mathgeek

Your points are good ones, especially since they emphasize that different people have different expectations of what a "button" is and isn't. Your points individually describe a button with a label, one with a toggle, an actual button, and a progress indicator. All of those things can be "buttons" depending on the user.

A better argument here is that yhe work you do should earn you income for a century every time someone else benefits from it.

GP is arguing that piracy is not the cause. That part is directly after your quote.

This is the same “beer not speech” argument that has been going on for decades. A quick search will show you why your claim is incomplete.

> allowing the meaningless is precisely its goal

I think you’re getting pushback because of this choice of language. It’s not the only goal, but it is a key feature. BI supports choices of how to spend your time and enables freedoms.

We evolved to detect CO2 because it was an evolutionary advantage over those who didn’t.

> In the region where I live, 20-35% of household income is spent on cars and that doesn’t include the expense of the land devoted to them or road maintenance.

Statistically, a large amount of that is beyond what they need most of the time (whether size, quality, or range).

The evolved response to CO2 is part of the human body’s ability to filter and remove CO2 via the respiratory system. AFAIK we don’t have similar capacity for Nitrogen because it’s not a primary waste product of that system.

Yep, definitely fits with plenty of space. Thanks for confirming.

It likely fits the definition of precise location data that you can configure on mobile settings (it's a finer grained option you can enable when sharing your location).

Good summary blog: https://maloyan.xyz/blog/running-qwen-locally-mac-mini-m4

The irony is hopefully not lost on anyone that an article about how the author stopped arguing is a list of points as to why arguing is wrong.

The structure is there, but the community is not. There will always be some holdouts (thus the age old trope of the older generations longing for the golden days).

Essentially the internet as we once knew it is a proxy for the world as we once knew it. We older folks can't go back in time to it, any more than someone in the 1950s could go back to their youth in the 1920s.

They're already driving, as an example of why your claim of "gpt-2 moment" isn't as far out there as it may first seem.

Let me preface this by agreeing that we should have platforms for only human-generated music.

> Music is about connecting to human emotions, not poor facsimiles of it.

Like most things, this is an overgeneralization. In general, I agree, but not always.

While most AI-generated content is not going to appeal to most people, it's wrong to say that all AI-generated music is not about what music is about. Personally I find _some_ AI generated music to be amazingly fun to listen to, but mostly it's parodies or works that are essentially built on top of existing media.

A creative person using AI well can produce art that people enjoy and which adds to our culture (I selectively choose not to say "create" here to avoid that very overloaded connotation w.r.t. AI creations). That is not to say that most of the work that comes out of AI needs to exist or does any of those things.

> Eating 10 oranges per day

I know it ends up as pedantry, but specifying the period with every post/restatement is so critical in these threads. 10 oranges a day is unhealthy, but so is 10 oranges a year to someone trying to make a counter point.

Link to the study would help that claim, when you have a chance.

You also have to adjust those numbers over time based on input and output. Your body’s energy system isn’t closed.

Anecdotal, but I think we need to consider that modern marketing and supply chains have a huge impact here. Without any cravings control, my mind was perfectly happy craving burgers, fries, and pizza 24/7 for thirty years. It hated every bite of veggies.

> This is why the right gets away with saying liberals hate America.

This is a form of victim blaming. The right side of American politics gets away with it not because the left complains, but because the right doesn’t get punished at the polls for doing it.

> they would anyway because they’re building up a persona

While I’m sure some folks were doing it for that reason, there are a whole bunch of us who were just doing things like that because it was fun. We didn’t need to be popular (but that would have been nice too), we were just kids looking for a community where we fit in.

The Internet back then was a grab bag, a hodge podge, a diaspora, and a most importantly a place to be who you wanted to be instead of a place where your “real” identity followed you everywhere.

They did something similar in Moonfall, which is a fun movie if you like campy sci fi like Independence Day and Armageddon. One of those movies I was glad to randomly check out on a flight.

I suppose it depends on naming schemes. I view it as the price of the higher tier models go up regularly. Apple markets some model most years at the old model price points which is fair to say stays the same price.

Power and water infrastructure being strained can raise utility prices and require new infrastructure, which affect schools and tax rates by extension. It can also lead to new build stoppages until infrastructure is built, which affects hone prices and taxes. There are many knock-on effects.

Some folks really love the story of MtG. Think of it as if you were expected, as a dungeon master, to allow your players to be Spongebob. Some folks won’t care, others will have their experience ruined.

The sets also increase the number of legal cards you have to purchase to keep up with the meta.

At larger companies like this, there are many parallel product development lines that are mostly independent of each other.

You’ll want the U-6 rate as well for comparison: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

This sure seems like the Apple way to do it. "The old stuff is now more expensive" is a worse marketing announcement than "the new stuff is awesome, and with it comes a higher price just like most years".

It's got all the indicators of being AI generated, so really not surprising at all. I lost track of how many "this, not that" and "this, but also" within a few paragraphs. LLMs tend to prefer sounding clever over simple terminology.

Possibly Coca-Cola or another company that makes the nostalgia more about a physical product (or even addiction) than childhood memories.