Right. My previous statement follows from the lack of noteworthy demographics shifts in coffee drinking nations. That's how logic works. In forward, not reverse.

You don't need direct causation to know that if coffee was taking years off people's lives, it would have shown up in the demographics data as a statistical anomaly.

U.S. military has done pretty extensive testing on the affects of caffeine and consistently finds a positive correlation for alertness on tasks such as guard duty.

Shit happened to me when I first got an espresso machine and was experimenting. I quickly started consuming up to 10 shots in a day and ended up calling 911 and feeling pretty dumb when I was fine by the time the paramedics arrived.

Still may have been net positive for my health though, since it made me think I could have a heart attack at any moment.

What we know for sure is that the effects can't be that bad since increased coffee consumption historically coincided with increased lifespans.

What we are also pretty sure of is that coffee leads to increased productivity. And that leads to increased national wealth. And that tends to lead to more positive outcomes for everyone.

Everything needs to play the CD is on the drive. The audio is decided by the drive. And as someone else noted, all you need is power and headphones on many drives. The drive is the player. The PC is just the controller.

Pretty sure you don't have to rewrite it (explicitly), since part of the driver's function is to detect weakly charged sectors and rewrite them automatically.

Pretty much every CD drive is also a CD player. GP is right.

Where are all the open source examples of 5x-10x productivity gains? Can you point out a single one?

Cause if all these massive gains are only coming from closed source projects, then they are pretty much 100% lies or figments in the imagination of the devs.

We could set Amazon on fire...

Would be trivial in any language (such as C++) with operator overloading.

Due to advancements in technology, your monthly usage bill will now be based on AI vibes.

Correct. It's piracy. It's right there in the name.

It is on Fandango (neé Vudu) and I believe Apple. But those are independent platforms, and at least in Vudu's case, streaming was their entire reason for existing. The Playstation X is a transient platform, never intended to be in operation more than a decade later. Sony's not going to pay for perpetual license when they plan to obsolete the entire platform ever 8 years.

So, you're saying that even after I pointed it out, you still don't understand the mathematical problem?