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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> that saving is somehow unnatural Depends on how you define saving. Hoarding perishable goods is of course a pretty natural behaviour but that only scales so much. Investment (i.e. owning more land or other productive assets than you ca
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Somewhere down near $0. > complicated structures I guess. But I just don't see how could the stock market (in its current form) or most of those complicated structures exist without governments. Of course it's a silly dis
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> favoring the dialect predominantly spoken in Prussia Was it though? Historically Low German was spoken in Brandenburg (and the rest of pre 1800s Kingdom of Prussia). Standard German is a High German language closely related to the dial
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Supposedly names of businesses and/or public signs are required to comply with certain rules? Which isn't surprising considering the love Germans have for pointless bureaucracy... So I guess this is some sort of a (certainly not a
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> proliferation of LLM: that it will make reading communications from other workers less utterly painful. By somehow magically inferring what the person was trying to say and padding it with pointless verbosity? I'm afraid we'l
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Also Ancient Greek, Albanian, Sanskrit, Ancient Iranian etc. Supposedly even "timber" (in English) is somehow derived from the the same root ..
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> As much as we need someone to define what is http, TCP/IP or Posix we also need someone Why? Humans are almost infinitely more adaptable and capable of dynamically changing their behaviour compared to computer programs. Learning
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Can I just walk up to the bank and say "hey, I have $100 billion worth of Facebook stock, gibs me da money"? No, but assuming you are on Facebook's board / in upper management you can conspire with the rest of the
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
The concept of property (the way we understand it i.e. all the stuff besides of a handful of personal items) is not something that generally exists or existed in "primitive" societies. i.e. you can't really "own" m
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> The state of nature is no tax, and as it's unpleasant Being able to accumulate capital, at least without having to resort to extreme violence is also about as "unnatural" as it gets.. No taxes = No government = No excess
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
What moat? Nvidia is barely even competing in the same Xe2 is in. Their laptop GPUs aren't particularly spectacular and aren't at all suitable for low-power use cases.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Nvidia GPUs You would need an actual GPU, though. Massively increasing cost, power usage etc. without providing any real value in return for many use cases and AFAIK HW transcoding with Plex doesn't even work properly with with AM
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> but it does make me happy that Linux holds its own performance-wise IMHO those benchmarks doesn't necessarily say much without any power usage data. Not sure what the current situation is but historically it wasn't uncommon f
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Raptor Lake is pretty ancient, though. Wasn't it basically the same as Alder Lake? Lunar Lake is supposedly pretty close to the Snapdragon. A bit slower but no need to bother with ARM and a much better GPU (if that matters).
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> just means someone would like to UBI exist without necessarily having to be an expert on how to implement I would like eco-friendly flying cars to exist so that I could avoid traffic in the morning, I think that would solve all the mas
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
That's certainly a rational, well thought out and deep argument. Never thought it about it this way...
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> mis-representation of what you're being challenged with. Can you elaborate? I haven't seen a single coherent logical argument explaining why why IP laws should be abolished (instead of reformed) in this entire thread and&#x
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
I'm not particularly upset, just somewhat baffled... First I was never talking about musicians specifically, secondly modern (Patreon/etc.) style donation model is in my opinion overall much better that being dependent on a small
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> stagflation in Europe Where? I wouldn't be surprised if deflation becomes a real concern in the near future. Eurozone is already at 1.8% YoY
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
I'm not sure what are you arguing against? Sure, record labels might be exploitative and the share going to the original creators might be too low (no argument there), but how exactly would abolishing IP protections fix that? If musici
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Make something as easy as pirating and people will pay for it. Would they still pay for it if all the content could be posted ( by 3rd parties ) on platforms like YouTube and viewed for free (besides the ad revenue which would be going
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> what value do you expect out of the responses Why even make that argument in the first place then? It's the equivalent (following your logic) of saying that "it would be nice if we were living in an utopian society with no ma
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Unless this is sarcasm, you base these claim on what exactly? Inventors in the late 1800s were often notoriously litigious and highly motivated by the fact that they could profit from their inventions through patents. The alternative option
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Creators for the most part don't make money off copy distribution of their art Can you back this up with any sources? Besides listing individual artists or only talking about specific industries? e.g. how many successful fiction a
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> What a nonsensical, bad-faith, mis-representation > At this point you might as well start talking about hot air balloons, To be fair the same could be said about any comment in this thread advocating the complete abolition (as oppos
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Is the $8B profit or revenue? Profit, their revenue is almost 80 billion. Fines like this should be certainly based on revenue rather than profit, though (like the EU does it)
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> other sources of revenue exist > revenue through donation So what? Not everyone wants to engage in all of the PR/marketing stuff that's necessary to make any money from that and it would still generally result in signific
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> consider that the open source model is alive Not everything revolves around software. Also even then OSS generally seems to only be universally successful in areas where software is a "cost centre" i.e. companies are willin
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
So your position is that almost nobody who sells their content should be able to make a living doing that? You either must be able to fund it through ads, host it on platform which make piracy effectively impossible and/or impractical
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> all the gdpr has done is make the web more miserable For those in the US? Perhaps, at least if we only look at the direct impact. In the EU it made all sorts of privacy abuse that's completely standard and accepted in the US (cred

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