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by r14c 3y ago
the point is that the relationship is obviously asymmetric, which you can clearly see. > How is a corporation supposed to use its billion dollars to gain an advantage here? Anything they do to make themselves less attractive to workers w
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by r14c 3y ago
I won't say that Unions don't have issues or can't be corrupt, but I also have a hard time buying the idea that employers and employees can have symmetrical relationships under "right to work". Employers have far mo
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by r14c 3y ago
the auto lobby convinced major cities to completely overhaul their transport infrastructure too.
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by r14c 3y ago
Speak for yourself pal. Trains being politically difficult doesn't make them unappealing, train lovers just don't have the industrial weight of aviation and big car behind them.
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by r14c 3y ago
i don't care who you are. the us already bills itself as "the greatest nation on earth" (in spite of any evidence to the contrary lol) and constantly flaunts international law. how can you be more loud and proud than that?
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by r14c 3y ago
I imagine there would still be a relationship with `c` in a fourth spatial dimension, but it might be useful for taking shortcuts around 3d space without having to violate causality.
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by r14c 3y ago
I would hypothesize that Ithkuil would be spoken fairly slowly similar to Cantonese and so yield a similar bit rate in line with the overall results for natural languages. That said, nobody speaks Ithkuil fluently enough to test this so may
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by r14c 3y ago
But accurately estimating your rival undermines the load-bearing assumption of total superiority. Nobody can rival the greatest nation on earth.
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by r14c 3y ago
Only if you ignore the setup of stupidly arranged treaties that made the war inevitable after a kid did something stupid.
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by r14c 3y ago
What do you mean "level the playing field"? You have an NSA and a CIA. Y'all have been on the offensive for at least 200 years. All the american chips have backdoors and y'all have the biggest military budget. But no, th
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by r14c 3y ago
Fully agree. Cloud can be an easy way to get started since you don't have to pay as much up front, and even you need extremely elastic scaling you'll save a fortune in the long term by investing in at least some on-prem hardware
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by r14c 3y ago
Personally I don't think this is particularly exciting. Buy in from major social media entities at this stage is fine, but what matters, in my opinion, is the overall growth of the network outside of these incumbent social networking g
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by r14c 3y ago
why not both? i recognize that large decentralized networks create some challenges, but imo that's still preferable to giving a small number of large (even heavily regulated) operators total control over the network.
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by r14c 3y ago
I honestly hope so. Having organizations like Meta or Twitter et al control massive sections of the social media landscape is not healthy. Any organization, group, or individual that wants to have an online presence should be able to spin u
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by r14c 3y ago
Mastodon feeds the fediverse! m.s and others can and should be eclipsed by future projects, much like mastodon did to the old gnu/social network. they even changed protocols! (ostatus -> activitypub). remember, the fediverse is abou
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by r14c 3y ago
we usually call that overlap "mexico" since the naturally occurring variance in jalapeños has been part of their food culture for 500+ years.
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by r14c 3y ago
You definitely mean United States. the "cultural" parts of NA still have heritage varieties of tomato that taste great. same deal with corn, the US corn products are terrible and bland. though my understanding is that nixtamilized
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by r14c 3y ago
Friendica is always doing the good work.
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by r14c 3y ago
Global bridges like this are single points of failure that defeat the purpose of decentralization. I'm saying that individual nodes should be full participants on all of the networks they want to communicate with. I don't have an
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by r14c 3y ago
Just in practical terms, global bridges will see extremely high traffic if they become popular. I've watched people struggle to maintain operational bridges for single high-traffic channels. Not to mention the hosting cost of being a s
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by r14c 3y ago
A global bridge isn't a multi-protocol social server. The guy is free to do as he likes, but I'm saying I don't think public bridges like that are a good architectural decision for decentralized networks. The individual nodes
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by r14c 3y ago
I hope someone comes up with a multi-protocol social server. Bridges are a bad architecture for decentralized systems, because they introduce single points of failure. I can understand using a read-only bridge to mirror content from externa
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by r14c 3y ago
American leaders have a pattern of creating a crisis and using it to manufacture consent. The immigrants didn't come out of nowhere, you might want to look into the US's history in the region.
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by r14c 3y ago
"putting engineering above politics" is itself a political position which upholds an implicit and arbitrary status quo termed "professional behavior"
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by r14c 3y ago
By this logic, any technology is a threat. Its only a matter of how the technology is used. We could be celebrating that we can all work less for the same pay, but that's not how we're choosing to have it play out.
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by r14c 3y ago
Ok, but you get the point right?
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by r14c 3y ago
I have trouble squaring "people can't do long term planning" and the existence of megalithic structures like the pyramids in Egypt and the Americas or even the Great Wall of China. All of which took generations to build. Espe
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by r14c 3y ago
> we should never expect innovations to ease our labor burdens unless we fight for that to be the case this is the kind of society you want to live in?
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by r14c 3y ago
Its astounding that this talking point is so sticky. I would recommend reading US history again, including the redacted sections. You don't even have to go back to the inception of capitalism in the colonial era to demonstrate that thi
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by r14c 3y ago
By this logic, any technology is a threat. Its only a matter of how the technology is used. We could be celebrating that we can all work less for the same pay, but that's not how we're choosing to have it play out.

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