That is simply not true. The details might vary by jurisdiction and the protection might not be under the exact name of “copyright” but there most certainly are comparable legal protections for the contents of databases (“tables of numbers”). See for example: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/running-business/intel...
Presumably, being able to use Sora to generate some pictures or videos involving Disney characters does not mean being able to actually distribute those pictures or videos, right? Those are still copyrighted characters.
It wasn’t an election. One of the more prominent youth groups involved in the protests used Discord to organize and decide internally which leader they should endorse and suggest to the president and army leadership. No one was directly elected on Discord.
This is simply not correct. You absolutely DO NOT need to obtain consent for strictly necessary first-party session cookies (such as would be used by an online shopping cart, for example, or to maintain a persistent login) [1].
I didn't say "obtain consent," I said serve a cookie banner. If you are only setting essential cookies, the banner can just say "This site is using cookies," with no opt-out or preferences button. But it does need to appear.
God this is infuriating. Apart from being an obvious scam, NFTs are actively doing harm to the environment. This is not funny, it's just bad. It’s a net negative for humanity.
As, of course, are any and all cryptocurrencies and blockchain-related get-rich-quick schemes. I can’t wait for this whole pyramid to collapse.
I think there is a few misunderstanding here that are worth clarifying. Proof-of-Work blockchains are actively harming the environment due to mining activities. How much energy miners spend on the network is mostly a function of the crypto currency price, not the number of transaction.
Secondly, NFTs can easily be minted on Proof-of-Stake blockchains that do not rely on miners and have little impact on the environment (and have very low gas fees, so that would also be beneficial for buyers and sellers).
My point is: Proof-of-Work is the actual environmental disaster, not NFTs.
(Note: I think that NFTs are an absurd and stupid concept that is completely overhyped)
PoW is an environmental disaster because of its terrible incentives. When the price is low the amount of energy spent isn't such a big deal because it will be limited by the expected reward (which is low), but the more the price raise the more miners will spend to get their rewards (which correlates directly with a higher energy footprints).
And next time you think a "grey goo" or "paperclip optimizer" scenario can never happen, think of this. A clear cut case of it, we're just lucky humans were still involved so we can choose to pull the plug.
It's not about the price but about what is being secured. If Bitcoin's market cap was $1Q and used as a global financial settlement layer then there is some threshold where "it's just the price we currently pay"
That is an unsettling perspective. Bitcoin like a humongous casino. Its only societal value is to vent speculative impulses. When the tulip mania happened in Netherlands, one could argue, it was caused by wealth inequality. The tulip bubble represented a way to fly up the ever lenghtening social ladder. Makes you wonder.
I think it's necessary to put emphasis on the "get-rich-quick schemes" part, and not the "blockchain/cryptocurrencies" part.
I hope you're not implying blockchain tech and all cryptocurrencies don't/can't provide real utility value, but if so I beg to differ substantially. I built a hook to the Stellar blockchain to store SHA256 hashes of audit evidence that can be validated against at a later time as tamper-proofing evidence. This is just one extremely simple use case, not to mention the entire Defi ecosystem that's being developed as we speak.
Depends how you define useless. They're pretty good at demonstrating what happens when the immature, privileged assholes of this world run amok with shitty ideas, devoid of any true foresight or reflection.
They're also pretty good at demonstrating how a borderless financial system can facilitate innovation and development whilst retaining IP without VCs (Aave, Uniswap).
The tamper-proof timestamping has been around for a long while - there are many timestamping servers which sign hashes using a simple protocol [0][1]. Get a signature from a few servers in different jurisdiction if you are worried that one will get compromised.
This is one of the reasons I don't like the blockchain hype -- people have real problems. Instead of choosing existing simple and reliable solutions -- TSA, CT-style logs[2], people go with the blockchain stuff which directly powers cryptolockers, ponzi schemes, and other crime.
Yes, I know cryptolockers don't use Stellar... but most people don't -- and they see posts like yours as a justification that to put their life savings into another scam.
Apart from being an obvious scam, NFTs are actively doing harm to the environment.
It's like people collecting/trading/selling Funko Pop figures, or most other collectibles. NFTs are pretty much captialism working as intended. Is scam the right word?
I don't think it is supposed to. But I do think that a lot of people believe (falsely, in my opinion) that capitalism will produce the best outcomes. Identifying cases where that is clearly not the case can disabuse people of that idea.
When it comes to NFTs who's being scammed? Longer term crypto investors, CEOs of companies and already wealthy that are buying these NFTs? It's not that difficult to look through each wallet and see their substantial holdings.
