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Swamps keep users trapped in, by making it difficult for a competitor to make a compatible alternative. Had Nvidia (or Intel or Microsoft) kept their product lean by aggressively removing backwards compatibility, they would have lost users AND made it easier for another company to compete.

Technology has always destroyed jobs and industries, all the way back to Ned Ludd. But it created new jobs and made us more efficient. Otherwise, 90% of us would be farmers.

It is unclear to me why any specific industry should receive special protection from technology. Should we ban bread factories to protect the jobs of local bakers? If one was to draw a line, what would be the criteria?

On a side note, we are hearing about this much more now, because the journalists and artists have a louder voice than the bakers.

I have no idea how much energy 1200 "kilotonnes" is.

Assuming 100% efficient electrolyser (70% is common today) 39 kWh = 1kg of hydrogen. 1200 kilotonnes is around 46,800,000 kWh.

A Tesla 3 has a capacity of 60kWh. China's hydrogen capacity could power some 15,000 hydrogen cars, once per week.

One way to combat the issues you bring up is to add more members to the House of Representatives. Keep the same districts, but have each district elect five members.

A cluster of a minority population might be able to elect 1 of 5 members, instead of being shut out.

Representatives would still represent the same geographic area and have the same community ties.

The main argument against is the difficulty of running the House with ~3000 members. There isn't a room big enough, and there isn't time for all to get their 5 minutes to speak on each bill. That said, there is no constitution requirements for either. Changes would have to be made to accommodate.

2D before the addition of the Z-levels.

I like the Ultima V graphics (1988) better than his Queen's Wish (2019). Looks like he is using detailed hi-res textures, sampling them down, then using antialiasing to get rid of the edges. Everything looks muddled and blurry. I just don't like it. I realize this is a minority opinion, and most buyers require higher res graphics.

Is this any different than what a virus would do?

Reverse it, and it becomes clear.

The teacher picks 30 numbers out of 100. Then each student (independently) picks one number. If random, that is 0.3 ^ 30. Obviously, the students are not picking random.

If I had to pick for the teacher:

multiples of 10: 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90

double digits: 11,22,33,44,55,66,77,88,99

Not sure where to go next.

Those odds are 4 quadrillion to one, if the numbers are picked randomly.

Instead of using "<<" and ">>" buttons, with instructions and popups explaining these mean next puzzle and previous puzzle, just make that the label on the buttons.

Even a quarter is a huge area. Using the "safety buffer" radius of 425m, that is 560k m2 or 140 acres. A quarter of that is 35 acres, for 30 kW.

For regular wind turbines, it's 30-70 acres per MW generated. That is 20x-40x more power for the same land area. And almost all the land under a wind turbine is freely usable.

People cannot be anywhere in the radius of the kite cable. Kinda limits where is can be deployed. But the quick deployment could work for some situations.

The article indicates that it comes with an integrated battery.

Same as an LLM, they can be used in an illegal way if used to copy copyrighted material. So I can't tell it to reproduce a copyrighted work. But it can create new material in the style of another artist.

Are photocopy machines illegal? Are CD-ROM burners illegal? Both allow near-unlimited copies of copyrighted material at a scale much faster than a human could do alone.

The tools are not the problem, it's how humans use them.

> "...clearly states that his work was free to use only if it was not used to make a profit"

Replace "use" with "copy". No one may copy the work to make a profit. Fair Use has long been an exemption to copyright, with Learning an example of Fair Use. But no one expected AIs to learn so quickly. I don't think it is clear either way, and will end up in SCOTUS.

Free and redistribute the material

> ...reason enough to consider it unethical.

But unethical =/= illegal, unfortunately.

I used Auctioneer. But it couldn't do what I needed at the time, or maybe I didn't investigate enough (TBC/WoTLK timeframe). My scripts were no UI, no graphics, it would just output console commands. The Blizzard API was very easy to work with. Maybe 20 lines of LUA for iterating over every item listed on the AH.

I used Auctioneer, found it very helpful. But it couldn't (at the time) do the things I wanted to do. My scripts didn't have any UI or fancy graphics, just outputting text to the console.

Agreed. Isn't this what we want, a paid ad-free version and an ad supported version?

Please no. I don't want to be forced to use a special player to listen to podcasts just so analytics can be collected

After playing the AH manually for a long time, I'd know that a stack of ore would sell for 20g. I was manually buying when under 20g and relisting. My script just reduced the tedium. I'd manually add in checks for each high-volume item. It was super-hacky, but so effective, I didn't need to improve it.

One script would iterate over every item in my inventory. If it matched a hard-coded list, it would auto-list it at the hard-coded price. Another script would scan every item on the AH, and if matched another hard coded list, it would buy them.

Another story, pre-script. WOW had the inscription update incoming, which used flowers to make glyphs. I correctly assumed the demand for Peacebloom (tier 1 ingredient) would skyrocket once the patch hit. I spent three weeks buying everything on the AH, using multiple characters to store it all. The night before the update, I listed it all for 20x the normal price. The next morning, everything sold out completely. I remember it being 200 stacks @ 5g each, sold for 100g each.

I wrote an AH script. It would scan every auction, buy under-priced items, and relist. If someone undercut me, it could cancel and relist just below them. I basically had unlimited gold.

I'd pay $5 more for a ticket on a better airplane, but not $50. Unsure where I'd draw the line

More accurate headline: open source software gets updates to support 22 year old AMD GPUs.

Yet fair use can trump the owner's prohibitions. Your ISP can cache copyrighted materials, storing and reproducing them for other customers. Your browser stores the copyrighted images in your cache and 'reproduces' them if you browse the same page again.

It's a complicated area, not clear cut at all

I was thinking of the VCR as well. SCOTUS ruled that "the technology in question had significant non-infringing uses" making VCRs legal.

If the work goes beyond fair use, it is a copyright violation. It doesn't matter if it was created by a person or an AI.

Technology that makes copyright violations easier/quicker have typically been found legal if "the technology in question had significant non-infringing uses".

Eventually the SCOTUS will have to decide if training is a form of fair use. There are plenty of arguments on both sides.

The LLMs built and trained 10 years from now will be much more advanced. Will it be possible for anyone to prove if specific content was used/not used in the training? If the courts rule against fair use, it will be a minefield to enforce.

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