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by jacknews 1y ago
"Free education means no one will value it" Ridiculous. Of course, if it's free, then it's just the default, and some people will strive to be better than 'the masses' and pay for private education. But in any
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by jacknews 1y ago
"It's astonishing this is a thing." Indeed, any decent modern society should provide free quality education, and that should include free quality meals. Especially the richest country in the world.
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by jacknews 1y ago
Meh, the quantum computation capacity of a cell may well be vastly larger than the 'classical' estimates - just like chemistry itself. But the results boil down to what we observe - signal spikes between neurons, which seem to be
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by jacknews 1y ago
clocks
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by jacknews 2y ago
Maybe filesystems should be object stores with metadata in a database.
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by jacknews 2y ago
I find this author very difficult to read I'll guess English is not their native language but then I'd expect to see simplified-english, and instead I find a dense thicket as though they think they are completely fluent, and then
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by jacknews 2y ago
i think americans are generally welcomed in most places, with some caveats and reservations the real question is how many nationalities are now welcome in america?
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by jacknews 2y ago
the egg situation isn't because of bird flu, although that's a factor it's a monopoly problem
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by jacknews 2y ago
It's simply a narcissist's revenge
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by jacknews 2y ago
"self-employment" seems like a bit of a joke, like `self-flagellation money to survive, purpose to thrive you don't need a 'job', and particularly a 'job' who's only purpose is to make profit for some
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by jacknews 2y ago
exactly, the market doesn't deliver human flourishing
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by jacknews 2y ago
then we should change society that is my point
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by jacknews 2y ago
i don't understand the obsession with jobs anyway people don't want a job, they want money and purpose most jobs barely deliver either
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by jacknews 2y ago
Are they applying to all the fake jobs?
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by jacknews 2y ago
Part of that is they seemed to start aggressively denying visa applications, after Trump.
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by jacknews 2y ago
Sometimes our imaginary friends are in fact real people, lol.
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by jacknews 2y ago
I'm not sure woke is the right term here, it's more like the difference between socialism and laissez-faire-free-market-capitalism imho.
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by jacknews 2y ago
"like watching gold-threaded potential slip through your fingers into a river." um, ok
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by jacknews 2y ago
no sarcasm, the article clearly says the "estimated ANNUAL budget" ... I admit I did not watch a video. Some countries are very less well paid than others, so ...
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by jacknews 2y ago
" the estimated annual budget of the project is $61k, which - according to the project itself - should be able to cover six full-time developers." Full-time devs only get $10k p.a. now? And these are Rust devs I think, for Servo?
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by jacknews 2y ago
Seems like he's just shilling for the (Indian-dominated) 'in-shoring' (H1Bs) and 'outsourcing/offshoring' industries, both of which IBM has been rather active in, the last decade or two. I think AI will benefit
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by jacknews 2y ago
Gotta keep ringing that 'terrorism' bell, even though this looks like a simple accident and infrastructure planning incompetence. "Miliband said he understood there was a backup system but that it had also been affected by th
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by jacknews 2y ago
well explained, and there's also the issue of chicks - farmers don't generally hatch their own eggs but buy chicks, and it's easy the big companies to manipulate that supply chain, indeed I believe there are ownership and lic
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by jacknews 2y ago
"In the USA, the egg shortage is primarily due to bird flu" nope I think this is fake news the current shortage is not actually that great, just look at the numbers and historically any shortage would have been quickly relieved by
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by jacknews 2y ago
i'm not sure how this is anything to do with productivity surely that's when the same product or service is delivered more cheaply the starting question must have been more like 'why are restaurants more profitable now'
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by jacknews 2y ago
You don't even need to grind your own mirror to get in on the action. Younger I made a 6" scope from a bought mirror set, and the first time I used it I caught one of Jupiters moons occulting in realtime.
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by jacknews 2y ago
Look at say washing machines. How many different models/brands are on the market? I estimate many hundreds, if not thousands. Each model/brand comes with some degree of custom design and engineering, documentation, etc, etc. All f
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by jacknews 2y ago
Don't they mean a shift from western IP which they have to pay for, since i believe risc-v is also mostly 'western tech', or a tech standard at least.
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by jacknews 2y ago
I read it around that time and thouroughtly enjoyed it; IIRC is basically a pop-sci intro to number theory, physics, cosmology, biology, etc, with only the last couple of chapters attempting to tie it all together into the quantum-conscious
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by jacknews 2y ago
Well someone has lost the plot. What is intelligence if not computation? Even if it turns out our brains require quantum computation in microtubules (unlikely, imho), it's still computation. Sure, it has limits and runs into paradoxes,

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