I also hope blockchain related get rich quick schemes collapse, so we can finally look at areas where distributed hash technology can actually be benificial.
I'm not sure how NFTs work, but are they proof of work or proof of stake? I was under the impression that one was more destructive than the other, and that proof of work was very outdated. I would imagine NFTs being somewhat new that they use the newer protocol.
So I see this claim made a lot, but I wonder if it isn't a spillover of the BTC inefficiencies into a domain that doesn't have this problem? I could be totally off here though.
> I'm not sure how NFTs work, but are they proof of work or proof of stake?
NFTs are nothing but a transaction on a blockchain (which can be proof of work or proof of stake). There will be unique transaction id (which proves nothing). The image associated and the transaction id or any data with the transaction has no relation whatsoever. For example, you can get access to this cat image and replace it with a dogs image and nothing happens.
I'm not sure where you get this kind of idea. Those purchasing NFTs are normally quite wealthy. Those creating NFTs are normally already famous (therefore moderately wealthy).
Like art it's just a way for the rich to move numbers on a computer around.
Beyond the impact of crushing knowledge transfer, it’s going to kill a lot of people.
In companies with world-wide products/solutions/support, older employees tend to have a broad base of knowledge and learning from being exposed to all customer experiences and issues. Now, everything is in a protected silo and new employees will only learn through a soda-straw looking glass. Older employees are learning to say “not my problem” when getting cleared to look at something overseas because there are 3 layers of data protection officers and it cant be proven there’s not 1 bit of PPD in that 10GB dump.
Some day soon, an industrial or other large-scale accident will kill people and someone in the back office will say “That team didn’t know about X? Doh!”
The font change seems like a wash to me. Notice how the decimal points and thousands separators for the balance column don't line up in either of the screenshots? A change that would actually improve readability would be to use tabular numbers, supported by both San Francisco and Inter.
+1 on tabular figures [1] but it appears to me that OP is already using them? It’s hard to tell for sure but the 1 and 2 in 1,000.00 and 2,000.00 seem to be aligned. The misalignment in decimals and thousands separators could instead by caused by normal vs. bold font weight.
Agreed that the font change seems like a wash. At first I thought OP was trolling the reader with two identical screenshots :)
I suppose the real benefit is having a font available across all platforms. Inter appears to be a high quality typeface, and I appreciate its author for releasing it under an open license. [1] [2]
This article presents an overlooked case of research misconduct and violations of basic principles of medical and business ethics. When Bayer's Cutter Laboratories realized that their blood products, Factor VIII and IX or antihemophiliac factor (AHF), were contaminated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the financial investment in the product was considered too high to destroy the inventory. Cutter misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the product recommended for eliminating the risk. As a consequence, hemophiliacs who infused the HIV-contaminated Factor VIII and IX tested positive for HIV and developed AIDS.
Why is there a need to reconcile? Worker’s rights trump ROI. If you can’t run a profitable company without discriminating against and exploiting your workers, you shouldn’t run a company at all.
Also, look towards more socialist countries (e.g. Germany), for practical strategies to keep making money while at the same time ensuring people don’t get exploited. Hint: empowering workers, letting them unionize and collectively bargain, treating them as humans rather than “Human Resources”, will not actually significantly decrease your ROI.
The effect of unionization had the opposite effect in Germany, Denmark, etc. It caused a huge shift to contract work. Contractors have more protections in those countries than they do here, but do not enjoy nearly the same protections as full time employees.
I admit that the social protections in those countries generally means that the shift to contractor work is less likely to affect things like cost of healthcare, retirement, etc.
Some big US tech companies might be zombies (IBM, HP), but with our less restrictive labor laws and emphasis on entrepreneurship they have been replaced with new giants (Google, Facebook, etc.)
This did not happen in the tech sector in Europe, the giants fell, Bull, Nokia, etc. and nothing rose up to their size outside of the banking sector. Part of the reason may have been that the overall environment was not flexible enough to allow new entrants, among many other factors. SAP remains strong, but I can't think of another pure software/IT company in Europe of that size or market position.
Neither of the articles you link to say that unionisation is the reason for the ongoing shift to contract work, or even mention unions at all...
If anything, (stronger) unions are exactly what contract workers need.
What caused the shift to contract work? Greed. Greedy employers who don't want to give up the tiniest bit of profit to pay for living wages, health benefits, retirement plans or workplace safety, and then have the gall to re-brand deregulation as freedom.
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