Children are afforded more lenience in sane societies (before the law and in social contexts) because they are still developing and not as well socialized/experienced as adults. I assume most pro-piracy people support personal use and not commercial use of content.
The issue is that child labor laws encourage children to pursue cybercrime if they want to make money since legitimate companies will not hire them. This results in a lot of incentive for children to commit cybercrime such as piracy and without the disincentive of punishment they are free to do it. These 2 things are incentivizing antisocial behavior in society.
We support copyright reform not piracy. The reason we do is because corporate giants have weaponized the system for their own ends and not for our useful promotion of the arts and sciences.
So.. I don't think it's appropriate for billion dollar companies to abuse copyrighted authored material for their own profit streams. They have the money. They can either pay or not use the material.
I do. And I get paid because I write it fulfill to the customer's need that's not covered by an existing solution, not because some law prevents using what already exists.
It wouldn't impact me at all. Without our hardware it is useless. And customers need certifications, support and availability guarantees. Customers aren't paying shit for code. They don't need code. They need solution to their problems. Of which my code is a very small (if critical) part of.
And yes, that's totally irrelevant. Because the mere fact that some people depend on some evil for their living doesn't justify its existence.
That’s good for you, but for the rest of us, we live in economies of scale. Copyright is the legal underpinning of most software engineers’ ability to earn a living and feed their families.
My wife listens to a bunch of true crime podcasts and many use the same voice. I've also heard this voice in commercials and Youtube videos that are clearly AI generated.
"Open source is closing its doors. Yesterday, tldraw took the unusual step of removing the tests from their codebase, on the theory their continued presence would make it far too easy for anyone with an agent to build a cleanroom rewrite and undermine their business. Nothing says "closed for contributions" quite like not even having access to a test suite or CI to work with"
This could always happen with open source. If you are worried about 'undermining your business', you shouldn't release any open source, as big companies can always do this.
It's a victim of its own success. It's struggling, because large institutions are invested in it, and it now rises and falls with the stock market. It used to be advertised as an alternative to these institutions.
I also think because of the volume, pump and dump schemes are less likely and some popular Youtuber shilling for it can't raise the price anymore.
It's struggling, because large institutions are invested in it
Many of these "large institutions" (for example, Fidelity) are merely trade facilitators responding to client interest --- aka, speculation. They have nominal investments in crypto as necessary to offer trading services to their clients.
An apparent exception to this is Strategy, led by Michael Saylor. But even in this case, their direct "investments" are actually financed by debt ($6 billion or so) --- aka other people's money.
In most cases, it's the "little people" who have all the skin in the crypto game.
The part you are leaving out is treating them solely as "illegals" means these people will avoid going to physicians to get their shots, because they would risk deportation.
The obvious solution for better health for all would be providing public and freely accessible locations for getting these shots, or mobile teams providing them at schools etc.
Can you cite some sources? Because most countries have a functioning vaccination program, in part thanks to now-cancelled USAID funding. But vaccination rates have been dropping, just like in the US. https://www.unicef.org/lac/en/press-releases/latin-america-a...
Your comment reads like anti-immigrant propaganda. If USAID were to be restored, the US could use its vast wealth to improve global health. But the current US regime is decisively anti-vax and wants everyone to suffer unnecessarily from preventable disease.
Yet the measles outbreak in Northern Mexico was caused by antivax white mennonites who brought it from Texas. Turns out there are subpopulations everywhere who need to be vaccinated - if only we had evidence-based people in charge of public health instead of wellness grifters.
After all the people I know that got laid off, I just can't trust a single company to provide most of My monthly income anymore.
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