It’s like going to a concert without paying the entrance fee. Sure it’s not a big deal if only one person does it, but the concert couldn’t even happen if everyone acted like this
That's a systemic problem, something I wouldn't personally care about. The "system" is just so horribly screwed up and skewed against us that I just no longer care if it works or not.
If you want to morally justify piracy then start with the ridiculous earnings and monopolies of big media companies, or the fact that they will just remove your access to media you “bought”. Piracy is like stealing, but sometimes stealing is the right thing to do.
This rubs me the wrong way too, yes. Though I'm really beyond moral justifications, I just stopped caring.
It's a shame. The GamesCom in Europe seems to be doing quite well so it's not really a matter of "conferences are dead".
I know conferences are no longer a place for big announcements. There's no more need to gather all the press in one place, they can just do it online now, at a dedicated time when they're not competing with other announcements in the industry. But as a visitor I really enjoyed going to GamesCom. Never been to the US so the E3 is not a thing for me but I'm sure this will have knock-on effects globally.
That's enough to sway the delicate balance between Trump and Biden though.
Not that Trump will actually solve this but he tends to resonate with those people. I don't know how people with nary a cent to spare think a billionare has their best interests at heart but anyway.
The origins of any movie you pirate come from theft, full stop.
The origins of most of all western countries' wealth comes from theft, full stop.
More often than not, scene releases are gathered internally by rogue employees in the studio who took something and distributed it in a way that they were not authorized to do.
That's only the case for pre-Bluray release content. Most of it was just captured from rips, Amazon Prime or Netflix.
I think the story of San Andreas was pretty nice. It's very much scarface (in fact all the GTA's were like this).
The online missions of GTA V were terrible IMO. They're pretty degenerate yes. But the Singleplayer was nice. I also love the social commentary on US society. I really miss the roleplaying that people used to do in GTA:SA MP (third-party multiplayer mod) but of course rockstar had to go and kill it so they could sell their shark cards.
Well, Google firebase notifications do. Either Google play or something comparable like MicroG. It's possible to run them another way too but not many app backends support that.
But yes my complaint is exactly that this app requires google.
I see. But in the limit case where just everybody decided BTC is nonsense and stopped transacting entirely, while mining could continue, eventually it would die out, right?
Probably, yes. But it's important to realise that bitcoin started as a payment system. Meaning lots of daily transactions would be done. These days it's used more for speculation, as a value storage system and for transferring to other coins. Which implies a lot less transactions.
Everybody basically has already decided that BTC is nonsense for payments and stopped using it for that. This is exactly why the transactions have so much "overhead" because so few transactions are compared to so much mining.
So in a sense, do transactions not drive the need for mining? If that’s the case, the connection isn’t directly casual so much as one of complicity. Does that make sense or am I still barking up the wrong tree with this way of thinking?
Not really, no. Miners mine as an investment. The whole payment system community has already been taken over by other systems which are much better suited for that, like Etherium, which has proof of stake for low overhead, fast transaction time and smart contracts. Or Monero, which hides the identity better so it's more common in the purchasing of certain illicit substances.
The BTC community reacted with lightning but it was too little too late to solve this usecase. The BCH (bitcoin cash) fork was also motivated by this as far as I understand, because the miners were opposed to any changes to facilitate easier payments and lower transaction costs. But this is more hearsay I have to admit, I'm not a cryptobro and not fully into this.
So now BTC is less like a "bank" and more like a "goldmine". That's how you should see it. Even though gold is a useful material, most investors that buy gold don't buy it with the intention to ever sell it to a factory making connectors or whatever. They just buy it because it's scarce and the price keeps going up, and people assign value to it.
Bitcoin is in the same position now. It has value because people decide it has value. This is not really related to its potential use as a payment system. Miners (the ones who control the bitcoin stack now) are not even interested in its use for that purpose and seem to actively block enhancements to make that easier. Though transactions are still necessary for trading between investors, it's much much less in volume than it would be if people were still using it to pay for stuff in shops.
But anyway, going back to my original point: Articles like the link here that claim that Bitcoin is a really shitty payment system are kinda stating the obvious. It's practically speaking not a payment system anymore even though it technically could be used as such.
It's a funny thing you mention. We were told to block chat.openai.com recently by our CTO who was afraid of data leaks of internal information. Not a bad idea honestly.
But one of my colleagues made a salient point... In that case we should do the same with Google Translate, we've been sending them gazillions of gigabytes of internal emails and other sensitive stuff. And it's also a company we also don't have any formal business or data management contract (GDPR!) with?
"Just block ChatGPT" was the answer, but it was certainly a good point. This is the thing about hypes. It makes people think things are 'special' cases when in fact they are not. Google probably has a LOT more visibility on our company than OpenAI.
Also they are worried about the MS version of ChatGPT because it's "not as good" (uuh it's literally the same engine) and also have data concerns even though we do have data management contracts with them and they put it black on white that they're not using our data for any kind of model training.
Yep notifications require google play services installed. They do not require a google account or being signed in to one. It's based on the device ID alone. I don't have a google ID on my phone and push messages work just fine.
It requires a google account though so I can't use it :(
I don't really understand why they insist on that as it doesn't seem to use google otherwise. I do have google play services, just no account logged in (which is not necessary for things like push to work!)
Such a waste of a good plane for a stupid irresponsible stunt :'(
It was really stupid anyway, when the video came out it was immediately clear it was intentional. He already had the door opened before the "engine failed" (I guess he was afraid of an inadvertent stall) and he claimed there was no suitable landing sites even though a strip of empty road was clearly visible.
He's already walked it back again anyway. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/israel-gaza-war-live-white-house-walks-back-biden-remarks-that-israel-was-losing-international-support-over-gaza-bombing/ar-AA1lqsz4
It was probably just a gesture to appease his moderate backers consdering he's doing pretty badly in the polls.