Frankly if I was China, I'd be conflicted about the mid-terms - Trump is currently leading the US to disastrous wars - kinetic and trade, pissing off his closest allies, under-mining the dollar, and making China look a…
For quite a long time, graphics card driver quality and performance has been much better on the PC driven by the larger PC gaming market. Very hard for Apple, or Linux to do much about that - especially when Nvidia…
Eh? They didn't/aren't using their stockpiles to anywhere near the extent the US has! There reserves are much bigger - they have about a years supply - yet they used less in absolute terms than the US! What they did was…
Using that lens then you could view the Iran war is simply a failed ( so far ) attempt to grab Iranian oil revenues, perhaps emboldened by the relatively quick success of the Venezuela adventure. The truth is probably…
Blaming the current situation on the actions of China is beyond bizarre.
The original posters premise was the way to make government dragnet surveillance banned was to do a public one. In general it's a good principle however I'm not sure in this case. I can see how a public flock, which is…
Sure. That's a problem with the whole AI space - it's eating itself at a incredibly rate. Ultimately if they add value and behave well they might carve out a market - but anything in the software space right now is a…
As far as I can see there is no clear pricing once you go beyond the free tier - it's contact sales. This is actually a classic enterprise software approach - as there are no fixed per unit production costs to cover,…
Your Harry Potter case is a good illustration. The world Harry Potter universe clearly borrows heavily on past literature - whether that be tales of goblins and wizards or tales of boarding school. So much so ( and the…
I'm trying to distinguish the collection of information from the use. Collection is legal - however there is no point to collecting it if you can't actually use it for anything. For example:…
Another area that's also existed for quite a while is the crowd-sourcing of the positions of mobile speed traps. Though bizarrely in the UK that's legal if you do it via Waze, not if you do it via whatsapp.
It's legal to film publically - what's not necessarily legal is what you then do with that. There are already precedents - for example it's legal to film ICE agents in public spaces, it's not necessarily legal to use…
Good point.
By the same argument, wouldn't all the things you don't like about copyright - like restrictions with what you can do with the thing you have bought - just be put directly into the purchase agreement. Isn't the way to…
> It seems the consensus in this thread [if I'm skimming correctly] is most want copyright completely removed. I think there is confusion between copyright and other things around it. For example if I buy a physical…
The fact that the laws of the land are more accessible to people/entities with deep pockets is true across the board - it's not specifically a copyright issue. That's an argument for scrapping all laws because the…
> As others have pointed out, piracy is already easy for anything remotely popular, That's an argument for no laws at all. There are murders so why make it illegal..... The point is that having laws is sufficient to…
What happens if I wrote a book - sent around to a few publishers and then personally had a change of heart - perhap it has content which I now disavow. Shouldn't it be within my right to withhold publication? Or because…
In a world where copyright doesn't exist - let's say I spend two years writing a novel/or a book on the history of computers. What's to stop other people making and selling digital copies the moment it's published? How…
Hmm - childlessness ( note this is different from reduced family size ), almost doubled for women in China between 2010 and 2020, and over a similar period the female suicide rate has halved. How do you explain that?…
I think war caused by conflict for resources is a much more probably cause of societal collapse, and indeed extinction. Lower numbers of people in the world reduces the chances of that. Birth rates are much easier to…
I was responding to 2 assertions, used to justify an argument, that clearly don't hold water. ie a replacement rate of 1 isn't some immediate existential threat, and that making arguments like 'species aren't happy' is…
A species isn't a thing that can be happy or not. Also the idea of a replacement rate of 1 equals rapidly going extinct is mathematically illiterate. Exponentials work both ways - in growth and decay - ie let's say the…
Isn't that exactly one of the interesting tensions here? You original point is that at a macro level it's driven by the elite decision makers not technology. I think the point you are perhaps missing is how much of that…
And of course the 18 billion recent Meta settlement - agreed to potentially stop a law suit that could have unravelled the whole company.
