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Well, I don't think it's a DCMA issue, but it does very much depend on the licence you have chosen. That's what the licence is for, to allow people to use the code that you have co…

Section D.3: "If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post". A lawsuit against Gi…

Which is what the licence is granting them the right to do.

Section D.3: "If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post". A lawsuit against Gi…

> Is it a license violation to push someone's FOSS code to github because the author didn't sign up with GH? It depends on the licence. It's very much enforceable that companies wh…

"desperate semantic games" is actually a reasonable description of the legal process :-) I'm not sure I agree that anything expressed in a legal contract using natural language is …

There is no such thing as a "content display licence" or "general code licence". There is copyright (literally, the right to make copies) which broadly lies with the author, who ca…

It's irrelevant whether it's standard or not. Again, the terms in the code licence (including attribution) do not apply to Github, because that is not the licence under which they …

"as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time."

"Without attribution" is a condition of the licence that applies to third-parties. It is not a condition of the licence that applies to Github.

This will fail very quickly. The licence that project owners publish with their code on Github applies to third parties who wish to use the code, but does not apply to Github. Auth…

Also variables.

I misread the UK figures, the above are for overweight-but-not-obese. The overweight-and-obese split of men/women is 67%/61% (NHS, 2019): https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-informatio…

Leaving aside all of the possible confounders for the difference in severity of Covid-19 infection in men and women, it's not the case that women on average have more body fat than…

"The tiny, wormlike creature, had openings at either end connected by a gut. It burrowed on the ocean floor in search of organic matter and had only rudimentary sensory abilities. …

Introspection has long ceased to be a valid methodology in linguistics. Lack of a 1:1 mapping between languages clearly does not imply that you "fundamentally lose information". Ju…

Yes.

> No, I'm saying a much more basic, and widely accepted, undisputed even, thing: if language X has a specific term for a situation, then its speakers have captured that situation a…

When discussing linguistic issues, it's best to use linguistic theory and terminology, rather than misleading analogies to software development. What you are propounding is a versi…

From the article: "the unique wisdom of some of these words, that don't have an exact counterpart in the English language". So the claim is precisely that because English doesn't h…

As that great Germanic comedian Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger might have said: "And here are the jokes ..." :-)

Interestingly here, "loanword" is a calque from the German "lehnwort", which reminds me of my favourite language fact: "loanword" is a calque, and "calque" is a loanword.

Alternative title: "One language that has different close compounding rules than another language has different compound nouns than that other language". Auf Deutsch: Verscheidenzu…

Well, it's either his writing style, or all the horrible sh*t his company did.

It always confuses me as well (and I have at least some Physics background, having done a year as an undergrad). I think this is because I confuse it with the statistical measure o…