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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 t…

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 completi…

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 tryi…

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 t…

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.

"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 theref…

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 …

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.

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 featur…

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, Defe…

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.

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, …

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. …

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.…

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...

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 communica…

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…

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…

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?…

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 th…

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…

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 databa…

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 G…