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by seec 1y ago
Well if you come to France, you will find plenty of bridges that were designed before calculus was even a thing and thankfully, they are still standing. Calculus is mostly theoretical science and is not strongly related to engineering, even
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by seec 1y ago
Well sure but the capital costs is really an argument in its own. When you compete with a foreign industry that does not have the same rules for capital it's really hard to compare accurately. This is a big problem in general with neol
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by seec 1y ago
Yes this is exactly why there is the qualifier "my experience". Others may have different experiences but I would easily argue that most would side that way as well. There is a reason the Chinese crap stereotype exists. And there
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by seec 1y ago
> I don't even think it's possible for a human to be 4 times as drunk as another also drunk human and survive. Considering some of the scores I have seen from the local police I beg to disagree. They have caught people with so
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by seec 1y ago
Yes they are responsible for all the bullshit, and they keep voting for the same shit. It's maddening really, but how can it be different when they stand to gain so much via retirement benefits and other ways? It's really the fail
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by seec 1y ago
Yes that's the point. They import cheap labor ready to take jobs at lower prices than the native population because they don't have to live in the same social circles. It's almost the same as delocalization, it's a form
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by seec 1y ago
Even if this is completely correct, you would be paid more in California, right? Or at the very least have better purchasing power. That would come at the cost of security of course, but considering the state of EU governments it's no
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by seec 1y ago
This happens because of bad incentives. Since the welfare state is on the spot to pick up the tabs via unemployment benefits they would rather have industries keep paying for as a long as possible even if it means killing the goose that lai
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by seec 1y ago
Well ThePirateBay is still up and even when they were deep into the legal fight the site was still finding ways to survive. So, it doesn't look like a good parallel to me. Apple does have ridiculous control on what you can run on your
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by seec 1y ago
Yes clearly an oil shill. Nowadays the lines are blurred because there are actually many oil companies that also "invest" in renewables, because they can make a decent amount of profit on that and it allows them to sell gas when t
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by seec 1y ago
That's my experience as well with Chinese designed products. They always look OK but when you really use them is when it becomes obvious why they are cheaper. In the end I doubt the lower cost of labor is that meaningful considering th
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by seec 1y ago
> Microsoft get really lazy when they have a virtual monopoly. That's not very specific to Microsoft really. You can say the same thing about Google, Apple or any other big corp that managed to capture a market where users don'
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by seec 1y ago
I think you answer your own question: because it doesn't matter if they can sell it and still make a profit. Microsoft has a lot of already existing clients and those clients (mostly) trust them. They don't need to do a lot of con
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by seec 1y ago
Even Flamanville is basically German industrial sabotage by the way of Siemens. Without their stupid bureaucratic "security" requirements the project would have been completed much faster and cheaper. It seems insane to me that we
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by seec 1y ago
At this point I have stopped caring about the renewables ideologues. We are very clearly funding a massive industry in China and becoming even more dependent on a single country than we ever were with fossil fuels. It's not even clear
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by seec 1y ago
Using Cinebench single score to compare desktop chips is very dishonest. It's an extremely parallel benchmark, where many powerful cores get you a much better score. For example, the M4 does get around 170 single, but the Snapdragon X2
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by seec 1y ago
Well the thing is that technically information is free, but creating it is definitely not. So, if Ads are not paying for it, and people won't pay for it either, who does? Fake news exists because of the perverses incentives of the syst
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by seec 1y ago
It's hilarious but that's kind of what's happening, and that's less funny. If you follow the data to its logical conclusion, we are getting there, the only question is how much time will it take...
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by seec 1y ago
Yes but that's because our current system with the providence state has created "unnatural" pressures where being smarter doesn't correlate that well with wealth past a certain point. In a system where everyone has to be
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by seec 1y ago
It's not very odd. It's all part of the drift of science, where now things are loosely defined and what passes for science is often political propaganda. The removal of Aspergers label has a lot more do to with politics (not wanti
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by seec 1y ago
I kind of understand them. There is a meme of Microsoft being bad / making bad software but the reality is that they actually make pretty good software with a lot of functionalities that others fail to properly replicate / impleme
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by seec 1y ago
To be fair, poor-quality cables are a more recent development at Apple. It basically follows the Tim Cook takeover, where full on greed has become the "raison d'être" of Apple at the expense of everything else. I had the 1,5G
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by seec 1y ago
Exactly. Without the commercial investment and money advertising brought, the internet would still be mostly a concept and mostly useless for the vast majority of people. It would be like a convenient way to browse material, like a library
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by seec 1y ago
But for most people without the large platforms and tooling of those megacorps the internet is mostly useless. Where would they even start without Google search? And people come to the internet to communicate and form groups, having a gazi
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by seec 1y ago
Yes but it is more as a result of the weakness of the protocols. It started naively as something to send message from machine to machine. There was no real concept of an identity or a user, it only has a random name (and later domain, but t
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by seec 1y ago
I definitely would, if payments in 10s of cents was possible. But we only get full on subscription that are at least few euros per month and those are annoying to manage and it's quite complicated to evaluate the value beforehand (unli
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by seec 1y ago
Interresting point of view. But don't you think that today's internet already provides lockout and micromanagement without ever needing the microtransaction part? This is actually all the talks around censorship on various platfor
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by seec 1y ago
Yeah but that's mostly because they dominate the benchmarks. And part of it is better hardware engineering but also part of it is coupling with optimized software bits that they pushed to devs very well. It was very well done and strat
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by seec 1y ago
Yes it is particularly stupid because there are European people doing way better than the natives in many of those hot countries. The argument is always that the bad white people oppress the natives but at some point, there are patterns tha
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by seec 1y ago
I think the idea of shared libraries is also linked to a problem of the past: expensive storage (especially fast storage). Nowadays SSDs with decent random IO are quite cheap to the point where even low-end hosting has them, and getting spi

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