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by zugi 3y ago
My understanding is that the clean room approach is tried and true and sufficient to avoid copyright infringement. So BigCo and other organizations that worry greatly about liability insist on it. However I'm unaware of case law indi
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by zugi 3y ago
Let's pick one "vouch" at random and look at it: Sean Allen: https://twitter.com/paulsanderson/status/1666158302483595264... : "I hope David Grusch stays safe." None of these people are vo
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by zugi 3y ago
Am I the only one here entertained by the judge's clever wording? "Hey, all the case law you cited in your filing is made up. That's unprecedented !"
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by zugi 3y ago
I received a voicemail customized to me, referring to my company name and state, that sounded like a friendly, informal older gentlemen with a bit of a southern accent. It seemed to probably be selling something so I didn't take it too
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by zugi 3y ago
> In a time where we are having budgets slashed, it is impossible to justify continued (increasing) resources being allocated to Gopher development unless some good things result for the University of Minnesota. This is a fact of life.
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by zugi 3y ago
AI is slow, it's been coming since the 1980s and still has decades to go.
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by zugi 4y ago
I agree with what I see to be the main thrust of this article: "AI" itself isn't a danger, but how people choose to use AI certainly can be dangerous or helpful. That's been true of every new technology in the history of
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by zugi 4y ago
Interesting find! What's funny is this suggested interview question intrigued me enough to consider trying it on upcoming software developer candidates: > ... ask them to describe almost anything... When the description is complete,
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by zugi 4y ago
Can you only send encrypted messages to recipients who also use Google? If it isn't S/MIME then as far as I'm concerned it almost isn't email. Anyone can already make encrypted ZIP files or other proprietary encrypted a
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by zugi 4y ago
> One of the reasons that criminal acts are criminal is that they destroy value. Yes, and this is a complete tangent from your main point, but I worry about over-using the justification of destroying "value" versus destroying o
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by zugi 4y ago
> like Japan with like barely any zoning laws I read an article a year or two ago (maybe posted here?) about Japan's zoning laws and they just make sense. - Rather than dozens of categories, there are just 4 or 5 in increasing amoun
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by zugi 4y ago
Exactly, this was first reported months ago and it should be easy to fix. Check location for ski slopes, see if they're moving normally again after 20-30 seconds, etc. Maybe Apple is delaying the fix because these news stories are vira
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by zugi 4y ago
Just try suggesting that drug patent monopolies be shortened from 20 to 10 years. Watch how much screaming and hand-wringing ensues.
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by zugi 4y ago
The U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to grant temporary monopolies "for limited Times to Authors and Inventors" in order to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." So any patents that extend beyond the li
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by zugi 4y ago
I think the problem is fetishisizing democracy when it's the least relevant philosophy here. Speaking of France in particular: Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Democracy is nice after all of these things, but it doesn't even make t
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by zugi 4y ago
Yet the tone of the later paragraphs in that section is axiomatically assuming they should be able to prosecute the makers of the encrypted devices, or anyone possessing such a phone, in addition to the 2,864 criminals they already caught
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by zugi 4y ago
Banning the app on government (including university) devices is one thing. Blocking the website is another. Perhaps someone who sets UT policies doesn't understand the difference?
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by zugi 4y ago
> Split US government control likely going to result in balanced budgets. I don't see the U.S. getting anywhere close to balanced budgets in the next few years. Deficits are running a trillion dollars a year. Divided government bloc
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by zugi 4y ago
Coke and Pepsi are cheap enough. A trillion dollars a year is being added to the national debt, and this is how the government chooses to spend our tax dollars? Ridiculous.
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by zugi 4y ago
There's no shame in this and it's ridiculously common. You have to tell your boss, who clearly values you, but first decide whether you want to try to fix this yourself or you want your boss to fix it. Fix it yourself: you stay in
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by zugi 4y ago
Indeed. Hearing that the FTC plans to unilaterally modify millions of contracts to invalidate non-competes gave me mixed feelings. Those non-competes are mostly ridiculous - the products of over-zealous lawyers applying to all employees ter
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by zugi 4y ago
Calling destructors on scope exit is a C++ language feature with or without exceptions. I'm no expert but I believe these addresses can be determined relative to the stack frame pointer, so they don't need to be registered in adv
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by zugi 4y ago
> I don't currently have a standard way to ask about this Typically I don't ask about the overall trend, but ask a bit about each of their last few jobs including their reason for leaving each. (This works regardless of whether
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by zugi 4y ago
Great summaries and explanations, I particularly like the debunking of common copyright myths. One question I've had about copyright is, suppose you start with a large source file that is MIT or BSD licensed, and then changed it quite
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by zugi 4y ago
You are right that no one knew that Space X's approach would work until they demonstrated it. However, it was clear that the shuttle's "reuse" approach was a dismal failure early on - even before it was built, the sheer
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by zugi 4y ago
> inefficiencies the shuttle had that people squabble over, it was a very inspiring program Exactly. The shuttle program was designed by bureaucrats to be "inspiring." Which explains why it was such a dismal failure economicall
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by zugi 4y ago
> Resist > Reuse > Recycle Ha! I'm always reminding people that the original order was "Reduce > Reuse > Recycle" but it seems as if many people just never learned that or quickly forgot. They jump right to &qu
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by zugi 4y ago
Until a year or so ago you could read Twitter with Javascript disabled in your browser. So we know zero lines of Javascript are actually required to read tweets. I just stopped clicking in Twitter links once they intentionally disabled brow
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by zugi 4y ago
The U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration rates all cars for safety and shows that Teslas are statistically extremely safe cars (www.nhtsa.gov). The Institute for Highway Safety rates several Tesla models as top safety
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by zugi 4y ago
> people of color ... BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Wow, so "people of color" should be avoided and "BIPOC" used instead? Even though the "POC" in "BIPOC" is literally "peopl

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