*Thinnest and yet roughest. Not thick enough to be a barrier, and it can rub you raw to provide an entry point at the same time!

The issue with "Human jobs will be replaced" is that society still requires humans to have a paying job to survive.

I would love a world where nobody had to do dumb labour anymore, and everyone's needs are still met.

I imagine part of the problem is women seeing the start of menopause and thinking that means they're no longer fertile. It's a process, not an off switch.

No, close the lid because that's how you avoid coating everything in the room with a film of urine and feces. Open toilets are disgusting.

Cost is the short version, yes.

I don't know what kind of servos everyone here is talking about that are less precise than open loop steppers. Low quality hobbyist stuff, I guess? Proper servo motors & drives are the standard for good reason for robotics, industrial CNC machines, and pretty much everything else that needs powerful motors with high precision. Much higher power density, higher RPM (good for increasing torque with a gearbox), equivalent or better precision, plus closed loop control is a huge capability and safety gain.

That said, good, industrial quality servo motors are 1) expensive and 2) aren't made in small enough sizes to be comparable to the steppers on most 3D printers. Even the smallest industrial servo + drive I've seen is about 5x as big as the steppers on a personal 3D printer and costs $800ish. Obviously, both are deal breakers for a personal 3D printer.

3D printers are a fairly ideal application for steppers. The moving parts are small and light, meaning you both don't need a large motor and the danger of slippage is lower. Plus, steppers are cheap.

NFTs do not solve the problem of proof of ownership. Nor can they. If someone steals it from you - whether by trickery, force, or any other means - it's just as lost to you as any other stolen thing, digital or physical. (Not to touch on the fact that NFTs to date have just been URLs to web hosted media, i.e. ridiculously non-unique and insecure.)

Also, your whole paragraph about theoretical NFT replacement for DRM is just describing a different kind of DRM.

It's not infantilization. These bills are designed to prevent "one more hoop" design by the company to make it too annoying to unsubscribe. Your position assumes good faith behaviour by the company with the newsletter. That is absolutely not a given.

In other words, AGI is what every layperson thinks of when people talk about AI. It's (sort of) what you see in the movies.

LLMs, and every other AI technology we currently have, do not actually have any form of intelligence. They're called AI because the sub-field of computer science that they arose from is called AI, and has been for decades.

That's fine? Payroll is an expense, it does come out of revenue. Profit is what's left over after they pay everyone else.

Random pick without replacement is no less random than random pick with replacement. You just have a continuously smaller pool to pick from.

It's absolutely possible to have better randomness/shuffle without repeating songs so often.

Lol, then they would have to demonstrate that there were damages. The worst a TOS violation will get you is a ban.

It's broken now? I'd say that's a bold assumption that it ever worked in the first place.

Edit: to be clear, I mean that it is and always has been an impossible problem. The only reason it ever worked is because some broker company wanted it as a feature, not because anything compelled them to give original artists a cut. And that's before you consider the question, "but how do you know the NFT was made by the original artist?"