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Comment Re:Someone is confusing copyright with trademark. (Score 1) 52

No, trademark is about using an image ot phrase to identify a specific brand as such and not an imitator. That is why trademarks do not transfer to types of good and services other than the one for which the trademark was originally issued. To use a famous example, Apple Records and Apple Computer do not infringe on each other's trademarks.

Comment Re:Economists please break it down (Score 1) 78

"so where does "money" come from and where did it go?"
I get the feeling that you conceive of money as a static pile of cash that gets shared out and moved around. That's not how money works at all. You may want to read up on how the money supply works. TLDR version: Money is being constantly created and destroyed as banks lend and fiscal assets change in value.

Comment Re:Limits of model organisms (Score 1) 171

What you want ain't happening, by the very nature of the disease. It takes only a handful of cancerous cells among the trillions in your body to cause a recurrence. It's a needle in a haystack you'll never find, and even if it's present, it may not gain a foothold again.
"Your chances of remaining cancer-free look good" is the best you're gonna get.

Comment Re:platforming Rails creator DHH at RailsConf 2025 (Score 1) 75

"What? If you decide something is harmful to you, you should act on it. Don't just stand there like a wretched lemon being harmed. Take charge of your life"

Act on it, yes, but that doesn't mean you have a right to whatever action you decide on. There are limits.

"freedom of speech or freedom of association. The latter is if course every bit as much of a fundamental right as the former."

No, it's not. Freedom of association is a secondary right. It's explicitly abridged by civil rights acts that mandate commercial establishments not refuse service on the basis of race, for example.

"Eich used his "freedom of speech" (tsoney in his case) to harm people. They have every right to say "I ain't going to work for that wanker", and then every right to act on that and not work for him."

Absolutely. They have the right to decide not work for him for whatever reason they may have. That doesn't make your earlier blanket statemenrs correct, however.
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Comment Re:platforming Rails creator DHH at RailsConf 2025 (Score 1) 75

If I decide on what's harmful to me but nobody agrees, I haven't decided anything. We live in a society. Determinations of what is harmful or is not harmful are only meaningful in the context of that society.

"they are entitled to act on that."

No, they are not guaranteed that. Actions are not speech and are not always protected.

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