TauZero @ TauZero @mander.xyz

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With distributed hash tables it is manageable. You do something like "store three copies on three peers" and as long as one of them is online the post is accessible. This is actually better than the way lemmy does it now. In principle each lemmy server stores the posts from its communities, and a copy of each post from communities its users are subscribed to. But since all instances are federated so well, in practice each of the 1000 lemmy instances stores a copy of almost every post ever made. That's like 100GB x1000. With a DHT, the amount of space used on each user's device is on average the amount of posts one user makes x3, no more.

At a red light, it is the responsibility of the first driver in line to check their phone. It is the responsibility of the second driver to watch the light and honk to let the first one know when it changes.

So, will saving half the prep time translate to free or reduced-price guac when or if Autocado gets beyond the prototype stage? Sorry: The company told The Register that it intends to maintain the same pricing for the green stuff.

In capitalist economics, the price of a product has no relation to the cost of producing it. The price is always whatever the market will bear. The sooner we understand this, the sooner we can stop asking silly questions and start asking correct ones. The robots could lower production costs to literally zero, and the menu price will not budge one cent. It is only on the macroeconomic scale, when you consider multiple competitors going in and out of business, that the cost of supply starts to matter and only the most efficient producers come out on top.

This is also why every company tries hard to avoid any competition by branching out into niche products. Chipotle has many fast-casual food competitors, but how many of them offer guac as a specific menu item?

I've tested it and the original user does have the option to delete the PM, and it does disappear from your mailbox even if the user is blocked. But you say they were already banned. If it was a lemmy.world user, then there is probably some way that lemmy.world admins can manually take over that account and delete the message from the fediverse, but the message you are seeing is the local sh.itjust.works copy, so sh.itjust.works admins should have the power to delete it even if lemmy.world falls into a black hole.

Can confirm that blocking a user does not hide past messages.

While we are waiting on github feature requests, you'd need to contact sh.itjust.works admins (heh) and ask them to delete the message from the database manually. They would need to learn how to do that eventually anyway for when someone uploads something literally illegal. This is a support forum for lemmy.world specifically, not lemmy in general.

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Almost every atom in your body has been part of other living organisms thousands if not millions of times before.

Ha! We are reinventing email insecurity all over again. Hotlinked images can also be used to reveal your IP, which can be geolocated to your city or neighborhood.

Oh no, the destruction of old creative works is the point I'm afraid, not a side effect! Old content competes with new content that studios are putting out, particularly on price. Why pay $20 to watch a new movie in the theaters in 2023 when you can pay $1 to watch a movie from 1980? (This is also why the writers/actors strike will be much less effective - they are competing not just against scabs but against a hundred-year-long catalogue.) At the demand of movie studios, we have raised the copyright age longer and longer, now up to life of author + 70 years, and what have they done with it?

Half of all movies before 1950 are lost forever, and 90% of movies before 1929. No, the Fox studio did not literally set the 1937 archive fire, but that's the result of giving them exclusive copying rights, which they chose not to exercise and to keep all their sole copies in one place. It would be one thing if studios were like Smaug sleeping on their pile of treasure for X+70 years if at least in the end we knew it would enter into the public domain, but the way business is going it's much more likely it will be lost entirely at some point before that time.

The movie studios are choosing not to digitize old films. The game studios are choosing not to scan ROMs from old cartridges and put them up for sale online (emulators have zero manufacture cost!), are choosing not to release a patch that removes DRM from old games when they shut down the verification servers, are choosing not to release their old games into the public domain along with source code despite knowing that they will never see another cent off them. They prefer that their creative product disappear into bitrot rather than give the public something for free. We have given them exclusive copying right to be a steward over the content and THEY ARE SQUANDERING IT!

I treat it as fair game

The work of pirates is absolutely invaluable in preserving the legacy of human creative expression for future generations, but I must remind you that under current laws it is also horribly illegal. You know those "$100K fine" FBI anti-piracy warnings? They are talking about YOU. "But... but I was just like going to the library!" is not a defense in court unfortunately.

