lazide

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by lazide 5d ago
Population collapse? Who, besides Zimbabwe?
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by lazide 5d ago
Not what I heard from friends who were subjected to it, and their parents. It was insanely disruptive.
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by lazide 5d ago
Everyone is, not just China.
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by lazide 5d ago
It’s the same in communism/socialism except people are prevented from stopping everyone else from stealing their stuff, in the name of the ‘greater good’, and if they try to get more than everyone else get guilt tripped into giving it
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by lazide 5d ago
I’m pointing out it’s disenguous to say ‘it’s not like there was a plan’, when there was explicitly a plan with that title on it. Especially if the plan didn’t work out well.
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by lazide 5d ago
Yes, they literally named it the ‘one child policy’. It was just overly successful.
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by lazide 5d ago
There are literal 5 year plans, eh?
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by lazide 5d ago
Your average consumer is not even a citizen of the country where the company that makes this is based, or where the factories that produce it are. You can own stock, but other than that?
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by lazide 5d ago
Automation, automation, automation. Zero chance you could do it if a human had to touch the die/chip directly during those steps. But clean room + vacuum pick and place machine? A matter of fine tuning, and it should work just fine.
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by lazide 5d ago
It does happen, but often the companies end up poisoning the local markets on their debt binge fueled way down.
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by lazide 5d ago
I guess not everything is a Sears, K-Mart, LastPass, HCR/Carlyle, etc, etc. [ https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118337/documents/... ].
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by lazide 5d ago
cites?
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by lazide 5d ago
they usually get the company to take out the debt to actually be acquired. it’s the key first step. then they extract as much cash as possible while the debt ballons. so called ‘extracting brand value’. the investors usually do quite well
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by lazide 5d ago
I’ve literally never seen that happen. what does always happen is cutting ‘non essentials’ that are essential until the company implodes.
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by lazide 6d ago
Or specifically, electricity was already paid for with the pre-paid capacity. Not using it would not save them any money, they already paid for it.
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by lazide 6d ago
good thing they don’t have nukes, eh?
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by lazide 7d ago
as I said, i’m sure they’d disagree.
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by lazide 7d ago
Nah. Smiths literally came along with travelling war parties all the time. In Europe, nearly every village had one (it was pretty required), and they operated even during active wartime. Because they had too. All you really need is a skille
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by lazide 7d ago
NK nuclear testing has stopped them from being on the active ‘shit list’ like Iran for… decades? Or at least stopped them from being bombed. I’m sure they’d disagree.
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by lazide 7d ago
The materials just in the frame of a typical big box store would be sufficient for any basic blacksmith to make millions of spades (and shovels!) using nothing but basic charcoal and a blower. And you can make several thousand human operate
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by lazide 7d ago
Yup, assuming post-collapse populations are smaller, we’d have unimaginable wealth available just salvaging from existing equipment and buildings.
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by lazide 7d ago
Eh, not really. Any large scale dump will contain riches - in both accessible energy sources, like burnable and melt able plastics and other materials and metals - that it dwarfs whatever was available to any pre-industrial society. We migh
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by lazide 9d ago
Counterpoint - every real world crypto algo needs to do somewhat content aware padding or the crypto is much easier to break. Either that, or go so overboard on randomness that it adds a lot of overhead. When you look at the details underne
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by lazide 9d ago
What if it only happens on a single machine? Memory defaults can also cause segfaults.
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by lazide 10d ago
Jesus. I give up.
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by lazide 10d ago
So what, praytell, does LAN have to do with your comment. Since I was pointing out, that it was the ‘turn off the internet’ part, not the LAN/Wifi that mattered. And that was the part that you kept ignoring.
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by lazide 10d ago
sorry to hear that. if it’s any consolation, once you do get something that works, it tends to be pretty solid job security.
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by lazide 11d ago
Are you not reading the thread where people with direct experience with these specific backends are noting the WSDLs either are not accessible or don’t match the actual services? Which is also my experience too. Or have you not dealt with d
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by lazide 11d ago
WSDL/XSD specs in this case seem to be incomplete or just wrong. Most places in my experience just write their own wrappers/frameworks to generate what they know works, and go to town. I’ve done it too.
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by lazide 11d ago
we’re talking 1-2% of demand. it would help, but not a lot.

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