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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i wasn't advocating for trade secrets as "equal" or "the way to go", i was trying to explain in simple terms how to think about copyright issues in concordance with the existing legal structures people here who have
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
it's well known that recipes cannot be copyrighted. But recipes still are protected intellectual property by trade secret law if they are treated as a secret by the holder of the recipe. Claude code itself is a trade secret, and it is
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> This is sort of why "brand" matters; it provides a source of trust it tells you more about who you are buying from than how good the product will be, so I guess it's like National ID/Internet ID
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> The service changes take affect in August, in large part because they can no longer expect the funding for them to exist by then. I think a more plausible reason is, "withdraw the services now to get people who want that spending
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
you probably have a high wage profession, and you max out FICA etc. and stop paying payroll taxes around April every year. You don't like the income uptick at that point cuz you're just so darned happy to pay payroll taxes? There&
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> If a tax is a function of the worker's income, it doesn't really matter (except for nominal terms) whether the worker or employer pays the taxes, yes, I took a lot of micro (and macro too for that matter) but if what you say
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
ah, good correction, that's why the self employed hate them, they have to pay both halves. the main reason for the distaste is that self-employed people generally fall in the class of people who do a better job preparing for retirement
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> TriMet relies heavily on payroll taxes that are deeply unpopular among the self-employed and small business owners just a point of clarification, the term "payroll taxes" refers to Social Security and Medicare taxes that are
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> Valid complaints, but contrary to the HN guideline the site not too long ago banned ai generated content. i don't know if they changed it but pointing out that something was AI would have been following/flagging the rule&#x2
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
an article about a new app is an article about a new app, even if self promotional. an article that spends most of its time talking about the sunshine and roses of purchasing domains from a domain squatter, even if you are a domain squatter
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> "we don't need to read it" [here] many people here don't read the articles, and that's not going to change. (on today's internet, jumping from the site you want to be on to a site with unknown UX patterns
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
the question isn't whether the user is trusting Plaid with too much access, the question is whether Plaid is trusting these apps with too much.
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> LLM-assisted coding is $100/mo. It looks very commoditized when most houses in developed world pay more for electricity than that. this is a small nit, but you still have to pay your electric bill, the $100/mo is on top of t
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Poe's Law whoosh
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it's a blatant double standard if you have evidence of people "doing it and getting away with it", but you don't, you just suspect it. and it's scapegoating if blame is centered on a person or group to explain away
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> Rural kids are put into situations where they are expected to rely fully on themselves, with life-or-death consequences, from a young age. come to the city, farm boy, and we'll give you a corner you can sling the brown from and w
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
it did not make me wish to engage in political or ideological battle, i found it an interesting reflection of a complicated person's thought process. So, any battling is on you (you no doubt have a lot of company: "don't you
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
reading TFA gave me a complicated perspective on OSC, and reading this comment gave me a more complicated persepctive on OSC, so I'm glad I read both, and I'm glad the long battle scenes were left out of both.
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
this list of potential victims is from some of the press about this. there are a bunch of articles about this, I may update the list if it's straightforward [ok, i'm updating, filling in details from https://www.newswe
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Michio Kaku "number of dead/missing American scientists "cause for natl concern"(newsweek.com)
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> lower margins (more middlemen taking fees) middlemen taking fees is not the measure for comparison, the question is whether you could run your own ad business for your own platform and keep your costs lower than established players wh
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
reagan was not remotely neoliberal (though he was a disillusioned former socialist and union leader) but he did knock liberalism off its perch. it was clinton who delivered the democrats to wall street and vice versa
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
in another comment you just said "When was the last time you kept a phone longer than 2-3 years?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195#47842655 how do you square that position with your stance here on e-w
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> - Invasion of Grenada (Grenadian Military) > - Rating: Poor > - Note: A very small force with limited heavy weaponry and minimal organizational depth. > - Gulf War (Iraq) > - Rating: Competent (on paper) / Incompe
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> America hasn’t faced a peer-level, modern military since the Korean War. For seventy years, it has specialized in "wars of choice" against overmatched opponents America has not faced any wars in its own "theater",
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
> China followed with massive, highly disciplined infantry waves that effectively fought the UN coalition to a stalemate. just to clarify what "effectively fought" means, the Chinese entered the war when the ROK+US+UN forces h
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Russian stated nuclear doctrine has been treated by the Russians as an existential threat to Russia if followed through on.
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you have not discovered the ur-comment, you have discovered the ruins of the pedagogy that was Ur. "look on my works, ye mighty, and despair"
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in the world there should only be one debate and one summary about programming languages, and everybody should read that as a starting point before they enter the fray. for example, I would say what i was taught, that lisp is lists made out
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by fsckboy 5mo ago
i could have used lemons and lemonade stands to explain supply and demand, the lesson is still the same. letting the market set prices ensures that the chips go to the critical markets and uses. less critical uses will not allocate funds fo

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