Me: “oh ha. ha. /S”

Me 5 min later: *tap* *tap* *tap* *giggle* *tap*

I mean, companies off shore software development all the time.

Think about literally every object in the universe, every person, every shoe, every table, every rock, grain of sand, grain of dust, elephant, tree, blade of grass, grape, etc…

Apples and Oranges are some of the most similar of all of them.

You weren’t, relevantly implies that there is additional context that determines their relevance. Often when people say “two things aren’t comparable”, they’re trying to use that shorthand to avoid debating the context that would make them comparable or incomparable.

No, things always have inherent context by nature of being things. Context can be used to make things incomparable, but they’re always inherently comparable without explicit context needing to be provided. This is literally the entire basis of the game 20 Questions.

these thinga are too dissimilar to be compared meaningfully. Like if some article says which is the best tool? And they give you a rake, a network router, and a nailgun. Then you meed context.

I think to OPs point though, is that all of those two things can be compared. The context of the article is what makes them incomparable. But if you asked me to compare a router to a nailgun I could talk durability, power draw, intended function, materials, relative ability to make it through TSA, etc etc.

Literally no two things are fundamentally incomparable. Things are only incomparable in specific contexts.

Absolutely fair scenario, I’m not advocating to abandon copyright with nothing to replace it.

The fundamental structure of copyright right now, is one based around granting ownership and exclusivity rights, but only the second part is flawed, the exclusivity rights part.

A copyright system that makes sense in the digital age is an ownership and attribution system, whereby in that scenario, Drake would acknowledge that it’s your song and then a certain portion of his proceeds from that song would end up going to you automatically. If he didn’t he would face a regulator / court / arbitration system that could impose massive penalties to disincentivize non acknowledgement.

It doesn’t really change any of the economics of live art, but for digital art, rather than everyone paying for different subscriptions and having all the profits go to enriching middle men with exclusive, non competitive contracts, everyone would always have free access to everything and you’d have the streaming and viewership numbers etc influence how much money the government or an arm’s length arts agency / crown corporation is paying out to artists.

Judging the relative merits of two things, and noting the differences between disparate things, is fundamentally the same thing.

You can define a car as a steering wheel and an engine and a gear box etc.

Or you can define a car as a generic object and one of the first fundamental properties of all generic objects is the list of all other features and properties that that object has.

So noting the differences between two things, is really just judging the relative merits of their collection of properties.

I would argue that @Spzi@lemm.ee is correct, and people often use “can’t be compared” incorrectly, or they intentionally use it that way to be over the top and dramatic, like saying I love you to infinity.

I’ve been on multiple teams that do and it’s so much better than the teams that don’t.

Ideal standup (cameras off):

• -2:00 - 0:00 mark: light chit chat if earlybirds want while waiting for standup to start

• 15s-45s / per person: what did you work on yesterday, what are you working on today.

  • An extra 45s if you have a blocker. The resolution during the meeting is always either:
    • ‘blocked, nothing I can do, moving onto X ticket’,
    • ‘someone tells me who to talk to to unblock’
    • ‘me and a team member agree to meet after the standup to discuss how to unblock’

• 0-2min total for offboard updates: who has a doctor’s appointment, needs to take time off, happy anniversary, etc.

Trust me, it provides value. For those of us with problems leaving everything to the last minute, having a little biweekly accountability and structure can really help prevent problems from getting too big.

I personally disagree. If you write a song, why can’t I learn it and sing it? If you build a guitar, and I take it, then you can’t use it, but if I just learn to sing your song then I’m not depriving you of anything. Why should you be able to prevent me from singing what I want when it doesn’t harm you?

The idea that you should get to control your creative works and no one should be allowed to touch them feels to me like it’s just appeasing control freaks while costing massive amounts in terms of remixing, and creativity.

While rewarding artists is a good idea, in the digital age, copyright is a fundamentally bad way of doing it. The entire core concept of copyright exists because unlike physical goods, information can be copied and replicated nearly infinitely for zero cost, and when something is ubiquitous, capitalism says that its value is $0. So rather than embrace the fact that information now has effectively zero cost to distribute to everyone once it’s digitized, we spent billions on lawyers and laws, and engineers and technological walls, all just to create artificial scarcity so that it would have value again.

There is a fundamental difference between the properties and behaviour of information, and the properties and behaviour of physical matter, and at a core level copyright is a hamfisted way of trying to mash digital information distribution into a system designed for the distribution of physical goods.

If that’s your take away from the article I question your reading comprehension.

ITT: people who min/max instead of focusing on winning.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/09/biden-polling-debate-trump

She’s polling generally poorly against Trump and Biden wasn’t that hurt by the debate. Here you go: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/09/biden-polling-debate-trump

K. How does she poll against Trump?

Franken comes off just as old and won’t win over centrist voters, Harris is possibly less charismatic than Clinton, Buttigieg would be a great president and I would support his candidacy all the way, but realistically I don’t know if America would rally behind him by November, Newsom might but he might also be a Mitt Romney, Whitmer I don’t know enough about.

If you wanna champion Biden to step aside for Franken, go for it, but I quite frankly have an extremely hard time seeing him beat Trump.

Why can’t Joe beat Trump? Because he seems old and confuses things? You think that’s why people are voting for Trump?

No, the pundits are saying he should pull out.

It should be, but the time and place for it was in the primaries, not when you’re up against another word salad candidate with a die hard rock solid base.