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No, how dare they do that while simultaneously carrying a precious archive of irreplaceable data with them.

A guy who goes to fight an armed mugger is a hero. If he’s carrying a baby with him while he does so he’s an idiot. Take the baby to safety and let someone else do the risky heroics.

The recordings, featuring historic performances by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, have been made freely accessible to the public to “ensure the survival of these cultural materials for future generations to study and enjoy,” according to the Archive.

Which ironically (and predictably) may end up causing those cultural materials to not survive if the music labels win the lawsuit and crush the Internet Archive.

They do great work, but they really need to learn how to choose their fights better. Their archives would be safer if they were less eager to tilt at windmills unnecessarily. Let the EFF do that.

You said “Yeah. I respect the Republicans for actually getting shit done, as evil as their goals are.”

No I didn’t. That’s someone else further up the chain.

Yeah. I remember a big argument I had over on Reddit right after the election wherein I was arguing that Harris had been a bad candidate. People piled in to argue that no, she was an awesome candidate, and I was being a misogynist to argue otherwise. But I kept asking those people “did Harris win the election?” And they just couldn’t bring themselves to answer “no.”

A good candidate would have crushed Trump. Trump was a terrible candidate. So what does it say about the Democratic party that they managed to lose regardless?

I am very much not a supporter of Trump or the Republicans. That means I want them defeated, and to defeat them you need to understand what’s going wrong when you fail at that.

The ACA was a Republican proposal originally. It was better than the giant heap of nothing that Americans had before, but it’s not a great triumph of the left wing. It’s a bare minimum.

They didn’t even get single-payer included in it.

The Democrats are the party of the status quo. They want everything to stay the way it is, generally speaking. They default to not rocking the boat.

This is why they’re bleeding voters, IMO. It’s not so much that people like what the Republicans are doing, its that at least the Republicans are doing something.

Shh, don’t tell the NYPD that.

And, ideally, subscribers to this community? There are so many weird takes and misunderstandings about this stuff.

I hope the he just goes home, along with every other Russian soldier currently in Ukraine.

War crimes trials afterwards. There’s no justice to be found on the battlefield.

Yes, so? All I was disputing was the issue of whether they’re “ecologically sound.” They’re fine now, they don’t consume massive amounts of energy. Use them or ignore them as you wish.

Indeed. And there’s a future update for Ethereum being worked on to implement a “state expiry” system, which means data wouldn’t be stored forever unless you actually paid for it to be. I’ve been quite impressed with Ethereum’s continued development over the years, in contrast to Bitcoin which basically ossified.

Ethereum, the blockchain that the vast majority of NFTs are based on, switched to proof-of-stake over two years ago. It doesn’t use significant amounts of energy any more. So there isn’t even the “more ecologically sound” distinction here.

Why does it matter if the Russian people know that? It’s not like they can will more tanks into existence, or just imagine foreign trade and get tangible goods as a result.

Russia’s actual real physical power has been broken by this war. Their demographic future is doomed. Their economy is in ruins. It doesn’t matter if the Russian people are happy with that, they can paint big “Z” marks on their wretched hovels in patriotic ecstasy and it won’t have any actual impact on anything.

It’d be ideal if Ukraine could have an outright victory and end the war fast, but failing that all that’s necessary is for Ukraine to survive and it can wait out Russia’s collapse.

Putin didn’t start this war because he specifically hated Ukraine and wanted it destroyed, even at the cost of Russia’s existence. He started it because he wanted to make Russia great again. In that regard the war is an utter failure.

Of the war maybe, but Russia’s future economy and demography are very much going to have long term impacts from these losses.

I think people are being too pessimistic about Trump in this context. Trump is terrible, sure, but one of the things that makes him terrible is total self-interest. I don’t think he’s as reliable a puppet of Putin as commonly thought.

I’m thinking perhaps Putin is worried Trump might decide to flip the script and act the tough guy against him this time, since Putin is significantly weaker now than in his previous term. Getting Kursk back would be absolutely vital if it looks like Trump is going to try to freeze the conflict or force negotiations.

The GOP as a whole is not reliably pro-Putin either, there are some hawks in there that would love to finish Putin off.

In general, this is an uncertain time approaching.

Same here, I’d much rather have one of these as a personal vehicle than anything tracked.

IMO the best feature of democracy is not that it results in better selection of who gets to lead, because it doesn’t really - the vast majority of the electorate is not educated in the sorts of things they’d need to be educated in to make truly good decisions about this. The best feature is that every few years we “throw the bums out” and put a new batch of people in charge.

I used to be kind of ambivalent about term limits, I figured it was kind of suboptimal to have to get rid of a leader who’s doing well at some point. But with the size of the population of most democracies there’s really no constraint on the pool of perfectly adequate candidates to draw on. I’m starting to think that “one and done” might be an even better approach, at least for the highest levels. Make it so that there’s no motivation whatsoever to cling to power. Do the same with congressmen and senators, perhaps. Let them prove their capabilities with a political career in local politics, where it’s less important if someone ends up with some kind of corrupt fiefdom because the higher levels of government can keep them in check.

Those jobs are also being replaced by AI. Modern AIs are trained on synthetic data, which is data that was generated from source material specifically for training purposes by other AIs. AIs reformat, rewrite, and vet the source material more reliably and efficiently than humans.

Those sadly will also be replaced over time with machines and there is something we will really lose.

Not all of the things we lose will be sad, though. An AI researcher has the potential to be more thorough and less biased when it comes to digging up and interpreting resources.