@TechNews I mean... They're national socialists with actual honest to god ethnic concentration camps.
Pushing back is the only moral thing...
Pushing back is the only moral thing...
@RustyCrab @deprecated_ii my favorite two songs from the Chrono trigger OST were "sadness" and magus' theme. Magus was the goat
@DeveloperMemes The worst is when you have a decent codebase and a decent front-end, but it still bloody crashes because the underlying tech has problems. :((
@follow_the_weird It's racist to say "Japan" in Japanese when there are Japanese people around?
Sugoi...
Sugoi...
@Jdogg247 The left complains that people aren't just submitting to whatever they demand, but the reality is that in a lot of ways they got exactly what they asked for, so of course people are now saying "You got everything you asked for every step of the way, why isn't covid gone like you said it would be?"
The cult is real, but eventually even most heaven's gate members realized they shouldn't drink the kool-aid.
The cult is real, but eventually even most heaven's gate members realized they shouldn't drink the kool-aid.
@tpostmillennial A gentle reminder that while the teachers unions complain that they're in mortal danger and they're all going to die, a *lot* of us never stopped working through the whole pandemic. We kept running the til, we kept stocking your shelves, we kept transporting your goods, we kept manufacturing your things, we kept producing and processing raw materials, and a lot of people kept on supporting the people doing that through various other parts of supply chain, and it's only because we all did our jobs that people were able to stay at home and get fat.
If the people who keep the world running decided to act like these teachers, there'd be mass death from starvation, dehydration, freezing or overheating.
I'm a hop skip and a jump away from doing a soft ending to public school. I can teach my kid, and unlike the government, I actually like my kid. Why am I paying taxes at every level of government to a public education system that seems to care more about collecting my money than providing a world-class education for my kid?
If the people who keep the world running decided to act like these teachers, there'd be mass death from starvation, dehydration, freezing or overheating.
I'm a hop skip and a jump away from doing a soft ending to public school. I can teach my kid, and unlike the government, I actually like my kid. Why am I paying taxes at every level of government to a public education system that seems to care more about collecting my money than providing a world-class education for my kid?
On the topic of intellectual property, As a policy, there's somewhere in between "yes, forever" and "no, never" that helps society.
Ideas are unlimited, but ideas aren't the thing that's being protected by intellectual property. In the case of copyright it's the actual output of creative expression. The output of creative expression is limited. I wrote and published a book this year, The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son. Most of the ideas in the book aren't unique, but my specific work is protected. I spent a year writing it, and hundreds of dollars on editing, art, and so on. If you wanted to write a similar book, you could and I couldn't do anything about it, but the specific work I've created you can't just wholesale republish at a lower price.
We want this to an extent, because if we make the marginal price of knowledge work 0, then we will reduce the production of knowledge work. My book may or may not be something lot of people want, but if it was, then if lots of people buy it then I'll be incentivized to produce more work. If instead we say "Actually, only people who produce a tangible product can be compensated for it" then you will still get works, but only works that don't take a lot of effort or cost to produce will be made. Look at Youtube before monetization and after for examples: After creators were able to make money for their work, the quality of work went up substantially.
You might say that works will already get made, and it's self-serving to advocate for copyright after I've released a book, especially since I was presumably going to write it for my son either way.
The key here is that even if I was already going to write a book, I wasn't going to release It to the public. I wouldn't have paid an editor. I wouldn't have hired an artist. There would be no copies in the library of congress for future historians to go over. There would be no way for that work to enter the public domain, because it would sit in a box in my son's house. The policy reason for allowing intellectual property is to incentivize making works available to the public. In exchange for protection, the public gets full access to the work. Same with patents, where Instead of some production process staying a secret, the company gets an enforced Monopoly on it for a certain period of time, followed by making it available to the world for free use.
A world without copyright isn't one where we're surrounded by works like we have now. I think what you'd actually find is significantly less publicly available works, because there's no reason to perform them or make them available.
