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Comment Ages ago from iTunes Store (Score 1) 77

Ages ago, I used to buy songs from iTunes Store and burn them onto CD and later rip that CD to unencrypted 320k mp3. My 15 year old purchased music is still there on Apple account, but no worries, I have local backup of my entire iTunes collection.

Gen Alpha wouldn't know what was possible was deliberately made impossible. Gen Beta will grow up believing buying and renting are synonyms. That's how the world evolves.

Comment Environment, food and immigrants (Score 1) 224

Laws related to environment and food items are strict in Europe, that hurt businesses in food, transport, health and manufacturing sectors. Ideally, this should help Europe over the next few centuries, but not on a small time scale. For the last few years Europe has not been strict on implementing immigration policies. U.S. cherry picks among the immigrants all the time, and that too on a very controlled year by year basis. An immigrant can be a great asset and another can be a big liability. The effect of demographic shift is visible on both smaller and long time scales.

Comment Earth is still cooling so slowly (Score 1) 36

Earth is cooling too slowly, at the rate of 120 degrees per billion years at the mantle despite receiving so much radiation from the sun. No wonder the share of residual heat in emissions from father planets is high. I still don't understand why emission higher than incoming solar radiation be considered a mystery? Volcanoes do erupt even on a 4.5 billion year old Earth.

Comment Vim like precision matters (Score 3, Insightful) 127

I'm on vim most of the time for things like coding and productivity (like documents, presentations using Latex). For me precision matters the most. Just that a document looks good or the code executes well is not enough. I need to be aware of what's in there and what's not to avoid harassment from edge cases which are generally more often than expected. So I'll be convinced if Microsoft can pitch Agentic OS to Boeing to write the software for their next generation of airliners and let their executives have a joy-ride in its maiden flight, of course with the Microsoft executives.

Comment The world has no free will either, idiot. (Score 1) 347

"The world is really screwed up and made much, much more unfair by the fact that we reward people and punish people for things they have no control over," Sapolsky said.

The world does't have free will either, idiot. So the reward and punishment system is in fact good.

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