Just an off-the-cuff example, a business review with a client. I'm involved in making the deck that's being shown, so I already know the talking points from our side; the only thing that's relevant to me is the client's response. The meeting might be 45 minutes of us presenting and 15 minutes of them responding, so if I can get a quick summary of those responses, I can save all that time.
Really don't know why you're getting downvoted. Getting a transcript and summary of an hour long meeting that you weren't at is so much easier than relying on someone taking and sending you notes.
No, but a multiplayer game which starts with, for example, 4 players could be reduced to 2 players before it ends, so they have to specify 'begins with' to keep that multiplayer game from also being a two-player game at that point.
And this really sums up the level of semantics and minutia that requires a 299 page comprehensive rule PDF for a card game.
In all fairness, the instructions you actually need to know to play the game could be summarized in a single page (with the caveat that there will be a lot of edge cases that won't be adequately explained there); tournament judges and, to a lesser extent, tournament players are the only folks who need to know the majority of what's in that PDF.
That said, the game is super archaic and hard to learn, and any player who thinks otherwise is probably either playing only at a super basic level, or just isn't considering how long they've been playing and how much nuance they've accumulated. Sorry you had a shitty experience; your friends absolutely should not have tried to throw you into the deep end like that. You sound like you already know, but to reiterate it, this was absolutely not a failing on your part and was 100% your friends' fault.
If you actually want to try the game (and I completely understand if you don't), you can go to a game store that sells MtG products and ask for a (free) intro deck. They're small decks with simpler cards and a booklet explaining the basic game rules that can be helpful to learn the game.
There's also Magic Arena, the computer game version, which really does a pretty good job of teaching the game. If you don't mind that format, I'd absolutely start there.
Really, the whole basis for the anti-AI arguments seem to boil down to "It feels wrong that a billionaire's corporation should be able to take the work of artists and writers and, without paying them for it, use it to create a tool that is then used to put them out of work." And that's absolutely 100% true, but it unfortunately doesn't hold any legal weight, and the terms we currently have to describe intellectual property theft simply aren't sufficient to describe what's going on here. Until new laws are passed, I don't see any of these attempts to stop AI going anywhere, but I'd love to be proven incorrect.
“Technology is gonna work to improve us, not just the people who own the technology and the CEOs of large corporations,” Sanders said. “You are a worker, your productivity is increasing because we give you AI, right? Instead of throwing you out on the street, I’m gonna reduce your work week to 32 hours.”
0% chance this wouldn't also come with a 20% pay cut.
An expensive, ineffective megaproject spearheaded by the Trump administration? I feel like we've seen this before, maybe something along the US-Mexico border? Can't quite put my finger on it.
Given it's targeting businesses violating a city ordinance that's in place to reduce pollution, I don't see an issue with it. If it was people snitching on other citizens for minor violations or something, I'd be against it.
I guess the qualifier for me is, is the law something that's in place for public good? If so, it should be enforced.
Under the Citizens Air Complaint Program, they can record idling trucks or buses, report them and keep 25% of any fines, which typically range from $350 to $600.
Even if you aren't doing it 6-9 hours a day like this guy is, getting a cool $75-$150 for making a report while out of the house anyway doesn't sound bad at all.
Not that I'd use this service for it, but I've had use cases for this sort of thing. It's not so much about plausible deniability as OP wants to sell it as, but more about security. You send the locked link (or a PW protected file or whatever) via, say, email, and the password through a text message. Then, in order for the data to be stolen, the attacker would need access to both of those, rather than only one. It's niche, but I've needed to do it for my job before, so I can at least see the point.
