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Comment Re:Intellectual sharecropping (Score 1) 126

Almost everybody has everything they need to make hamburgers at home. By that logic, McDonald's shouldn't exist.

Except time and willpower. However, the McDonald's analogy does hold up -- nobody is ever going to get rich flipping burgers at McDonald's, precisely because it requires so little skill to do that job, making McDonald's workers completely fungible. Since anyone can man a grill, no one is going to command a salary much more than what a high schooler will agree to do it for.

Comment Intellectual sharecropping (Score 2) 126

The economic problem with having an AI produce music for you is, you never get the opportunity to learn how to produce it for yourself. At the end of the day, you're paying them $200/month for the privilege of remaining unskilled, and you're competing against everyone else who knows how to enter "write a catchy song for me" into a prompt box. You can't make money that way, because the moment you do, the AI companies (who own all of the talent and all of the production machinery) can simply appropriate your income stream for themselves.

It's the difference playing Guitar Hero and taking guitar lessons -- both let you feel like you're a competent musician, but only the latter will ever get you a career as a musician.

Comment Re:About Fsck'n time... (Score 1) 96

"got swallowed by "Open Text". Who the fuck are open text?! "
I heard about them a long time ago, Canadian software company spun out of a project that began at the University of Waterloo.
I have no idea how they've made so much money starting out in "document management" or whatever the hell they're supposed to be doing.

Comment Re:China virtually eliminated homicide (Score 2) 62

Most murder is premeditated

Eh? This is incorrect. Perhaps most fictional murders are premeditated, because that makes for a more interesting mystery to solve, but in real life, the vast majority murders are impulsive, spontaneous acts that happen during arguments, fights, or emotional outbursts (often with the help of alcohol and/or readily available weapons).

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