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> It tells you that your money is now stuck AFTER you've sent it to them.

Do you know any alternative which doesn't do this? Because I've seen the same trick in all of them.

But at least I know if I'm ok with it, so it can't be exploitation. If I wasn't ok with it, I could change it. The hardworker doesn't even know he's getting paid less (because I made sure of it in contract). See the problem?

If I pay one guy X and another guy half as much, but the second guy works much better, I know it's not fair, they don't need to tell me. Doesn't matter that they both agreed to it.

I'd say that people who read about LIGO and quantum limit, also understand quadrillion.

I'm not trying to become an international lawyer. The thread mentioned terra nullius, so I'm just pointing out what that definition says and what are the real-world examples, where these lands are clearly mentioned. Not sure why somebody gets so triggered by it. Let me point out that these two countries don't just "disagree which one of them owns it", they both say "we don't own it", which makes all the difference. Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain whether Croatia's constitution can say "this land belongs to Serbia", I personally don't see how that would be possible.

I expected this comment. The same wikipedia page also says:

> There are currently three territories sometimes claimed to be terra nullius: Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan), *four pockets of land near the Danube due to the Croatia–Serbia border dispute*, and parts of Antarctica, principally Marie Byrd Land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius

Next, someone says that wikipedia is not a credible source.

> Wikipedia: In international law, terra nullius is territory which belongs to no state. Sovereignty over territory which is terra nullius can be acquired by any state by occupation.

that sounds to me exactly like a third party coming and going "well if nobody wants it..."

Of course, in reality it's always about whether or not you can defend your territory with military power. And it doesn't even need to be unclaimed.

I'm surprised nobody here mentioned the copyrights yet. By building it, you are gaining the copyright. By buying it, you are gaining a vendor lock-in.

Why are we even trying to suck it out of the sky, if we could much easier suck it out of the oceans, where it is 150 times more concentrated, and then let the oceans suck it out of the sky as they have done for the whole time.

This paper https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/using-seawater-to-reduce-... two years ago said that it would need solar plants worth less than the COVID stimulus bill, and it would produce H2, soft water and limestone, all of which can be sold and can displace fossil sources.

> where we obsess about longshot disasters we can't control

Wait, you seriously think a comet impact in the next 100 years is much more likely than mass extinction from warming planet? Comet impact IS the longshot disaster we can't control, and you are the one obsessing about it. Fossil fuels, and all the reasons why we don't just stop digging them up today, are totally in our control, and the time is ticking.

Ok, but at least we didn't manufacture that comet.

> If it could scale up and still operate the same way...

Once they scale up, they will be encountering more other Waymo cars on the roads, eliminating a lot of the accidents where someone else crashed into Waymo, or made an upredictable move. So then they could afford to drive less conservatively.

We are pretty sure that our roads would be much safer if all cars were self-driving, but that cannot happen overnight and there will be an interim phase when robo-cars have to mix with human drivers, which is the hard engineering challenge.

That is unless they sell it to Philippines who promptly dump it into rivers, which is exactly what happens. https://www.dw.com/en/german-plastic-floods-southeast-asia/a...

Well if we are talking about the point of open source, then really, the lack of restrictions is the point. Some commercial entities wish to redefine the term because it benefits their marketing, but is that the line we want to draw in the sand?

Let's not call it open source. Even Llama2 doesn't think that Llama2 is open source: https://imgur.com/AZFOzWk

You can add them.

And I don't mean it as a knee-jerk response, this is open-source, anyone with skills is welcome and if you send a pull request here https://github.com/GrapheneOS/grapheneos.org with the screenshots presented in the way you'd expect them, it might get merged.

I don't think Google will use those secrets to look into your other accounts, but they can be politely requested by some governments to divulge the secrets, and not tell you about it. Then those governments would have no problems looking into your other accounts. And I'm not talking only about the US government, other governments can have dubious standards for requesting user data, such as failure to parrot the "facts" approved by their ministry of truth (China, Russia, and everyone in their sphere).

Not to mention Google can be hacked.

the goal of these tasks is not to provide the most correct answer, but to show how you think about problems. Even the fact that you googled the right answer after may set you apart from candidates who just don't care, and that's relevant for the job. Of course if the recruiter judges candidates based on how close they were to the correct number, then they are doing it wrong and you might want to stay away.

someone should ping Pleasant Green and all the other scam-baiters. If they talk about it, more banks might implement it, and it could actually save a lot of people. Then they need something like this also for AnyDesk

Travel. I've done it when I was lost and it started a new phase. Avoid tourist attractions and guided tours, go slow, go cheap.

Ok but the argument is that the people who don't need that bit of guidance are probably better hires than those who do need guidance.

> Resumes like that will be sorted out even if she might be brilliant, intelligent, and just needs a chance.

That sounds like exactly the core of the broken hiring processes. Shouldn't a good hiring manager try to create a process that finds these brilliant, intelligent candidates?

I have almost exactly the same setup. I can recommend motion-project on the Pi for taking the pictures and MotionEye android app for real-time watching. Works fine as a security cam too.

Floris keyboard (also on f-droid) has copy & paste buttons directly above the letters. Faster than swiping.

I really don't think Microsoft Copilot is relying on a local exception.

It's literally the first search result for "data mining exception": https://www.copyrightuser.org/understand/exceptions/text-dat...

This is about EU and UK, but think about it, Microsoft Copilot is already doing it, and so far it seems like they will get away with it. So if feeding an open source code into AI and then using the output in a proprietary application is illegal in the US, then Copilot must be illegal. According to wikipedia in the US it falls under fair use because it is "transformative" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining#Situation_in_the_U... however Copilot has been seen producing verbatim blocks of code matching some open source projects and so far no legal problems. Why couldn't TikTok claim the same?

There is a "data minig" exception from copyright law, saying that you can use any available code to feed your AI and don't have respect the license. And the output of your AI is yours. So TikTok could claim they either use Copilot, which was fed OBS source, or that they created their own private AI similar to Copilot. Microsoft showed the way.

It hasn't been tested at court AFAIK, but if a company can use this defense to protect their profits, for sure they will try.

And now they can also claim it was just autocompleted by Copilot.

Would you argue that voyeurism should stop being a crime then?

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