Russia kidnapped a ton of Ukrainian children and distributed them throughout Russia. So Ukraine needs to occupy that territory to protect the Ukrainians living there, clearly.
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It's impossible to run an AI company "ethically" because "ethics" are such a wibbly-wobbly and subjective thing, and because there are people who simply wish to use it as a weapon on one side of a debate or the other. I've seen goalposts shift around quite a lot in arguments over "ethical" AI.
My understanding is that webp isn't actually all that bad from a technical perspective, it was just annoying because it started getting used widely on the web before all the various tools caught up and implemented support for it.
I should note, there are cryptocurrencies that also don't use proof of work. Ethereum, the second-largest, switched away from proof of work two and a half years ago.
Replacing people with AI creates a situation where the incentive for people to make original works is greatly diminished,
Why would that be? It should be tye opposite, making VO cheaper means studios can take risks and get experimental. Basically what cheap engines have done for indie development.
An AI wouldn't make mistakes like this. This sort of screwup requires a human touch.
Bitcoin is over 15 years old now, that's not a particularly fast speedrun.
It's a specific type of thing, but it's not a brand. Nobody owns the trademark for Bitcoin. Anyone can buy, sell, or mine Bitcoin. It's no more a specific product than dollars are a specific product.
If they added a Bitcoin logo, then you'd see every other crypto lining up to get their logos permanently installed on every person's devices, too.
Is there a problem with that? This isn't "advertising", these are unicode symbols. There are unicode symbols for all kinds of things. Every currency has unicode symbols, why not cryptocurrencies?
What, did they put out an announcement at the morning briefing, ‘hey everyone if you see a stranger on our secret base make sure to shoot at them but not too accurately, even if this leads to your death’.
Yes. Exactly that. These are soldiers, they follow the orders they're given. Indeed, they're elite soldiers. The Emperor fully expects that if he orders them to their deaths they will follow those orders to the letter and die for him.
They were ordered to let the Rebels go, while also trying to make it look like they were trying to capture them. That means shooting at them and missing, but only just missing. It means letting yourself get shot if that's the only plausible way for those Rebels to escape. That takes incredible marksmanship and incredible discipline.
Remember Obi-wan himself stated earlier in that same movie that "only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise" when admiring the evidence of their assault on the Jawa sandcrawler. Obi-Wan knows what he's talking about. And that happened first, so you can't even call it a "retcon" by any standard.
Again, this is all stuff that was explicitly explained in the movie itself.
It was explained in the scene immediately after the Falcon departed the Death Star. Tarkin and Vader discussed the tracking device explicitly, and the fact that their escape was deliberate. Leia also speculated about it right after their escape, saying that their escape had been "too easy" and that she thought they'd let them go. This is in the same movie. How can that possibly be a "retcon"? Retcon is short for retroactive continuity, as in something that's made up after the book or movie came out to explain things that happened in previous books and movies. You can't retcon within the very same script.
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