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copyright is long overdue for a total rework

the internet demands it.

the people demand free mega upload for everybody, why? because we can (we seem to NOT want to, but that should be a politically solvable problem)

Crypto is scams all the way to the bottom.

and

Fiat is a pyramid scheme all the way to the top.

Re:The Leaderboard Illusion on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @02:33PM (#43849091)
> finding an ideal universal compressor which definitely doesn't exist.

if only we could explain this in "politician" language... too many with too much power think the second coming will deliver the "ideal universal" which doesn't exist

Re:Can We Still Recover the Right to Be Left Alone? on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @05:04PM (#43766292)
> a "right to knowledge"?

it's the right to observe somebody else without their consent: it's quiet scientific observation that tries not to disturb the observed which is impossible in the quantum level but very realistic in the day to day classic (non-quantum) level

tl;dr: the right to create knowledge i.e. do science

Re:I should have loved biology too on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @03:08PM (#43765263)
backwards history is my favorite "game" to play against official history looking for conspiracy theories

this lets me find patterns with which I can compress (understand) history and remember larger and larger spans of historical time

Re:I should have loved biology too on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @02:41PM (#43765028)
they might just remember it all once they're adults!

imagine that!? an historically informed populace???

you'd need more expensive lies and higher quality fakes... the government would be costlier to run.

ideally, in the long term this would make the national currency's value in the international money market rise up. but why wait for that when one can directly manipulate money through trade fraud and covert military ploys?

Re:Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @02:15PM (#43764839)
sorry, 42 is not gonna take us much farther

42 is a stand in for 41 and 43 which are some twin prime

for me to further elaborate on this crazy idea that haunts me (I must admit I also haunt these ideas) requires a twin prime theorem which we are still waiting for in 2025....

Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:00AM (#43717913)
there are two kinds of hackers

those with children

those without

as a hacker without children because i got priced out of the market, why should i care about what tiktok does or ceases to do?

honest question, if tough to answer

or maybe i'm only trying to explain why I don't have a model of being in a formative state.... I mean, dogs don't use tiktok

Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:57AM (#43717862)
the panda is dissatisfied

tiktok is geofenced

seratonin is a molecule

this is a protein[1]

this question strikes me as asking if a quark has a relation with an atom

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin_17

El Salvador means "the savior"...

simply put, not for him. this man did not get saved by this version of the savior... he got wrecked by El Salvador rather than saved