streetfighter64

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The "article" in question is a tweet. The "rare botanical text" is just an example the author of the tweet made up in order to generate sympathy.
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I would disagree on the "obviously morally wrong". What's the alternative for the books if they were "saved" from the fate of being scanned and shredded? How many rare books have you personally brought in the last y
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There's a bunch of details regarding LLMs and copyright, but I don't see how > They should be forced to publicly release the books as an Ebook. would be reasonable in any way? The books aren't theirs to release publicly. I
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> When a publisher has no incentive to keep an edition in print, it should be available to any other publisher to print How do you adjudicate that? And wouldn't it just lead to loopholes such as "Ghost Printings" (cf. Ghos
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Conversely, the "serious" political parties work by claiming all sensible reforms are in one way or another impossible and sitting on their behinds for the duration of their terms. See Mamdani for an example of a "populist&qu
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> know what they can actually achieve and promise that Show me a single party that actually keeps their (concrete) promises and I'll show you a flying pig. In any case, you're somehow confusing a list of "key issues"
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Funny. Every bigoted person in history drank water too. Every non-bigoted person also believes they are right. Tell me, who would do something they believe is wrong? I have no idea where you're getting that I'm trying to "for
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> It really sounds like cutting edge biotech has ethics get ignored when money and fame are on the table. Wouldn't be the first time. Nor the first time the actual evidence of effectiveness of the treatment (i.e. even when working a
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Sounds extremely similar to the first victims of Macchiarini. He and his entourage were writing and publishing success stories about his experiments when the victims had already died.
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> Would I have been part of the coup in Russia during that time? Well, let's just think logically. Do I today have the time, energy and inclination to be a part of a group of radicals plotting a coup? No. If I lived in Russia in the
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LOL. > there is no way you are only giving your money to people you agree with politically Obviously not. And? > And there is more to life than politics Obviously. And? > have the exact same perspective of the world as them, else t
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> This intellectual dishonesty is maddeningly stupid or an expertly crafted troll, neither are making me think you are engaging seriously. Well, I could say the same about refusing to even imagine what life was like 100 years ago. It see
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Why not just admit that last week is unknowable to you? Then it'd reflect poorly on me dishonestly claiming that I could recall last week, surely.
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You're comparing something that happened 100 years ago with something that happened 2400 years ago (also, what does "during the pottery (ostraca)" refer to?) and some science fiction scenario? Does Sweden not include WWII in
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> I wasn't alive How would you feel if you hadn't eaten breakfast today?
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Uh, isn't that exactly what you'd want out of a political party? I wouldn't vote for them because I disagree with a few of their points, but if you think all of their policies are good and you trust them to uphold them, then
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> deplatforming and self-censorship What? How's publishing information about where a company's profits go, and letting the customers decide if that's something they want to support, in any way related to "deplatformin
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People are free to have their opinions, that doesn't mean you need to fund them. If you don't at least on some level agree with the politics, why are you giving them your money?
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> or at least do so quietly No, I think it's pretty good that they don't hide it. Customers should be well informed what their money goes to, and if the profits go to funding politics the customers disagree with they should be
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It's not a "per capita comparison". I'm asking you, if you spend 6.6% of your own salary on something, would you call that "tiny"? Are you actually genuinely misunderstanding this or are you being obtuse on pur
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> 445 billion is tiny on the budget of the US government. I don't know if you're just not very good with money or straight up denying reality, but 6.6% of the total government expenditure or 9% of total revenue for 2024, is not
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> research and procurement contracts. No one cares because the amount is tiny. > In Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, DOD obligated more money on defense contracts ($445 billion) than all other government agencies combined ($310 billion). https
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First of all, obviously there's more training data on high level languages than assembly / compiled binaries. Secondly, Python, Java or even C is portable to another device. You know, one of the main points of high level languages
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You typically only win the lottery once as well... It's 1 mil at the release date of the game and the following maybe 3-6 months. Game sales usually happen at the release date and then there's a pretty much insignificant "lon
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If they just wrote the owners of the weapons companies a check directly, the public wouldn't like that as much as the "patriotic" "war on terror". But of course there's also other reasons such as religious fund
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The military industrial complex is a "narrative"? If anything the public does not understand it enough. But please, do scrutinize it. What is the goal of all of the USAs wars in the middle east, if not to funnel taxpayer money int
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You're calling it a "conspiracy theory" despite loads of evidence of insider trading, both traditional and crypto, by Trump and his cronies? Do you think the Trump-Epstein connections are just a "conspiracy theory"
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Nothing against Godot, it's a great project, but looking at the wikipedia list of notable games using the engine, there's a single one I have heard of. Meanwhile about 28% of the market share of all video games is using Unreal. So
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> Is doing all the programming "developing" the game? Yes, if you're also doing game design. > Is coming up with the game design and hiring programmers "developing" the game? Yes, so is using LLMs to do the pr
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Yes, solo developer does not mean "solo developer, composer, artist, etc."

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