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There are considerations beyond just comparing the number of collisions. If a human driver causes an accident, they can be held to account through a legal process. If a self-drivin…

Do they genuinely expect someone in their third year of undergraduate study to read and even partially understand Newton's Principia Mathematica? It is famously unintelligible to m…

I hope someone makes one of these things that has been trained without any concern for 'safety' or propriety, just for the sake of comparison.

Echoing the sibling comment from byhemechi, performance sailing vessels generally do not sail directly downwind (or directly upwind for that matter). The sails are positioned at an…

> It seems like the end goal of copyleft was to fight back against copyright, not to have copyleft. Whether this was the original motivation depends on whom you are asking. You may…

> A programmer can read available but not oss licensed code and learn from it. Thats fair use. If a human programmer reads some else's copyrighted code, OSS or otherwise, memorizes…

The suppression of government bond yields and money creation via quantitative easing were needed if states were to pay people's salaries during lockdowns. Governments would not hav…

My layman's understanding of the GDPR was that it was the primary website (i.e. the website you are actually and intentionally visiting) that could store your data on the basis of …

I am not a lawyer, but I don't think anyone needs to deploy the code in order to infringe copyright: they just need to distribute the code to a third party (hence copyright -- the …

There must be a line past which copying is no longer "fair use", otherwise no copyrights in code would be enforceable at all. I suppose it is up to a court to decide, but in the Ti…

Why can't Tim Davis (or another software author whose code is emitted verbatim by Copilot) demand that Microsoft take down Copilot, or at least the part of Copilot that contains hi…

I think it's just the western coast of North America that has this problem, rather than the entire Pacific. For example in New Zealand, which is in the Pacific, there were never an…

Good. Many "cookie management providers" deliberately act in bad faith. See for example the now standard requirement to "object" to so-called legitimate interest uses of personal d…

So do many classical computer algorithms.

I think it's probably fair to say most cosmologists would consider her views marginal, but she is certainly not a crank. My (limited) understanding is that ΛCDM fits cosmological o…

I don't mean this comment to be critical of the OP, who is undoubtedly acting in good faith, but how after all this time is this submission not somehow flagged as a duplicate?

Does the fair use exemption (or an equivalent) exist in all countries?

These satellites have marred the night sky. There is more to life than broadband availability.

Latour and social constructionists more generally are quite influential in, for example, social anthropology (including in the English-speaking world).

It seems to me that encapsulating analyses in bash scripts would help with reproducibility.

You might want to think about cross-currency IRS and FX products as next steps, because they're more common hedge instruments for corporates (your likely market, if you ever want t…

The documentation suggests that this currently only supports single-currency IRS, and it's also BYO market data. To my knowledge there isn't anything like a RESTful pricing/valuati…

I am somewhat exercised by this. I like Unity and have grown accustomed to it over the years, and in any case I think having choice in software is a positive thing. I hope that the…