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Couple of methodological notes * pre-chatGPT is not an effective control because language evolves. In the arxiv corpus in particular there are "fashions" in research depending on w…

My assertion had nothing to do with whether they made it easy or hard to remove their trademarks. My assertion was that Red Hat customers make agreements with Red Hat in which they…

No, you also have a right to free speech against private actors (in certain circumstances). For one example, see Snyder v. Phelps.

> Your first quote covers trademarks. That is unrelated to source code. Source code contains trademarks, that is why CentOS has to remove them. If you distribute the source code yo…

You are talking nonsense. The "right to free speech" in the United States has developed over hundreds of years of jurisprudence. It is impossible to summarize here but for starters…

> Red Hat. They not only do not prohibit one from distributing source code and the patches they apply to it Of course they prohibit it. e.g. from [1] > This EULA does not permit yo…

> The question of law is if threatening recipients who exercise their rights qualifies as a restriction on them exercising their rights. Thinking that it does is not a fundamental …

> Currently, Grsecurity is a commercial product and is distributed only to paying customers. My understanding from several reliable sources is that customers are verbally or otherw…

This is a common misconception. It is "traditional" macroeconomics (e.g. Keynes) did not engage with microeconomics at any point [1]. It was not until the 1970s and the Lucasian ra…

> there's no way to disable objective-c interop Believe it or not, this compiler option is named `-disable-objc-interop`. > Could someone explain why I should build a language deve…

You misunderstand my argument, and OP's. I'm asserting something like "our children will be protected from firings when they express an unpopular opinion." This would be a regulati…

The problem with "the freedom to exclude" is that the same argument underpins, for just one example: racial segregation. If the blacks want to go to the movies, well then they can …

That's not relevant. You said: > you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.…

> Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one. Of course there is: …

iOS's permissions model is patented [0]. It takes some lawyer trickery to implement something that doesn't run afoul of the patent. [0] https://www.google.com/patents/US8646100

This is already being done. Swift 4 (unreleased) has source compatibility with Swift 3 [0], so all Swift code working today should work in the next version, no migrator necessary. …

> So: do you want to grow the ecosystem around your software or not? In short: of course not. Or at least "not at any cost". Open source projects do loads of things that reduce the…

> will impede adoption of the software they cover I think this is really the core of the issue. For someone to "adopt" my software but not contribute in any way (whether that be pa…

Most people do pay dumb amounts of money for content. They pay their carrier for the bandwidth to download the ads. That's in the ballpark of a nickel per page [0]. You can't say t…

The term is based on a figurative bug being found. OED traces this usage to > Mr. Edison, I was informed, had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a bug’ in his phonograph—…

All models are wrong, some models are useful . And what is useful is subjective. The Newtonian model works brilliantly at human-scale resolution. But if you are a quark, it is tota…

The primary reason I moved things off GitHub was to self-host. If I wanted someone else to host it I would probably go back to GitHub.

Right, but your licensing is per user per year. I add 50 NEW users in a month. Each of them use the product for about 20 minutes, but I believe I would need to license them for an …

Hi sytes. Thanks so much for this. I was active on the thread trying to get it added to CE, and it makes a big difference. One thing GL is still missing in its licensing model is a…