idle_zealot

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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
There's nothing really special about technology here. It's just allocation of power, the same problem as ever.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
It's pretty funny that he's fleeing the US for fear of instability and rising anti-oligarch sentiment to Argentina . As though their collapsing society will treat him much better when the shit hits the fan.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
As ever it will come down to judicial discretion whether trivial word games are allowed to nullify the law or not.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> Continuous cost without continuous revenue That would be the case if the publisher had any intent to actually keep the service online. Empirically they do not, hence the law.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> Are you suggesting we just take every person who shows up at the border at their word? That's not what I said. It's all about the framing. Rejecting is automated, accepting is slow and deliberate. This is reflective of a pref
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Sometimes I miss when aiming for the Y logo to refresh the main page or Threads to read replies. Does that count?
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
The point of this is unambiguously to use technology as an accountability sink. You can't have a human eyeball age and call that a "process." You want a machine to point to instead. Its accuracy or lack thereof is immaterial
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> spend the rest of the 15% to get a whole new computer? I can see why the manufacturer would want this. As a user though why would you? If the rest of the body is familiar and works well, why toss it? Maybe the sentiment springs from th
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Here I was thinking the problem with Windows was the dog-slow RAM hogs the team replaced most of the core applications with so they could serve web ads in the launcher and OS chrome. Silly me, the real problem with Windows is that it can ru
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> corporations who just lost their big moats Sure, if you assume that they've used their immense wealth to entrench themselves by paying for quality labor. If you take note of the myriad less-competitive ways they've ensured do
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
I'm glad at least this happened after consumer electronics plateaued. I don't know about you but in my estimation a 5 year old phone and mid-tier gaming PC are holding up fine. The limiting factor in features is more crappy softwa
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> It's just a matter of time before we'll have a universal executable/binary translator that can run any program from any OS People have been working on these layers for a long time. It's understood that programs are
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
The joke is that onshoring will be forced to occur when global trade becomes prohibitively expensive for most goods. A promise kept despite not planning to, and with catastrophic consequences.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Do you feel like maybe we could do a better job of constructing a world where people don't feel they need to do this objectively worthless activity?
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
I like to feel that I'm spending my time productively, yeah. Not all of my time, mind you. People generally like to feel their work impacting their environment. Many consider it the most fulfilling part of their lives. Working purely
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Hey, if fuel gets expensive enough this will be much less of a problem! Let's all thank Trump and Iran for their great work on bringing the four day work week closer to fruition. This isn't how I would've imagined bringing in
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
A Marxist peddles restructuring of the government to better represent the people. Notable attempts at that replaced existing governments with autocracies that promptly killed the Marxists and Anarchists among them, which is not what you wer
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
The minimum required payment to play a gambling game, where the money up for grabs is called "stake". See also "raising the stakes". In context it means the minimum feature set to be considered for adoption.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
"Don't want to be ruled by billionaires, peasants? Have you tried dismantling your government so they can't buy it? That will surely save you."
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
I think your blog post is confused. People on the left are pro-taxation because they (a) think billionaires do not have superpowers, and are benefiting from some combination of systemic injustices and plain old fraud gussied up for the mo
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Hey, if it only cost millions to install and maintain a leyline network with magic circles capable of transmitting matter for pennies then I would count that as teleportation, yeah.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> I choose to look at it like any other cultural communication difference There's a way to tell if this is actually the case: can you find the members of this culture that like getting slopgrenaded? A communication culture needs bot
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Did I miss blacksmiths gaining the ability to infinitely duplicate and teleport their finished pieces into people's hands? Can one learn this power?
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> govt claimed that the person was a terrorist and the company knew for 100% fact that the person was innocent and the investigation was in bad faith... This is the thing tearing at the seams of our justice system in general. Our rules a
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
More evidence of the Smartphonification theory. Much like how all life trends towards crab, or all software towards reading mail and including a bespoke Scheme implementation, I posit that all hardware eventually becomes a smartphone. Examp
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
I suspect that the compact nature of the syntax would require more tokens spent "thinking" to get decent results. It might be more efficient for simple code though. Either way worth testing. Surely someone must've set up a &q
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
I was getting very excited about this until I realized it's huge . Bigger than my phone in most dimensions. There go my dreams of a Flipper Zero-esque device I can port RockBox to and plug in for a low-power Linux PC...
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Have you considered that the march of progress requires human blood to grease the gears and mulched skulls to pave the (highly efficient) road? Really, when you take into account all of the future lives this will improve and save it's
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
I think they meant "binary" rather than "spectrum".
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
It's not for a lack of laws granting the necessary powers; anti-terror laws passed in the wake of 9/11 allow for basically arbitrary use of warrantless surveillance and specifying any enemy as a terrorist. The reason this admin ha

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