Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Innovation 1 day ago:
This doesn’t seem like a daily use but specialized for running/hiking. It’s like criticizing hiking boots for being uncomfortable and hard to lace compared to sneakers.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 3 days ago:
Yes they are contradictory. The computer isn’t supernatural. The premise states the computer isn’t 100% accurate. It says 99.9% but it could say 75% without changing the problem. It says 99% to simplify the scenario for the reader so you assume the computer is accurate. The premise is the computer can reliably predict your behavior. The premise is not the computer can defy physics.
- Comment on What they took from us 3 days ago:
Martha Stewart Living, of course.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 3 days ago:
You said this:
“This necessarily includes the results of that coin flip and the Geiger counter readings.”
The premise states the computer sets up the boxes BEFORE you enter the room. The OP states he flips the coin AFTER he enters the room.
The computer cannot change the boxes after he entered the room.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 4 days ago:
. This necessarily includes the results of that coin flip and the Geiger counter readings.
The OP said he flips the coin after going into the room. But the computer setup the boxes before they entered. So the computer knowing how you’d react to the coin flip can’t change the boxes.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 4 days ago:
There’s the possibility that there’s something else at play that we don’t know, and maybe cannot fathom.
The possibility that there is something hidden that we are not aware of is why Bell’s Theorem was such a revolution in physics. The experimental proof of Bell’s theorem won the nobel prize. There are no hidden variables. Probability is fundamental, not a result of some unknown process.
The premise wasn’t that the computer was 100% perfect. It was 99.9% perfect. That is its good enough such that you should assume its correct. The premise could have said 75% and it wouldn’t change anything. Saying 99% makes it simpler for the reader to assume that the computer is correct.
The computer is not supernatural. The premise does not say the computer is 100% accurate. The premise does not say that the computer can violate known laws of physics. The premise is that the computer knows your behavior.
- Comment on What they took from us 4 days ago:
As someone who started watching Saturday morning cartoons in the 1960’s, I can definitely say the mid 90’s was peak cartoon.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 5 days ago:
Then the experiments may be flawed. We dont know what we dont know
That’s the same excuse flat Earthers make. Yes every single observation made over the past 100 years could have been wrong and tomorrow we find out that all of quantum mechanics is wrong.
There are a near infinite number of variables involved, but if we knew every variable, we could solve it.
Take a single electron. You can’t define it’s position and motion (momentum) simultaneously. It is fundamentally unsolvable. There aren’t even hidden variables that we are unaware of. Bell’s inequality has been experimentally proven many times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 5 days ago:
I believe the universe is determinate
That has been experimentally proven false and outside of all mainstream science.
While you can have a supernatural belief in a clockwork universe, the premise is a supercomputer makes the prediction, not God.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 5 days ago:
You didn’t read the article. The computer isn’t watching you flip the coin and then switching the boxes at the last moment.
The boxes are fixed before you enter the room. The computer has already predicted your choice.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 5 days ago:
Don’t be pedantic. We all understand the meaning.
1st, a coin flip is random enough such that no computer can pre determine the result of the flip with 99.9% accuracy. The process is chaotic.
2nd, walk into the room with a Geiger counter and pick the box based on the click you get from a cosmic ray.
- Comment on “isn’t sleeping with men to maximize dad’s business deals / for favors basically prostitution?” 6 days ago:
Your mom is lying to herself.
- Comment on It's bath time 1 week ago:
Why tho?
- Comment on There is no meme, the American military industrial complex banned and outlawed the right to repair 1 week ago:
He’s a YouTuber who covers 3d printing but the current regime has moved him into Rossman technology legal-rights news.
- Comment on Why the world doesn't have a backup plan for the oil crisis? 1 week ago:
Yes Chevron has patents. That’s not the claim.
The claim is that oil companies are sitting on patents that would make oil obsolete.
- Comment on Why the world doesn't have a backup plan for the oil crisis? 1 week ago:
Status: ABANDONED
You didn’t even read the summary.
- Comment on Why the world doesn't have a backup plan for the oil crisis? 1 week ago:
If your claim is true then you could show the patents. They’re public. You’d know that if you actually worked for an oil company in the capacity to know anything about patents.
I taught a TCPIP class a few times to Chevron in Houston so technically I worked for one of the largest oil companies in the world too.
- Comment on Why the world doesn't have a backup plan for the oil crisis? 1 week ago:
A patent means that a design is publicly published. If it was patented there would be designs that anyone could read and build for personal research. There would be YouTubers showing off their work. This happened 15 years ago when 3d printing was still under patent protection.
China in general doesn’t care about US patents until they’re big enough to be sued. It would be on Aliexpress next to the retro game consoles that include hundreds of stolen roms.
And Patents are only good for 20 years.
So yeah, quit the bullshit. I’ve heard stories about miraculous inventions being patented and sat on by oil companies for 50 years. There’s no car that can run on water. They’re all scams that became urban legends.
