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Vvector··on Landlords Are 'Handing Back the Keys' with Offices 23% Empty
If I can't pay my $500k mortgage, it's my fault. If Blackstone can't pay their $100m mortgage, is it my fault as well.
Vvector··on AI Has No Consciousness
I disagree (or don't understand) your tl;dr:

I would expect humans to pass any proposed consciousness test. Yet I cannot compress (lossless) an arbitrarily large amount of data.

Vvector··on Homes need to be built for better internet
Does an 8" chase have that much effect on livable space? Would 2980 sqft vs 2979 sqft make any difference to most buyers?
Vvector··on Helen Toner shares her side
He's not lying, he's hallucinating...
Vvector··on Firefox on the brink?
Raise your hand if you also got a 7x raise over the last seven years.
Vvector··on Floating solar power array on hydropower plant
Like a riverboat casino loophole?
Vvector··on Where do non-primitive recursive functions come up naturally?
And brown TP causes your program to be stuck in endless loop
Vvector··on Rolls-Royce calls off bets on electric planes, says low-carbon fuel is future
Last time I checked, solar and wind power were low-carbon.
Vvector··on Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
Cable TV started as a way to expand the reach of broadcast TV. Broadcast TV has commercials. Hence cable TV always had commercials.
Vvector··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
I can't reproduce this either. YT on FF plays immediately for me
Vvector··on Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
cable TV had ads from day 1.
Vvector··on Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU
AMD always launches impressive hardware specs. But they are way behind in software, which is more important than hardware
Vvector··on Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI
"It's my property."

When you publish it, you lose some property rights. While under copyright, there is a short list of things that others are prohibited from doing (reproduce, distributed, etc.). And you lose all your rights once the copyright expires.

Vvector··on Why many scientists are now saying climate change is an all-out 'emergency'
I meant the opposite. I don't believe that "1°C warming" is mild.
Vvector··on Why many scientists are now saying climate change is an all-out 'emergency'
Your article says: "...the mild 1°C warming we have experienced to date."

Wow.

Vvector··on C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand sounds like "address"'
The most frequent case would be increment by 1, so:

for (I=0;I<N;I+=1)

versus

for I from 0 to N do

Vvector··on Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules
I was responding to the poster who claimed that this is an "extra-judicial punishment" after the person has "paid the standard debt to society". If someone was convicted in a court of law, the information isn't inaccurate.

Addressing your point, if the newspaper article is inaccurate, why not have the article removed or corrected? Instead, it is the opposite. The man says the articles can stay up. Canadian defamation law is pretty clear. If the article is false, he can sue to have it removed. I'm tending to believe delisting from Google is the man's plan because he can't get the articles removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_defamation_law

FTA: "The man said outdated and inaccurate information about him in newspaper articles found on the internet was leading to great personal harm, including physical assault, employment discrimination, severe social stigma and persistent fear." and "He wanted the information to be delisted – made unsearchable, unless someone knew the website urls featuring his name."

Vvector··on Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules
Where do you draw the line?

My SIL, divorced with a young daughter, started dating a man. My wife (her sister) googled him and discovered he was a convicted child molester.

What if I was hiring an accountant? Should I be able to google him and find out he had been convicted of embezzlement?

Vvector··on ROCm is AMD's priority, executive says
Yeah, AMD is doing more with ROCm. But are they catching up to Nvidia, or just not falling behind as fast as before? Only time will tell
Vvector··on ROCm is AMD's priority, executive says
But is this just more BS from AMD?

https://www.bit-tech.net/reviews/tech/cpus/amd-betting-every... AMD Betting Everything on OpenCL (2011)

Vvector··on The SEC cracks down on greenwashing
Is there something special about carbon offsets that make them immune to the same type of scam?
Vvector··on DALL·E 3
Who's deluding themselves?
Vvector··on DALL·E 3
What's the alternative? Outlaw AI art? Too late for that.
Vvector··on 64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’?
Sounds like the start of a movie script
Vvector··on Everyday uses for PVC water pipe
"it can last for decades"

Just my personal opinion, that's the problem with US housing. We build stuff to last 20-30 years(if properly installed) , instead of 100s of years.

Vvector··on Diamonds are losing their allure
Marketing

The sentimental value of a diamond is its rarity. And natural diamonds with few imperfections are rare. And a big diamond, useless for anything else, is the only way to show how much the marriage is worth. This is what is being sold to us.

Synthetic diamonds are destroying 50 years of marketing.

Vvector··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
The 2023 payout seems to be "$18 for every 1,000 ad views". If I watch a creator once per week, with 2 ads, he would earn $1.80 in a year.

I just don't feel like paying 100 different youtube channels $1-$2 each every year.

Vvector··on Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?
I doubt it. The videos are downloaded, but not readily accessible to other applications. But I don't have your workflow, so I've never investigated.
Vvector··on Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?
My comment started with "As a last resort...", meaning if none of the DL scripts worked for him/her. I didn't advocate Premium as the primary solution.
Vvector··on Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?
It solves OP's problem. Why is that bad?
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