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by gruez 4mo ago
>The best (short-term) case is that they become eternal parasites. Producing a product that delivers value and people are willing to pay for makes you a "parasite"? Sure, it might cause massive disruptions to the labor market,
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by gruez 4mo ago
>GLM export controls incoming? US imposing export restrictions on a model from China?
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>Dude, your characterization of me being an arch user with an ancient latop is clearly in bad faith. Someone with 3rd grade reading comprehension should be able to realize the comment about IBM era thinkpads were directed at your coworke
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by gruez 4mo ago
>You can also perfectly use 2fa without a phone, unless your shitty company is using some shitty propietary 2fa, and even then, its just a "key" or "qr" they give you, that then you totally control and can use in most
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by gruez 4mo ago
How does sharing drivers license information help "capital"? Sure you can probably handwave some stuff about how sending that information helps the surveillance state which can be used to stop occupy wall st style protests, but it
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by gruez 4mo ago
>In my experience, one troublemaker can often recruit others to their cause. Maybe if your company is filled with the type of people who run archlinux on their IBM era thinkpads, but otherwise I would be very surprised if could find even
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by gruez 4mo ago
>The big AI companies already have all of the cheap hardware to run on. Have they? Aren't they doing a massive datacenter build-out right now? Moreover the massive profits for Micron and Nvidia must be coming from somewhere, and I d
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by gruez 4mo ago
>The biggest problem is all the tech companies making consumer hardware completely unaffordable, and I don't think this is accidental. Look at Micron's profits and share price lately... You realize "tech companies" is
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by gruez 4mo ago
>ODoH support (upstream or as an endpoint directly) Is there client support without installing third party apps? Such apps usually use a VPN connection to operate, which means you can't use another VPN at the same time as oDOH, whic
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by gruez 4mo ago
>Oh I guess that makes it okay to arrest a person exercising their human rights. How do you think public hearings are supposed to work if you have hoards of hecklers exercising their "human rights" by disrupting the meeting?
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by gruez 4mo ago
>No. For profit corporations can donate to PACs that are directly in support of a candidate rather than a broad swath of policy. It's a non profit versus profit distinction that creates this additional ratchet. So make the union for
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by gruez 4mo ago
For many, "capitalism" has lost all original meaning and is instead a synonym for "republicans" or "MAGA".
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by gruez 4mo ago
>It's complex, but those are not donations to a candidate, even more so than the normal PAC and Super PAC song and dance. You have to give up your non profit status to donate more directly to a candidates campaign. Doesn't that
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by gruez 4mo ago
The RNC tried to stop Trump from winning the candidacy but he won regardless. The fact that MAGA movement is seemingly enthralled to him means at least some people are getting who they voted for, and therefore your statement can't poss
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by gruez 4mo ago
> Unions generally can't donate to political campaigns ??? https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/carpenters-joiners-union/su... https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/service-employees-internati.
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by gruez 4mo ago
>The flaw in this reasoning is that corporations are not merely associations of people; they are a special kind of association of people, which can be regulated specially. You realize republicans can make the same argument to bash unions
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>I mean, you only have to look at actual available salary and hours data to see that factory workers worked at least as long a day and longer than a farm day can even be, and in conditions that were unambiguously worse. 1. Where's t
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by gruez 4mo ago
> The etymology of "woman" is literally "weaving person" [citation needed] >Except that kind of work would have been split up by gender. It's still work. It doesn't magically have zero value because it wa
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by gruez 4mo ago
>spending money for political purposes is free speech, and people have the right to free speech, and corpos are people, so corpos have the right to spend money for political purposes. From wikipedia: >The majority also held that the F
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by gruez 4mo ago
AFAIK that was massively flawed because it doesn't account for time spent doing various household chores or maintenance tasks. If you spent 4 hours making a shirt, that wouldn't count towards "hours worked", but if you w
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by gruez 4mo ago
Never? Even the whole "corporations are people too" meme where this sentiment presumably originated from is often misunderstood. It doesn't mean corporations have the same rights as people, it just means they can conduct tran
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by gruez 4mo ago
>In many cases radically worse jobs for the first hundred years; living standards for those people dropped noticeably as they went into industrial mining and factory work. source?
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by gruez 4mo ago
Do you think the average dirt farmer in the 1800 is going to be assuaged by the prospect of almost all farm work being mechanized, because he can be a "medical and health services manager" or "data scientist" instead? h
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by gruez 4mo ago
From TFA: >The buildings summon a vitriol well beyond conventional nimbyism. More Americans say they would be happy with a nuclear reactor next door than a data centre. Even plans to build one in the Utah desert have met with passionate
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by gruez 4mo ago
>The untold promise of [tractors] is to replace labor. [...] Mere tools would never justify this kind of investment. How's this any different than say, tractors, or the mechanical loom? After all, agricultural employment went from 9
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by gruez 4mo ago
>The verification service would tie the token to the IP address/geolocation "Use this exact tor/vpn server" >It would also throttle the number of identifications So I can only wank off 5 times a day, or grant acces
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by gruez 4mo ago
For one, I have to do it in meatspace so it's easily traced back to me, whereas anonymous tokens can't be traced back to me by design.
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by gruez 4mo ago
No, I'm meant me, using my 18+ ID to generate a bunch of tokens that can't be linked back to me, and then giving it to random < 18 year olds for the lulz.
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by gruez 4mo ago
>Modern versions of this technique allow one to associate metadata (like a proof of age exceeding a threshold) in such a way that the verifier can't even correlate repeated requests across users. If it's unlinkable, what's
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by gruez 4mo ago
Not all densities is mass per volume. eg. population density.

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