calcopiritus

The CEO of the franchise doesn't hurt at all from stolen products. If they see a product is being stolen often, they just increase the price so everyone else pays for it.

FFXVI

I saw the trailer years ago and seemed good, so I wanted to give it a try. I of course looked for online reviews and game journalists were praising it so I bought it.

It's horrible. The only reason I played a lot of hours is because there's an endless stream of cinematics.

The strong point is supposed to be the story. But the story is so fucking stupid. The lore and world building is good, but the story is shit.

I don't know how game journalists are even allowed to exist.

EDIT: mistakenly wrote XIV instead of XVI

Checks out with my experience in university. I had like 3-4 classmates in software engineering that could program a simple program that ran. And this was before LLMs. You don't even need to cheat to pass while being absolutely incompetent. Of course, some people also cheated.

Maybe you are getting a lot of dmg. In order to heal you need a full hunger bar. And healing depletes your hunger bar fast.

There's also a hidden second hunger bar. You need higher quality food to fill that one. Maybe you are using lower quality food now.

This is actually true though. Basically every country has done it.

If printing money results in enough value created, there is no inflation.

Of course, you have to create a lot of value per money printed, which no country has achieved. And that's where taxes come in and fill the gap.

Many of the "economic miracles" involved printing a lot of money. But since their value output increased so fast, (and again, taxes) they experienced little inflation.

It is theoretically possible to print money without taxes and not have inflation. That would be more than a miracle though. If you get even more efficient with money, even deflation would happen.

It's the same reasoning behind debt. Debt is "bad" because you have to pay more than what you were paid. But if you are smart with that money and create more money from it, you can pay back the debt (including interests) and get some extra money for yourself.

The edge of the observable universe is not because of that.

It is because space expands. Therefore everything goes away from everything else. Therefore, everything goes away from us. And the more space there is between us and that other thing, the more space expands, since there is more space. Therefore, things that are farther away from us, get away from us faster than everything else. Only if it is close enough to us that gravity is strong enough would that something not move away from us.

This creates a peculiar situation. Things that are far enough away from us, actually move away from us faster than the speed of light. This means that no photon ever emitted from this far away will ever reach us.

That is the edge of the observable universe. The distance at which a photon emitted in our direction will never reach us, since for every meter the photon travels, there is at least a meter of space "created" between us. Therefore it never progresses in moving towards us, in fact, it moves away from us even though it is traveling in our direction.

Nah. For most of human history there were not referendums to "let them choose". They just annexed the place.

The referendums is a relatively modern "invention".

Asking the people that currently leave there is not always the correct course of action though.

You want that land over there? Then you just have to kill/displace anyone currently living there, then fill it with your own citizens, then ask them. Easy land grab. Also a genocide.

There was no colonization.

The issue with the malvinas/Falklands is that there are no "historically rightful owners", since no one lived there when they were discovered by the British.

But it's also not as easy as "the British discovered, so it's theirs", because they just discovered and left. They didn't leave no settlement.

The islands have a complicated history, both sides have strong arguments in favor of themselves, there's no clear cut "rightful owner".

Yes. Dying your hair crazy colors will get you attention. But it doesn't mean that you dyed your hair because you wanted attention.

If my dog goes too far away, I will shout its name very loud so it hears me and comes back to me.

Doing this will inevitably draw the attention of most of the people around me. But that was not my intention though, I just wanted the attention of my dog. The attention of the other people is just an unavoidable side effect. It may even be an unwanted side effect.

This is not a list of all the things they are banning AI from.

This is a list of every reasonable use of LLMs they can think of in their environment.

So if anyone thinks "hmm, I know they don't like LLM contributions but I'm just going to use it once for X". The immediate next thought should be "They don't even allow LLMs to spell check, therefore my single use of LLM for X will not be welcome, I will not do it".

Basically none of this is enforceable. The rules are there so if someone is caught doing something, it can be pointed out that that something is written in the rules. And also to give a general sense of what is tolerated or not in a community.

This reminds me of a traffic law in my country:

It is illegal to go all the way around a roundabout 3 times in a row. There is not a police officer ok every roundabout, or a camera counting how many times you go around it. But if a kid goes off and do stupid shit at 2AM with a loud AF car, one of the things one might do is do many loops on a roundabout. Therefore they can't just say "I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm just using the public roads with my car and a valid driver's license". Since one of the things they did was doing more than 3 rounds in a roundabout.