- Comment on why does almost nobody live here? 1 week ago:
I’ll add to all the maybe’s by saying maybe Bigfoot.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Resale certificates are for tax savings, not legality. Anyone could and did sell their games.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Under many licenses no, you did not
Many means a significant percentage of the total. That makes your statement false. License transfer restrictions were only in the realm of million dollar corporate sales. All physical game floppies and cds could were legally resold.
Used game stores legally existed.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Steam was by no means the first form of DRM
While there was a game that had online authentication before Steam, Steam popularized it to make it industry standard.
Copy protection is very different than online authentication that restricts your ownership rights.
. If you bought a CD or floppy disks in a store, you were buying a license to use the code on the disks, but you were explicitly denied the rights to resell
Absolutely untrue! You were denied the right to copy the software. If you bought a CD, you absolutely had the right to resell it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Purposely making code and behind the door deals to exclude any browser development or success for years does, yes.
There was no code to exclude other browsers. Netscape at the time was the monopoly web browser. Netscape failed because Netscape 4 was a disaster. JWZ wrote about it extensively. I personally experienced Netscape’s failure. Netscape 4 had a bug in their dialer that couldn’t handle area codes. When I called to tell them, despite having already paid tens of thousands to Netscape in licensing fees, they wanted $80k to look at the problem. I called my friends who ran other ISP’s to ask them what they were doing because Netscape 4 was broken. They said they weren’t even trying- they were shipping only IE 4 on their CD’s. I wanted my customers to have the choice so I spent the development time to work around Netscape’s bugs and had my tech support field the calls.
Netscape ran themselves off a cliff. The Netscape coders themselves said so. It is utterly ridiculous to claim that MS sabotaged them somehow with “code and deals”.
So is Netflix a monopoly then because it wiped out video rental stores?
As I already said, monopoly is a label given to businesses that have dominant marketshare. It doesn’t matter how it is obtained. Once you own the market, you have restrictions placed on you that smaller companies don’t have to keep the free market working.
Monopoly is again, the manipulation of market forces and regulatory control.
That’s not the definition used by the government. You are declared a monopoly and after that restrictions are placed on your actions.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Steam is not the main force behind that.
Steam started it! You must be too young to remember the uproar in the gaming community about HL2 being the first Steam game and requiring Internet authentication to play with the ridiculous restriction of not being allowed to resell the game you bought at the store. It was years later before they eased selling restrictions but still never to the amount that consumers enjoyed before Steam existed. Gabe was the original techbro: “Hey I know it’s illegal but what if we do it anyway. Then we use the profits to pay the lawyers to make it legal.” It’s why France sued Valve to require them to follow the laws that exist for everything else. videogameseurope.eu/…/video-games-europe-welcomes…
Steam was like Walmart moving into a new territory- with the added consumer hostility of adding restrictions to purchases that consumers used to enjoy. It was because of Steam’s success that other businesses realized that consumers would take abuse if it meant they could get their entertainment conveniently.
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 2 weeks ago:
Trump purging his best staff like Stalin in 1938.
- Comment on It took 4 attempts this morning 2 weeks ago:
Stop connecting to My connection. Connect to your own.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
but actively doing things to make other browsers difficult to download and use on their operating system.
That is absolutely not true. I was President of a mid sized ISP at the time. We shipped both IE and Netscape on CD for consumers to pick which they wanted to install.
The bundling was a problem because of their already pre existing dominant market position.
Apple is not declared a monopolist because they do not own and control chrome
Microsoft did not own and control Netscape’s rendering engine which was the really dominant market player. Apple uses their market position to make Safari the majority web browser in the US. (phones outnumber home pc’s and Apple has over 50% marketshare.)
go ahead and contact epic’s legal department.
I don’t give a fuck about Epic. Steam is Walmart and Epic is Kmart.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s to stop someone with rights to generate keys
If it was only about developers then consumers could have the right to resell their game at whatever price they wanted.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It was restricting the web browser market.
If bundling a web browser is an uncompetitive act that requires government intervention then Apple, Google (Android), and commercial Linux distros would also be sued by the government. Microsoft was sued, not for the action in isolation but because of their monopoly position. They didn’t get their monopoly from bunding a web browser. They already had a monopoly. People overwhelmingly chose Windows because it was the best. At the time Linux didn’t have consumer friendly distros and MacOS was still cooperatively multitasked like Windows 1.0 from 1982.
Steam’s monopoly destroyed ownership of games. You used to buy a game at Egghead, and when you were done playing, you could sell it for whatever the free market said it was worth.
Steam’s monopoly also means you can’t open a small game store- they wiped out those businesses just like Walmart. Vendors deal with Walmart because a tiny profit of being in every Walmart is better than a large profit from a few stores exactly like vendors sell on Steam.
- Comment on FaKe LaNdInG 👁️ 2 weeks ago:
Artemis is an ai fake. You can tell by the pixels that Maisy Williams wasn’t watching the launch like that.
The 1969 moon landing was real because we didn’t have the technology to fake it.
