I think you responded to the wrong comment. I said nothing about the quality of the film industry’s output, only that it is going to be replaced.

No, generative AI is. Why get props, lighting, actors, etc. when you can just not and say you did at a language model connected to a video generation model?

If the pole is entering the portal at the rate of 60 miles per hour, it must exit the portal at the same rate. After a minute, 1 mile of pole has entered the portal, and 1 mile has exited it. If it exits more slowly than it enters, where is the missing part of the pole?

This is already about to pass in California. https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/SB478/2023

The FTC is going to write a rule similar to what local governments have given themselves power to regulate. The article gave some examples, but it is not exhaustive.

It soon will be. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/prepare-for-renewed-ftc-regulatory-focus-on-hidden-and-junk-fees

Metric is a product of the French Revolution, as well as decimal currency like cents. Some decimalization from the French Revolution didn’t catch on widely, like gradians for measuring angles or decimal minutes, hours, and weeks. The imperial units were standardized by various monarchies (hence the name).

I’ve been doing cryptography since 2000. I’m just not dumb enough to think that decentralized trustless ledgers have any practical use. 🤣🤣🤣

It’s not true.

I’m glad you finally came to that conclusion. This means you should use a centralized ledger, and you’ve been wasting your time. Perhaps in another few years, you’ll figure out that a centralized authority has to determine who gets a vote to cast and give up your blockchain voting pipe dream as well. 🤣🤣🤣

It’s being talked about in regards to land deeds that can survive changes in power structures and authority.

The people who talk about that are idiots. Changes in power structure and authority can say that one chain is no longer is in force, replacing it with another chain or a centralized ledger if they have any brains. 🤣🤣🥳🥳

It isn’t. It’s planning to make ad blockers use a crippled API like the one Safari has had for years now, but the timeline for that still hasn’t been decided. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/migrating/mv2-sunset/

I can guarantee that I know more about proof of stake than you do. It is physically impossible for a decentralized ledger to be more efficient than a centralized one.

The government ultimately decides ownership, whether that is deciding which of many decentralized ledgers tracks ownership or which of many centralized ledgers, so using a decentralized ledger is always pure waste.

People who understand what NFTs are dislike them even more.

I can claim ownership on another chain in just the same way that I can claim ownership on another centralized database. The only difference is that I waste a lot more energy with the former, and everyone will think I’m a dumbass.

If he was a bigot back then, is he still a bigot now?

Yes, he is. As I said, he has posted why he spent money to deny gay people the right to marry and to nullify the marriages of gay people who were already married, and he has not apologized for it since.

Which is almost never.

Then there is no problem. Just tell people to use Firefox.

That owning slaves is wrong and denying rights to gay people is wrong and treating it as a political issue where both sides are valid is nonsensical.

You don’t get a promotion for blocking a buggy launch.

This isn’t about what Eich used to believe. This is about a law that he helped pass and still supports. I wouldn’t give my money to somebody who helped pass a law to bring back slavery and still supports it. We know that this is wrong.

Eich and the KKK can continue to advocate for the wrong side. We should continue to argue against them and not give them our support.

There were slave owners who believed they were morally right too, and your argument says they should have been left alone. We’re smart enough to know they were wrong and that your Christians and Muslims are wrong. We should be writing articles and making choices accordingly.

I think we can agree that those slave owners were wrong, just as we can agree that Eich was and remains wrong about gay marriage.

People have a right to support slavery as a government idea that is tied up in politics. /s

It’s not what he thinks of gay people. It’s that he spent his money to successfully deny gay people rights and nullify marriages that were already recognized. That’s not somebody I want to give money to. Look on Hacker News for his comments about why he made that donation, and you might change your mind about whether he is actually a bigot. He has never apologized for his actions.

Gates didn’t lobby for tax cuts and austerity. https://fortune.com/2022/07/30/bill-gates-lobbied-joe-manchin-inflation-reduction-act-build-back-better-act-democrats/

Nor did Bezos: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56657596

Austerity hurts Amazon’s retail business, so the idea that Bezos would lobby for it is ludicrous.

Interesting that you bring up political and medical disinformation, which is something else Eich is known for: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html