logseman

Their status and whatever wage they commanded depended on training as few apprentices as possible.

You link to that press release like it means something more than changing a lake's name by fiat.

13000 euro a year is the yearly drinking budget of an outgoing San Francisco resident.

And then everyone started doing it, which meant that your local retailer isn't in business anymore (see local high streets in many countries). The choice you had 10-15 years ago doesn't exist anymore because everyone went for the cheaper price, and now the question is where the extra goes that we used to pay to the local retailer.

Burning books and destroying them in a way that nobody else can access the content anymore is a distinction without a difference.

> Like it or not, all publicly available information will inevitably become accessible to anyone and anything that has permission to access it. This is the baseline scenario people need to plan around.

The entire point of the situation is that permission is not involved. They just do it. Meanwhile, if I do it to them, I am fined/sent to prison/executed. Until such a time that this baseline scenario of inequality is somehow remedied, there will be a motivation to stop them.

Given the vacuum left by pinhole-sized states, Vodafone could become the issuer of propaganda itself as it would have the airwaves and the power of a large state.

It doesn't sound like a particularly large leap to think that polities as large as the Indian federal states could work as countries.

Your idol wants people to die for being who they are and no other reason at all. He says so himself. What's the narrative?

Do Not Track was the right implementation (browser-based, activate only once) and it was sabotaged by ad peddlers. It is bad policy that has been reached after every better alternative was rejected.

The "incentive" doesn't exist because by the economies of these networks everyone is at this point at the very least profiled by Facebook so that they can be targeted by malfeasant ads, and a very large majority are already enrolled. Therefore, the harm has happened without having incentivised anyone.

After weeks of discourse where the physical token of the Compact Disc had become the all-important object of the fight, it's reassuring to see that we're back at the beginning, where it was clearly understood that you don't meaningfully "own" a game if you need to be online to use any of it.

If LLMs are good at busy work, and it is expertise that lets you distinguish between busy work and valuable one, then it makes sense that they reward expertise.

Given that working class rubes like myself who finished college in a place my man can't even find in a map are somehow able to know what “cultural appropriation” or “gendered” or “heteronormative” mean, and do that by the same means as everyone else (reading about it) I'm going to presume that the good man has a very peculiar understanding of what "elite" means.

Your McGyver weapon, if it were to work and not get jammed, is not going to be able to fire more than a bullets per second like a bump stocked AR 15 can.

The entire point that is being sidelined by that is an active shooter is 1) armed 2) surrounded by unarmed people 3) has the element of surprise to their side

Even a single soldier that catches the enemy by surprise while they’re resting or asleep is going to make an absolute carnage. This is known in the military since warfare is a thing and has been used by many successful generals.

It must not get to the point of an active shooter being on the loose, and somehow in other countries it manages to be a very strange occurrence, where the guns have been smuggled by a foreign enemy power, the gunners have been indoctrinated by whatever cult got their turn today, etc.

You also managed to skirt the other part that has been mentioned. If they are ever deployed, these toys will eventually kill the wrong person, which could be a child. Given that all you are interested about is in stopping the active shooter, will you deem this death justified, and agree that there is no liability because “the code did it”?

There were a bunch of police who’d just done training on stopping an active shooter and simply refused to follow the training. What is the point of reactive measures if they are flat-out disregarded? In this example, this drone could be deployed but it could not attack the shooter, or it could attack the kids instead. Considering that everyone would reject any liability just like the Uvalde PD has done, it would not help at all.

Not sure how this is "world first" when Spain already did this (and Google withdrew the News service as a result).

I’m not sure how that’s a good control. Certain academic paths lead to much more lucrative private employment than others, so the degree holders have a huge incentive to go there instead of academic administration.

Sci-Hub isn't exactly easy to use or recommended by the larger community a grad student is likely to encounter.

There doesn't have to be a "conspiracy" when the incentives of several powerful institutions with a lot of real estate property (banks, Church, big families with relatives in the Town Hall, regional and national parliament) align like that.

Article 33.3 of the Spanish Constitution:

"3. Nadie podrá ser privado de sus bienes y derechos sino por causa justificada de utilidad pública o interés social, mediante la correspondiente indemnización y de conformidad con lo dispuesto por las leyes."

"No one shall be deprived of their goods and rights but for a justified reason of public utility or social interest, with fitting compensation and conforming to applicable laws".

It's the exact same: social interest and public utility are enshrined in the constitution for the exercise of eminent property.