I would argue that in spite of copyright existing, we sort of see that with music. The music industry wasn't freaking out unnecessarily when they saw napster on the horizon, it is indirectly led to what is basically the abolition of copyright law for music. Although you technically aren't supposed to copy music, the reality is you can listen to any music on the planet for free, and you can probably even download an MP3. Arguably, one of the results of this has been exactly what I'm talking about, very little music worth listening to has been produced in the past 20 years, because there's just no money in it so they don't bother taking any risks. The industry is being kept alive in a state of undeath through trivial streaming royalties because the alternative is getting nothing. Music it's still being produced, but for the most part nothing like it did back when there was strong copyright that was enforceable.
I argue that this public good is balanced very poorly with the copyright holders rights under the law since 1976. For example this year is the first time ever that sound recordings will be released into the public domain. The first recovery recordings from about 1926 will be released on January 1st. In my view, It should be more like what the founders set up, a 14 year term with a 14 year extension you have to apply for. There should be a healthy and relatively recent public domain. Instead you've got companies like Disney buying all of culture for the past 120 years and acting like that's ok and normal despite everyone involved with producing what they own are often long dead.
Ideas are unlimited, but ideas aren't the thing that's being protected by intellectual property. In the case of copyright it's the actual output of creative expression. The output of creative expression is limited. I wrote and published a book this year, The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son. Most of the ideas in the book aren't unique, but my specific work is protected. I spent a year writing it, and hundreds of dollars on editing, art, and so on. If you wanted to write a similar book, you could and I couldn't do anything about it, but the specific work I've created you can't just wholesale republish at a lower price.
We want this to an extent, because if we make the marginal price of knowledge work 0, then we will reduce the production of knowledge work. My book may or may not be something lot of people want, but if it was, then if lots of people buy it then I'll be incentivized to produce more work. If instead we say "Actually, only people who produce a tangible product can be compensated for it" then you will still get works, but only works that don't take a lot of effort or cost to produce will be made. Look at Youtube before monetization and after for examples: After creators were able to make money for their work, the quality of work went up substantially.
You might say that works will already get made, and it's self-serving to advocate for copyright after I've released a book, especially since I was presumably going to write it for my son either way.
The key here is that even if I was already going to write a book, I wasn't going to release It to the public. I wouldn't have paid an editor. I wouldn't have hired an artist. There would be no copies in the library of congress for future historians to go over. There would be no way for that work to enter the public domain, because it would sit in a box in my son's house. The policy reason for allowing intellectual property is to incentivize making works available to the public. In exchange for protection, the public gets full access to the work. Same with patents, where Instead of some production process staying a secret, the company gets an enforced Monopoly on it for a certain period of time, followed by making it available to the world for free use.
A world without copyright isn't one where we're surrounded by works like we have now. I think what you'd actually find is significantly less publicly available works, because there's no reason to perform them or make them available.
I would argue that in spite of copyright existing, we sort of see that with music. The music industry wasn't freaking out unnecessarily when they saw napster on the horizon, it is indirectly led to what is basically the abolition of copyright law for music. Although you technically aren't supposed to copy music, the reality is you can listen to any music on the planet for free, and you can probably even download an MP3. Arguably, one of the results of this has been exactly what I'm talking about, very little music worth listening to has been produced in the past 20 years, because there's just no money in it so they don't bother taking any risks. The industry is being kept alive in a state of undeath through trivial streaming royalties because the alternative is getting nothing. Music it's still being produced, but for the most part nothing like it did back when there was strong copyright that was enforceable.
I argue that this public good is balanced very poorly with the copyright holders rights under the law since 1976. For example this year is the first time ever that sound recordings will be released into the public domain. The first recovery recordings from about 1926 will be released on January 1st. In my view, It should be more like what the founders set up, a 14 year term with a 14 year extension you have to apply for. There should be a healthy and relatively recent public domain. Instead you've got companies like Disney buying all of culture for the past 120 years and acting like that's ok and normal despite everyone involved with producing what they own are often long dead.
Randomly: For gamers on linux, particularly gamers who are primarily running GoG games, lutris is great. It's free and open source, and has scripts to run tens of thousands of games. In some cases it sets up Wine just right so you can play your game, in others it knows about open source engine reimplementations so you can open games using a native client.
