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by tehjoker 10mo ago
i thought starlink was using a low orbit that separated it from most other objects and would cause relatively rapid decay of debris. are there other objects in that orbit we should care about?
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
there are entire countries of marxists, china and cuba. in the us, there is a growing trend but marxists are disfavored from grants. parenti was one, hes old now. losurdo was one and he had trouble getting published even by verso. if you do
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
You just made my point
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
How often are marxist sources quoted on foreign affairs? There is a bias because the news is biased in that way, quite intentionally.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
I think it’s undeniable as an engineering profession when performance and algorithm choice come into play, that or safe control of embedded or industrial devices. There are other contexts where its engineering too, it’s just engineering in
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
I mean, having a more powerful laptop is great, but at the same time, these guys are calling for a >10x increase in RAM and a far more powerful NPU. How will this affect pricing? How will it affect power management? It made it seem like
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
It's true you don't know who wants it, but I thought capitalism was supposed to work by mutual consent and transparency of contract. If even one person is deceived, that's a scam! I doubt out of tens or hundreds of thousands
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Even in that quote 2% of people are possibly scammed out of their money, which is probably tens or hundreds of thousands of people.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
this point is very important. trump will take all sides of an issue rhetorically so you can almost always find some quote of his supporting whatever position you favor but they have a very definite political program that is concentrating co
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
this was the idea being sold in like 2011 or wherever the real names policy was implemented in social media. we can now confidently say it doesn’t work and also deprives people of privacy unfortunately
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Life chances for each generation in the imperial core have begun declining whereas back then life chances were continually improving.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
This is the take all the younger generations complain about. Boomers had it good, laid waste to the world and the international scene and wonder why everyone else is bitter.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Kind of a strange pivot to talk about meaning and connect it to capitalism
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
literate programming reborn
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
With a 100 Gbps connection, it would take 21.3 days, so it needs to get about 21x better than that.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
I think the main benefit of these standards is that when someone proposes a project, the level gets evaluated and either enough (and appropriate) resources are allocated or it is killed in an ideal world.
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
I predict this will be an instant classic article. It concisely contains most of the history a lot of newer hands are missing.
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
China is not fascist, communism ands fascism are opposed concepts and mortal enemies. Please do some reading.
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
I don’t know enough about Jimmy Lai to call him left wing. He seemed like a rich capitalist pro west guy to me, but that’s a very surface level read.
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
This is what loom workers experienced after the introduction of the power loom, what factory workers experienced under Taylorism, what Amazon workers experience today in many cases. Just working at a pace that is unsustainable. This is why
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
In America, democracy is defined as liberal democracy to preclude other forms as legitimate. Liberal democracy means theoretically that anyone can contest for political power regardless of political viewpoint. This means that anyone from a
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
It is true that China controls the conversation around e.g. Tienanmen square (an event that is not accurately portrayed in U.S. media), nor the Xianjiang "genocide" that Biden concocted for which there was zero proof (we know what
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
TikTok allowed the algorithm to amplify what people wanted to see while palestine content was suppressed on other platforms. What they said was true and they also allowed this content to be amplified, which was a good thing.
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
I don’t disagree that there is a soft power component, but it is strange in my opinion to narrowly focus on China when there are demonstrable harms from american allies and none so far as I can tell from China. In my view, people getting ex
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
Should American owned or controlled companies be banned in other countries? Should Israel be banned from interfering in American politics? If yes, then I am more open to this concept. For what it's worth, I am not aware of any evidence
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
It is true and documented that the reason TikTok was challenged and censored was because it was exposing too many people to Israeli crimes in the genocide in Gaza. This was stated by high level officials. Of course, it also provides grist f
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
With regards to Israel, how can you have a democracy when more than half the population in palestine is under military rule and there is an addition to the basic law as of 2018 that israel is a jewish state and settlement is explicitly enco
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
I routinely see homeless people what are you going on about
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
These are accurate takes by OP, it’s just unpatriotic content gets downvoted even though it is accurate.
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by tehjoker 11mo ago
Just remember when the press reports on foreign affairs, “pro democracy” means “pro capitalism, pro west” we don’t gaf about democracy or self determination. That’s why we ally with saudi arabia, israel, and invaded iraq.

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