So what’s the final outcome? A long prison sentence or a few years hanging out on appeal followed by a few years in a low security federal penitentiary and a long career doing speaking engagements and appearances?
Holmes got 9 years, but her actions had severe real world effects on people. Is that the ceiling for SBF?
I disagree with almost all of these conclusions. I appreciate web pages that are sparse and concise. High information density is _not_ generally a good thing.
I like clean websites with lots of space. I don’t mind long scrolling websites, though I don’t particularly like the trend of stupid animations that happen as you scroll down.
I appreciate that “mobile first” has forced web designers to simplify web sites to be concise. Less is more!
There was a period where getting a new computer or phone meant you’d viscerally feel the power in your hands and everything would be tangibly snappier.
Then the SW and Product teams would catch up, add more crap and it’d be time for a new machine.
It seems like that cycle has ended and HW will never catch up again at this point.
Clean code (OOP, DRY, etc) is optimized for maintainability and extensibility, not necessarily performance.
In fact, I think it’s pretty well understood that clean code is a tradeoff wrt performance, at least that’s the way I’ve always understood it.
Clean code works well for something like a web app that’ll need to be maintained by scores of different engineers over many years or decades.
At least that’s the theory. In practice, at least some level of abstraction makes it a bit easier to rip and replace parts of the app without a total rewrite.
This same narrative is used in music all the time. Technology makes it ever easier to produce near-perfect music.
Every note is perfectly in tune and on time. Every drum hit is perfectly on the grid and even acoustic drums are typically layered with samples of perfect drum hits.
Fewer analog instruments are used in favor of synthesized sounds.
Some of this is aesthetics, but much of it is profit driven.
I don’t think it’s my, or anyone’s, place to say if it’s bad or good though.
If anything, I think we’re just unfortunate to be living in a time between organic analog and digital that’s so good it’s even more organic than analog.
30 or 50 years from now, I think this will all be sorted out. Music will be super easy to make and will sound like musicians in a room like the good ol’ days. Movies will feel rich and deep and real. Video games will finally not feel like Doom with higher resolution.
Of course, then people will long for the simple days of the 2020’s when movies, music and games were so much better.
Whether you buy it, borrow it or build it; you’re locked in to the chosen solution.
Homegrown solutions are often harder to escape from than commercial or FOSS solutions.
It’s sometimes easier to escape from one commercial solution to another as companies will provide migration tools and docs as part of their competitive strategy.
You can mitigate solution lock-in through good architecture, but you can never eliminate the cost of change.
I’ve come to realize that the people that “wrote the book” on a particular subject aren’t necessarily experts, they’re just the person who happened to be motivated to write a book on the subject.
Learning about a subject or an event comes from hearing many voices, across a broad spectrum of perspectives and opinions.
Then you can form your own conclusions out of all the possible truths.
I just can’t accept that depriving someone of revenue for hard work (toil, stress, exhaustion, etc.) isn’t stealing.
The act of people stealing the work is a clear demonstration of sufficient demand, no? If the price is too high or supply too low, that doesn’t excuse theft. It never has.
Wage theft is stealing. If I tell you I’ll paint your house for $100 and then paint your house and you don’t pay me, that’s theft, which is stealing.
Piracy is equivalent to wage theft, which is stealing. A bunch of people did a bunch of work and ask that people pay for the output of their labor. Those who decide to take that output without paying are stealing. They are thieves.
The length of copyright laws is a separate matter. Yeah, they protect major artists and labels with millions, but they also protect small artists who live off their work.
If you take a digital copy of something for free that you should have paid for, you are not a pirate and you are not Robin Hood, you are a thief. The same as someone who walks into a store and steals or snatches a purse off a park bench.
I’ve been seeing people deflect morality over stealing digital copies for most of my life and it’s always amazed me how it’s the only act of thievery that people openly discuss and brag about.
Somehow stealing copies of art is okay, but stealing cars is not.
Wouldn’t cloning a TV deprive the manufacturer (and all associated parties) of revenue?
Doesn’t copying a digital work without consent deprive the creator (and all associated parties) of revenue?
Isn’t deliberately depriving a person or persons of remuneration for their work stealing?
The laws against making digital copies of a work without the consent of the rights holder are not arbitrary. They’re in place to ensure those who invested time and money into creating something can earn money from the thing they create.
I agree with this. Theft of digital copies is still theft.
Someone made something with the intention of selling _copies_ of said thing.
Taking a copy for free deprives the creator (or the rights owner) of revenue. That is stealing.
Yeah it’s often exceedingly inconvenient or sometimes impossible to legally obtain a copy of a movie, song, book or software. But that still doesn’t justify stealing a copy.
The availability of copies of digital products to you is at the discretion of the rights holder. You don’t get to decide that you now have the right to take a free copy.
If you decide to take a free copy of a digital product without the rights holder’s consent, you are stealing, which is wrong, no matter how much you want the thing or how expensive or difficult it is to obtain.
I guess maybe a cop would still need a warrant to use the data, but what about civil court cases?