NoGravitas

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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
It seems like China has about the right approach to billionaires: allow them to come to exist, to drive up economic growth, but when they start trying to influence the political system, just execute them, so that the others know their place
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Social democracy is a class-collaboration system where both the owning class and the working class compromise on their own interests (minimizing vs maximizing real wages) for the sake of stability or national interest. Class-collaboration s
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
It's just a motte-and-bailey argument. You say you're okay with social democratic policies when you're opposing anything stronger, but oppose social democratic policies when anyone is trying to actually implement them.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Also depends on how you define capitalism, and whether you consider Socialism with Chinese Characteristics to be capitalist.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Thankfully, it works in reader mode, and you don't even have to go to a paywall bypass.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Programs that manipulate lots of tiny files are a performance nightmare on Windows even leaving aside the issue of WSL2.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
This is what I keep hearing. However, I have never had the good fortune of using a Windows installation where NTFS was allowed to be fast.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Now if only Windows would also get faster Windows file system access.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
> The politics of anti-* is tiring. Where are the people and politicians with optimism and a vision? China.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
His son is just as bad or worse, though, and is well-positioned to pick up where Lawnmower Larry leaves off.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
It's because it's cheaper up-front.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Public transit is one thing that could help. Another is a land value tax, which would incentivize density in places with rising demand.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
I'd retire yesterday if I could afford it. Maybe in 10-15 years. Have a once-a-day NNCP feed rather than total disconnection.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Every convert to Orthodoxy I've seen in the US is like this. Converts to Catholicism, too, but definitely not cradle Catholics.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
And there's someone working at the library who can help you find the right book to meet your need, if you talk to them.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
The US is going to be selling weapons-grade plutonium to startups, so you may get your chance before long. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/climate/plutonium-nuclear...
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Amazon has acquired several companies that were originally funded by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital front. This is pretty common in the tech industry. Some major tech companies, such as Palantir, were In-Q-Tel startups, and some b
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
If ESR is consistently delivering high quality code now, it would be a first.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
All of history is the history of class war. The post-WWII social-democratic years were a kind of truce, but truces in the class war are always unstable.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Merge conflicts on NextCloud are terrible, but for a KeePass file, I don't think this comes up very much. My laptop syncs from Nextcloud whenever it's online, and my phone syncs whenever it opens or modifies the file. Nobody else
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Weird. I keep my KeePass database on NextCloud, and the only difference between home and phone is that on a bad network I may need a few seconds for KeePassDX on the phone to decide to use its cached copy of the database rather than the lat
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Vivaldi is almost certainly the best Blink browser, and I'd certainly use it if only Blink browsers were viable. As long as that's not the case, I am, like you, using something based on Firefox; in my case, Zen.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
I'll tell. It's you. You personally, and no one else. Not a category of people that includes you. Just you.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
He's actually pulling that from about 70 years of anthropology and anthropological archaeology; it wasn't in any way original to him.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
I think the klept can maintain their "just desserts" mentality longer than you and I can maintain our metabolic integrity.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
You're directionally right, anyway. There's no reason significantly advanced AI (likely to not be developed from LLMs but from some other path) can't completely replace a wide variety of human labor. But replacing human labor
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Yep, it's all driven by Moloch, and nothing but.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
They have, but you don't need to let them get away with it.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
Surveys show otherwise. As does the viral video of that lady giving the AI-booster commencement speech and getting booed.
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by NoGravitas 5mo ago
I didn't read all of them, but none of the ones I read were simply business failures; most of them were selling snake oil or non-existent software as a service, or were productizing someone else's open source project while violati

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