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Re:Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @11:02PM (#22490852)
Conceptually, I agree. But at youtube scale, I suspect they aren't comparing a corpus of "asserted copyrights" versus "all videos". It's a corpus of "all videos" (straight up) with some preference for asserted copyrights.

I expect that even toggling off Fortnite's "licensed music" setting can still run into audio copyright claims against other Fortnite videos which have the same audio.

Re:Waymo Via on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:38PM (#22490743)
Copy nit:

> We’re currently testing our fleet of trucks in California and Arizona, and we’ll soon expand to Texas and New Mexico in the near future.

"soon <thing> in the near future" is a weird structure. It's repeating itself, which either comes across as poorly constructed or _really_ emphasizing. I doubt it is the latter....but if it were, I'd expect waymo to announce Texas/NM support within a few weeks. (Which begs the question of "why publish this blog now, instead of in 1-3 weeks when Texas/NM support launches?")

Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:10PM (#22439958)
> but wind, homeless, gravity, can all result in trash ending up outside of the bin

Tossing out "homeless" for a reason trash ends up in the ocean really undermines your point and makes you seem like an asshole. Maybe I'm naive, but I've never seen _anyone_ intentionally take things out of the trash and toss them somewhere else. I can't imagine this happening (caused by any human) on a scale where it is worth mentioning before mentioning negligent littering.

Re:The war on food waste is a waste of time on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:05PM (#22439936)
Looking at the composition of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic straws don't qualify as a line-item in this[1] 2014 study (either by mass or count).

70.4% of the mass found in the gyre is from fishing-related items (with a whopping 58.3% of mass from fishing buoys alone).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4262196/

Re:Facebook tax court trial begins over Ireland offshore deal on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:39AM (#22363308)
Wouldn't a 0% corporate tax make it even more incentivized than it is today?

As a novice, this feels like an approach that punishes the well-off, who may not expend the resources to structure all assets/liabilities this way, at the expense of the super-well-off who will simply pay multiple other people to re-organize their own financials.

Re:Facebook tax court trial begins over Ireland offshore deal on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:33AM (#22363272)
How would you avoid companies-as-expense accounts? If I form "Coral-Snake & Co.", wouldn't I be able to pay 0% taxes by just directing all income/expenses into that shell?

(Granted, I don't understand basically anything about tax law, so maybe this is already a well-defined problem with a well-defined solution.)