efrique

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[–] efrique@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The "what percentage do you think" vs "what percentage are" would be much better either as a scatterplot with a y=x line, or as a ratio (think/are) vs actual percent

Here's a rough plot of the second thing. There's a number of issues with it but I think it more clearly conveys the crucial information

The first plot might arguably be better but you couldn't really see the way the ratio of overestimation decreased with more immigration as clearly as this one.

rough plot of ratio vs actual

edit: Damn that came out way smaller than I expected. It's readable if you zoom in

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 222 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm fine with this. "We can't succeed without breaking the law" isn't much of an argument.

Do I think the current copyright laws around the world are fine? No, far from it.

But why do they merit an exception to the rules that will make them billions, but the rest of us can be prosecuted in severe and dramatic fashion for much less. Try letting the RIAA know you have a song you've downloaded on your PC that you didn't pay for - tell them it's for "research and training purposes", just like AI uses stuff it didn't pay for - and see what I mean by severe and dramatic.

It should not be one rule for the rich guys to get even richer and the rest of us can eat dirt.

Figure out how to fix the laws in a way that they're fair for everyone, including figuring out a way to compensate the people whose IP you've been stealing.

Until then, deal with the same legal landscape as everyone else. Boo hoo

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

33 arty, wow. Still hitting logistics hard too, by the look.

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Just need to get AI on that.

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

damn

Among other issues that's going to make it harder for them to do other stuff.

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

goes down with distance by an exponential factor
(1/x^3)

Umm... those two things are not equivalent. b^(-x) would be exponential, x^(-k) is inverse-power for whatever k

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Its showing for me

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It has been a pretty short trip from "Don't be evil" to "The cutting edge of late stage capitalism"

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

took me a minute. Still waking up. The Bilbo Frodo age diff is 111-33, though so if this is Frodo at 50, Bilbo is older than 111 at the time of writing

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

face, meet leopard

[–] efrique@lemm.ee 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

git branch testing.stephanie.slept.with.my.friend.brad

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