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Comment Re:Bruce - no "default" rights to his face. (US la (Score 2) 34

There is something called the right of publicity. In the US, this is handled primarily at the state level (and quite differently, and under various names, in different states). There are some situations where there is Federal protection also.

Some details from Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute:

"The right of publicity prevents the unauthorized commercial use of an individual's name, likeness, or other recognizable aspects of one's persona. It gives an individual the exclusive right to license the use of their identity for commercial promotion.

"In the United States, the right of publicity is largely protected by state common or statutory law.... Of these, many do not recognize a right by that name but protect it as part of the Right of Privacy....

"In other states, the right of publicity is protected through the law of unfair competition....

"If a person can establish an aspect of his or her identity as a trademark, protection may be provided by Federal law....

"The Federal Lanham Act can also provide protection where a person's identity is used to falsely advertise a product or designate ts origin."

Comment Re:How is this infrastructure (Score 1) 25

... how can a member of congress like Cynthia Lummis (R) Wyoming, complain bitterly about the Biden administration twisting 'infrastructure' to include things like childcare, while crypto is somehow part of infrastructure?...

Seriously? Lummis didn't put crypto into the bill. The amendment that Lummis, Wyden, and Toomey are proposing would *reduce* the effect of this "infrastructure" bill on crypto.

Comment Re:"Virtually" the same? Shockingly "similar?" (Score 5, Interesting) 258

They're IDENTICAL twins, right? Why would their DNA be "virtually" the same? Why would there be ANY level of shock with that? ELI5 please.

Because, for each test, there are some SNPs that the lab is unable to determine ("no-calls"). But these are going to be different for each individual, and in fact for each test an individual takes.

There also are likely to be a very small number of SNPs that are simply read incorrectly.

Because of these two issues, the raw results for the two identical twins will almost certainly not be the same -- although the results would have been identical if they had been able to get (correct) results for every single SNP.

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