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- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 2 weeks ago:
What’s being sold is the illusion that the robots are completely autonomous based on AI or something.
Buy it now, get the full AI self-walking update in
twothreesevenfifteensome years.It worked for Tesla cars, so why should the same strategy not work on the same idiots with robots?
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that sounds seriosly painful.
- Comment on Popcorn Ceiling Removal 2 weeks ago:
Ceiling dust. Don’t breathe this.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about condemming him.
What he did was basically kick off the whole genre of research. And for that he is still credited and well-known.
But it seems you missed the context of this thread. It started with someone sarcastically joking that cocaine is “famously good for your health”, to which someone sarcastically mock-backed the claim by referencing that Freud did back cocaine.
There’s no need or point in defending this very debunked claim.
Btw, Freud recommended cocaine as a medication against alcoholism. He administered cocaine to an alcoholic friend of his, and it did nothing against his alcoholism. In fact, the friend died soon after off a combined alcohol-cocaine overdose. This did not stop Freud from claiming that cocaine is great. He even got his girlfriend hooked on it.
Freud did start the whole field of research, but his own research has been debunked a very long time ago. There’s basically nothing of his research left that still counts as “state of the art”, but sadly many uneducated people still repeat his nonsense.
It’s kinda like believing that Carl Benz’ earliest car patents still have any relevance in modern car design. We credit Carl Benz for kickstarting the research in combustion engine cars, but nobody would be stupid enough to think that early research in that field has any relevance to today’s practice.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 2 weeks ago:
Actually, masturbation as treatment for “hysterical paroxyism” had its peak during victorian times.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 2 weeks ago:
That is true, but that still doesn’t make any of his advice correct.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Trust a random studio with some long-dead IP in the hopes of making a little cash? Not so crazy imho. Nothing to lose.
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 3 weeks ago:
Nostalgia is a hard drug. I replayed Pokemon Red easily 10 times over the years. I tried Pokemon Gold (an objectively much better game) probably about the same amount of times, but I could never get through it, because I didn’t play as a kid and thus have no nostalgia for it.
I have more nostalgia for Keitai Denjū Telefang, which I played in bootlegged form mis-labelled as Pokemon Diamond (that was before the real Pokemon Diamond was released), and even though this bootleg is horrible in quality, it’s easier for me to play than Pokemon Gold.
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
You haven’t provided a single source that backs up your claim. I will continue to talk with you once you did.
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
You haven’t provided any sources at all, you just ignored anything I said. So go, your turn. Post a source that says that transferring the patent to the university in 1923 was the wrong decision.
If you know better than the lawyers they consulted back then, prove it. Back it up with something more than just made-up hot air.
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
I did not run out of arguments, I posted a contemporary source that said everything I talked about all along.
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
Tbh, I am surprised that you seem to know the exact legal situation in regards to patent law in Canada of 1923, and that you have such a strong opinion on that matter.
I would recommend you to read the corresponding Wikipedia secton where all the thinking that went into that decision is laid out quite well.
I would venture to say that legal experts of the time at the time understood the patent law of the time a little better than some random users on Lemmy.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 3 weeks ago:
In what world is it not creepy to butt into some strangers’ personal conversation after overhearing details that were clearly not addressed to you?
Have you ever been in a social situation before?
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
Of course, but an university owning a patent gives them the responsibility to defend it, and also incentivizes them to do so.
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
That logic applies identically to a valid patent.
The difference is that in the case of transferring the patent to the university, there’s a legal department at the ready to defend the patent. The same is not the case for a disclaimed patent.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 3 weeks ago:
Well, OP wasn’t donating money, was he?
The scenario you brought up would be creepy too, but people tend to value money over the slight discomfort of creepiness.
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
Nowadays you just google for other patents and done. But back then, I guess that searching for prior art was quite a lot more difficult. Gifting the patent to an university so that they defend open access to the patent sounds like a more reliable plan.
I mean, even nowadays patents are greenlit my patent offices even though there’s clear prior art (Nintendo’s recent patent for catching monsters in a ball in a game comes to mind, which Nintendo would have to have patented before publishing their first game with that mechanic around 30 years ago), and even today it’s really difficult and expensive to get such a clear nonsense patent invalidated.
So difficult that e.g. Palworld opted to change the mechanic instead of fighting the patent.
So I do understand why someone would instead gift the patent to an university under the condition that they keep access to it open, especially 100 years ago.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 3 weeks ago:
First the birds, then the girls?
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 3 weeks ago:
Listening in on conversations is creepy, no matter how good-looking a person is.
And that stuff happens in movies doesn’t mean it isn’t creepy in real-life.
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
Remember, the 1920s is long ago. Giving the patent to the equivalent of a non-profit organisation was probably better than disclaiming it, since it’s easier to have one large, well-known entity that will fight off people trying to re-patent it than to disclaim it and hope that no patent clerk ever lets a fraudulent re-patent go through.
In 1920 you couldn’t just google for prior art when fighting a fraudulent patent.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 weeks ago:
They stopped eating meat 3 million years ago. That’s longer ago than the appearance of the first animal of the genus Homo.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 weeks ago:
Pandas stopped eating meat about 3 million years ago. That’s before the first being of the genus Homo appeared. Not Homo Sapiens (that was 300 000 years ago), but Homo Habilis (2.5mio years ago).
If evolution can take us from something that’s barely an ape to humans in that time frame, you’d expect that it can fix an omnivour’s digestive system to work with plants.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 weeks ago:
Google tells me that pandas started eating bamboo 6-8 million years ago and stopped eating meat 3 million years ago.
That’s not exactly recent.
For reference, the first Homo appeared 2.8 million years ago and the first Homo Sapiens 300 000 years ago.
The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived 5-10 million years ago.
So if evolution can evolve humans in that time frame, you’d expect that it could also adapt an omnivour to a herbivour.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 weeks ago:
Nature has proven over and over again that it doesn’t like neat categories :)
Evolution happens and it follows whatever works, and it certainly doesn’t care about any clever categories and rules we humans come up with.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 4 weeks ago:
The same holds true for a lot of animals. There aren’t many purely “vegan” animals. A horse will snack a mouse too if it gets the opportunity.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 4 weeks ago:
Pandas as well. Non-predator but clearly front facing eyes.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 4 weeks ago:
This. In Austria most libraries have a self-scan machine where you have to return your books and the librarians will sort the books back in. Part of the reason for that is that they need to check the condition the books were returned in.
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
They sold the patent to the University of Toronto, so they didn’t exactly sell it to a for-profit patent troll.
But also, that was in 1923, so the patent has long since expired.
- Comment on Zero Chull 4 weeks ago:
Check out this post, btw: lemmy.world/post/39372777
There you can see the USB to LAN adapters dangling off the bottom row of phones.
- Comment on Zero Chull 4 weeks ago:
Especially considering the price of the phones they are running. Even if they are trashed second-hand ones they will be much more expensive than the adapters.