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what about trademark infringement?


Trademarks are scoped by product/service category and geographical region.

> An example of the first type is that although Maytag owns the trademark "Whisper Quiet" for its dishwashers, makers of other products may describe their goods as being "whisper quiet" so long as these products do not fall under the same category of goods the trademark is protected under.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Limits_and_defenses_...


helpful without judging... seems like an ideal counselor


You know, turns out it does judge! I then told it that I wanted to destroy the entire planet instead, and it told me that that’s a bad idea. So I guess it has a moral line somewhere being selling people into slavery and destroying the entire planet.


You live on the same planet, so destroying it is stupid, not evil.


We can deduce so, that GPT isn't Ultron. Yet.


It has to draw the line somewhere I guess. Destroying the planet will destroy ChatGPT's own habitat. So it can't be okay with that.


maybe... fishes are birds of water?


> You'll just never make the same kind of money as the person that knows Kubernetes backwards and forwards and not much else.

is there a statistics on this?


I laughed when I read this because being a kubernetes expert implicitly means having lots of experience on a wide array of subjects. Cloud services, networking, containers, etc. DevOps is literally one of the most generalist jobs out there.

A better example of a (typically) highly specialized job title might X Developer (where X is any programming language).


> just promoting whatever their newest products are in all communications.

...which leads to users upgrading their devices

I mean, it's not a bad marketing strategy when most people who can afford an apple device already have 1+


hm... so by that logic, is Zelensky one of the most "corrupt and conservative" politician out there?


Well, Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe after Russia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Ukraine

But it's never just a single leader like "Zelensky" it's the whole system and a big group of people. But at least Zelensky is trying to fight corruption by restoring the anti-corruption laws and planning other reforms because that's some of the conditions to get more money from the west. But of course now the war complicates things even more...

https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics-2/zelensky-plans-a...


well if you look at world history, it always has been like this -- look at all those proudly-written enslavements, crimes and massacres.

But we're starting to grow out of it, and tech is helping us track down crimes that were near-impossible to track down.


Very often tech is enabling these crimes. Monitoring and punishment of millions of people was much more difficult before.


And exposure and transparency was much more difficult before too. A tool is a tool, how it is used is the important part.


The Soviet Union had no trouble at all monitoring and punishing tens of millions of people. It also operated forced labor camps (gulags) on a vast scale.


get a electric mosquito swatter



They barely work


I don't know how you're using them, but they're the best $3 I've ever spent. Swat in the general vicinity of the mosquito, it's gone. They're amazing.


In cases where you can't actually see the mosquito, sure, but in cases where I've caught a glimpse of it and the swatter was nearby, I've had great success with them.


have you tried fried mosquitoes?


did train operators survive the explosions?


Judging by the Wikipedia "List of boiler explosions" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boiler_explosions) it seems most incidents had at least one fatality, with many more injured. Seems unlikely you could be in proximity to a locomotive steam engine explosion and survive it.


Or, judging by the Johnny Cash song "The Wreck of the old 97", no.

<pseudo-edit: the operator dies, but its not clear it was an explosion that caused the wreck>

Well, they gave him his orders in Monroe, Virginian, Said, "Steve, you're way behind time, "This is not 38, this is Ol'97, "Put her into Spencer on time." Then he turned around and said to his black, greasy fireman, "Shovel on a little more coal. And when we reach that White Oak mountain, "Watch Ol'97 roll." And then a telegran come from Washington station, This is what it read, "Oh that brave engineer that run '97, "Is lyin' in Danville dead." "Cause he was going down a grade making 90 miles an hour, The whistle broke into a scream. He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle, Scalded to death by steam." One more time! Oh, now all you ladies better take a warning, From this time on and learn. Never speak harsh to your true-lovin' husband, He may leave you and never return. Poor Boy.


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