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Comment Covered By The Court Order (Score 2) 46

“Fair and Reasonable Terms” shall be assessed based on the following factors: (1) the net
cost (accounting for any discounts, rebates, or other incentive programs) to a Deere
Dealer, for similar items obtained from Defendant; (2) the cost to Defendant of preparing,
maintaining, and distributing the item; (3) the price charged by other manufacturers of
agricultural equipment for similar items; (4) the ability of Owners and IRPs to afford the
item; (5) the means by which the item is distributed; (6) the extent to which the item is
used, which includes the number of users, and frequency, duration, and volume of use;
and (7) inflation.

Comment At What Point Does It Rise To Collusion? (Score 4, Interesting) 52

JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PNC... reportedly explored acquiring Fiserv's debit-card networks, STAR and Accel, in a move that could help them bypass federal caps on debit-card transaction fees.

So at what point does this rise to the definition of collusion? This seems to fit my understanding of the definition.

Comment Detectors Grossly Overestimate Their Ability (Score 4, Funny) 55

There's no way to reliably determine whether something was written by AI or not. They can think it's AI. They can point out similarities between a text and typical AI slop. But those "markers" are circumstantial and don't prove anything. Furthermore, as AI is trained to avoid the tells of the past, it has become near impossible to say that something was written by AI with even vague certainty. And companies that use AI to "accurately detect AI" are liars, thieves, and 100% full of shit.
These are some of the reasons why no one can say whether this comment was written by AI, William Shakespeare, a Yemenese moron, a room full of monkeys with shit splattered typewriters.

Comment Yes. But No. (Score 0) 19

Yes, I'd be sorry to see things exposed and even more so to see it brought about by an Indian government ruling.

But, no. GoDaddy is full of shit with this "exposing them to "foreseeable privacy and security risks" such as stalking and harassment". Domain registration information, the whois database, was exposed to the public for a very long time. The only issue it's exposure costed was an increased exposure to spam due to marketers scraping the Whois databases.

The spam email, snail mail, and phone calls were annoying. But they were never a major problem. And, it was even less of a problem since so many used generic names and email addresses for that shit anyway. I still do! ICAAN can eat a dick.

So, in the end, GoDaddy is full of crap. But the Indian court can suck it, anywhere and everywhere outside of India. I'm tired of these shitty governments dictating rules to a supposedly borderless Internet. If the Indian government wants to make rules about registrations, I guess they can do so for the .in TLD. But for literally every other TLD on the planet, they can blow a goat.

Comment What Do The Numbers Tell You? (Score 1) 85

Country ===== Profit Before taxes.
Ireland ====== 47,083,027,808
Gemany ===== 661,226,924
Malta ====== -765,780,100

Ireland is purely bullshit.

Malta is extremely interesting and almost certainly bullshit. They're probably getting some sort of Maltese welfare.

The numbers for Panama are absurdly low. Is Panama no longer a tax haven?

Comment The Actual Fucking Risk!?!? (Score 1) 88

This study conveniently leaves out the actual absolute risk. But thanks to published data from the study's source and a bit of math we can determine the actual numbers.

Thanks to UK Biobank numbers we can determine that the approximate baseline mortality rate is around 2.7%

We can also determine form the study that each sedentary hour increases risk by approximately 0.24%

If you live a life of 10 sedentary hours per day - pretty common office life - your actual risk of cancer death has increased to around 6.3%. At least that's what this study is saying.

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