“harmful to minors”

Indeed, I find that few things have done more to ruin my sense of common decency than HC Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes and that’s a story all about public nudity.

That’s how you get a 2-party-system.

or risk becoming a monster.

Remind me. What became of Turing, a man who saved untold British lives during WW2?

“Had Meta bought plaintiffs’ works in a bookstore or borrowed them from a library and trained its Llama models on them without a license, it would have committed copyright infringement,” wrote plaintiffs’ counsel in the filing.

I wonder how many here agree with that theory.

Why, though? Many lemmings get away with “piracy” via torrents. Meta is in court over it and may very well lose on this count.

Krugman is an economist, so he looks at the economics. When a physician looks at a patient, you probably would not be satisfied if they just said: “The patient is simply very old.” Even if that is objectively correct.

Most importantly, such a big picture answer doesn’t suggest any solution.

It does apply equally to everyone. The lemmy hive mind simply doesn’t understand copyright law.

And every so often you still get young men trying to cleanse the temple mount by force of arms. Talk about starting a trend.

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day."

“And are you?”

“No. That’s where it all falls down, of course.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Haha. Life in Australia. Amirite?

That’s a cock rooster.

As the story goes, John Steinbeck was told by one of his professors that he would become an author when pigs fly,[…]

The accurate phrase is “ad astra per ALAS porci,”[“to the stars on the wings of a pig.”] which means that Steinbeck in his snarky revenge was demonstrating far and wide that he was a bad student after all – and thanks to his famous but inaccurate imprint, countless people are running around with tattoos which actually say “to the stars through other pigs.”[“ad astra per alia porci”]

https://sluggoonthestreet.tumblr.com/post/188811241794/as-the-story-goes-john-steinbeck-was-told-by-one

Thinking about how things have changed over the last century. And also about the differences between US states and between countries like Sweden, or Iran. That’s probably true. Especially for women, and LGB, and most especially TQ individuals.

Why make it a joke?

It’s called Kessler Syndrome.

Looks a lot like a trunk load of fireworks exploded.

Good video on the Guardian’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9_zvpamUk

Video on the YT channel of The Times. Don’t know who is talking but they killed me: https://youtu.be/JrDnramp8i8?t=34

Not quite. Information always depends on context. It is not a fundamental physical quantity like energy. When you have a piece of paper with english writing on it, then you can read and understand it. If you don’t know the script or language, you won’t even be able to tell if it’s a script or language at all. Some information needs to be in your head already. That’s simply how information works.

You take in information through the senses and do something based on that information. Information flows into your brain through your senses and then out again in the form of behavior. The throughput is throttled to something on the order of 10 bits/s. When you think about it for a bit, you realize that a lot of things are predicated on that. Think of a video game controller. There’s only a few buttons. The interface between you and the game has a bandwidth of only a few bits.

Cn y ndrstnd this?

You probably can. Human language has built-in redundancy. You can drop parts and still be understood. That’s useful for communicating in noisy environments or with people hard of hearing. So you could say that actual information content is less than 1 letter per letter, so to say.

Properly, information content is measured in bits. A more detailed analysis gives a value of about 1 bit per character.

Sidenote: You shouldn’t ask technical or scientific questions in this community. I don’t know why information theory denialism is so hot right now, but it obviously is.

The Bit is a unit of information, like the Liter is a unit of volume. The Bit may also be called Shannon, though I do not know where that is commonly done.

When people talk about a liter, they are often thinking about a liter of milk, or gas. That is, they are thinking of a quantity of a certain substance rather than of a volume in the abstract. People may also say liter to mean a specific carton or bottle, even if it no longer contains a liter of whatever.

Similarly, people will say “bit” when they mean something more specific than just a unit of measurement. For example, the least significant bit, or the parity bit, and so on. It may refer to a lot of things that can contain 1 Bit of information.

The fact that the headline is talking about bits/s makes clear that this is talking about how much information goes through a human mind per time unit.

Someone who can’t tell from the headline what kind of “Bit” is meant is probably not going to be helped by that comment.

It’s not the same. There’s all those lawyers specialized in copyright. Companies that track down “piracy”. Then there’s rights owners like the Disney corporation or JK Rowling. Rights management firms. Online platforms like Getty or Adobe.