fncypants

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by fncypants 5mo ago
Are you not aware that that the credibility of the US DOJ under the present administration has been completely destroyed and you should not trust anything they say simply because they said it in a press release (perhaps especially because t
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by fncypants 7mo ago
What does that mean, "adjusted for poverty"? Reading level is an absolute. You're either at a third grade level or not. This adjustment seems to have no purpose other than completing a narrative that does not help solve the p
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by fncypants 1y ago
It's important to keep in mind what the government is saying here. Set aside the specifics of who this individual is or where they originally came from and grasp what Trump is trying to argue here. > Although the legal basis for the
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by fncypants 2y ago
Do not both sides any of this. One cannot claim that both sides present misinformation and then not acknowledge that one side is doing so intentionally and the other is not. Elon tweeted that there was a lot of 150-year-old recipients. That
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by fncypants 2y ago
So let's tear everything down good and bad because in an organization at a scale of trillions of dollars, we found $50 million we don't like.
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by fncypants 2y ago
"Even though I don't know everything, and especially everything about how an organization like a federal government works, I personally haven't heard about these things, and therefore it must be unnecessary and stupid."
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by fncypants 2y ago
And what happens when they're successful even in part and we dump a lot of unemployed workers all at once into the job market in the private sector? Measured and calculated reform is one things. Smashing things without addressing what
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by fncypants 2y ago
I think this is the best takeaway. This case and its outcome is restricted to its facts. Most of the LLM activity today is very different than what happened here.
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by fncypants 2y ago
The current actively-developed VSCode extension is Tinymist. Its workflow is great and addresses all your issues (to the extent they are even relevant to Typst): > Well, the feature you mentioned of clicking the PDF and redirecting to th
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Judge’s Investigation of Patent Trolls Must Be Allowed to Move Forward(eff.org)
3 points by fncypants 4y ago|0 comments
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by fncypants 4y ago
The article gives several examples, including a lawsuit against GNOME Foundation. It also links to a study that backs up the figures in the title: > The recent UnifiedPatents, Defending Open Source: An 2022 Litigation Update, report show
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by fncypants 4y ago
This is good public policy thinking. At a minimum, if you want to take our tax dollars, you need to do _at least_ the bare minimum to benefit the public.
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by fncypants 4y ago
Laws (usually) reflect ethics. Keep in mind there is a balance where the "ask" for receiving government funding may prevent the creation of the work in the first place. Sometimes, the right balance may be to require the work to co
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by fncypants 4y ago
Yes, it's contractual because of copyright. If someone (and many parties in the process) created it back then, there is a web of copyrights that require royalties to the creators. Contracts would control who this obligation is owed to
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by fncypants 4y ago
I rented a place during the summer that had a plasma TV in the master bedroom. I had to disconnect it, and never used it, because it generated so much heat that we could not sleep.
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by fncypants 5y ago
SMS spam is exploding for some.[1] A good 25% of my messages are from an address like 1a02341234e7@uyah23f.com. [1] https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2021/09/28/do...
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by fncypants 5y ago
Sorry, no. This is why there are anti-vaxxers to begin with. Communication is key. Scientists and health professionals fail at it. Listing cold facts does not effectively communicate to the broad public, because they receive the message not
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by fncypants 5y ago
I'm not sure why the parent was downvoted. The trademark scheme was built to make marketplaces more efficient, by giving producers a carve out in the conversation--a word or phrase or logo--so that they and consumers and distributors c
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by fncypants 5y ago
Absolutely do not take any of this advice of the parent. I am an IP litigator. I kill patents as my day job. The parent’s advice assumes the players are reasonable people acting in good faith. In the case of patent trolls, they are often no
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by fncypants 5y ago
Its almost as if health care is not something that would ever be accepted by any stakeholder as a truly free market. So why does America pretend that it should be treated like one?
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by fncypants 5y ago
Brought to mind Yeti coolers. Unnecessarily expensive, but that's why you have/want them. > Well, the price, for one thing. Yetis work like a Veblen good, which are luxury items that turn the laws of supply and demand upside do
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by fncypants 5y ago
If what you are feeling is that scraping for commercial purposes feels "unfair," that is because if it is not allowed it traditionally falls within a legal cause of action commonly called "unfair competition." In the sam
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by fncypants 5y ago
Secretary of State / corporate information is often sold in bulk without any need for scraping without authorization. > Daily Filing Update – a file that includes all of the database updates for a specific day. Customers frequently
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by fncypants 5y ago
The 1990s Microsoft issues were antitrust. They tried "embrace-extend-extinguish" because they were in a monopolistic position, and this tactic was viewed as anticompetitive. But Google (at least with respect to phone OS) was in t
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by fncypants 6y ago
You are absolutely correct. Patent law is a specialized legal field and having experienced judges is a plus for everyone, because it creates certainty that the parties can rely on when making business decisions. This judge has implemented s
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by fncypants 6y ago
> Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Shoulan_v._Peng_Y Not in any way. That is a debate over Good Samaritans helping vs not getting involved. This is about vigilantes showing up with assault rifles when
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by fncypants 6y ago
My favorite response to this circulating right now is a photograph of Ted Bundy doing dishes. That was not his business or property. He was a vigilante.
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by fncypants 6y ago
This is not how to look at this if you want to find a way to solve our society’s ills. The gunman was the instigator because he travelled to riots and not to protect anyone he knows or his own property. He brought an assault rifle and walke
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by fncypants 6y ago
I’m sorry, but someone carrying around an AR-15 on American streets is not a “kid.”
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by fncypants 6y ago
But aren't the IP laws in this case evidence of motivation for the creative mind? An incentive of being rewarded and not ripped off? We've had power tools without this feature for 100 years. What's a few more years to give th

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