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  • Spotify lays off 6% of workforce, loses content chief

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    The least important person in most organizations is the CEO. 
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  • Musk tells Twitter engineers to bring Vine back from the dead

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    Skeptical said:
    I detest this guy with the heat of a thousand white hot suns. 
    For your consideration: A thoughtful piece on Musk. 
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/31/elon-musk-twitter-trump-tesla-longtermism
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  • Musk tells Twitter engineers to bring Vine back from the dead

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    DAalseth said:
    So he wants this done, and reports are he’s going to fire most of the staff, and this isn’t the only nearly impossible task he wants the programmers to do, and he’s fired the CEO and the board and is running the place single handedly. 

    Oh this is going to end badly LMAO
    Tanking both Twitter and Tesla would be a great ending. Then perhaps take down Facebook as a text focus. 
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  • Rollercoaster repeatedly triggers iPhone 14 Crash Detection

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    I'm a bit surprised that the iPhone would trigger on, say, a smooth ride. The g-forces are often continuously applied over a prolonged period in a smooth rollercoaster, whereas a crash would see high values of first, second (and third and fourth derivatives) of acceleration (jerk, snap, crackle, pop). Apple might be missing fine-enough time measures to accurately measure the changes in acceleration needed. 
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  • 'Servant' plagiarism trial against Apple will proceed with a full jury

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    The author of this article might be correct as I have no information about the case proceedings to date.

    But, this report explicitly says this court has ruled not to limit discovery as requested by Apple, et al. So, it seems this case is in the discovery phase and the claim that a full jury trial is going to happen is premature. There is a lot yet to do before they get to the point of deciding on going before a jury. 

    The appeals court merely agreed with the plaintiffs that the trial court’s summary judgment with prejudice as a matter of law was incorrect. 

    The plaintiff need for discovery is required to find evidence of plagiarism rather than some overlap of common themes. 

    Some forty years ago I came across a book in the state’s law library which made the claim that there were only 22 (?) different themes in all of literature. An interesting claim. It means if someone thinks they have an original idea — they probably don’t. 

    That’s also the reason why copyright doesn’t require originality of the idea, merely originality of the expression. 
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