You don't pay people because it's the only motivator. You pay people because you need money to survive in this world. If we don't, then the only people who can afford to spend time making mods are those who are already have their basic needs taken care of through other means.
I would like to see a world where anyone with the passion for modding can make mods.
Based on what I hear from my colleagues' experiences, most of them still want to continue doing research, but there aren't enough research jobs and funding available for all of them.
I can't tell if you're trying to say Alpine skiing is scary or that you're into all the stuff people consider to be extreme sports.
My online persona is definitely different from IRL, and it differs IRL depending on who I'm interacting with. But these are all the real me. My ability to communicate via text is generally better than spoken, so that is reflected in how I write, what I write about, as well as how little I speak in person.
Secondly, in person communication has clearer continuity. If I have multiple conversations with a given person, I learn a bit about them and their communication style, allowing me to adjust how I speak to be better understood by that person. Online, I rarely remember who I'm talking to, so I just write in whatever way feels most natural to me.
The real time nature of in person communication also limits what you can bring up and when. Anything you say requires the other party to respond immediately, and if you recognize that they're not in the mood to think particularly hard, then you don't bring up difficult topics. Online conversations don't come with this kind of information, but it does give you the flexibility to answer whenever you want, or not at all, so many things that I would not deem acceptable in an IRL setting can be acceptable online.
So in summary, different situations do call for different behaviours. But that's not problematic any more than behaving differently at a party and at a funeral is problematic.
If you're blending it up into a powder anyway, wouldn't it make more sense to add the paprika at the end? Does adding it before baking actually make a difference?
Volume is only useful for things that are non-compressible (i.e. fluid). What if you're measuring flour? Usually, the measurements are given for sifted flour, but that's not something you would know unless you're experienced in the kitchen. And even if you do sift your flour, there's still going to be a lot of variation depending on how much things get compressed again as you're scooping it out.
Ask yourself why you're donating in the first place. Is it so that good journalism can continue to exist regardless of who gets to see it? Is it to give everyone access to good journalism regardless of their ability to pay? Is it so that the journalists can continue producing content for you to consume yourself? Maybe it's something else?
If the company is no longer providing what you expect from them, then that's a good reason to stop donating.
We're assuming that you're talking to someone who's willing to have a discussion in good faith.
You'd first need to know why that isn't a sufficiently solid answer. Are they looking for a perfect solution? Because I'm pretty sure there isn't one. What we want is an improvement over the status quo, and sometimes an overall improvement necessitates a worse experience in certain areas.
We've been doing this in RL research with Minecraft as well (see MineDojo). An excerpt from the GitHub page:
MineDojo [...] provides open access to an internet-scale knowledge base of 730K YouTube videos, 7K Wiki pages, 340K Reddit posts.
Again, no one has run into legal issues with this yet either, but this also isn't as ubiquitous compared to Atari, nor has it been around for as long.
Did you mean to respond to a different comment? I have no idea what happened in the VP debate.
The very first response I gave said you just have to reframe state.
And I said "am augmented state space would make it Markovian". Is that not what you meant by reframing the state? If not, then apologies for the misunderstanding. I do my best, but I understand that falls short sometimes.
Loot box and that gambling business aside, wouldn't the FOMO argument also apply to the video game itself? If everyone around you is playing this game, you'll be pressured into purchasing it yourself as well.