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by chii 10mo ago
> No one suggested the court/process itself was dodgy/unfair. for civil disputes, i am sure they are. For disputes between the gov't and you, i highly doubt it. Is there a single instance of the gov't being sued for a
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by chii 10mo ago
apparently, 40MWh of capacity is enough to travel 40 nautical miles. The distance between Tasmania and South America is around 6,500–7,500 nautical miles.
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by chii 10mo ago
but robotics had the means to do majority of the physical labour already - it's just not worth the money to replace humans, as human labour is cheap (and flexible - more than robots). With knowledge work being less high-paying, physica
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by chii 10mo ago
the "usefulness" excuse is irrelevant, and the claim that phones/internet is "immediately useful" is just a post hoc rationalization. It's basically trying to find a reasonable reason why opposition to AI is va
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by chii 10mo ago
> in turn act irrationally it isn't irrational to act in self-interest. If LLM threatens someone's livelihood, it matters not that it helps humanity overall one bit - they will oppose it. I don't blame them. But i also hop
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by chii 10mo ago
> got down-skilled. who's to say that it's a down? Orchestrating and doing higher level strategic planning, such that the sub-tasks can be AI produced, is a skill that might be higher than programming.
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by chii 10mo ago
> they don't actually understand how but if it empirically works, does it matter if the "intelligence" doesn't "understand" it? Does a chess engine "understand" the moves it makes?
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by chii 10mo ago
> I’m basically just the conductor of all those processes. a car moves faster than you, can last longer than you, and can carry much more than you. But somehow, people don't seem to be scared of cars displacing them(yet)? Perhaps au
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by chii 10mo ago
> Your software will be mangled the quality of how maintainable the source code is has no bearing on how a user perceives the software's usefulness. If the software serves a good function for the user, they will use it, regardless o
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by chii 10mo ago
> more studios going bankrupt studios that don't make good games correctly should bankrupt - ala, those so called AAA studios. > gamers spending more for less gamers buying overpriced games from bad publishers/studios that
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by chii 10mo ago
> since none of those platforms actually have any reach. so really, this is about getting reach, and that a 30% cut for said reach is too high. I am arguing that this price is a market price, for which it is justified by mere existence.
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by chii 10mo ago
> not sure about ventilation i assume you'd always need ventilation, because if it is enclosed, the produced heat will just accumulate and go above 70c eventually. But ventilation is much cheaper than heating/cooling (and can b
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by chii 10mo ago
> find a buyer this buyer would rather buy off GOG than you, unless you give a significant discount (and even then, the trust is hard to establish). Therefore, even if you might have a legal right to re-sell (which you really don't
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by chii 10mo ago
> And the cut can't be lower? why should it be lower (or higher)? steam's cut should be whatever they set, and the market responds. The natural equilibrium would get reached. The value steam provides, imho, certainly justifies
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by chii 10mo ago
It's because the poster assume that each pirated copy ought to have been paid for - which if they had been, then a previously failing game would've been viable. But this doesn't make the statement true - because the assumptio
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by chii 10mo ago
> longer contracts the risk is that such longer contracts would then lock you into a higher cost component for longer, if the price drops. Longer contracts only look good in hindsight if ram prices increased (unexpectedly).
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by chii 10mo ago
> a significant part of the world is already running lower powered devices but you cannot consider this in isolation. The developed markets have vastly higher spending consumers, which means companies cater to those higher spending custo
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by chii 10mo ago
The OP is not looking at the static point (of the price of that item), but the trend - ala, the derivative of the price vs quality. It was on a steep upward incline, and now it's flattening.
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by chii 10mo ago
> Industry mandate should have become 16GB RAM for PCs it was only less than 10 yrs ago that a high end PC would have this level of ram. I think the last decade of cheap ram and increasing core count (and hz) have spoiled a lot of people
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by chii 10mo ago
> fiduciary duty to the common holders? as long as the transaction is reasonable, they've held up this fiduciary duty. And the minority holders will need to sue for damages in any case, it's not an "automatic" crime.
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by chii 10mo ago
and yet, most people use this same measure for market capitalization of companies.
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by chii 10mo ago
copy/pasting, or using some other mechanism to do digital duplication is irrelevant - the removal of the existing license and essentially _re-license_ without authority is the problem, no matter what the mechanism of including the code
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by chii 10mo ago
copyright doesn't give you the kind of rights that a GPL license does - which is not based on copyright, but on contract law (ala, it's in the name - licenses). A sale of an object does not transfer those licenses (but those licen
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by chii 10mo ago
> I would expect them to do worse, not better. which is why lots of systems and processes (sometimes called red tape) exist to try and prevent the undesired outcome, and dont rely on the competency of a single person as the weak link!
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by chii 10mo ago
> The real reason ... driving old cars is because they're easier to modify, easier to maintain, and easier to buy replacement parts for. the real reason is that if a manufacturer makes their car same as those repairable, easily main
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by chii 10mo ago
i suspect the reason for such a policy is to ban fraud/stolen credit cards (probably used by professional bot farmers selling in-game gold for real life money). The collateral damage on regular, innocent players is just an acceptable o
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by chii 10mo ago
> are manufactured specifically the fact that these majority do accept the distraction points to lack of intelligence and discipline in critical thinking and future planning. The populous has half the blame - not just those who do these
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by chii 10mo ago
so why not just do that for these scrapers, rather than complicate it by encrypting and decrypting, which is just obfuscation as the private key is clearly available to the end-user?
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by chii 10mo ago
How does your normal users get access to the same contents? Or are you having the user solve an encryption puzzle to view it?

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