They’re sure you will, or some will, but the number of customers they lose will be offset by the revenue gained.
Since that’s the only metric they really care about at the end of the day it makes “sense” to them to do it.
They’re sure you will, or some will, but the number of customers they lose will be offset by the revenue gained.
Since that’s the only metric they really care about at the end of the day it makes “sense” to them to do it.
It’s also good to remember that Katrina’s storm surge and the subsequent failure of the levees and flooding of the city is what was so damaging.
Besides the wind and rain the destruction of the levees took a huge toll on New Orleans.
And the movement they make doesn’t benefit from flippers.
Humans can shift their body forward and kick their legs which flippers can amplify.
These entanglements change us
That’s a great summary. I’ve really enjoyed all of his books.
I can’t wait for December 6th when Wind and Truth releases.
I’m finishing a reread of the Stormlight Archive now.
And the powers, as in all the Cosmere, has limits which balances it out.
No endless pushes, flying, etc. every world has some resources or constraint so you’re not left with a “Superman” kind of scenario.
For a pure magic example
The Mistborn era 1 (books 1-3) are fantasty magic.
Mistborn era 2 (books 4-7) occur hundreds of years later in that worlds “industrial/steam” age. Still, with magic.
So, for example, some allomancers can push or pull on metals. In Era 1 that’s used for combat but also for rapid movement. An allomancer can fall from a wall, throw a coin and “push” off of it causing them to bounce forward and upwards. As they’re starting to reach the azimuth they “pull” the coin, catch it and repeat.
They also in combat throw and then “push” coins or metal fragments like shrapnel.
In Era 2. A sheriff (who’s an allomancer) leaps across a gully, aims and shoots a bullet into a wooden crate and then “pushes” on it to cross it.
Another time during a shootout one “pushes” gunfire away so it deflects around him. Not guaranteed to get all of the bullets but useful in situations like that.
There are other uses and other allomantic abilities but the entire shift of the format was just done phenomenally.
Can’t recommend the Mistborn series enough
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Feral but leashed. And the leashes came off I guess.
So… public shopping post Covid? So many people act “feral” now.
I wish this amalgamation of various shoppers was pure fiction and not almost the norm now.
What do you mean my snarling uncontrolled dog can’t urinate in the cart at the checkout line? And where’s that cashier? Why do I have to wait? Don’t they know I have to get back before Olsteen’s special service comes on? These kids are so lazy… why doesn’t anybody do their jobs anymore!?!
Pushed cigarettes on kids
I see a lot of good answers here but let’s try it from another angle.
How do we get randomness from a function or formula?
For starters let’s setup a few simple rules.
Every time our random function is called we’ll
So let’s call it.
> Random()
Since LAST_RESULT is undefined SET LAST_RESULT to the value of 1
Set X to the result of this calculation
(LAST_RESULT+1) * 3
X is now 6
Set X to the result of this calculation
(X + 7) / 2
X is now 7
Set X to the result of this calculation (rounding to the nearest whole number)
X/LAST_RESULT
X is now 7
Set LAST_RESULT to the value of X
LAST_RESULT is now 7
Return the value of X as the result
Result is 7
Ok. So let’s call it again
> Random()
Set X to the result of this calculation
(LAST_RESULT+1) * 3
X is now 24
Set X to the result of this calculation
(X + 7) / 2
X is now 16
Set X to the result of this calculation (rounding to the nearest whole number)
X/LAST_RESULT
X is now 2
Set LAST_RESULT to the value of X
LAST_RESULT is now 2
Return the value of X as the result
Result is 2
And if we call it again we get seemingly random results
Random() Result is 4
Random() Result is 3
But the next time you run it you’ll get the same results in the same order. 7, then 2 then 4 then 3
So what you need is something to “seed” the random number calculation.
Something like
SetRandomSeed Set LAST_RESULT to the current second of the day
Then when you call Random after this it starts with that as the prior results and gives seemingly random results.
Of course my calculations are rough and probably fail/repeat after so many calls but it gives you an idea of how this works.
So the trick is to get noise for the seed. That could be the number of non leap seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on Thursday, 1 January 1970 (Unix epoch)
Or the temperature reading of a CPU chip.
Maybe it’s the ratio of red vs yellow from a camera feed looking at lava lamps.
Or the current users average typing speed.
An additional note. Many of those would not be “cryptographically” secure for encryption because they can easily be determined by a third party. We all experience the same “Unix epoch” within a few milliseconds if our system clocks are properly set for example. Or monitored from afar and reproduced (hacked webcam shows they had just typed the following letters in the previous 27 seconds that we know the “algorithm” uses, etc.
Here’s more if you’d like to read about it.
https://www.copyright.gov/engage/visual-artists/
I remember when the DMCA was introduced and all the various issues arising from what and isn’t copyrightable when it comes to digital vs physical copies, etc.
Again I’d like to recommend Leonard French (Lawful Masse) on YouTube and Twitch for a copyright lawyers breakdown of these kinds of issues.
And therein lies the rub. When it comes to copyright every infringement case has to be adjudicated by a judge (assuming they have filed a copyright)
I can definitely recommend Leonard French’s (a copyright lawyer) channel Lawful Masses on YouTube and Twitch for a more in-depth breakdown of copyright cases. How it works, the rights that copyright holders have, etc.
I’m not Anti AI. I have fun making stuff with it.
But the copyright laws as they are don’t apply. And if they did it would open a can of worms legally.
The recipe can’t be copyrighted. The cake produced can’t be copyrighted. But the packaging or style of a cake with your brand could be trademarked which is a different legal ball of wax entirely
It’s a good analogy but one thing to consider is that the artist is the copyright holder.
The company that directed it only has the copyright either by explicit contract transferring rights or because it’s a work for hire where the employee’s copyright work is “automatically” transferred to their employer.
Some interesting case law on that from Disney artists, comic book authors, etc
It has to be fixed in a tangible medium.
In this case they’re not “fixing” their words and the final art is the created expression. Yet in this case their created expression wasn’t created by them but the program.
In this case their combination is the palette and paint but the program “interpreted” and so fixed it.
For example you can’t copyright a simple and common saying. Nor something factual like a phone book. Likewise you can’t copyright recipes. There has to be a “creative” component by a human. And courts have ruled that AI generated content doesn’t meet that threshold.
That’s not to say that creating the right prompt isn’t an “art” (as in skill and technique) and there is a lot of work in getting them to work right. Likewise there’s a lot of work in compiling recipes, organizing them, etc. but even then only the “design” part of the arrangement of the facts, and excluding the factual content, can be copyrighted.
It’s like how the earth bulges out at the equator.
The momentum pulls them out, gravity pulls it back. Similar thing at the solar and galactic planes.
They “bulge” relatively to the spin of the material over time and the clumps of material then forms planets along that general plane.
From the aboves video you can see this at 44seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCkhEu3lYNc&t=44s
And a relevant PBS Spacetime video
Why is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
But the biggest reason is the way gasses form in space. As noted in the above video at the 8:45 mark. Gasses aren’t able to fall back into the center along their axis of spin because of their momentum. But the gassed above and below the plane can move towards the gathering material there by gravity and so it flattens out.
That’s great. Here’s another funny take on the concept by Natural Habitat Shorts
https://youtube.com/shorts/_brza_A_qEk
And I like how they put actual factoids in the titles.