Magnusmaster

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by Magnusmaster 2y ago
Maybe in the US, but not in my country. I tried looking for "signage displays" but all I could find was Samsung professional monitors that still had the smart stuff
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by Magnusmaster 2y ago
Phones with unlockable bootloaders aren't going to be sold for much longer just like dumb TVs aren't sold anymore. There's just too much profit to be earned by corporations locking devices, plus banks and governments want to
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by Magnusmaster 3y ago
Reddit shouldn't even try to go IPO. It's basically a collection of forums. They should be a private company that makes a small profit hosting the forums instead of trying to be like Facebook
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by Magnusmaster 3y ago
Both. Lots of people live from welfare or cushy government jobs where nobody does any work. And lots of politicians give money or food to win elections.
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by Magnusmaster 4y ago
In Argentina Wikipedia is notorious for parroting Kirchnerist propaganda. There are people whose entire job is to make sure every topic related to Argentinian politics follows Kirchner's narrative
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by Magnusmaster 4y ago
Poor people want free money and will never learn any lesson. They just vote Peronism no matter what, because it's a religion to them
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by Magnusmaster 4y ago
Taxes in Argentina are insane. If you have a 1000 USD monthly salary you will be taxed in the same way as a billionaire: you have to pay a third of your income and 3% of your total wealth (that is, everything you own) each year. And you can
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by Magnusmaster 4y ago
I live in Argentina where the government took over pensioner funds and gave away millions of pensions to people who have never worked in a formal job, and therefore never put a penny into a pension fund. The result is that almost every pens
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by Magnusmaster 5y ago
Vale looks very interesting and I hope it takes off
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by Magnusmaster 5y ago
Even in those cases you can use dollars and trust the US government
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by Magnusmaster 5y ago
The service is worthless if you can trust a central authority like a government that 99.99% of people do.
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by Magnusmaster 5y ago
I don't understand the "nothing at stake" problem. Can't it be solved by just not allowing people to withdraw the coins they have staked?
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by Magnusmaster 5y ago
The world isn't rushing towards electric cars. USA, Europe and China are. The rest of the world isn't switching to electric any time soon, because electric cars are expensive and billions need to be invested in infrastructure to m
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by Magnusmaster 9y ago
After seeing what passes for "art" at MoMA, I wouldn't be surprised if a painting made by a neural network today were sold higher than a human-made one at an auction.
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by Magnusmaster 9y ago
The problem is that if you breed people like animals, you will end up treating people like animals, especially those that don't have the traits people want. With embryo selection people can decide which individuals deserve life and whi
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by Magnusmaster 9y ago
When Jefferson was alive the consensus was that black people did not have enough intelligence to coexist with white people unless they were segregated. Equality of rights at the time only applied to white people (and even then to British wh
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by Magnusmaster 9y ago
Not only that, it also means people will likely try to "solve" poverty in Africa and elsewhere by getting rid of the natives and populate it with higher IQ people, as eugenecists were proposing right after Darwin came up with his
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by Magnusmaster 9y ago
People will value more a life of a human than one of a chimp, and chimps only survive on natural reserves or zoos. That's the fate people who aren't genetically engineered to be smart will face, if they survive.