But the court rulings / precedence wouldn’t care about that distinction, it just covers learning from copyrighted material in general.

What if you read a copyrighted engineering textbook, and then build something for profit with that knowledge?

Valve innovated a package manager, a store, strict DRM, and gambling / third party cosmetic markets.

Very recently they built the Proton compatibility layer.

No, they wouldn’t.

Anti-trust law exists to prevent companies from overcharging consumers, something they can do when they don’t have competition.

Valve keeping their prices far higher than costs is something that can open them up to anti-trust scrutiny. Competitively lowering their prices while still maintaining profitability cannot, as that is the exact goal of anti-trust laws in the first place.

It’s also fucking wild that gamers hate Tim Sweeney so much. What has he used his fortune to do? Build a reasonably priced and powerful third party game engine that makes it easy for indie developers to build games, spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to break up Apple and Google’s walled garden 30% bullshit, launched a PC store to try and do the same with Steam, and bought tens of thousands of acres of US land to preserve for nature conservation. Oh what a moustache twirling monster!

That means that gamers have been ripped off for decades.

They couldn’t just make YouTube suddenly stop working.

ffmpeg is published under the LGPL license, meaning that all of the published versions are free for anyone to use in anything, as long as they don’t modify the ffmpeg library.

The only leverage they have over YouTube is that they could stop allowing YouTube to use future versions. That could create headaches for YouTube if it turns out there’s major security issues, since then YouTube will need to either solve them with a wrapper / sandbox around the library, or write their own library, but any existing versions in use will always be usable by YouTube.

Nope, night owl who likes to sleep in.

I mean, I broke my hand and it never healed properly, I have pretty bad tendon damage in one ankle, I got shin splints like crazy when I started running, and I have previously herniated a disk, though not that major.

I’m not saying every single major injury is recoverable from, but look at the history of most athletes and you’ll see a lot of major injuries that they were able to recover from.

Again, not saying this is the case necessarily for your back, but I know people who have gotten relatively minor injuries, gotten terrified of them and/or used that as an excuse not to do any more exercise on that body part ever, and then got severely injured again because now the muscles and muscle control for that body part is severely undeveloped, putting more strain back on the tendons / ligaments.

The general recommended approach for most injuries is not to avoid them forever, but to do physio; i.e. reducing your exercises back down to zero weight, but still doing them, and continuously adding weight to re-build and strengthen those muscles and joints.

Burnout isnt a thing, it’s just situational depression.

Honestly cannot fathom this. Are you pushing yourself at the gym? Are you eating healthy and enough protein? Resting enough?

There’s literally never been a period of my life where going to the gym regularly hasn’t made me feel better. I havent gone for like 6 months because I’ve been brutally busy, but I honestly cannot fathom how you could be going and not getting something positive out of it.

If you force yourself to run a little bit one day, then a little bit more each day after that, then eventually 4 miles will feel like a short run.

By forcing yourself to do stuff.

It sucks at first, and you feel exhausted and like you’re not that effective and your brain will keep coming up with excuses and rationalizations as to why you should just rest, but you ignore them and force yourself to do the stuff you don’t feel like doing.

Do that for a while and you’ll suddenly have a higher energy level and it won’t seem like a big deal.

You’re basically at the point where you just took up a new exercise every day, and that’s just tapping you out. But if you keep doing just that exercise and nothing else, your fitness / energy will only ever rise to the point of being able to handle it and nothing else. If you force yourself to do more, then eventually your fitness / energy level will rise to working + after work stuff being the baseline.

Give yourself time and give yourself rest days, but most people online will advocate for too much self care and don’t realize that the only way to actually change and improve is to continually push yourself a little past your comfort zone.

You think this even shows up on the radar of company execs?

Haha Doug Ford bad man.

Thanks for the commentary, so insightful and helpful. Totally not just edge lord polarizing bullshit.

Everywhere does, but Canada has a post secondary education rate of ~66%, and typically votes 66% sane. America has a post secondary education rate of ~50%, and typically votes 50% sane.

There are other differences between the countries, but I think it’s impossible to argue that a substantially more educated population hasn’t led to a stabler and more thoughtful political climate.

How many revolutions around the world have been sparked by student protests? It honestly seems like close to half of them from the past century or two. There’s a reason that Elon and all the billionaires are trying to convince people that college is a waste.

You are right, all the comments replying to you are making vacuous individualist arguments like ‘it won’t work every single time’, when what’s important is that ‘on average, it will raise intelligence and the ability to critically evaluate situations’.

The internet loves to just regurgitate what they heard before and only deal in absolutes, so right now it’s that they would have made more money in the trades, so suddenly college and higher education is meaningless and provided no value to them. It’s honestly embarassing how much they’re just buying into right wing propaganda.

A more educated population is a more empowered population, and there’s absolutely no reason that everyone shouldn’t do some form of post secondary education, whether it’s university, college, or a trades program that includes college level courses. You’re not going to be able to understand how the world actually works or get a sense of the depth of knowledge in each field by just dropping out of high school and stopping thinking hard.

It does. Look at Canada.

Lol the reliance on diesel generators (and all the necessary systems and infrastructure to run them) is not negligible.

They are still a waste of resources compared to a purely collective solution like you’re advocating for.

The most efficient use of resources would be to build massive solar farms in warm sunny areas like Arizona, and then build massive distribution grids to where it’s needed. But this sacrifices resiliency and flexibility.

It’s no different then diesel generators. The reality is that the world is not simple and the best option will be a mixed system that is collectivist in some areas and individualistic in others.

When you live in a city and the ambulance station is 5m from your house, then owning a car will, at most, save you 5m in an emergency situation. When you live in the country and it’s 45m from your house, then owning a car can save you 45min which can easily be the difference between life and death, or recovering normally vs recovering with life altering injuries.

Many many many people do have diesel generators for backup power in the case the grid goes down.

And if you’re building out a new solar system, most will build battery backups for the same reason + cost optimizing.

If your point is that fossil fuels are more polluting than electric motors, then sure, yeah, we all agree.

If your point is that we should always optimize for resource efficiency over flexibility and resiliency, then I think you’re a little misguided, as I see no arguments for not building solar microgrids.