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I wish Costco were accessible to basically everyone. Among some poorer people I've got to know in the SF Bay Area, having the card and confidence in the means to use it are a mark …

> > Access is not conditioned on approval I practice law in California. I've written terms of service that many, many people here on HN will have agreed to. I read this line and di…

> The first proposal I worked on was Promise.allSettled, which was fulfilling. Har har.

Not Invented Here's long, slow mutagenic march toward full antibiotic resistance continues apace. There is a fundamental corpo-cognitive dissonance, to boot. If "AI" is cheap enoug…

States do have rules against business entity names that mislead about regulated professions. California, for example, prohibits names that suggest an entity is a "professional corp…

Sadly, I fully expect to see the cover price of The Economist reach twice the federal minimum wage. If the Fed goes back to cutting rates, it could be soon.

You may find this interesting: https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/orgoverview/languages

What's difficult really depends on the languages you already know. In addition to noun inflection, verb aspect, pronunciation stress, and punctuation trouble many native English sp…

CRS is really underappreciated. Seeing you link that report here made me happy.

See https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/04/Copyleft-Bust-Up#b... MongoDB invested sufficient resources in drafting an update to the AGPL. That license is called the Server Side …

My point of view is clear, but what I see is complex. Things seemed simpler back when I believed what Slashdot told me, before I'd spent twenty years getting involved and looking c…

Watching what we charitably call this debate flare up yet again gives me an odd mix of feelings. On the one hand, seeing people I've read and listened to for years heave time, atte…

I've known more than a few people who likely saw Outlook, Word, or Excel open every day straight for a year. It is a bit smug. Like The Matrix rebranding itself "24/7".

In my experience, most people underestimate what's negotiable across the board . Especially those making enough to do most of their business with mass-market operations, like big-b…

Copyright under US law does not require "artistic expression". One of the requirements is called "creativity", but it's very easy to meet. The key phrase is literally "some minimal…

Good question. They have a new Juki machine to sew these on directly, but I can't tell whether it will be practical to sew on by hand. I expect most tailor and seamstress shops won…

You've given the argument from fallacy, dismissing an argument without any reference to its content, but only to its conclusion. The existence of bad arguments for a proposition do…

Art versus engineering is a very dangerous generalization of the law. There is a creativity requirement for copyrightability, but it's an explicitly low bar. Search query "minimal …

npm got around to `@{author}/{package}` and `@{org}/{package}` beyond just global `{package}`, albeit midstream, rather than very early on. The jargon is "scoped packages". I've se…

Refuted?

I shell out to POSIX `date` on Linux and I believe also on Windows: - trigger: ";tod" replace: "{{mydate}}" vars: - name: mydate type: shell params: cmd: date --iso-8601

Court Listener has the opinion here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.53...

I encourage you to read the opinion. There was nothing to nail down here. The Copyright Office rejected the registration. The Review Board affirmed. The trial court affirmed. Three…

I have seen `git blame` used to blame specific people. I've seen it work. Some of those people deserved some blame. The manpage explains what the command does. How and why it's use…

The current Reuters headline is "US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator". That's still kind of clickbaity, but far more accurate and corre…