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On a side note, I wish Doctorow would stop listing URLs in the middle of his articles, instead of using descriptive text with a URL anchor. My screen reader always reads them in fu…

I'm using a (Greasemonkey) userscript to automatically redirect https://www.nytimes.com/ ... to: https://archive.li/newest/https://www.nytimes.com/ ...

That's not what I said. The concern is not about "answering questions" about original works. That would probably be acceptable at any scale. It is whether the approach foreseeably …

This goes back to the original purpose of copyright, which is to serve as an economic incentive for individual creators and artists to make more art, by securing exclusive rights t…

It would hardly make a dent. And if you hired hundreds of savants, the knowledge would still be spread over hundreds of separate minds. And even if we grant that those savants are …

There's a huge difference in scale. The human mind can only process a limited portion of all works available over a lifetime. Human learning is therefore naturally limited to small…

Wouldn't the proverbial reasonable person jump out of the way of a vehicle that's already nearly on the verge of colliding with them? Pulling out a gun seems to be the less instinc…

He shot while only being a few feet away from the car, which had already started to drive off. Why would a trained officer believe that shooting at the driver from only a few feet …

For the record, I totally agree that you should have this ability. But they are likely orienting themselves with GDPR and similar laws around the world, under which data exports an…

I wonder how they'd handle this under the GDPR, which has an explicit "Right to rectification". The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller without undue de…

Raffles are meant to increase engagement and participation, and getting conference participants to interact with prize sponsors and remain until the closing remarks. If employers s…

I welcome the initiative. At the same time, there probably needs to be some kind of "freedom of panorama" exception to take and use pictures where someone's likeness just happens t…

Seems odd that it's not being sold off. Was it truly that worthless? It was also a great way to read paywalled articles for free.

"White Power Waffles"? You may want to double-check your examples. https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_0a8wYxMgm1zFSw/white-pow...

Airlines have hugely benefited from moving travelers from paper tickets to the use of their phones, where everything is done in the airline's app. Even if a few flights get turned …

Couldn't they be classified as non-sequiturs, given that the conclusion doesn't follow from the premises?

That's true, but those safeguards can be disabled. ChatGPT on Azure for example, allows Azure account managers to disable filters/safeguards depending on the customer. Given that t…

I find it more disturbing that her private, offline conversations are being policed at all.

> A guide for your daily "professional" interactions I like how professional is written in quotes.

Interesting approach. So are we only able to hear those sounds now because the rest of the music was removed, which would ordinarily mask the missing sounds? To say that the mp3-en…

I'm predicting that there will be one next year. If it's that easy to mobilize a crowd, there's a parade just waiting to be organized.

Most NDAs logically only place limits on what the parties will do from the moment of signing, so maybe check the wording and publish the information before signing the NDA?

Aren't puberty blockers primarily meant to prevent children with gender dysphoria from experiencing the physical disadvantages of going through the puberty of the wrong sex? Obviou…

It's not just about the potential effects on the stock market. Allowing insider trading would also incentivize leaders to make business decisions that primarily serve their persona…

That's actually quite clever in a devious way: by giving app developers the control over blocking sideloading, Google essentially sidesteps the requirement to be fully open. They c…