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Given that electricity demand is projected to continue climbing for some time, I don't think that's such an issue. It probably won't be above market rate for long.

If you do that, its incredibly easy to get around instructions by contracting out to a tiny "company" that's actually just shell corporation #6485 and say they sent it.

I understand the point you're trying to make, but I think I can at least sort of understand why they're going with this speed of release cadence. If the release cadence is too slow, you might end up with another JPEG situation where the new codec is undeniably better in every way, but nobody wants to implement it since the old standard was around for so long without any competition.

Genuine question: what do you think this would accomplish, other than a sense of petty revenge?

It is literally impossible to run a modern society without giving out that power in some way. Hell, even if you somehow managed to not give out that power, people would create it themselves.

OLEDs still have burn-in issues even with all the fancy mitigation systems they have.

The dead already have many rights:

- right to control distribution of property through a will

- right to control method of remains disposal (up to a point)

- right to dignified treatment (e.g. no desecration of the remains)

- rights against posthumous defamation- rights to control how their likeness, name, and image are used posthumously

I fail to understand how this proposal would be any different.

If you'd like even more melodrama, they have a doomsday-style countdown timer here: https://http1mustdie.com/

I'm genuinely confused how they think people will believe this - it really is the "just lie" stage. Take a look at these statements from steam and itch.io:

"We were recently notified that certain games on Steam may violate the rules and standards set forth by our payment processors and their related card networks and banks."

"Recently, we came under scrutiny from our payment processors regarding the nature of some content hosted on itch.io."

It is extremely clear from these official statements that the payment processors actively reached out to these platforms and made at the very least an implication that they could lose access to payments.

Why would anyone believe MasterCard over Steam and Itch?

If this statement was remotely true then itch.io would have no problem allowing NSFW and LGBT content, and steam would be fully allowed to host their incestuous adult games. Alas, that is not the world we live in.

What do you think is half baked about it? I've found the experience quite good myself.

Thanks for clarifying. And yes, you're right that objectively sex work (as in, having sex with someone, not the revisionist definition including onlyfans) is high up on the most dangerous professions list.

However, that doesn't mean it has to be that way. My personal belief is that it should be treated a similar way to alcohol:

- there are only specific, licensed places where you can get it

- you must be over a certain age

- you cannot enjoy it in public

- establishments have a right to refuse service if you seem intoxicated or belligerent

Plus, adding on security to check for weapons and intervene in the rare case of violence.

In my opinion, if you combine all those regulations, sex work would be more than safe enough for it to not be considered a "dangerous" profession.

Comparing a profession to the most addictive and harmful drug known to mankind (or at least close to it!) is an absurd strawman.

This comment is deeply confusing. I'm really not sure what the argument is. Are you trying to say that any profession that has occupational hazards should be outlawed? In that case I hope you're ready to outlaw policing, firefighting, military, most professional sports, logging, and certainly a bunch of others I can't remember right now.

Or perhaps you're saying that specifically because it ranks high on the list of most dangerous professions, that it should be outlawed? In that case I hope you're ready to outlaw (again) logging, fishing, roofing, aircraft piloting, derrick operators and more. I hope you've also considered that the reason it's dangerous in the first place is because of the criminalization and lack of regulations governing sex work.

Or perhaps you just think that people are being pressured into doing sex work by their families, and therefore we should throw out the entire profession? In that case we need to be throwing out doctors, lawyers, and engineers.

I'd appreciate some clarification on what exactly the argument is.

It looks like Sweden's politicians are too sheltered to understand that there are people who enjoy sex work. Instead of trying to make it safe and enjoyable for all parties, they're systemically punishing sex workers, and even redefining the word sex to include onlyfans content (?!) while simultaneously calling them "victims."

The irony, of course, is that the only thing they're a "victim" of is those same politicians.

i could be wrong but I think they're referring to the winrar model, where there are occasional "annoyances" that you can either ignore or pay to get rid of.

What you've presented is not an argument against public healthcare, it's actually an argument against poorly funded public healthcare.

Conservative politicians in both of the countries you mentioned have been systematically, over the course of decades, been defunding their own government-run healthcare programs, specifically in the hopes that people like you will conclude that because of this the system is "broken" and that we must as a result switch to the private, profitable healthcare that said politicians are being paid to support.

If you want to talk about properly funded public healthcare, there are plenty of good examples in the EU to look at.

I once had to deal with some contractors that habitually did this, when confronted on how this could lead to confusion they said "that's what Ctrl+F is for."

So long as we're pretending to care about the Youtube TOS, offline downloading without premium is against their TOS. And even then you're only permitted to download and view offline through the YouTube phone app.

According to the original source (linked in the article), the credentials are plaintext from infostealing malware, not centralized breaches.

The most obvious problem is alignment. LLM finetuning is already known to be able to get rid of alignment, so any form of continuous fine tuning would in theory be able to as well.

What's wrong with a terminal app being written in Rust?

I bet 5 imaginary dollars that it'll be a model too big for any consumer to run, making it effectively closed for anyone not in the top 0.1%.

Silencers can reduce or even entirely eliminate muzzle flash.

I'd like to see what this list of "clearly impeachable offenses for every president since Washington" looks like

Are you aware of the storied history of companies outright faking data in industry "studies"? Here's a good introduction: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9263403/

Any study done by an industry, for said industry, is necessarily rife with large, obvious conflicts of interest. It's barely worth considering.

Would that technically be an illegal wiretap in states that have 2 party consent?

The app-store-only restriction would likely be for home edition. If you want custom apps, you'll need pro or business licenses.