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Comment Fuck this guy (Score 3, Interesting) 39

This guy specifically invited this result with his "All copyright is void because Covid and we say so" bullshit, and his surprised Pikachu face and heartfelt appeals are infuriating. He hasn't just damaged the Archive, his moronic actions killed the idea of format shifting being legally acceptable.

Comment Re:Loathing (Score 1, Insightful) 41

May I ask why you call firing people morally corrupt? Illegal, according to some artificial definitions of what is supposed to be the law, which is a system designed to force behaviors, maybe. But morally corrupt? Please explain, I really do not get it, absolutely don't understand what is morally corrupt about firing people that you don't want to work with because any reasons whatsoever. If it is your business, you should be able to fire anyone, it's not about morality, it is purely, completely a monetary decision. Do you feel morally corrupt for purchasing things on sale rather than overpaying for them?

Comment Re:Rust's faster than Lua, what a surprise (Score 1) 53

Usually I see a headline like this and I'm like "yeah, the original code sucked and would have been made faster by rewriting it in the original language too".

And I'm 100% confident that this is the case here too. But Lua is slow as fuck and I'm sure that transition did help considerably.

Comment Re: Google has a vested interest (Score 2) 51

Installing Windows of any kind is a security risk that can lead to death, on this much I agree with the AI. I still believe anyo e should be allowed to do it though.

I am 100% pro Israel, against Islam, against Hamas, there is no such thing as Palestine. People should be able to fuck whoever, if it is consenting adults.

Government power is evil in itself. Taxes are theft, laissez faire capitalism is the best economic system for long term benefits.

Climate change is real. Immigration is fine as long as there are no welfare systems based on taxes. ruzzians should be contained by a mote with alligators and lasers.

Feminism, welfare systems, urbanization is causing the declining birth rates, this cannot be easily reversed, we will suffer because of this more than from the changing climate as a species.

People must be able to own any weapon systema they can afford. Governments must be decentralized, presidents shouldn't have more power than city mayors. Democracy fails hard because of power monopolization. Power must be decentralized. Property taxes, death taxes, income taxes, capital gains, dividends must never be taxed.

Schools, health care, infrastructure, everything must be private, paid for by selling bonds. Governments must charge fees for use, not rely on taxes. Fees must be directly paying for services rendered, never used for things other than the services rendered.

Money is what the market decides, most of the time markets decide that gold is money. Governments must never be allowed to print money, they may coun it for a fee.

Trade must always be free of all and any government involvement.

etc.etc. I know how this will be moded, but that is the point of this thread.

Comment Re:pricey service (Score 2) 52

That would be 1.4M users worth $1000 each in a timeframe short enough to make a profit and not find a better investment. They must be counting on that 1.4M users being worth $10000 each or more on a longer time frame. Good luck. You can only sell so many hallucinations.

It's actually worse than that... your calculation is off by three orders of magnitude. 1.4B users, not 1.4M.

Comment Re:New Business Rules (Score 2) 52

It doesn't matter how much he spends on infrastructure, at some point he has to charge people more or cut his costs to run these models.

At a trillion dollars a year they'd need to increase the cost by a factor of more than 4 and increase the paid user count to 1/8th of the entire planetary population just to cover capital spending. If you charged corporate America $30k a year for each employee made redundant by AI you would need to replace ~20% of the entire productive US workforce to cover just those costs.

Comment Re:Okay but... (Score 1) 14

I mean, some are already openly discussing how humanity should be OK with being wiped out so that the universe can become what it's supposed to be, so long as AI is the reason we're wiped out. If that's not cult thinking, I don't know what it is.

It's like those Cthuluh (sp?) stories where you have cults that worship a destructive god that kills them instantly whenever it manifests. When you read it you think "why would they worship something like that ?!?" And now I'm not surprised anymore.

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