Frankly if I was China, I'd be conflicted about the mid-terms - Trump is currently leading the US to disastrous wars - kinetic and trade, pissing off his closest allies, under-mining the dollar, and making China look a…
For quite a long time, graphics card driver quality and performance has been much better on the PC driven by the larger PC gaming market. Very hard for Apple, or Linux to do much about that - especially when Nvidia…
Eh? They didn't/aren't using their stockpiles to anywhere near the extent the US has! There reserves are much bigger - they have about a years supply - yet they used less in absolute terms than the US! What they did was…
Using that lens then you could view the Iran war is simply a failed ( so far ) attempt to grab Iranian oil revenues, perhaps emboldened by the relatively quick success of the Venezuela adventure. The truth is probably…
Blaming the current situation on the actions of China is beyond bizarre.
The original posters premise was the way to make government dragnet surveillance banned was to do a public one. In general it's a good principle however I'm not sure in this case. I can see how a public flock, which is…
Sure. That's a problem with the whole AI space - it's eating itself at a incredibly rate. Ultimately if they add value and behave well they might carve out a market - but anything in the software space right now is a…
As far as I can see there is no clear pricing once you go beyond the free tier - it's contact sales. This is actually a classic enterprise software approach - as there are no fixed per unit production costs to cover,…
Your Harry Potter case is a good illustration. The world Harry Potter universe clearly borrows heavily on past literature - whether that be tales of goblins and wizards or tales of boarding school. So much so ( and the…
I'm trying to distinguish the collection of information from the use. Collection is legal - however there is no point to collecting it if you can't actually use it for anything. For example:…
Another area that's also existed for quite a while is the crowd-sourcing of the positions of mobile speed traps. Though bizarrely in the UK that's legal if you do it via Waze, not if you do it via whatsapp.
It's legal to film publically - what's not necessarily legal is what you then do with that. There are already precedents - for example it's legal to film ICE agents in public spaces, it's not necessarily legal to use…
Good point.
By the same argument, wouldn't all the things you don't like about copyright - like restrictions with what you can do with the thing you have bought - just be put directly into the purchase agreement. Isn't the way to…
> It seems the consensus in this thread [if I'm skimming correctly] is most want copyright completely removed. I think there is confusion between copyright and other things around it. For example if I buy a physical…
The fact that the laws of the land are more accessible to people/entities with deep pockets is true across the board - it's not specifically a copyright issue. That's an argument for scrapping all laws because the…
> As others have pointed out, piracy is already easy for anything remotely popular, That's an argument for no laws at all. There are murders so why make it illegal..... The point is that having laws is sufficient to…
What happens if I wrote a book - sent around to a few publishers and then personally had a change of heart - perhap it has content which I now disavow. Shouldn't it be within my right to withhold publication? Or because…
In a world where copyright doesn't exist - let's say I spend two years writing a novel/or a book on the history of computers. What's to stop other people making and selling digital copies the moment it's published? How…
Hmm - childlessness ( note this is different from reduced family size ), almost doubled for women in China between 2010 and 2020, and over a similar period the female suicide rate has halved. How do you explain that?…
I think war caused by conflict for resources is a much more probably cause of societal collapse, and indeed extinction. Lower numbers of people in the world reduces the chances of that. Birth rates are much easier to…
I was responding to 2 assertions, used to justify an argument, that clearly don't hold water. ie a replacement rate of 1 isn't some immediate existential threat, and that making arguments like 'species aren't happy' is…
A species isn't a thing that can be happy or not. Also the idea of a replacement rate of 1 equals rapidly going extinct is mathematically illiterate. Exponentials work both ways - in growth and decay - ie let's say the…
Isn't that exactly one of the interesting tensions here? You original point is that at a macro level it's driven by the elite decision makers not technology. I think the point you are perhaps missing is how much of that…
And of course the 18 billion recent Meta settlement - agreed to potentially stop a law suit that could have unravelled the whole company.