bitmasher9

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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
It’s simple. Oil is traded in USD. A large share of the oil is produced in the Middle East. If oil stopped trading in USD the value of our currency would plummet. So we have a strong interest in all oil exporters.
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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
All of this talk about entering a hot war with China is crazy because of this fact. You don’t go directly from literally zero battles to starting a war with one of the strongest armies.
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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
Is it 2019 again?
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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
I think “The Operating System is fundamentally Unstable” is a much bigger problem than “First party applications are redesigned too frequently.”
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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
When did the offshoring happen, because Microsoft has been bad for a long time. Even in the 90s there were so many BSODs.
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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
The design and intent are bad, but let’s not discount the large amount of bad engineering too.
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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
No, it’s just another designer drug and not a particularly new one. If you want a productivity drug there are more effective, more studied alternatives. If you want a party drug then you should probably take whatever is at the party. I t
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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
It’s even more irritating when you’re laid off during record profits
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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
I have a lot of chatting applications that all demonstrated that to me. The most common way was having another party indicate the app as a communication option
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by bitmasher9 2mo ago
Is there anyone there I want to talk to? You need to demonstrate that before I create a login, otherwise there is too much friction for me. The iOS storefront is also far behind your website in quality and attention to detail. Edit: please
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
You’re way off about when it’s illegal to start destroying your property that the police want to seize during an investigation.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
The social contract changes when you change location. It’s unreasonable to be accepted as a guest in country and not expect to have to modify your behavior to accommodate local norms.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
KDE has a much older and richer history than windows 7. It’s been trying to be a safe harbor for Windows users to land in Linux for a long time.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
It’s a more acute observation about market dynamics than what is usually found in Marx. Marx heavily discusses how humanity interacts with capitalism, and focuses its market analysis on the labor market.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
Once a product becomes so big it cannot increase in market share the only way to increase the total amount of profit it generates it by reducing the cost to produce the product or increasing the price.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
Sometimes it is a cause vs causation. Sometimes the scientist didn’t adjust for a variable that clearly would impact both fields they were measuring. To make such a claim, I think it’s appropriate to name that hypothetical third variable.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
I think that’s a difference in implementation details, not a difference in what it fundamentally is. I’m not arguing that there aren’t differences between the two, I’m arguing that they are fundamentally the same solution (gather all of the
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
I don’t understand how they aren’t both generalized to “distributes software with versioning at a large scale”
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
Debian stable has over 69,000 packages, which is more then some languages have…
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
It’s foolish to feel safe because your package management solution hasn’t been attacked yet. The attack vector is generalized.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
They are literally solving the same problem, it’s just that distro packages operate on a lower level and thus receive more scrutiny. There have been plenty of examples of poisoned Linux packages, both at the source level and at the package
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
Self study can only go so far, and often when someone self studies there are obvious gaps in their education compared to someone that entered a formal program. Studying in a university has the advantage of learning from experts and being su
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
> I would argue that a child has a right to a certain number of years of education. I would also argue society is better if its people are more educated.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
How is this any different than the browser wars? We use to have a diverse market full of choices, and now we have Chromium (almost all market share) and Firefox/Safari on the edges.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
I wonder how hard they would press an estate. It’s bad PR to go after widows and surviving children, and the data has already escaped. This is something they’d want to settle quietly, so the family would have leverage.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
Additionally self driving vehicles are promising to reduce the total number of collisions, and collision associated repair is a significant portion of all auto mechanic activity.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
Yeah, someone is at risk of trafficking the gps data out of Virginia initially.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
The car companies need to stay in their lanes on this one. You’re risking selling a >$40k piece of hardware that requires professional service every six months in order to sell me $240/yr in software subscriptions.
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
In a proper capitalist society the government defines the rules of the market, aligned with the interests of several parties, and then companies compete within that well regulated and fair environment. The only incentive the government sho
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by bitmasher9 3mo ago
Except Sony is notoriously bad at actually securing their consoles.

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