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by shimman 3mo ago
It is truly insane that this still continues to happen today, I mean the entire cloud industry is built on overcharging clients for compute they will never ever realistically use. Not too mention how damaging it all is to environment in exa
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by shimman 3mo ago
Hopefully they'd stop introducing gambling to children.
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by shimman 3mo ago
Because the AI companies also stole from things society values extremely high: artists, workers, children, and humans. I don't really care about IP for the exact same reasons you say, but what I hate even more are rich elites thinking
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by shimman 3mo ago
Friend, you need to seriously get out of your tech bubble and talk to real workers in person.
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by shimman 3mo ago
Good thing the country isn't run by shareholders. Note that a federal jobs program has something like 60-80% support by voters across all political spectrums in the USA.
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by shimman 3mo ago
Okay and how does this materially hurt Americans? The elites in the US hoard all the wealth, US corporations doing well internationally means fuck all for the domestic citizens. This is what I mean by how much of a farce this all is. Why sh
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by shimman 3mo ago
Sorry 'bub but the Democratic party is as much to blame as republicans. Neoliberalism has infected both parties and let us finally shed this fake reality that the democratic party is the party of labor and not corporations. Good news i
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by shimman 3mo ago
Conflating China with Russia is absolutely bonkers. No need to comment when you're already engorged on propaganda. Also don't understand what point you're trying to make outside of the US being explicitly poor actors that ign
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by shimman 3mo ago
No, it's quite simple. US imperialism only benefits the select elites of the country at the expense of the poor. Why are you denying the absolutely destructive power of the US military and it's abject failure in not only making th
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by shimman 4mo ago
The internet has never been more alive to me at this time, granted I spend very very little of my internet time on corporate internet but there are real communities out there. You might have to change your expectations (surprise! people don
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by shimman 4mo ago
No serious really argued that; what they argued is that a Mars colony is impractical, interplanetary travel as a fantasy, and data centers in space as delusional.
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by shimman 4mo ago
How can you make this comment when the US military has literally created an entire industry that has served no single purpose outside of flagrant careerism? Like the military industry complex is a real thing and is almost 100 years old at t
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by shimman 4mo ago
Maybe the US should focus more on diplomacy and open collaboration rather than letting a few dozen psychopaths convince the country we need to support a war machine that has benefited no one outside of the defense industry.
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by shimman 4mo ago
There's something hilarious, in the truly cosmic sense of the word, about discussing an "explosion" that spanned between 10 to 25 millions of years of its duration. Wonder how xenoanthropologists will discuss the "simian
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by shimman 4mo ago
Granted I don't know the age of the student, but I had a friend that read "A Clockwork Orange" in 8th grade. They shared the book with me and I had an extremely hard time reading it, it wasn't until I started college tha
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by shimman 4mo ago
Never thought of cross language code mods to be a thing but surely there are libraries out there that deal with the interop of different ASTs across languages? Seems like an interesting area of research.
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by shimman 4mo ago
You're extremely limited in the type of learning you can do if you choose not to read. It sounds harsh but the poster is making a salient point. Quality matters and following "I love science" on facebook is not substitute for
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by shimman 4mo ago
Yeah, this is definitely a massive slight. If it was any other book I'd buy it, but when you read terms like "horrorshow," or "platty", or "droogs" in the first few paragraphs it's not hard to see why
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by shimman 4mo ago
This just reads as sour grapes when countries don't want to deal with bad trades from Western corporations that mostly focus on extracting local populaces while inflicting as much damage to possible toward local labor groups. Can'
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by shimman 4mo ago
Weird rant, unless they meant it as a anti-corporate screed against how openly hostile US technology has become to western democracies. Definitely didn't read as that way.
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by shimman 4mo ago
Read the Rifter's trilogy because of this, quite good IMO. Made buying Blindsight in hardcopy way easier once money wasn't a strain.
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by shimman 4mo ago
Publishers aren't as evil compared to big tech. Maybe a random lieutenant of hell versus Lucifer's advisor here. You can also buy DRM free self-published books quite easily nowadays. Amazon doesn't have a monopoly on e-commer
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by shimman 4mo ago
Okay then I still don't know your point outside of wanting to take a "stand" against a CSS library. You need to write more clear + intentional because you aren't clear in what you're saying at all.
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by shimman 4mo ago
Nice false dichotomy you got there there, might as well calculate the entire water usage for a a single GPU in the supply chain too. Something tells me one is extremely worse than the other when you account for all the water that's use
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by shimman 4mo ago
While I understand your overall point your example of tailwind just seems odd. The idea that a css library makes or breaks what a project is capable of is kinda... IDK... laughable? What is the challenge in downloading class names into a st
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by shimman 4mo ago
Ok so you not only don't know the difference, you also think you should be able to act like a tyrant against the local populations for not bending toward your will. You're a great imperialist but like a bad human...
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by shimman 4mo ago
They'd end up charging you the amount of money you'd make sending the package, that's how all these forms of rentierism work: Uber, Amazon, Apple, Shopify, etc. Private taxes they want to force onto people. Must fight it at a
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by shimman 4mo ago
There are differences in types of data centers and hyper scale data centers are extremely different than what you're imagining.
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by shimman 4mo ago
There is no cloud capacity crunch, what a bunch of hog wash. What we've mostly got are some of the most inefficient systems on the planet where consumers are also building some of the most inefficient projects on top of it. There is no
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by shimman 4mo ago
Can you say what exactly you've accomplished with this productivity? Can you provide revenue numbers and how profit increased or does your definition of productivity not include this?

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