This is bollocks. AA gives users a means of paying to enjoy faster speeds as a means of contributing to costs, but the downloads are free to anyone who doesn't want to pay, and very often quick enough.

You're repeating the seller's contextual point, as if it's a counterargument. Do I need to explain to you that what makes the lone surviving 18th century edition important is that there aren't 75 copies of it in museums?

> And lastly, if these books are so important, then don’t sell them, hold onto them, digitize them without destroying them.

It's good to see you agree any digitization of this category of book should be non-destructive.

> If these books are so rare and important, then why has no one cared until now to actually preserve them?

(Lastly for realz this time, eh?) Why has no-one cared to actually preserve the actually preserved book being sold by the bookseller... Bit of a strange question, that.

This idea that there can only be merit in a work if it's commercially viable is incredibly ignorant, and if that becomes the standard for whether a work is preserved or not, we stand to lose a great deal of our cultural heritage.

BBC good enough for you?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o

"A recent academic text published in only 100 copies, 75 of which are already in libraries, may be very rare on the market - but it is perhaps not such a great loss if one copy is destroyed," says Derek Walker, owner of Edinburgh bookshop McNaughtan's.

"But we have, and have sold, books which are for example the only known surviving example of an edition from the 18th century.

"It would be a much more significant problem if one like that were to be bought for destruction, having survived this long."

If you've read the articles covering this issue, you'll be aware the concern is over the fate of rare and out of print books, rather than your straw man (ie those available in 'thousands to millions' of copies).

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o

> "A recent academic text published in only 100 copies, 75 of which are already in libraries, may be very rare on the market - but it is perhaps not such a great loss if one copy is destroyed," says Derek Walker, owner of Edinburgh bookshop McNaughtan's.

> "But we have, and have sold, books which are for example the only known surviving example of an edition from the 18th century.

> "It would be a much more significant problem if one like that were to be bought for destruction, having survived this long."

GIMP's UX is just bad. I loathe photoshop and desperately want to like GIMP, but each time I make the attempt the friction is too much and the workflows nonsensical. I used it a few weeks ago to place two images side by side in a larger canvas. It took half an hour in this mental little app to figure out how. I haven't have any issues with Inkscape and even Darktable ended up making sense. This is squarely a Gimp thing. Paraphrasing Kat Williams, "If people are calling you a crackhead for 20 years, you're smoking crack."

Typically wretched stuff from a formerly great broadsheet that these days is only reliable in organizing rabid pile-ons and hounding people to their deaths.

> The rapid adoption, in the absence of hard evidence, prompted Chinese regulators to intervene. Last year, they restricted the procedure to more-formalized clinical research settings, rather than the ad hoc use that had proliferated previously. And Xie, the pioneer of the technique, has been in detention since September for undisclosed reasons.

Though of course you're talking about data centers, and romanticizing them rather than the AI itself.

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