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merc, to mildlyinteresting in An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway

But, that’s $100k for a hobby.

Like, you’re almost certainly not using that plane to commute. You may use it instead of buying a commercial plane ticket when you go on vacation somewhere, but that’s not saving you any money, it’s likely costing you significantly more in storage fees, etc.

People who own planes aren’t billionaire-rich necessarily, but they’re still people who can afford hobbies that cost $100k.

merc, to programmer_humor in Every goddamn time

I’ve been to an NFL game twice, and it’s so much worse in person. At home at least the ad breaks are a chance to go to the bathroom or get a snack. At the game it’s not worth getting out of your seat and trudging up to the concourse because 2 minutes isn’t long enough for that. So, instead, you sit and wait for the action to resume.

It also makes it more clear that a lot of the long timeouts are purely TV-based.

There are plenty of time-outs that have to do with the state of the game: teams calling time-outs to discuss a plan, a time-out after a point is scored while the sides change, the 2-minute warning, the break after the 1st and 3rd quarters, and so-on. But, you also get explicit TV timeouts that are called by the TV networks when it’s been too long since the last commercial.

In the stadium when that happens the offense might be in a flow, and the defense may be wobbling. But, the TV networks need to show their ads, so the network calls a timeout. Meanwhile, the players just stand around on the field, ready for the next play until the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_timeout#/media/File:NFL_Sideline_Television_Coordinators.jpg lowers his bright orange glove.

merc, to linux in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?

Google

merc, to memes in Honestly

It’s also been just over 150 years since the last civil war.

merc, to piracy in The "Steamboat Willie" debacle or: Why IP does us more harm than good

Bullshit, why even bother then?

Because being creative is enjoyable.

merc, to programmer_humor in 4 billion if statements

Libraries are also written and maintained by humans.

It’s fine to optimize if you can truly justify it, but that’s going to be even harder in libraries that are going to be used on multiple different architectures, etc.

merc, to piracy in Prime is adding ads to their streaming service

It seems like it would work because people wouldn’t think they got their value out of their prime membership yet and are reluctant to cancel after such a short time.

merc, to lemmyshitpost in trash

Anything talking about the evolution of the “Trash Can Icon” should be starting with the Apple version that Microsoft copied.

merc, to memes in I sure hope I can keep up!

This wasn’t a call center, it was a sysadmin / software development sweatshop workspace.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Wage theft isn’t theft, it’s fraud.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

That’s just one element of theft.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Nah, no need to go to laws, just use a dictionary.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

I’m all in favour of people being pedantic, especially in the case of laws.

If you are using the term theft colloquially

I’m not, “theft” is misused all the time. It’s something that the copyright cartels encourage because they get to pretend that copyright infringement is theft. It’s not. We should push back and say theft has to meet certain conditions, and copyright infringement isn’t theft. Nor is “wage theft”, which is a form of fraud.

By buying into the colloquial definition of “theft” and expanding the scope to be any time someone is inconvenienced, you give the copyright cartels power to make people think copyright infringement is as bad as actual real theft, when it’s clearly not.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Not really, theft is theft. Fraud is fraud. Just because something feels like theft doesn’t make it theft.

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

you have stolen my labour

No, that’s not theft. That’s fraud.

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