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by worik 1y ago
> unionizing will accelerate whatever the decline of the company is causing the dissatisfaction That is not a fact. Unionising can be good for everybody What ruins organisations is greed, or hidden agendas
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by worik 1y ago
It would place the compliance burden on social media companies not on parents Effect it? If you (a social media co.) disobey you cannot collect ad revenue. Advertising on the platform could be banned. Moving the burden off individual pare
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by worik 1y ago
I am in New Zealand and we are debating this now I am a dissenter. A ban for children is onerous and how can it be enforced? Who will be punished for infractions? Better a legal code of conduct for platforms that want to raise revenue in y
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by worik 1y ago
Righto. "Non-existent" is going too far. I played around with their threads and found it was trivial to corrupt memory and crash.
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by worik 1y ago
async/await is useful But what Swift lacked (in my day) was any support for parallelism. They wrapped `fork` in a lot of mumbo jumbo, but it was just `fork` May as well use C
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by worik 1y ago
> that is of primary interest to many investors Primary? For investors who know their stuff it is of significant interest. Prices are far more important (and house prices roughly follow demographics, so are dropping in many places)
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by worik 1y ago
"First order effects" I do not know what that means, I can sort of guess. By now is not the AI market beyond any sensible definition of "first order"?
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by worik 1y ago
In the 1980s the cars were not good. They were not built to last so became unreliable after ~5 years. That was because in the Japanese market five years as a long time to run a car. Not so in the west
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by worik 1y ago
> they do a fantastic job supporting legacy APIs, frameworks, and devices They do not. They talk a good game, but the development tools, bright and shiny, but mostly work. Mostly, is not good enough. While they have so much mind share in
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by worik 1y ago
Not really that much It's been two years since I was an iOSSwift programmer, but the concurrent/parallel facilities were quite woeful. Memory protection no nonexsistant I do not miss it. This might be useful for porting Apple soft
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by worik 1y ago
A system based on ownership
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by worik 1y ago
> Africa is not a single unitary region. Well, duh! Who is saying different? Nobody here A short little article that does not cover every aspect is not bad. It is good
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by worik 1y ago
> people saying this is AI-generated: why? Because they themselves have nothing interesting to say
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by worik 1y ago
Africans doing it for themselves Who else could?
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by worik 1y ago
This I recal, the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing was dogy as. By 2000 it was the best The same thing is happening in China They are very good at everything they do, and getting better. Good.
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by worik 1y ago
> going to let the market crash By their very nature the markets can overwhelm any desire to "[not] let the market crash]"
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by worik 1y ago
Yes. And because time to first release is often the difference between prosper and fail It is not enough to be the best. You need to be the first
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by worik 1y ago
There is a lot more to property I investments than mortgage rates
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by worik 1y ago
Many countries and cities have effective rent controls Econ 101 is not the last word on economics
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by worik 1y ago
The same thing is happening.
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by worik 1y ago
This has been going on for years now. I have used Node, I would not go near the NPM auto install Spyware service. How is it possible that people keep this service going, when it has been compromised so regularly? How's it possible tha
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by worik 1y ago
The genocide in Sudan is horrific. It in no way diminishes the genocide in Gaza Both countries should be sanctioned
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by worik 1y ago
The agreement breaks the law
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by worik 1y ago
> I find it extremely unlikely that Google/Amazon lawyers, based in the US, would agree to such a blatantly mafia-like scheme. I trust The Guardian. So I agree It was unlikely. I find it very sad Very sad
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by worik 1y ago
We know already that Google and Amazon are morally bankrupt. (My brain is spinning that Microsoft are the "good guys" here). But I do not think we knew that Google and Amazon would engage in criminal conspiracy for profit
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by worik 1y ago
> Google's plan here is to just not actually make the "special payments" That does not help Signing the contract was a criminal conspiracy I am not holding my breath for prosecution, though.
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by worik 1y ago
Office 365 failed utterly today....
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by worik 1y ago
> Yes, and it's a good thing It is. I have seen the data But I live in a rural area of New Zealand and I also see how people moving onto farm land greatly increases tree cover (not forrest) and biodiversity, I assume because people
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by worik 1y ago
> suddenly ok with masked thugs scanning everyone's faces The point is it is brown people's faces. They have always been OK with that
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by worik 1y ago
The government is not your biggest concern, (if you are not a brown skinned immigrant) * Insurence companies * Health insurers * Banks These all would like a chance to increase their profits at your expense based on your private data. Just

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