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- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 3 months ago:
I didn't realize that. That's disheartening.
- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 3 months ago:
It's hard for me to imagine 2024 not being the year they do.
- Comment on Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same 3 months ago:
Someone somewhere is already planning how they will get people to work around the clock this way, and someone else somewhere is probably desperate enough to feed themselves or their family that they'll take it when offered.
- Comment on What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man? 3 months ago:
Yeah, I'd think outside of movie-style moments it's not something that makes sense 99.9% of the time, I just thought it was an interesting claim. It would have been more interesting if it were true. 😁
- Comment on What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man? 3 months ago:
I did find a great many links to this article, but so far nothing to support that they do it regularly.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/world-news/finland-stabbing-suspect-shot-in-leg
- Comment on Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data 4 months ago:
Well fuck all those artists and writers who made the original works then I guess. Licensing is impractical.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 4 months ago:
So then we as a society aren't ready to untangle the mess of our infancy in the digital age. ChatGPT isn't something we must have at all costs, it's something we should have when we can deploy it while still respecting the rights of people who have made the content being used to train it.
- Comment on Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs) 4 months ago:
I don't even use lemmy and that was interesting to read.
- Comment on Extreme Grandpa 4 months ago:
Wow that's going to be a rabbit hole. How amazing. The first one I watched was the rocket skateboard. This man is going to die doing what he loves. The rocket sleigh was pretty insane too. Coolest new thing I've seen in a long time. Thanks for saying who it was.
- Comment on Google broke labor laws when it refused to bargain with YouTube Music contract workers 4 months ago:
I wonder what their punishment will be. Do you suppose they'll need to dig change out of only one sofa, or two?
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 4 months ago:
You think the platform is the widget, I think the content is the widget. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 4 months ago:
In that case I'd be selling something made by the entity giving me commission - what people want and pay for is something made by someone other than me. In this case the people creating the content are the same people drawing the subscribers, so it's more accurate to say substack takes a cut of their subscription income than to say substack pays them.
If I stop selling widgets the company still has the exact same widgets and can get anyone else to sell them. If a renowned nazi writer (bleh) takes their content to another platform, substack no longer has that content (or the author's presence on their platform) to profit from.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 4 months ago:
They are being paid by subscribers, not by substack. I am not on substack's side here, but that detail seems quite relevant if we're interested in painting an accurate picture of what's going on.
If they were putting Nazi content on substack and no individuals were subscribing to read it, they would be earning 0.
Substack is profiting from those same subscribers, no doubt.
- Comment on 2023 Hess Police Truck & Cruiser! - That's right, they said "battering ram" 4 months ago:
Does that work for hockey games now? (That's where I most recently saw the ad)
- Comment on This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link's Awakening is so cool I can't believe Nintendo hasn't taken it down yet 5 months ago:
- Comment on Income isn't keeping up with inflation, 76% of Americans say in new CBS News poll 5 months ago:
Been with the same company for decades, great relationship with my boss, good performance reviews, haven't seen more than 3.5% in one year for a LONG time.
Making me wish I had a union job, ngl.
- Comment on Income isn't keeping up with inflation, 76% of Americans say in new CBS News poll 5 months ago:
And yet, I feel like I see a different article every other day saying, "the economy doesn't suck it just seems like that to everyone who isn't well off." 😡
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- Comment on Teal'c, his eyes uncovered 5 months ago:
I feel like I'm seeing a sudden surge in Stargate memes. It's making me itch for a rewatch I probably don't have time for.
- Comment on 23andMe is updating its TOS to force binding arbitration with a limited opt-out window 5 months ago:
I'd almost guarantee the original TOS had a line like "we can change the TOS at any time."
- Comment on Funny how it became bathroom use and imaginary things drag queens do... 5 months ago:
"You know why you can't play chess with a pigeon? Because at some point it will just shit on the board and strut around like it won."
- Comment on Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO 5 months ago:
EEE has been used against open source tools in the past, and crushing competition with the full weight of the MS machine is kinda the point. I think you're being too quick to handwave it away, but I'd love to be wrong. In any case, not interested in changing your mind enough to argue with you about it. Have a nice day!
- Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police 5 months ago:
“Don’t attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by stupidity.”
- Comment on Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO 5 months ago:
Extinguish isn't about snuffing the tech out, it's about pushing everyone else out of the market after you have extended it in a proprietary fashion and used your market dominance to create a defacto monopoly.
- Comment on Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” 5 months ago:
Tesla and SpaceX, his other companies, are making money. If you’re on the board of those then there’s no reason to wonder if Musk is causing the company to lose money because you can just look at revenues and see that he’s not.
https://menafn.com/1107514727/Teslas-Musk-Says-Fallout-From-Sweden-Strike-Insane
- Comment on Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO 5 months ago:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
- Comment on DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support 5 months ago:
They have Heretic!!
Now if they can just get Rise of the Triad...
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 5 months ago:
That sounds right to me as well now that you mention it.
- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 5 months ago:
Ferengi have never stopped caring about profit, it's a fundamental part of their culture.
Gold pressed latinum is an interesting currency FWIW. IIRC it's so valuable that gold is just the container for it, adding little value.
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