General_Effort
@General_Effort@lemmy.world
- Comment on ONE OF US 21 hours ago:
This is why WIS and INT are different stats.
- Comment on OH FUCK 1 week ago:
The terminator has passed over North America, illuminating the entire continent in the eerie light of a thermonuclear explosion. People report suffering radiation burns from unshielded exposure.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
Your local tax system probably works the same.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
This may be a language issue. “Bill” in this context means the total amount you have to pay. EG A restaurant bill is what you get from a waiter when you want to pay.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
FWIW globally, there is the issue of “welfare traps”. Benefits for low income people are usually tied to income (or savings). Once income reaches a threshold, these benefits must be replaced with income. So a higher income may result in a net loss.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
I feel that “outgroup dumb” is shitposting but it’s from a real poll.
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 179 comments
- Comment on application season be like 1 week ago:
Bitch with a Pearl Earring. Is that your fursona? I don’t get it.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on Capitalist Solidarity 4 weeks ago:
He makes a good argument. I think the European experience supports him.
EU law uses the term “intellectual property”. In fact, “protection of intellectual property” is enshrined as a fundamental right in EU law. When EU politicians demand respect for fundamental rights and values from American tech companies, it implies cracking down on piracy and giving money to copyright owners.
Applying property thinking to data is responsible for many, maybe most, of the problems that make it so hard to build a tech industry in the EU.
- Comment on Capitalist Solidarity 4 weeks ago:
To explain what that is: UK Newspapers all printed the same cover page to demand money for copyright owners. They all joined together to make their demand. Newspapers like to market themselves as guardians of democracy. This is what it looks like when they really want something.
They are spreading a lot of deceptive talking points. So here’s some facts.
UK copyright law applies in the UK. If the owners’ demands are met, then British people will have to pay owners around the world to use AI. These international owners try to invoke national solidarity by talking about “protecting British creativity”. But that’s a lie. British creatives would have to pay extra for software like photoshop, while the money would go to owners around the world. For example, Reddit would get money for owning the copyrights to the users’ posts.
Copyright is intellectual property. Like any other property, it is typically owned by the corporation that employed the worker that made it. If the owners are able to lobby their way to some free money, normal workers will not see a cent. Even most authors won’t. The printers, secretaries, janitorial staff, and so on, without whom none of these newspapers would exist, certainly won’t.
These are daily newspapers. Yesterday’s news are proverbially worthless. All the labor that went into producing these newspapers, including the authors, has been paid off. If these corporations get their wish, they will be able to sell their intellectual property a second time. That’s pure profit.
If this was about supporting “British creativity”, then you could use taxes to subsidize, for example, rooms for band practice. You could give the BBC more money for journalism. If you’re worried about job losses, you’d be thinking about unemployment benefits. No one is asking for any of that. It’s all about money for property owners around the world.
- Comment on Capitalist Solidarity 4 weeks ago:
Especially the Sun and DM (wasn’t expecting that)
Why not? Because their owners already have enough money? I’m surprised by The Guardian, but that’s class solidarity for you. Owners of the world, united. Explains a lot about the state of the world.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 12 comments
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 4 weeks ago:
A while back I looked for a source for this. Apparently it never happened.
- Comment on Frogge 5 weeks ago:
But it isn’t Wednesday yet?
- Comment on Unionized 1 month ago:
Perfectly balances, as all things should be.
- Comment on New coding model just dropped 2 months ago:
We pretrain METAGENE-1, a 7-billion-parameter autoregressive transformer model […] , on a […] dataset […] sourced from a large collection of human wastewater samples,
- Submitted 2 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 7 comments
- Comment on Anon's in trouble 2 months ago:
a section of small intestine
Huh. Weird. I wonder why that stayed in place. I mean, I wouldn’t have thought that you can squeeze out a person like a tube of toothpaste but since that is apparently a thing…
- Comment on The Republican Flying Doctor Service. It's funded by taxes. 2 months ago:
Seriously, why are they producing all these great promo shots for him? If they had done that for someone like Bernie Sanders, the US would be in much better shape now.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 18 comments
- Comment on Warning 3 months ago:
“Good-morning, good-morning!” the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
“He’s a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
- Comment on git commit -m "depose" 3 months ago:
Gooble! Gobble!
- Submitted 3 months ago to [deleted] | 8 comments
- Comment on if statement == false 3 months ago:
In normal parlance, “if and only if” rules out that something could also happen as a result of other circumstances. EG, if you fall out of a plane, you will lose your glasses. But there are other conditions that would lead to the same result.
In code, the alternative would be to have a different if statement that executes identical code. Or *cough* ~you could use a jump statement to execute literally the same code.~
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 3 months ago:
Kind of a shame that our fish ancestors didn’t have more gills. I wonder what we’re missing. I mean, we’re obviously missing something, right?
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 3 months ago:
Please babe! I can change! Here’s proof!
- Comment on Radiation Research 3 months ago:
Wait, how did they build the snowman? There’s no snow on the ground.
- Comment on Just a little guy 3 months ago:
It’s not the inflexibility of your connecting body parts that kills you. It’s the insufficient tensile strength of the connecting tissue!
