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Putting aside that these claims are presented without any evidence, “most” of 50% of the US population is a minimum of 82M people. ~31M have contracted COVID so far. That we’re going to see almost 3x the number of cases, concentrated in half the population, as we enter summer, and with 3-4M vaccines administered per day, is a pretty bold claim.

In a hypothetical world where our competent president and his competent staff made an occasional error, it would be reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt.

This is one of three or four errors just in this address alone. An address that may literally be the most important of his presidency. It wasn't just some George W. tripping over his words, he said literally the exact opposite of what the policy actually was and just kept rolling.

This is too important to be grading on a curve.

edit: To be clear I'm not suggesting he misread the teleprompter intentionally. I am saying that he and his administration have a level of incompetence and neglect that would result in jail time in many private industries.

Don't blame him, blame the incompetent people he hired?

That's a good broad description of both.

I loved their previous game TRS-100, but Opus Magnum didn't really do it for me for whatever reason. I'm completely hooked on Into the Breach.

The sites aren’t linking to a tweet, they’re embedding them. There’s a difference of intent between a plain old <a> link to a tweet’s URL, and the full set of tags, scripts, and configuration used to embed a tweet inline with your page. It would be unreasonable to hold you accountable for a simple link if I had a browser plugin that automatically converted them into embeds, but if you used the twitter markup such that they would be rendered as embeds on any standards compliant browser that’s a different story.

Yeah, to be clear when I said “makes sense” I was referring to what allows for a functional ecosystem of Twitter, users, media, etc. and not a legal evaluation. IANAL and all that.

In this case wouldn’t your innocent infringement example apply? As I understand it there’s an implicit license to use the content of tweets via an official Twitter embed. That would mean it would be fine to show the image via an embedded tweet from the copyright holder, as they agreed to that by posting the tweet in the first place and presumably could revoke that right by deleting the tweet. So the argument would be that the media sites had the rights to republish the tweet and thus believed that the author of the tweet had the rights to the contents of the tweet (which they didn’t). Is that logic not applicable here or is it that a media company should know better and thus it’s not a reasonable mistake?

Also wouldn’t the DMCA be applicable here as the method by which the photographer could get the photo removed from Twitter?

The photographer didn’t post the image on Twitter, someone else who presumably didn’t have a license to do so did. The sites then embedded that other person’s tweet.

If it had be the photographer that posted the tweet then the media companies would have been in the clear AFAIK since part of Twitter’s TOS allows for embeds.

This ruling doesn’t make a ton of sense assuming the media companies were acting in good faith. If they knew that the image was copyrighted and the Twitter user didn’t have the rights to post the image but embedded it anyway in an attempt To get around the copyright on a technicality then this seems more reasonable.

As far as whether or not Spotify is good to musicians, or takes too big of a cut, or distributes revenue fairly, I don't know. It's certainly possible that there's a better payment structure that would be better for musicians that results in no difference to the consumer.

But as a long-time paying user of Spotify I disagree with the premise of the article: Spotify is the product, the music is not.

For a fixed amount of money each month I can just play almost any song, whenever I want, regardless of whether I even know I want to, with zero friction. I don't have to decide whether or not a song is worth the money, I don't have to decide exactly which songs I will play, I can have shared playlists with friends where we can listen to music from our various overlapping tastes.

The extensive collection of music is a key aspect of the platform, but short of a massive dropoff in what's available, if an album isn't on Spotify the most likely outcome isn't that I'll go somewhere else to listen to the album, it's that I'll just listen to something else on Spotify.

This is like complaining that the rates at the airport currency exchange are worse than in your FX trading account.

Coinbase isn't a brokerage, it's more akin to a bank, and like a bank you're not going to get the market rate if you want to exchange currency. If you want to use a brokerage, use GDAX.

You are assuming the value of time spent on these activities is inherently positive.

If you like cooking or cleaning or taking out the trash then by all means you should do those things. But, if you don't like doing those things then the threshold for when it makes sense to pay someone else to do them is lower than most would think.

For portability you should use /s, not \s. \s only works on Windows.

Yeah, I had the same thoughts when I was writing that. The key difference is that the current system is so convoluted that there is almost no meaningful market for consumers on the actual care side of things.

In theory though, the market should address that right? e.g. a version of this that's $10k a year but can handle 10x the volume because you triage patients with competent nurses and PAs and save the expert's time for the cases where they can actually make a difference.

Yeah, I think that's pretty much the case. The first 320 bytes of the two PDFs released by Google result in the same SHA-1 state. Once you're at that point as long as you append identical data to each of the files you're going to get identical hashes. This is just taking those same 320 bytes and appending the combined images of your choice.

edit: as versteegen points out it's 320 bytes, not 304.