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Yes, they are. If they weren't you wouldn't care if someone made more than $15M.
Maybe because the US unemployment numbers have nothing to do with the actual number of working age people employed. By design.
It's not the codecs that were multithreaded in this release. Pretty much all modern codecs are already multithreaded. What they decided to parallelize is ffmpeg itself. You know, the filter graphs and such. They didn't do anything to the codecs themselves.
Re:Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI on Thursday November 30, 2023 @09:47AM (#38474157)
AI is not reproducing it any more than someone inspired by it creating something new in the same style would be. They're just greedy ass hats.
Re:Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI on Thursday November 30, 2023 @09:45AM (#38474124)
Works are not ideas, they are expressions. Protecting ideas is insane.
If it was after the announcement, it was after the announcement. One second is plenty for him to be perfectly morally justified.
Re:Thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:21AM (#37544797)
Thinking in words of any language is entirely too slow for anything except plotting out a sentence. I'll stick to thinking in abstract concepts.
Your math is bad. 1% of recipients is nowhere near the same as the 1% of smokers you used.