The answer is 2.
Cling to known humans who write their own code.
Snake oil salesmen always encourage the public to bet against the experts, with predictable results.
Someday ethically sourced AI can be used responsibly by trustworthy coders.
But the key is choosing to collaborate with trustworthy coders.
Protect the Dolls, for those unfamiliar. Neat.
Does anyone have any clue?
My best guess would be some relatively passive notification stealing focus.
As reddeadhead mentioned, there’s specific “don’t steal focus” settings. I’ve had good luck with them.
The actual act of exercise is pretty miserable for most of us. It’s the hours in between exercises that for better, for me. I just generally feel better when I’m exercising more.
It sounds like you’re getting plenty of exercise, so it’s time to check into vitamins, meditation, mindfulness exercises and whatever else.
In your shoes, I would keep exercising, to keep that variable controlled while I tried the next change.
Or add more competition to the market by having government provide cheap alternatives to food/shelter.
That’s the solution I think all civilized nations will land at, plus universal basic income.
So everyone has an option for effectively free (since their UBI covers it) water, food, shelter, and transportation. But standard free market sources can compete to outdo the public options in any ways the public desires.
There’s plenty still to do, since anyone invotating can outdo the public option, and make some extra money for their effort. While, at the same time, no one has to be quite as dragged down by an aunt with failing health who cannot work, anymore.
And any mega corporations that try to force everyone into closed lousy situations have to at least compete with the public option.
Of course, any mega corporations allowed to thrive will immediately try to kill off public options, which we do already see happen.
Isn’t project Gutenberg just for older classic books(not that there’s anything wrong with that)?
Oh, yes. I’m most cases, really old books.
What hateful POS is against worldwide unification?
Vibrant ecologies have diversity. Fully unified government isnt diverse, and would be bad for at least some people. I hope all of our governments suck less, but still have each-other to compete with.
I used to always use Minecraft for this. Sure, they can’t do everything immediately, but I put the game on peaceful and let them explore at their own pace.
I say “used to” because Luanti (formerly MineTest, an open source Minecraft Clone*) is finished and free.
(Okay, Luanti is a lot more than a Minecraft clone. But for this discussion that’s all one needs to know.)
Nice. Minecraft used to be my go to answer for a first WASD game, too.
Lately, I recommend Mineclonia on Luanti, because it’s free and has stronger optimizations supporting weak laptops and big multiplayer servers. (It’s a popular Free Open Source Minecraft Clone).
Well the baker, knowing that everyone has twice as much money, puts his prices up because he knows the market can bear it. That’s the way I reason it.
The good news is this simply doesn’t happen (in civilized modern countries).
People with more money don’t buy twice as much bread, they buy other things.
The bread maker is still competing with milk producers and video game makers and artists.
You can read about price elasticity for more details (and to not just take my word for it.)
Highly inelastic goods (water, transportation, eggs) are the most likely to have runaway price increases.
But civilized countries already have public options to supply these items at cost :public water, public transport, food stamps.
This means we already have the necessary buffers against any impact by UBI. Any provider of an inelastic good who raises their price too far loses business to the public option.
Schwinn and Ferrari will all see slightly more sales with UBI as a few people use their additional income to purchase a bicycle or a supercar, but the bus lines must still run to keep them honest.
The risk is minimal because we already know what public consumption of these goods looks like, when they’re free or heavily subsidized, in each civilized country.
Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?
When I look for a specific book, I usually find that simply searching for "BOOK NAME purchase DRM free” results in plenty of results.
Sadly, I find it dramatically easier to find a free DRM free copy of most eBooks than to find somewhere to legally purchase a paid licensed DRM-free copy.
As a flawless upstanding citizen, I never partake of such amazing convenience, myself, of course.
I bought a “fixer-upper” recently, so I fill most days off with minor home repair projects. I’m using it as an excuse to build a decent little project workbench, though.
Thank you! You’re doing Lliira’s work!
Any politician launching their own media network is a reprehensible piece of shit.
Prove me wrong.
Obviously I don’t have any examples here.
I’m sorry if I got anyone’s hope’s up
I hope this was a brief, fun, moment of mystery for a few of us.
Nothing anotger fireball won’t solve…
the low rollers having been filtered out by dart traps, lucky kobolds, etc.
True. That’s mage survivor bias, right there.
Voiding all IP law would cause a huge loss in the creative community.
I agree. I wouldn’t be in favor of “burn it down” if I thought we could negotiate better terms with our current IP oligarchs.
If people can no longer pay their bills by creating then they stop creating and work.
I’ll still be available to do creative work. It wouldn’t change my current work-for-hire efforts.
Very little valuable IP is held by actual creators, today.
Why dump years and your heart and soul into a great book just to have it distributed for free and be poor.
Are you an actual published creator, or a temporarily embarrassed future billionaire? Is there a version of success for you that isn’t just selling to a big IP company to get enough money to retire? That’s what it looks like, to me. The peak of my possible success would be to write something that threatens/tempts the big IP holders enough to force them to buy me out. If I don’t take the buy out, they eventually bury my thing with their advertising power.
I don’t really disagree with you. I’m actually in favor of keeping and fixing IP laws, if that’s possible.
But I believe the IP laws we have now only serve our billionaire employers. So, as a creator, I won’t fight to keep our current IP laws.
Your utopia is every creator’s nightmare.
I didn’t say “utopia”. We need IP laws. But since we continue to let Disney (and other mega corporations) dictate the entire terms of engagement - we need to bring “burning the whole thing down and starting over” into the list of options under consideration. It’s the only way to bring Disney back to the bargaining table, at minimum.
Edit: A more practical approach would be to disolve every company that has engaged in an illegal merger (most large US companies). But I think that’s actually harder to accomplish, today, than voiding all IP law. It’s a better option, if we can swing it. The necessary laws are already on the books, they’re simply un-enforced.
Jeff Bezos never smashed the window on my car to steal my speakers,
True.
he doesnt come out vandalising public transport or parks and he isnt the reason my wife doesnt feel safe walking around at night.
If we could even comprehend the scale of his unpaid taxes, or their impact on our parks, we might discuss this at length…
That sounds entirely reasonable.