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by thrance 4mo ago
It's coming to European Union citizens. Any day now.
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by thrance 4mo ago
They're positive freedoms (freedom to...). American political discourse usually only revolves around negative freedoms (freedom from...) but that doesn't mean the things I listed aren't freedoms.
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by thrance 4mo ago
Now apply that logic to healthcare. Single payers are able to get much better deals.
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by thrance 4mo ago
I would argue they're even worse. By taking away funding for public institutions, they're removing very important freedoms, like the freedom to live a long and healthy life, to get an education, to have a functional postal servi
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by thrance 4mo ago
Proponents of UBI usually also suggest countermeasures to the (real) issues you pointed out.
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by thrance 4mo ago
> not laziness because they are using AI, but laziness to do their job right. It correlates often enough.
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by thrance 4mo ago
Cutting public services and lowering taxes is what we've been doing since Reagan, and look where it lead us. And you still want more of that !? To fix society, you need to bring money down the ladder, from the ones whose wallets got i
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by thrance 4mo ago
That's a non-issue, those providers would have to relax their licenses, since releasing binaries after EOL would become expected of all.
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by thrance 4mo ago
Just lies upon lies. Always the same weak rhetoric of "it's both sides!". The truth is that science didn't get more political, the right is just going in a direction orthogonal to material reality. Science will appear
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by thrance 4mo ago
Probably not, but that would be a good thing in my book anyway.
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by thrance 4mo ago
What's democratic about a decision made by the wealthy few, disregarding a massive popular wave!?
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by thrance 4mo ago
False dilemma. Riot could release the server binaries when they end League of Legends service, and no one would get thrown on the street.
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by thrance 4mo ago
We saw what happened to the early optimism of the internet era, what corporations made of it. There's no reason to believe this time will be different. Trust me, they are not building these data centers to solve math problems.
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by thrance 4mo ago
Looks amazing! Might I ask what tool you're using to design the 3d models? Some kind of voxel editor, like MagicaVoxel?
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by thrance 4mo ago
The less exposure to different people the more xenophobia there is... That's true everywhere.
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by thrance 4mo ago
There have been reactionary waves before social media was even a thing. The progression of fascism and the rejection of rationality that comes with it are well understood, blaming it all on social media is a little cheap. If you really want
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by thrance 4mo ago
Also, distrust of educated elites and rejection of rationality are long-standing features of reactionary politics.
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by thrance 4mo ago
Work implies the creation of value: physical artifacts, services, or more generally, stuff that adds to the world. Capital gails isn't work, you're getting money without adding anything to the world.
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by thrance 4mo ago
What people mean by "you can't earn a billion dollar" is that there's no work that's useful enough, alone, to be worth that much in reward. How can we live in a world where a moron can have a trillion to their name,
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by thrance 4mo ago
> So there's decreased incentive to focus on wages as a form of income, and more incentive to focus on investments. That's been the case for a while now, and is steadily getting worse. But the issue is, workers usually rely on
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by thrance 4mo ago
0%? Foreign corporations should probably not be able to bribe their ways into getting unlimited concessions: that's imperialism.
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by thrance 4mo ago
EU laws are written like this to give companies maximum freedom in how they implement their solutions, not to lay traps for them to fall into.
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by thrance 4mo ago
Often, when I code in Python, it's because there are some libraries that aren't available in whatever other language would have been my first pick. Then, typing and type-checking are useful tools to stave off the codebase turning
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by thrance 4mo ago
Government officials are just revolving villains, send them to prisons and others will pick up right where they left. You have to uproot and get rid of the source: lobbying and moneyed interests.
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by thrance 5mo ago
By "The one that provides most value", do you mean in the short or long term? Very often, in my experience, prioritizing so-called "quick wins" only quickly wins the codebase more tech debt, that puts the project on a su
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by thrance 5mo ago
Will it support Linux?
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by thrance 5mo ago
Except billionaires are never on the side of the people. They functionally already own the US government, which is how they've been able to amass so much wealth while the rest of the world gets poorer and hotter. They buy media to pu
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by thrance 5mo ago
> Better to spend it while it’s whole. Yes, that's the whole point. That's a good thing . Money is meant to be spent, not be hoarded and slept on forever. Money velocity is terrible right now, capital generates more income th
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by thrance 5mo ago
There's a joke that goes something like this: > A Soviet visits America and says: "Wow, the propaganda is so good here! Much better than back home", an American replies: "What propaganda!? We don't have propagand
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by thrance 5mo ago
> plenty of issues worth worrying about Such as? It looks like the country is doing much worse now that the border is closed.

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