marshall Islands (U.S.)" is supposed to mean. When it seceded from the U.S. it didn't change its name so how would that be visible? Also Bangladesh seceded from Pakistan, not India
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Aldi, apparently. That's where Piers Corbyn couldn't buy strawberries with cash. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/piers-corbyn-splits-op...
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> 78% or 78 degrees proof? It's always percent ABV (alcohol by volume). As you can see in this table, typical values for rakia (rachiu in Romanian) are 40–86% ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_by_volume )
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> avoid any other scandalous story about himself cropping up. When has any scandalous Trump story damaged him? The access Hollywood tape came out weeks before the 2016 election and he still got elected.
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I was in the same situation. I've canceled my subscription. You don't get much from the subscription. The fact that you don't even get captcha protection was enough to make me cancel.
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Multiple religions are thousands of years old and they can't all be true.
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There are different reasons. Some people are against a technology which isn't mature enough. I don't know about word processors, but take digital photography for example. Some people stuck with film photography even after digital
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> Someone always scoffs, but I think it is usually a sign that they don’t really understand freedom. Others understand freedom from the perspective of the individual. Americans understand freedom from the perspective of the state. In the
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> American land of the free is being able to bring a gun to school but getting a fine because your grass is too tall. What's wrong with bringing your gun to school? It was common (up until the 1970s, I think) to have shooting sports
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> I don’t buy that tracking kids is necessary or increases their safety. This seems to be an American phenomenon. I thought so too, but I listened to call-in radio show in Romania recently about tracking kids, and pretty much all the par
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> Tracking can give kids more freedom, because you can let them roam where they could get lost. I'm not sure this is a good thing. This is similar to the observation that cyclists who wear helmets engage in more risky behavior. But

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