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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
And yet socialist countries starved millions, and their only periods of relative prosperity were when they loosened their ideology and allowed limited market reforms.
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
They didn't say anything about thinking that everyone has the same luxury. How does diverting an infinitesimal fraction of the water flowing from the Great Lakes affect the water supply at a camp in Mongolia?
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
If you ask a socialist to describe their ideal world, it is one in which everyone is equally poor. They see "taxing the rich" first and foremost as punishing an ideological enemy, with little thought given to actually maximizing t
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
It's not "plan9 assembly language" as in "the assembly language named plan9". Read it as "the otherwise unnamed custom assembly language used in the plan9 operating system". The article simply misspoke by
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
Video calls are exhausting because without eye contact you can never tell who's looking at you at any given moment. You have to maintain perfect composure because there's a camera pointed right at your face transmitting your minut
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
I always had a cynical thought -- what if, after he got the brain stem implant and entered the post scarcity voluntary cooperative paradise, his body was really right back in the warehouse doing drudge labour while he experienced a simulati
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
> Another oddity around here is vanishing eaves. Up here in Vancouver, they decided to start counting the area under the eaves as part of the permitted square footage back in the '90s. No surprise, eaves immediately disappeared fro
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
So Facebook should be obliged to pay you every time you upload a photo? Anyone with a camera will be a millionaire by tomorrow morning. And the government did choose to require Facebook to pay for the news. Facebook decided the price wasn
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
> Pro photos cost a lot of money to use and FB just gets them for free. Why? a) Because the photographer uploaded it, granting a license to display it under the TOS b) Because someone else uploaded it without permission and Facebook is
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
News organisations would routinely post links to their latest stories using their official social media accounts. Don't you think they would have stopped if they felt they were being harmed by it?
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
They don't any more! This whole article is about how they go out of their way to prevent users from even posting links to it!
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
Because they're constantly posting articles whining that "Meta's news ban" is killing the media.
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
Why should they be obliged to pay for the news if they don't want it because it isn't valuable for them? Is it immoral not to buy the $15 hotdog at a sports stadium even if you decide you're not that hungry?
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
It's when your friend/uncle posts a link to the latest headline about what Trump/Biden said today.
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
>> Less news is being consumed by Canadians > I don't think this is a bad thing tbh. Less real news, but not necessarily less political content. And now you can't reply to misinformation with a link to a real news story.
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
Yes! The only argument I could ever get out of supporters of this law was "but they're billion-dollar corporations, they should pay their fair share!" Well fine, then adjust the corporate tax rate however you like -- but don
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
This whole fiasco was such an obvious own-goal cooked up by an unholy coalition of newspaper industry lobbyists and progressive politicians who are explicitly hostile to understanding the simplest economic principles. To illustrate the absu
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
It's ironic how that comic aged far more poorly than the original premise it made fun of. By 2016, anonymous online political commentary was directly influencing major world events.
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
Oh certainly, their two greatest motivations to build things that way are: 1. Make devices thinner and sleeker 2. Capture value from power users who would otherwise buy the base model and upgrade it themselves But that's probably how
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
If it takes 2% more materials to make the components upgradeable, but only 1% of users will do it over the device's lifetime, then that's a net loss for the environment. I don't like it either and I'm not sure I agree, b
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by seryoiupfurds 2y ago
Having QBASIC right there and available to play with was my introduction to programming as a curious 11 year old. I remember reading every topic in the help browser over and over looking for how to write to the screen, because I didn't
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by seryoiupfurds 3y ago
> There is a move to rename the crime to "financial grooming" because the term "pig butchering" is an intentional form of victim shaming. Anyone who is still using the term pig butchering should be immediately discred
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by seryoiupfurds 3y ago
How about if trucks full of soldiers without uniform crossed the border from Mexico to go on a sunny vacation, and decided on the spur of the moment to help their new friends out by imposing martial law and holding sham elections and shooti
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by seryoiupfurds 3y ago
Giving in to all their demands, of course. And then giving in to all their new demands five to ten years later when they try it again, and again, and again. "Anti-war" people always seem to have a curious blind spot when it comes
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by seryoiupfurds 3y ago
It's very convenient that whenever a dictator wants to invade and conquer a neighboring country, all they have to do is declare that it historically belonged to them and suddenly the "anti-imperialists" have no problem with i
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by seryoiupfurds 3y ago
"""Principled anti-imperialists""" love nothing more than jumping through rhetorical hoops to support naked imperialism by any brutal dictator who says "death to America!"
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by seryoiupfurds 3y ago
> Public transport is never door to door and there are always changeovers and cancellations, while self driving cars on demand can be door to door and is far less dependant on whether there's a labour dispute or leaves on the tracks
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by seryoiupfurds 3y ago
Getting around without a car is perfectly enjoyable if you live in the right neighborhood in the city. The war on cars is mostly about building more neighborhoods like that.
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by seryoiupfurds 3y ago
Wow, cool project!
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by seryoiupfurds 3y ago
That first picture is absolutely fascinating. I knew that helicopters are complex, but wow.

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