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Given UK age demographics that is going to happen over the next few decades anyway, putting all efforts into increasing supply could lead to the opposite problem in the not too far future.

North America and Europe are unlikely to be particularly impacted even in the worst case ipcc projections so not sure where you get that from

That’s the whole point that is being made… we’re talking about humanity - Yeah lots of individuals will die due to climate change, particularly in 3rd world countries but humanity will be just fine overall, just as it was with all those disasters.

Bubonic plague, supereruptions, ice ages, malaria, smallpox, ozone deterioration - lots of these seem small now but that’s only because we’ve already overcome them

WV is a half continent away, has massively different demographics, poverty rates, culture, history etc. Comparisons like that are extremely difficult to do properly. What we can easily compare is Oregon a few years ago vs Oregon now and deduce the impact of it's policies with nearby similar states as a reference.

No, we should take policy results at face value. If it failed if failed, if it succeeded it succeeded. No need to play no true scotsman.

Not really though it may seem that way. Not all AI is ML. There are a ton of things within AI such as planning algorithms or Expert Systems. Again those are under the academic discipline of AI but not in the subfield of ML.

The AI term has been coopted by Hollywood notions of synthetic human-level intelligence but it really is just referring to the academic discipline which Random Forests definitely falls under and has for decades.

Woosh… umm.. this is a conversation about eating pigs… not virtue signaling about veganism

Or even kosher and halal

Apple is the worst of the bunch imo. My personal ranking for worst antitrust offenders would be:

1) Apple 2) Amazon 3) Google 4) Microsoft

Internationally that may be slightly different though. I’d also maybe include meta for their oculus purchase but I think they’ve tied it into their core, “social” business well enough that I’m not very concerned at the moment when there are bigger fish to fry.

> in the real world, no not everything is in focus all of the time. i'm currently sitting 38" away from the wall, my monitor is 8" from the wall. If I'm focused on the monitor, the objects hanging on the wall are not in focus.

But that is also the case in VR so I’m not sure why one would consider “everything to be in focus” which is what my question is getting at (why do people say that). If I focus on something in VR the objects behind it will also go out of focus. Unlike in cinema where a camera has to choose what is in focus, in VR our eyes choose what to focus on just like in the real world.

> Your pupils get lazy from using it because everything is in focus all the time

Can you explain this to me I’m always confused when people say it. From my thinking at least - I focus on close up and then far away things in VR all the time and it takes effort. The real world is also in focus all the time isn’t it, it’s our eyes that do the focusing.

Trademark protection is typically specific to the industry or sector in which it is registered and used.

These companies are in two very different businesses so there is unlikely to even be any “development” - some redditors just noticed they are similar that’s all

Precisely well said

That is exactly the point - who defines racism? sexism? Moderators are going to disagree because of how nebulous those terms are

I’ll second this, not to mention the first class support Plex has for audio content. I have dedicated apps for my music and my audiobooks. I haven’t found anything close to that in the Emby or Jellyfin world.

By that logic no one should ever do something nice because it doesn’t register at the macro scale. That’s ridiculous and a very dark and distorted way to view the world

It’s not his fault we live in an imperfect world though… yeah it sucks but he’s objectively making it better, can’t fault him for that.

Why does it being a business make what he does any less? Don’t the acts stand on their own without the need to pontificate on his motives? He could have started or ran his business in many ways, he chose a charitable one… I think that’s all that matters

Being a cynic isn’t cool, and it is not being objective - the good he does is staring you in the face and you can’t even see it

Apple specifically has said they will not have controllers so yeah… that’s already how it has played out

Noone wants to use vr with a 2D game controller (a la xbox)- that completely destroys the point. You want spatially tracked controllers that fit each hand and are meant for vr. Even if there are third party controllers that get around the tracking problems, developers won’t have a controller standard to work against

> Reddit is currently deeply integrated into the cultural zeitgeist. Much in the way that Digg used to be the discovery mechanism for the forefront of internet culture

I don’t know what circles you are in but neither digg nor Reddit are particularly relevant nor ever were at their peak. They’ve always been pretty niche. Reddit hasn’t been relevant since at least 2017 in my circles at least - all communities moved to discord and public discourse has always been on twitter and still is.

Unpopular opinion but Reddit died a long time ago - the world moved to discord for real community interactions and now all that is left is a 24/7 monetized outrage stream fed by bots, shills and has-beens.

Yeah but M2 effective speed for ML is closer to intel CPUs than it is to nvidia gpus. The correct comparison here is to compare how fast you can train on Apple M2 vs an Intel CPU with equivalent RAM.

> I think on this issues it’s conservatives that make a solution untenable

Uhhh it’s been a while since I lived in the states but isn’t homelessness much much worse in states dominated by liberals?

Recognize that upon launch the 128gb version was $350 - they had a 64gb version that they don’t make anymore that was $300

> it is beyond my power of understanding how this could be mandated by law in USA

It isn't mandated by law in the USA. All water contains some naturally occurring fluoride, some localities choose to add additional fluoride to their water in the USA but certainly not all. I'm pretty sure it is added in something like 60% of city water supplies.

> And if it is so good, someone will jump on it

No they will just wait for the timer to tick away and monopolize on a community that someone else spent years building. Just because you change the law in your thought experiment for it to be legal doesn’t make it not exploitative. If we legalize slavery you can’t just say, “well its no longer exploitative, its the law”

I agree - basing it off creation could make sense but then I’d argue for maybe more like 50 years. Plenty of works take decades in and of themselves. George RR Martin started Game of thrones 27 years ago. Should HBO just have been able to take his work and make millions without paying him a dime? It would just turn into corporations exploiting popular public domain works.