Barrin92

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by Barrin92 11mo ago
No, inflation is a monetary and political phenomenon. Companies cannot set prices arbitrarily, in particular not the fast food industry which faces what is probably the strongest competition on the planet. The entire restaurant industry doe
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
companies don't work like people, there is no limit to their desires. Trying to appeal to the good taste of a trillion dollar company is, as the anecdote goes, like letting a tiger swallow you up to the shoulders and then demand that i
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
>Why do the dutch feel the need to show goodwill towards CCP? They're not showing goodwill, they're desperate. Why did the Netherlands (read the US) think it's in any position to seize a company from China when the entire
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
>is a patently ridiculous It's patently ridiculous to trust the Signal Foundation more than phone carriers? I wasn't aware that AT&T and T-Mobile are run for the benefit of humanity. Any app that implements RCS is run by gi
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
I have sympathy with the technical and debugging plight but genuinely why are people still dealing with this, SMS/RCS is to the US what fax machines are to Japan. You can only put so much lipstick on a pig. Any bog standard IP based me
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
thankfully nobody's forced to live in the Bay Area. With a million in the bank you could live off the interest in Portugal or an even cheaper city in Asia without touching the principal. Frankly on 40k you can even live here in Germany
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by Barrin92 11mo ago
I'm not seeing that happening. Unlike banking and housing there's not much systemic or political risk in letting these companies crash. It's mostly going to hit a very small number of high net worth people who don't have
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>That’s like saying you used a calculator to calculate your equations so I can’t trust you. No it isn't. My TI-83 is deterministic and will give me exactly what I ask for, and will always do so, and when someone uses it they need to
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>unusual sales tactic outside the defense industry. I’m doubtful that’s how it works? given the valuation and money these companies burn through marketing wise they basically need to play by the same logic as defense companies. They&#x27
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>My TV is the tits having 50 different flavours of ice cream and a big TV available is a fifteen year olds idea of paradise, but what people actually care about is infrastructure, public health, safety, childcare and progress in the mate
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>life that really is that simple. It definitely isn't. Here in Germany I could redirect you to a dozen small businesses in the trades I personally know that are starved for young people and that pay better than a decent chunk of deg
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>The system established after WWII no longer serves the interests of its main creator I don't think that's true. The policy of alliance building and containment of their largest peer and competitor still makes sense. It was how
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by Barrin92 1y ago
I can understand (although I'd still think it's a bad idea) going with a web app wrapper if you're starting out that way, but what makes this decision truly baffling is that they already had a UWP app. Meta makes more money t
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>If an AI company has a 10% shot of developing a product that can replace 10% of it, they are worth $120 billion in expected value. that's not how profits work. Companies don't get paid for the value they create but for the val
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>why society would be afraid of doing such things. It feels too much like playing god. This I think is in some ways the most pathetic argument of them all because it reveals a profound moral cowardice. I just saw a chart today, 1 billion
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Right now, we're very far from Autarky and we're far too close to total dependency. The biggest problem with this thinking is that nationally mandated production is fundamentally unable to reduce dependency because national ec
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Whether it was generated by human or AI is irrelevant. No. These systems are still so mindboggingly bad at anything that involves manual memory management and pointers that even entertaining the idea of using them for something as criti
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by Barrin92 1y ago
I've been using Vivaldi alongside Firefox anyways for the edge cases where non-chromium browsers refused to work but I've switched fully now because of the latest round of AI crap. At least Vivaldi has explicitly committed themsel
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by Barrin92 1y ago
For one there is no indication that parents are any more literate in regards to digital practices than their kids. More importantly the constant appeal to the responsibility of parents misses that this is a collective action problem. The r
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>You can use a wheelchair to get everywhere, but your leg muscles will start to wither I don't know if they still exists but there was a (Dutch, I think) company that makes non-electric lifts and tools for elderly people at home tha
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by Barrin92 1y ago
It's not a minimalist language, you know what the "O" in Ocaml stands for right? It's a multi-paradigm language that explicitly accommodates more styles of programming than Caml, it's why it exists.
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by Barrin92 1y ago
yes, going straight into the mountain isn't any more pleasant even if 90% of the passengers sit in the cockpit. Which I hope stays a metaphor given the amount of air traffic controllers they just laid off. Although if that metaphor is
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by Barrin92 1y ago
I think the question only makes sense if you have already a completely diminished view of what a human person is to begin with. In any earlier century the answer would have been very obvious. Humans are oriented towards the infinite, beauty
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by Barrin92 1y ago
in Germany in particular? Endorsed a far-right party that is strongly opposed to renewable energy and electric vehicles, which does not strike me as smart if you're trying to appeal to EV buyers in Germany.
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by Barrin92 1y ago
the entire philosophy of Smalltalk was to think of software artifacts as living entities. You can just find yourself in a piece of software, fully inspect everything and engage with it by way of a software archaeology. To do away with the d
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by Barrin92 1y ago
decent chunk of RAM maybe but my parents are happily browsing away on decade+ old chrome books. Ordinary web browsing you can do on a potato machine from 2008. Even if you're a gamer performance on the desktop has eclipsed demand so mu
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by Barrin92 1y ago
The problem with self-help "philosophy" in particular in the case of Stoicism — but also when it borrows piecemeal from Eastern traditions — is that it's completely divorced from its metaphysics. Stoic ethics of 'living
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Europe literally had Linus Torvalds and couldn't keep him The great thing about Linux is we don't need to care where Linus lives. We obviously have — in principle — the tech, the workforce and the money to build an alternative
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>but not having anyone on call at any time seems unlikely. Bending Spoons is Milan based and most of Europe has very strong right-to-disconnect laws. It's not really uncommon here to not have anyone on call unless you're some b
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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Most people don't understand just how mentally unwell the US population is The US is no exception here though. One in five people having some form of mental illness (defined in the broadest possible sense in that paper) is no more

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