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star graph looks very inorganic

Say "McDonalds" to end commercial.

(Don't worry, it just works)

The standard that the comment you're responding to is that the whole solution must be effortless even for someone with an IQ of 75. Don't try to stoop to their level, no amount of freedom or control justifies any level of effort to people like that. They'd rather have a system that forces them to view and verbally respond to ads every 10 minutes than one that requires them to learn anything more complex than what a toddler can figure out.

To call that "a bit cherry-picking" is a serious understatement.

BTC has grossly outperformed SPY over the last 3 years (+129% btc, +64% spy), last 4 years (+271% btc, +95% spy) and last 6+ years (6y: +457% btc, +115% spy), and the gap only grows the further back you go.

last 1 year, last 2 years, and last 5 years are the only "last n years" windows in which SPY has outperformed BTC. There are 19 of those windows to choose from, and only 3 where SPY wins, and that's near the bottom of the trough of the current halving cycle, no less. At the peak of the halving cycle, there are no windows in which SPY beats BTC.

Cherry picked window. BTC has grossly outperformed SPY over the last 3 years (+129% btc, +64% spy), last 4 years (+271% btc, +95% spy) and last 6+ years (6y: +457% btc, +115% spy), and the gap only grows the further back you go.

last 1 year, last 2 years, and last 5 years are the only "last n years" windows in which SPY has outperformed BTC. There are 19 of those windows to choose from, and only 3 where SPY wins, and that's near the bottom of the trough of the current halving cycle, no less. At the peak of the halving cycle, there are no windows in which SPY beats BTC.

A big problem for anyone who trusted their security to a commercial provider with a less audited codebase than the BTC core wallet software.

>You don’t want your actual currency to gain value just by waiting

You might not, I do.

Tell you what: you go short btc/usd, I'll go long btc/usd, and let's circle back in 10 years and see who did better.

Compare a purchase of any commodity, bond, precious metal, or ETF/mutual fund in 2008 to BTC's performance since 2008. Or 2009, or 2010, or 2011, or 2012, or 2013, or 2014, or 2015, or 2016, or 2017, or 2018...

The purchasing power of one US dollar is 64% of what it was in 2008 when BTC was invented, and is on track to be worth half of what it was in 2008 by 2032, the same year that the social security trust fund is on track to go insolvent and see benefits automatically cut by 22%, which surely will not be papered over with more money printing :)

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2008?amount=1

Yet another reminder of the first rule of crypto: Not your keys, not your coins.

The argument isn't that they're unhappy, it's that most of them are not decamillionaires, despite what the GP I was responding to seemed to believe. Post I was responding do originally implied that earning 500k for 20 years was enough to make someone a decamillionaire, but edited to account for taxes and cost of living now.

That's ignoring taxes, too. Real take home for a single filer earning 500k in SF is ~$282k. Take out another $48k for median-ish SF rent ($4k*12) and that "$500k" is already south of 250 before most of your bills are accounted for.

The customer isn't compelled to transact with a business using AI any more than right wingers are forced to interact with trans people though. If you don't like a practice a business is doing, just don't do business with them. To that end, any "harm" suffered by a customer due to AI use by a business is essentially voluntarily chosen by the customer, no? Going to a daycare that gives children AI books and then being upset about it is like a bigot going to a trans pride convention and then being upset that there are trans people around them. It's like... you chose this, didn't you? If you don't like it, nobody is forcing you to be there.

Reflecting on this more, I'm not sure traditional illustrations actually do much for me in general. I am incredibly deeply moved by certain examples of photography, cinematography (both with and without explicit storytelling attached), architecture, and engineering, but I don't think paintings in general have much of an impact on me emotionally.

Maybe I'm just uncultured.

In what subset of the population? Maybe this is just due to my own neurodivergence, but abstract art does absolutely nothing for me emotionally or cognitively... it's arguably less interesting than a blank canvas because at least a blank canvas invites me to imagine what could be, rather than imposing something so meaningless and ineffectual upon me.

My point isn't that the impacts are remotely similar, it's that the rationale for the aggression comes from the same place - enforcement of one's arbitrary selected moral framework on other people who don't share that framework and are just trying to live their lives. Inside of the head of the anti-trans activist and the anti-AI activist, it's the same gears churning producing the same pattern for the same reasons, one's just more harmful than the other.

P.S. No need to apologize for politely expressing ideological disagreement :)

>Real photos of your actual food

Many if not most restaurants weren't using real photos of their actual food long before gen AI was a thing, especially in promotional materials.

