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Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by hsjqllzlfkf » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 5:43 AM UTC

snoochyboochies wrote: post #114

snoochyboochies wrote: post #103

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The once hilarious, once satirical, r/pyongyang subreddit is now unironically an influential bastion of Communist propaganda. Its contributors are no longer ironic or ban-posting - they are true believers, and they're indistinguishable from the moderators of most all major subreddits & the corporate overlords who tacitly support them. At this point, none even bother to pretend they believe in "free speech" as a human…

Downvoters will legitimately truly struggle to find a reason why their censorship is better than the once satirical NK r/pyongyang censorship. There is 0 difference in absurdity between banning posts of "Kim Jong Un does surely poop and pee" in r/pyongyang and "Men cannot get pregnant" in r/science. They're cult members stuck. Unfortunately it's not easy to get unstuck from there.

> There is 0 difference in absurdity between banning posts of "Kim Jong Un does surely poop and pee" in r/pyongyang and "Men cannot get pregnant" in r/science.

You've been radicalized. Please get help.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by matteoraso » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 6:03 AM UTC

machdiamonds wrote: post #130

jallen_dot_dev wrote: post #79

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I know you're being sarcastic, but it's shocking how many people think he's actually a genius and all his missteps are really galaxy-brain maneuvers we just don't understand yet. Like, there are millions of them.

I think I'm going to trust Karpathy on this one over random HN commenters, but that's just me: "Elon also understands deep neural nets a lot more than I think people imagine. He starts with good intuitions and mental models, but also actively asks for technical deep dives, and has very good retention. E.g. I recall teaching him about our use of focal loss in contrast to binary cross-entropy for the object detection n…

A lot of HN users don't want to hear this, but being good at engineering doesn't mean that you're good at business.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by mikrotikker » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 7:26 AM UTC

matteoraso wrote: post #132

machdiamonds wrote: post #130

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I think I'm going to trust Karpathy on this one over random HN commenters, but that's just me: "Elon also understands deep neural nets a lot more than I think people imagine. He starts with good intuitions and mental models, but also actively asks for technical deep dives, and has very good retention. E.g. I recall teaching him about our use of focal loss in contrast to binary cross-entropy for the object detection n…

A lot of HN users don't want to hear this, but being good at engineering doesn't mean that you're good at business.

I'm trying to figure out why anyone cares one way or the other

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by squiffsquiff » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:43 AM UTC

RF_Savage wrote: post #109

arcticbull wrote: post #82

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Absolutely, but. If Microsoft owns it in the context of social media, that changes everything. Sure there's a Delta Airlines and a Delta Faucets. If I wanted to start Delta Carpentry of Iowa that wouldn't be an issue. However, if I bought Alaska Airlines, woke up tomorrow and rebranded it Delta - you can be sure they'd fly their lawyers out to Anchorage out on a Gulfstream. [edit] Meta -> Microsoft, from tfa. My bad.

Also Delta fans and Delta power supplies. Tons of them.

A 'Delta Force' if you will

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by snoochyboochies » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 1:57 PM UTC

hsjqllzlfkf wrote: post #131

snoochyboochies wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downvoters will legitimately truly struggle to find a reason why their censorship is better than the once satirical NK r/pyongyang censorship. There is 0 difference in absurdity between banning posts of "Kim Jong Un does surely poop and pee" in r/pyongyang and "Men cannot get pregnant" in r/science. They're cult members stuck. Unfortunately it's not easy to get unstuck from there.

> There is 0 difference in absurdity between banning posts of "Kim Jong Un does surely poop and pee" in r/pyongyang and "Men cannot get pregnant" in r/science. You've been radicalized. Please get help.

"Kim Jong Un is a human who poops and pees" and "men cannot get pregnant" are both statements of objective fact.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by Name_Chawps » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 2:00 PM UTC

snoochyboochies wrote: post #114

snoochyboochies wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The once hilarious, once satirical, r/pyongyang subreddit is now unironically an influential bastion of Communist propaganda. Its contributors are no longer ironic or ban-posting - they are true believers, and they're indistinguishable from the moderators of most all major subreddits & the corporate overlords who tacitly support them. At this point, none even bother to pretend they believe in "free speech" as a human…

Downvoters will legitimately truly struggle to find a reason why their censorship is better than the once satirical NK r/pyongyang censorship. There is 0 difference in absurdity between banning posts of "Kim Jong Un does surely poop and pee" in r/pyongyang and "Men cannot get pregnant" in r/science. They're cult members stuck. Unfortunately it's not easy to get unstuck from there.

I once posted in subreddit A, and got banned just because I had once posted in the "alt-right" subreddit B (which was an apolitical comedy subreddit).

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by ehhthing » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 11:53 PM UTC

lolinder wrote: post #59

ehhthing wrote: post #50

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https://trademarkgarden.com/2018/03/09/amazon-and-you/ The two are equivalent.

No, they aren't, and your source doesn't say they are. This is your source's description of the type of trademark that Meta has on X (AN ILLUSTRATION DRAWING WITH WORD(S) /LETTER(S)/ NUMBER(S) INSTYLIZED FORM): > This Type is similar to “STANDARD CHARACTER MARK” in that it can only include words or phrases, and not images, however it does include a claim as to the particular stylization (font) and may, but do not hav…

Not talking about Meta's X, talking about Microsoft's X

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by evandale » Sat, Jul 29, 2023, 12:37 AM UTC

TX81Z wrote: post #124

evandale wrote: post #95

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There is something about successful men who get away with giving the finger to the woke crowd that _really_ tick people off.

It’s almost as though none of this was about business and totally about being an imagined champion for a mob of internet losers fighting a battle nobody with an ounce of sense, reason, or self respect buys into? Big brain stuff. Big brain.

Sure, you can think that. I don't fault you. Musk is extremely childish at times and that's putting it lightly.

It's his money to light on fire and his reputation to tarnish. I don't know why people get so miffed by him. Twitter wasn't anything special to ruin and I think it's doing just fine nowadays.