There there, little American! Here's a shopping cart meme more within your abilities:

Here's example language from New York City law:

All consumer commodities ... shall have ... a sign at the point of display which indicates the item to which the price refers, provided that this information is plainly visible at the point of display for sale of the items so indicated.

So it is a question of whether the product spilling over to an adjacent shelf still has a "plainly visible" price tag. If it were on a wrong shelf entirely it would not, and here there is some ambiguity, but city inspectors can be pretty strict and demand items stay within the lines. If it is decided the price was not plainly visible, the store may be fined $25-$100 per violation per day. In any case, the customer would not be calling "better business bureau" (which is just yelp from before the internet), but the Commissioner of Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. And the customer would also not get to pay the lower price for the other product if it is clear it is a different product, as the customer admits they knew. (The question would be different if there were ambiguity).

However, the point that I specifically object to is the opinion that it was preposterous for the customer to claim some legal right in this situation, the implication that no such right exists. The language of the law does exist (at least in some jurisdictions), and violations do carry legal penalties.

In most of US, the price tag is a legally binding offer, and its presence is required by law in most cases. Here for example is NYC law:

New York City Administrative Code
Title 20: Consumer and Worker Protection
Chapter 5: Unfair Trade Practices
Subchapter 2: Truth-in-Pricing Law
§20-708 Display of total selling price by tag or sign.

All consumer commodities, sold, exposed for sale or offered for sale at retail except those items subject to section 20-708.1 of this code, shall have conspicuously displayed, at the point of exposure or offering for sale, the total selling price exclusive of tax by means of (a) a stamp, tag or label attached to the item or (b) by a sign at the point of display which indicates the item to which the price refers, provided that this information is plainly visible at the point of display for sale of the items so indicated. This section shall not apply to consumer commodities displayed in the window of the seller.

§ 20-708.1 Item pricing.

e. Price accuracy. No retail store shall charge a retail price for any stock keeping item, whether or not exempt under subdivision c of this section, which exceeds the lower of any item, shelf, sale or advertised price of such stock keeping item.

City inspectors may perform random checks to compare tag price to scanner price at checkout and fine store $25-$100 for every incorrect/missing tag, and may repeat the inspections every 24 hours until problem is solved.

If you run around slapping your own discount stickers it wouldn't count since the store didn't do it, you are just committing fraud. The store would be on the hook if it continued to display the fraudulently-mislabeled product for sale after being made aware of it.

You goofed, bot! :D

All human color technology - paintings, photographs, screens, lighting - is optimized to stimulate the three types of human retinal cone cells. The exact sensitivity of each cone type to light across the spectrum is not even as important as the relative levels of activation of the three cones by the light. Which is why when some light activates 100% of "red" cones and 100% of "green" cones you see it as yellow, regardless of whether the light is a broad-spectrum light from an incandescent lamp or a single frequency 575nm LED light. This is also why only 3 numbers (0-255, 0-255, 0-255) is enough to describe every color that humans can ever see.

Other animals can have different number of types of cone cells, and the light-sensitive pigments in them can be slightly different from human ones, having different spectrum response curves. Bees in particular can see ultraviolet light, and flowers have designs on them that can only be seen in UV, specifically for bees.

An arbitrary photograph will not appear color-photorealistic to other animals the way it does to us, but animals can still see shapes in it and identify objects, the same way you can recognize people even in a photo-negative.

I am confused, how is the ERA supposed to protect abortions? I read the whole article and I can't find the reason. One day the activists were saying that ERA has no impact on abortion, and the next day they decided that it totally does, but the words of the Amendment stayed the same. Am I missing something obvious? To misquote Anatole France:

In its majestic equality, the law forbids men and women alike to terminate pregnancies.

How do we know that's not what's going to happen?

Do not share your name online.

It's worse - they are natural monopolies. I don't need to run fiber to my house from 3 different ISPs any more than I want to run pipes from 3 different water supply companies. Utilities like electricity are already regulated with price controls and some semblance of democratic oversight. It's time that internet hookups are too.