Ray20

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by Ray20 11mo ago
Yes, according to the license selected by ffmpeg. And google, according to this license selected by ffmpeg, paid them nothing. And then do some additional work, beneficial to ffmpeg.
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A very reasonable combination: - HTML is the main way of designing interfaces (whether we like it or not) - Rust is the main language promoted by intelligence agencies with multi-billion dollar budgets because it is laced with their backdoo
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by Ray20 11mo ago
Your argument falls apart when you consider iPhones' 60% market share. People have spoken out about whether they want dangerous, uncontrolled third-party apps on their phones.
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> Libertarians are like independents except noone wants to try to win us over Because they are not like independents. Democrats have moved so far left that it's not even a question of who libertarians will vote for. The candidate ju
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Just imagine how happy thy are about this
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That is simply how socialism works. Land as a mean of production is no different from a factory, so naturally, the products created on the land belong not to the peasants (Petite Bourgeoisie), but to society as a whole. And guess what this
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Those that happened in the USSR and China, no? After the start of electrification and active mechanization of agriculture, more peasants died of hunger there than in the previous 100 years (in Russia more than in the previous 200 years).
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by Ray20 11mo ago
> It's not capitalism, it's technology. Seems like it's completely capitalism > but Russia from 1917-60 and China from 1960-2025, say, are big counter-examples. Russia and China are good examples of that. We have Khrush
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The same thing that's, you know, stopping them from having real power grids.
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> usually characterized by the opposite outcome No. Look at the median salary of a full-time worker in Europe and compare it to the US. They are drowning in poverty. > top 10% is much closer to the average Joe No. In the US top 10% fu
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> 5-6 weeks paid vacation and “socialist” politics I'm not even surprised. Socialist politics are extremely good at ensuring a high standard of living for the elite and shutting everyone else up. Look at any North Korean media outle
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Paris, Berlin, Rome and a few others
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I hope so too. Websites that load runtimes for various programming languages are too slim; they need to load the entire operating system, otherwise why do we need all these powerful home computers?.
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You sound like an out-of-touch elitist. Do you really not understand all this? Just out of curiosity, what do you and your parents do for a living? > why not lower the average work week hours accordingly? Because workers can get more mon
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> we cannot run the entire industry this way and expect to keep the economic engine of these companies going. I mean why would they care? If you can't get a FAANG salary due to the lack of the skills, but can laze around 32 hours a
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> Many countries have <40 hours/week and are still thriving. May I have the list of such countries with a level of prosperity comparable to the US (which seriously consider an $85k tax-free minimum wage)? Your "everything is
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And in the Linux community, "run" apparently has a slightly different meaning than what ordinary people are used to.
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Small fraction here, small fraction there, and you've get a $200k house.
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by Ray20 1y ago
Isn't asbestos used pretty much everywhere in the world (except rich countries)? So yes, it's dangerous. But it's very cheap, and poverty is far more dangerous than asbestos. It's simply a fact: residents of most countri
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by Ray20 1y ago
After? There is no reason. But between "only you have the keys" and that "after" there is literally tens of billions of dollars.
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Didn't this happen because of the abandonment of this principle? 9/11 would not have happened if there were no radical Muslims in the world, and US had the Might to make such world.
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> fly a plane that detects Starlink signals Starlink are quite directional. They are easily detected even from a standard vehicle. > International law and -lawsuits are a thing No, it's not a thing. International laws operate on
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by Ray20 1y ago
> because "your laws don't apply to me"? That's exactly how it works, via ability to apply laws. If there is no abiliyt to apply the law, then yeah, everyone allowed to do anything they want.
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by Ray20 1y ago
Or what? We're not talking about Russia or China. They don't have the capability to destroy satellite constellations.
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> That's the paradox of tolerance for you That's not a paradox of tolerance, it is the anti-democratic practice of fascism. > they could exploit open society values to erode or destroy tolerance itself through authoritarian
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> What you end up with is a dozen people owning all the wealth and everyone else owning nothing Only if the socialists win. Capitalism operates on a completely different principle: people CREATE wealth and own everything they have create
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Just for example. When the elite drives all their opponents into poverty and sends them to rot in prison for the slightest outcry, that's anything but democracy. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/swiss-
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> what'll be left for humans to do? There is an infinite amount of labor.
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Of course not. But I'm also pretty unhappy that Supernaut doesn't send me a third of their salary. But what does this have to do with the question?
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> make a mess of the economy You're not taking something into account. The economy is becoming stronger, more productive, and more efficient because of this. The brain drain from all other fields to the few highest-paying ones is de

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