copyright is long overdue for a total rework

the internet demands it.

the people demand free mega upload for everybody, why? because we can (we seem to NOT want to, but that should be a politically solvable problem)

> finding an ideal universal compressor which definitely doesn't exist.

if only we could explain this in "politician" language... too many with too much power think the second coming will deliver the "ideal universal" which doesn't exist

> a "right to knowledge"?

it's the right to observe somebody else without their consent: it's quiet scientific observation that tries not to disturb the observed which is impossible in the quantum level but very realistic in the day to day classic (non-quantum) level

tl;dr: the right to create knowledge i.e. do science

I think you're being sarcastic, but you've missed the point.

The point, restated, is this: When we pass laws that say "There are factually true things that you are not allowed to know under penalty of law" we had better be damn sure the tradeoff is worth it. Sometimes it will be, sometimes it won't. The exact line will always be ill-defined.

they might just remember it all once they're adults!

imagine that!? an historically informed populace???

you'd need more expensive lies and higher quality fakes... the government would be costlier to run.

ideally, in the long term this would make the national currency's value in the international money market rise up. but why wait for that when one can directly manipulate money through trade fraud and covert military ploys?

That's not the point, the point is the ordering is inverted, not that history shouldn't be learned.

sorry, 42 is not gonna take us much farther

42 is a stand in for 41 and 43 which are some twin prime

for me to further elaborate on this crazy idea that haunts me (I must admit I also haunt these ideas) requires a twin prime theorem which we are still waiting for in 2025....

there are two kinds of hackers

those with children

those without

as a hacker without children because i got priced out of the market, why should i care about what tiktok does or ceases to do?

honest question, if tough to answer

or maybe i'm only trying to explain why I don't have a model of being in a formative state.... I mean, dogs don't use tiktok

>as a hacker without children because i got priced out of the market, why should i care about what tiktok does or ceases to do?

Because you want to live in a society where people have the attention spans necessary to e.g. drive cars safely without distraction and you want people to not be so vastly ignorant at scale that they collectively endorse or tolerate fascist behavior from governments and corporations?

have you considered the fact that you have to co-exist in the same space as other people, and that negative societal outcomes can also harm you?

A protein is a molecule What a strange reply

“Chemistry literacy” is very poor in the general public because it has very few everyday applications, so everything learnt at school just drops out of people’s brains.

That’s why your hear nonsense like “It has chemicals in it!!!”

It’s also why you regularly see science fiction where characters can grow in seconds, totally breaking the law of conservation of matter.

El Salvador means "the savior"...

simply put, not for him. this man did not get saved by this version of the savior... he got wrecked by El Salvador rather than saved

Protestors actually do refer to it as "No Salvador".