echodot

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

I would have a bit more respect for them if they actually went to the effort of tying them at the top of the lamp post. Rather than standing on their mate shoulders.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 hours ago

I'm guessing you're not old enough to remember the white nationalists using it to threaten people. People are uncomfortable with the flag flying because it reminds them of those people, especially because the very same people are the ones putting them up now.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

Still a member of NATO though.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I'm pretty sure he also imposed a tariff on a small island off the coast of Australia, that in fact part of Australia. Which is rather like someone else imposing tariffs on the United States and also Manhattan.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

Most of it is in fact NATO which of course is the point.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Obviously I can't really answer that question. It's nuanced I can't give a black and white answer.

Notice I said chords, music isn't just chords though. I mentioned it because they have been copyright cases where people have tried to claim that they can own certain chords or certain chord progression, the courts have decided that isn't the case. You can own the composition but not the progression.

AI music is an entire piece, theoretically an original piece, you could of course make the arguement that it's just cutting it up bits of pre-existing work and sticking them back together but you could also make that arguement of a human as well. Copyright law isn't really fit for the 21st century and it certainly isn't fit to deal with the existence of AI, but that's nothing new. I can go online right now and find music that sounds like the Imperial March, is that copyright violation? The courts don't think so.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

I found the concept of stolen code to be a bit weird. Code isn't poetry, there is a correct way of doing things and then there is incorrect ways of doing things.

If everybody does things the correct way then the code will be the same for any given problem. So is it stolen?

It's rather like how it's almost impossible to play any set of chords and them not be from some prior work. It doesn't mean that the music was stolen it just means that there is a limited number of ways you can combine notes and if you further limit it to combinations that sound good the set is even smaller.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be worth it tonwact him run. I doubt he can.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm reasonably confident that neither Russia nor China have any interest in Greenland. Primarily because they clearly don't. They could have attacked Greenland at any point in the last 60 years they haven't.

China is primarily interested in the Middle East, India, and Africa and Russia is not currently in a state to be threatening anyone else, least of all NATO.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apparently it's because the US military are always encouraged to follow orders and not think for themselves. Basically the exact opposite to the way that they are betrayed in Hollywood. They even get trained to creeply talk about themselves in the third person.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

There are millionaires and billionaires in Europe though, so clearly it is possible to have decent work-life balance and still support the excesses of a rich upper class, assuming that's a requirement.

The amount of productivity lost because of paid leave is almost negligible, study after study has shown that people are less productive the more overworked they are. So staff with no time off work longer hours but are less productive for those hours, the end result is it pretty much equals out. If it didn't, the US economy would be doing better then it is, €1 is $1.16.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 23 points 1 day ago

That's my Americans never leave the US. They don't have time. ,

 

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