kevin_b_er

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Comment · 3 months ago
This is a false statement.

> Your use of the SAM Materials will not involve or encourage others to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the underlying components of the SAM Materials. > Your use of the DINO Materials will not involve or encourage others to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the underlying components of the DINO Materials.

It is not open source, thus the statement is false and a "lie". Nothing here is "open source".

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
And that's where drones and robots come in. The goal is to make sure there's no more uprisings, ever again.

You need only look at the US, where the rich are given all the benefits in changes in law, and the commoner gets nothing except some get the perverted glee of causing someone else to suffer first, not realizing they're on the menu to be sacrificed later.

Comment · 1 year ago
That was written by you?

I don't agree with this section:

> The HDCP converter simply announces itself as a final video endpoint… yet still repeats the content to its output port. Without a very expensive HDMI protocol analyzer, we can’t check if the source is tagging the content as type 0 or type 1, but there is no reason now to think that it’s not type 1.

There's no magic in the HDMI protocol that says type 1 vs type 0. Its just another HDCP message over DDC, but it is only sent to repeaters. In this case, since the HDCP Repeater is lying about not being a repeater, it isn't getting sent the StreamID Type information.

Comment · 1 year ago
Kalamazoo is the result of consolidation. The graph incorrectly just lists them as "Kalamazoo Tower", but its also a TRACON facility.

They're handling multiple airports remotely. In 2016, this was planned to be Grand Rapids, Lansing, Muskegon, Flint, and Saginaw, though I'm not sure all of them were consolidated.

Comment · 1 year ago
Because none of that is the purpose of cryptocurrency. It for tax evasion by the rich, and for the cryptocurrency to seize when its used for crimes or when its defrauded out of someone else. And for riding a seemingly permanently rising currency to riches.

In any case, it boils down to "I can make money off cryptocurrency". It doesn't "help" people. If someone says that, they just want to evangelize it because they think that's the key to 'crypto go up'.

Comment · 1 year ago
America loved to build _in the past_. Now the workers cost too much, even when paid poorly, and the top must profit on an exponential curve.
Comment · 2 years ago
The author intends it to be a modified Apache 2.

   2. Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of
      this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual,
      worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable
      copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of,
      publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the
      Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form.


  
    For the project as a whole, it is not free. You are FORBIDDEN to distribute the apk compiled by you (including modified, e.g., rename app name "Shizuku" to something else) to any store (IBNLT Google Play Store, F-Droid, Amazon Appstore etc.).
This is not Apache licensed, because the author is explicitly declaring its terms altered.

It is NOT open source, it violates freedom 1:

Freedom 1

   The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
Comment · 2 years ago
That name is not in English, as evidenced by the non-English letter.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Its strange how much power we give employers over employees, and how regular people defend this, even when its actively working against them.

"Because, one day, I will be a rich person, and I will be able to be cruel to the little people. I don't want to prevent me being able to abuse people if I'm in that position!"

Comment · 2 years ago
You can read their Motor Vehicle Order Agreement. Mandatory Binding Arbitration.

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/ https://centerjd.org/system/files/ArbitrationWhitePaper.pdf

You can even read Hall Street Associates, L.L.C. v. Mattel, Inc, where even when the agreement said the courts could review. Where, no, courts of law may not review an arbiter's decision if you both agree it would be able to after arbitration.

You can read Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., where SCOTUS explicitly declared the American Arbitration Act overrides the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

You can read Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, where you find out you have no substantive rights where the AAA is involved.

There's still weak attempts to save it, but the The National Labor Relations Act is also likely superseded by the American Arbitration Act, basically voiding the NLRA from being ever applicable.

Courts of law are barred where arbitration is inserted, anywhere, whether you know it or not. You lose basic rights where arbitration is concerned.

Comment · 2 years ago
The case is already dead.

If you bought a Tesla, you have no right to a court of law involving Tesla. It will go to arbitration, where the case will be secret, but Tesla will know the arguments and results of of all attempts against it, but not you. It will go to arbitration, where the arbiter may be blacklisted from future cases if it rules against Tesla. It will go to arbitration, where the arbiter's ruling is final and the law does not apply. Capricious? Does not matter.

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act. You, as a citizen owner of a Tesla, are barred from using that law against Tesla. The Sherman Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act. You, as a citizen owner of a Tesla, are barred from using that law against Tesla. No court of law will ever be permitted to apply those laws against Telsa by a Tesla owner.

This case was already dismissed once in Sept of last year when the motion to compel arbitration was granted. They're trying again with some sort of attempted resurrection, but its just a waste of money, because Tesla owners are barred from courts of law. They will go to a privatized pseudo-court where they will lose and where they can't do class action unless Telsa wants it.

Comment · 2 years ago
Full paper at https://www.cureus.com/articles/141805-zinc-supplementation-... and not this summary.

Key limitations: They only used 5 papers

> There were limitations to this study. A small number of studies were assessed, only five were chosen for mortality analysis with a total sample size of 1,474 patients, and two were chosen for symptomology with a sample size of 391 patients. The design of the studies chosen limits the conclusions made in this study regarding mortality as three of the studies are retrospective studies and only two are randomized control trials for mortality. Both papers that assessed symptomology were randomized control trials. Between studies, zinc formulations were different, and in some cases, zinc was given in combination with other drugs.

3 of those studies were retrospectives, 2 were randomized studies. One of those randomized studies was halted for "futility" at zinc treatment.

I'm suspicious about the conclusions.

Comment · 2 years ago
Neither hackaday.com nor gist.github.com seem to support ipv6, so this seems pretty ironic.

Good for unique address assignments for IoT I suppose, but still seemingly terrible for a user agent.

Comment · 2 years ago
This is very light on the details of their batteries, unfortunately.

Iron-air batteries have been known for awhile now, the challenge is making them commercially viable. If I recall, their efficiency is awful for one. There's a company called Form Energy in West Virginia that is supposedly nearly done with a factory to build them for grid storage.

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