SimplyUnknown

IANAL, but it came up in a computing science/internet law course and in the Netherlands the current jurisprudence is that if you use (and continue to use) a service you are reasonably expected to read, understand, and adhere to the rules and conditions set by the service.

In this case it thus doesn't whether or not you even saw the contract. You are bound by the ToS because it can be expected of you to search for it during continued use of the service.

Thing is, "running on GPU" might mean "uses CUDA" which would make it more problematic

I wonder how this compares to FLIF. I also tried to compress images based on shape and structure but by approximating these using skeletons.

I'm just a bit struggling with their performance comparison. The graphs they present are very pretty and promising but for the presented images we're quite left in the dark. They dump some images and theirs looks prettier and the authors give us some indication of quality but it's not conclusive evidence that their method produces better images. Typically when different compressed images are presented two things can vary: quality and file-size. In the presented images both seem to varying without telling us which is which. Also, there is no baseline to compare against, either in terms of filesize or what the should look like. Sure, we humans can make a very educated guess but it is just sloppy to not include the uncompressed original image.

I will be fully convinced when I can try it for myself on my own image set.

I think that is part of the mistake he makes. "We do <morally wrong advertising thing>, but we also do <other advertising> how is that different?". It isn't, but the logical conclusion of this isn't that they are both "good", they might also be both morally wrong.

Except global mean wage hardly means anything. There is a difference between income and wealth. The amount of income fails to differentiate between purchasing power at different locations. $20000 dollars in America means poverty whereas in South Sudan it means vast wealth. I bet that those complaining are in the lower bracket of purchasing power parity in their respective country.

One thing I asked before but didn't get a definitive answer on: IIRC the IME images are cryptographically signed, right? If so, how can they modify the images without breaking the signature? Or can they resign it?

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