>art needs to generate positive emotions

Is abstract art "not real art" if it doesn't generate any emotions at all?

"When I go to a new restaurant and see an AI-generated menu, I’m disappointed. When I see an AI-generated flyer for an event, I’m annoyed and much less likely to go."

This kind of anti-AI sentiment really is baffling to me, as baffling as anti-trans sentiment.

The two really have a lot in common if you look beneath the surface: both are instances of aggressive intolerance as a response to other people failing to live up to an arbitrary moral standard the aggressor has decided they have the right to impose on other people, whether or not those other people have any interest in the aggressor's arbitrary moral standard.

The response to the aggressor is the same in both circumstances: "but how does that affect you in any way?", with the honest answer being that it doesn't, and the more likely answer being some goofy rationalization invoking the rest of society's collective well-being, as the aggressor fantasizes everyone else as better off if they all also adhered to the aggressor's choice of arbitrary moral framework.

Link for those who don't like X: https://nitter.click/That_Vita_Guy/status/211424365985603619...

Coming to a Motorola flagship next year!

and keep using the mainstream platforms as long as you're happy to have billionaires decide what you're allowed to say, what you're allowed to see, how you're supposed to think. it's not like they've ever given you any reason not to trust them completely.

If you really want to be in charge of your digital life and rights, you need to get off the proprietary plantation. Facebook/Meta, Microsoft, Google/Alphabet, Apple, Discord, TikTok, Twitter/X, Reddit - all of it.

You don't need to do this all at once, you shouldn't let "perfect" be the enemy of "progress" - every single proprietary platform you migrate away from is a win: you gain more freedom and more ownership over your digital life every time you do it.

Decentralized platforms, federated platforms, self-hostable platforms are where you want to be. Think bluesky, signal (warning: bluesky and signal are still effectively centralized), fediverse, matrix, nostr, peertube, briar, simplex, mastodon, lemmy, loops, stoat, zulip, xmpp, irc, pixelfed, Mail-in-a-Box, nextcloud, cryptpad, linux, lineageos, grapheneos, etc.

I was thinking that about the platebody too at first, but then why are some using adamant and iron platebodies then, and why no legs at all? Almost like they're doing a lossy color match for the platebody. I assume they're capable of buying from quest-locked shops, ergo the dragon longswords.

I did see a number of them at KQ as well, but interestingly, far more running around in the kalphite tunnels themselves than at the queen.

Also a large presence at fishing guild and mining guild, as well as a surprisingly large presence at the mine under the grand tree.

The minimap feature on the viewer is neat.

I wish the overview web app would show us inventories, bank contents, stats, quest completion, like a more in-depth view of what each character is up to.

I played on and off from 2005 to roughly 2024, I can't come up with a compelling theory on the gear set used by all of those characters at iron dragons in brimhaven (https://maxbittker.github.io/rs-world/?cx=2702.61&cy=18.39&c...), do you have any ideas?

The claim wasn't that they were happy to help build backdoors, just that they did, and didn't face any real consequences or backlash for it. Though on that note, Microsoft was (and still is) institutionally eager to cooperate with the intelligence community in betraying the trust of consumers.

Remote diagnostics is the only one of these functions that can fairly be said to require an internet connection. There are many remote connectivity solutions for low bandwidth, low latency needs like these that pose nowhere near as much of a risk as an internet connection.

Even the remote diagnostics is of questionable value at best. You can do remote diagnostics just as well with a faxed printout of system information and having store staff do manual resets at needed. Remote diagnostics isn't going to solve anything that requires more than a reboot, like replacing a compressor coil, anyway, so you're going to need service staff driving to stores for these with or without the remote diagnostics.

List of legitimate reasons for a refrigerator, an oven, a stove, a washing or drying machine, a microwave, a coffee maker, a sink, a garbage disposal, a toilet, a shower or bathtub, or any other home appliance to be connected to the internet:

>if that backdoor were discovered, their reputation would be shot, permanently, and they'd stand to lose out big, much much much more than any possible benefit they'd derive.

Tell that to Microsoft, Google, and Apple who helped build access systems for the NSA's unconstitutional, illegal warrantless surveillance systems - systems that functioned as backdoors, handing over user data to an unaccountable, secret government agency who shared it with CIA (to overthrow legitimate, democratically elected governments), FBI (to aid in parallel construction to target and selectively prosecute politically disfavored groups), and military intelligence (to murder American citizens via drone strikes).

Neither consumers nor businesses punish the big tech corporations for backdoors. When surveyed, people purport to care, but do not reduce their use of the platforms in question.