mitchdoogle

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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Texting while driving (or other similar distractions) results in slower reaction times for drivers than even drunk drivers. Yet it doesn't carry the same stigma. I would even guess a big portion of the people who have absolute disdain
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Distracted driving is just as bad (or worse) than drunk driving in terms of reaction time. Texting, social media, doing makeup, fiddling with stereo/maps. People routinely do these things and while they are doing them, they are putting
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
It would be nice if anyone could just do that, but the leagues have exclusive agreements. That's why you don't see anything cool or interesting anymore in major sports video games, as the article mentions
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
You are confusing terms. "Collectible" doesn't imply that something will gain or hold value.
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Why does anyone say this type of thing? Someone with different interests from you isn't simulating anything. They are just being a person with interests. Honestly I disdain those who speak about such interests condescendingly much more
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Rubin is good at schmoozing with big name athletes and power players in the sports world. If you can do that long enough to get some exclusivity agreements, then you're golden because no one else can make the "official" merch
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
What does a 20 year old alcoholic do? What does a 20 year old gambling addict do? It's wild that people even think of prison as an acceptable answer when there are so many analogs of things that people can abuse or get addicted to, thi
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
It has proven untenable to treat this with law enforcement. It's too susceptible to bias, and creates a large class of people labeled as "criminals" the rest of their lives. It demonstrates an incredible lack of imagination t
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Interesting. I feel the exact opposite about shame. It's far too prevalent and people make too many choices based on what they think others will perceive
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
If you are specifically looking for a result of 3 coin flips, then it's 1 in 8 chance of getting 3 of the same. The gambler's fallacy is seeing 2 coin flips come up heads and thinking there's only a 1 in 8 chance that the las
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
The problem with merit is that it's impossible to determine because the circumstances of people around the world are so vastly different. If you have, say, 1500 spots for a new class, it's going to be impossible to select the best
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
This is why contracts exist
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
This is why you need context when discussing things. Imagine discussing the politics of the penal system and someone butts in, "imprisoning people is bad by definition"... Ok man
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Yes , they are so paralyzed by choice they choose not to read any at all.
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
I don't understand the likeness thing. We can reliably generate faces of all kinds. Why pay anyone for it when it can just be generated? Are they worried the generated one will look like a real person and open them to liability?
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Calling something a conspiracy theory is not an insult against anybody. It's a theory because it's unproven and it's a conspiracy because people think OpenAI purposely degraded their own service, hence conspiracy theory.
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Seems like we need some legislation to prevent airlines from price gouging direct flights. Any flight that includes a stopover in a city should not be cheaper than flying to that city nonstop.
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Intimidating and scaring people before they have done anything is worthy of outrage. That should not be acceptable at airports anywhere. And that's before you even consider that what the kid was trying to do was not unethical, so recei
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
It seems to me like the kid thought he didn't have a choice but to go with them. That would be forcing him. If it was typical security/police talk, it probably went something like, "You need to come with us. We need to ask yo
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Why the fuck a low level agent at a counter would even care about this is beyond me.
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
There's an obvious middle ground here. 15-20 years seems about right
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
If the author is dead, then what are you even arguing about? Of course copyright should not be extended past death. Do you think Charles Dickens descendants should still be getting paid for his work? It's ridiculous
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
This situation just doesn't seem that likely. How often has an author with absolutely no sales whatsoever on their first few books then gone on to release a best seller? If their early works are profitable at all, they would renew the
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Why are they making derivatives of a work that nobody cared about? If someone else comes along and makes a profitable derivative, seems like they have added something that the original author just didn't have (Better story, Better mark
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
The author can sell their own book even after copyright is up. Indeed some people may prefer to buy it from them. I think the system would totally change how people perceive these things
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
People saving money IS a harm to society and government does various things to discourage it at certain times. OP's copyright solution is similar in that it merely discourages keeping a copyright, it doesn't outright forbid it
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Why do you want to prevent it being copied? If it's not successful why do you even care?
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
I don't think so. Vast majority of creative works fall out of favor in the first 15 years of publication, so creators wouldn't be giving up anywhere near as much as if copyright was totally abolished. The situations are not compar
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
Why couldn't they continue to sell the game? There are lots of works out of copyright that still make money just by virtue of the method of delivery (i.e. a bookstore selling a physical copy of Don Quixote is preferable to many people
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by mitchdoogle 3y ago
If the goal is to get new stories, a short period of copyright is magnitudes better than copyrights lasting for lifetimes. OPs system allows people to copyright their work for free for 5 years, which is when most works will be most profitab

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