I just started gaming on linux recently, so this is a godsend for all my GoG stuff since gog galaxy and linux aren't friends.
https://lutris.net/
I just started gaming on linux recently, so this is a godsend for all my GoG stuff since gog galaxy and linux aren't friends.
https://lutris.net/
@Shadowman311 That's always been his Achilles' heel. One of the reasons President Trump couldn't act the ways candidate Trump promised including fiscal prudence and backing up on expansionary monetary policy.
He would need to have parts of his presidency that weren't the greatest, he'd have to tell someone "sorry, you aren't getting your handouts from now on", and he couldn't do that.
He would need to have parts of his presidency that weren't the greatest, he'd have to tell someone "sorry, you aren't getting your handouts from now on", and he couldn't do that.
@AlexJones All these fake people who claim "one death is too many" won't show up to the funerals caused by their COVID policy.
That's not to say that there shouldn't be covid policy, but that the people in charge are being willfully ignorant of the fact that their policies can and do have real-world effects that do include suffering and death on a large scale.
There are more suicides. There are more drug overdoses. There is more violent crime in general. There is more domestic violence. Meanwhile, the politicians are making sure the banks are taken care of.
That's not to say that there shouldn't be covid policy, but that the people in charge are being willfully ignorant of the fact that their policies can and do have real-world effects that do include suffering and death on a large scale.
There are more suicides. There are more drug overdoses. There is more violent crime in general. There is more domestic violence. Meanwhile, the politicians are making sure the banks are taken care of.
@WashedOutGundamPilot @grey @retarded_online I wrote and published a book for my son before he was born. The first chapter after the preface is entitled "Question everything -- Especially me." because the most important thing you can do is use your brain. You don't get ahead in life by being a lackey or a follower.
@amerika Most important lesson I got from years of french class: "When you use the word 'Horror', enunciate!"
@jeffcliff @Hyolobrika Imagine using distributed ledger technology to keep track of who owns what stocks. It would almost be dangerous for the levels that an impartial arbiter like that would prevent fraud such as what I'm fully convinced occurs in derivatives markets.
@jeffcliff @Hyolobrika Although this isn't it, I think there are applications for blockchain technology similar to this that could be big industries by themselves. The key is that the technology won't be front and center, it'll be something that adds to an existing real asset somehow.
@jeffcliff @Hyolobrika Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
We're seeing the consequences of the everything bubble caused by governments going above and beyond to hit the gas and pretend everything is fine while the world has been consistently on fire for decades.
You can't be high on crack cocaine 24/7 forever. Eventually the patient dies. The fact that the patient seems ok when you give another hit off the pipe and seems confident in their scheme of the week isn't meaningful to the prognosis.
There's a ton of investments that aren't priced remotely correctly because of unimaginable levels of interference in the market by governments and central banks. the signals the market are giving us aren't necessarily useful signals because of that. Money isn't going into fundamentally good investments, just whatever risk assets appear to be going up because people are desperately trying to keep their purchasing power during a stagflationary recession.
We're seeing the consequences of the everything bubble caused by governments going above and beyond to hit the gas and pretend everything is fine while the world has been consistently on fire for decades.
You can't be high on crack cocaine 24/7 forever. Eventually the patient dies. The fact that the patient seems ok when you give another hit off the pipe and seems confident in their scheme of the week isn't meaningful to the prognosis.
There's a ton of investments that aren't priced remotely correctly because of unimaginable levels of interference in the market by governments and central banks. the signals the market are giving us aren't necessarily useful signals because of that. Money isn't going into fundamentally good investments, just whatever risk assets appear to be going up because people are desperately trying to keep their purchasing power during a stagflationary recession.
I pissed off my Masters in liberal arts brother at christmas dinner, I kept on saying that all the characters from his favorite shows were going to be replaced with little black girls.
Because he's a masters in liberal arts he had to pretend he liked the idea
XD
Because he's a masters in liberal arts he had to pretend he liked the idea
XD