Read the requirements for a takedown notice. The only thing a DMCA notice needs to claim under penalty of perjury is that you are authorized to enforce the copyright that you are claiming. The report from the copyright office on the linked page states:
> Senders of both takedown notices and counter-notices are liable for damages if they make knowing material misrepresentations regarding whether the material to be taken down is infringing, or has been removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification. Courts have appropriately interpreted this provision by requiring actual knowledge or willful blindness of falsity, not merely negligent or unreasonable misrepresentation.
"Knowing" does a lot of heavy lifting here. Courts have determined that someone who uses an automated system to identify infringing content and submits takedown notices against all of that content does not "knowingly" misrepresent anything.
Furthermore, even in the case where there is bad faith, there's no statutory penalty, it relies on the targeted party suing and in court proving BOTH bad faith, and damages.
I want to be able to click-and-drag. For example, in this row
1 2 |x x |
if I left click the second cell and drag right it should mark all the blank cells black.
Similarly in the inverted case, if I have marked cells and right-click-and-drag next to them it should mark the empty spots I cross over with Xs.
Important: this doesn't change the state of any cell that wasn't blank to start out. You should have to click on a marked cell to clear it (or right click to replace it with an X). And similarly to above, if you drag, it should change only the cells you touch that match the starting state of your original cell to the new state.
How is "Baumol effect" different from supply and demand for any limited resource?
Let's say that some new use for copper is discovered, that drastically increases the demand for copper. The cost of existing items that use copper is going to go up, even if those items are no more productive than they used to be, because the new items are now in high demand.
You can see this effect in real life with GPUs; it's much more expensive to buy a gaming graphics card today than it was a decade ago, because GPUs are in high demand for other applications.
So, increasing the productivity of labor in some sector is going to do the same thing supply and demand does to anything else -- the cost of labor goes up, but not as much as the productivity in that sector, and the producers of labor will enjoy higher demand.
>How is "Baumol effect" different from supply and demand for any limited resource?
It isn't, but nominal growth as a consequence of demand without increase in real output makes you no better off, that's the "fake" part. More practical example than graphics cards is houses. Large chunk of the US market, constantly goes up in price, but not because housing is becoming more productive. It's because money from other sectors spills over. Good for landlords, bad way to measure real economic activity. You'd be better off if you could roll houses from the conveyor belt and collapse prices.
Rising education prices don't reflect greater quality in education, faster teachers, or more graduates, i.e. output, which is what we ought to care about, but just higher spending funded by real gains in other sectors.
Hi Ryan!! I got a PhD, did some indie game stuff, made some babies (with some help, mainly from my wife), design consulting. You can see more of my projects here: https://chaim.io, like some tangible/mixed reality computing (done while I was working at a research lab with Bret Victor), and Earth: A Primer, a science book made of simulation toys.
I think something like Unity or Gamemaker or even Scratch fills that niche now. They are a bit more game-focused than Hypercard (which was really more of an early iteration on the web), but, I think, capture a similar feeling of empowerment and creativity among nerdy young people as Hypercard did for nerdy young me.
This is such a crazy take. "Because the waste is so huge, it's impossible to do anything".
It's not like any individual reform is going to suddenly end all that waste and put everyone involved out of a job. Iterative small improvements make a real difference in people's lives, and won't provoke an immediate giant supply-side shock.
I don't pretend to have the answers to the question of "what reforms should we do?" but throwing our hands up and saying "nothing!" is not the answer.
How do you reduce inefficiencies and cut costs without compromising care?
You cut jobs that are redundant. America spends an insane amount of money on administrative overhead. 4x the average of other wealthy nations [1]. This is largely in part because our fragmented insurance system leads to excessive redundancy in administrative roles
So meaningful reform means cutting jobs. Or you do the shitty political move and preserve these useless jobs for the sake of keeping people employed because our social safety net is a joke and the cost cutting you do make is at the expense of compromising care and vulnerable populations (eg cutting Medicare and Medicaid benefits). Then you get more clinician burn out and struggle to fill key clinical roles/staffing issues, scheduling issues and longer appointment waiting periods, more deaths and complications from a lack of preventative care, more mental health issues and drug abuse in communities, etc. all of which is happening in the USA.
function weightedRandom(weight, outcomes){
var total = sum( weight );
var roll = Math.random()*total; // value in the range [0,total)
var seen = 0;
for(let i=0; i<weight.length; i++) {
seen += weight[i];
if(roll<seen)
return outcomes[i];
}
}
I think there's a difference between "blockchain + PoW" and "blockchain". Blockchain taken literally is just verification of history via hashing. It's a form of provenance that is hard to fake. Even if you are a central authority as to what transactions are being made, you can't rewrite history beyond any point that you've made publicly visible, without losing the trust of people who rely on you as a central authority, as to do so you would need to break the hashing algorithm.
https://www.copyright.gov/512/
Read the requirements for a takedown notice. The only thing a DMCA notice needs to claim under penalty of perjury is that you are authorized to enforce the copyright that you are claiming. The report from the copyright office on the linked page states:
> Senders of both takedown notices and counter-notices are liable for damages if they make knowing material misrepresentations regarding whether the material to be taken down is infringing, or has been removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification. Courts have appropriately interpreted this provision by requiring actual knowledge or willful blindness of falsity, not merely negligent or unreasonable misrepresentation.
"Knowing" does a lot of heavy lifting here. Courts have determined that someone who uses an automated system to identify infringing content and submits takedown notices against all of that content does not "knowingly" misrepresent anything.
Furthermore, even in the case where there is bad faith, there's no statutory penalty, it relies on the targeted party suing and in court proving BOTH bad faith, and damages.
The DMCA has no teeth against false claims.
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