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by zanny 7y ago
> I still don't get why the government gave free money to companies to invest in their assets. Because the sponsors of the bills and authors of the clauses used to work for the same ISPs and were functionally writing blank checks
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by zanny 7y ago
I'm at least upset about it because few come close to how noncompetitive US ISP markets are, the FCC is totally complicit and run by board members of big telecos that want to operate an ISP cartel with regional monopolies, and no where
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by zanny 7y ago
> sell a fast connection at a discount You can get gigabit fiber throughout Asia and Europe for as low as $20 a month with no cap. There is no "discount" for fast connections in the US. The ISP cartel price gouges the whole cou
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by zanny 7y ago
As someone who has been out of BTC for years because I have no faith in it anymore and recognize it as the foreign controlled money laundering machine it is, its still probably going to skyrocket in this recession. I've been wrong ever
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by zanny 7y ago
Nothing about the intent behind the 2018 tax cuts was about them being good for the economy. They were good for the corporate sponsors of the legislation and administration that pushed for them and bad for the long term solvency of the coun
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by zanny 7y ago
> So this will be worse that 2008. 2008 was bad because the collective banks of the US realized trillions in mortgages were money on the books that wasn't real and was never going to be real. The correction involved resetting said b
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by zanny 7y ago
Instead of constructing your life around a bike you construct it around a car. You can't commute to work any other way, if it breaks down you are bound to mostly Uber as a backup strategy to get anywhere. Except those car-centric envir
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by zanny 7y ago
Its a pet peeve of mine that the GNU/Linux world is 99% of the way to an incredible degree of security but distros are totally disinterested in going the last mile, often because its a lot of boring work. Mandatory Access Control shoul
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by zanny 7y ago
When you simulate something with increasing complexity you don't generally run said simulation at a fixed time interval that you then scale hardware to meet. At the start the processing required would be minimum and thus the simulation
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by zanny 7y ago
Its not in any one businesses self interest to be philanthropic by paying their workers more or slashing their prices to drive up the available consumption of the working class. It would be the governments responsibility to right the ship,
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by zanny 7y ago
Intels 10nm node has been a disaster for years. This comes off as less "Intel has been doing nothing forever" and more "what they planned to do blew up in their face". That being said, if AMD never made Ryzen, you can be
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by zanny 7y ago
> unfortunately no one has the answer. The answer is structuring society, socialization, and culture in a way that doesn't disenfranchise people or leave them feeling helpless enough to turn to extremism, hate, and violence. But tha
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by zanny 7y ago
To be fair that isn't the whole story and doesn't really make for a convincing argument to the contrary. Doctors should be paid well, and in the case of the Cook Islands I assume they have public institutions providing doctors and
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by zanny 7y ago
What gets me at the end of the day is that almost the entire institution that makes programming "valuable" is wholly fictitious and socially constructed. Without institutional international copyright and IP protection the vast maj
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by zanny 7y ago
The justifiication is generally: We can recognize that animals are conscious. Very rarely do animals consciously want to die, and very demonstrably the way most humans prepare and kill animals for consumption is observably harmful to them -
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by zanny 7y ago
If you have children and then choose to work over doing the legitimately full time job of being a parent (full time being at least 40 hours a week, not that you can't do anything else ever) you need to provide them at least a paren
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by zanny 7y ago
Twitter and Facebook are the big two holdouts besides Apple that makes social sign in buttons a PITA. OpenID Connect can already provide MS and Google and also supports Paypal, Yahoo, AOL, etc.
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by zanny 7y ago
We should measure people not in the amount of land they own or occupy but as individuals, and every one of them should have equal merit in deciding how society is run. As it is I could have a substantial unequal share in representative inte
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by zanny 7y ago
There truly are few ways to waste taxpayer dollars more thoroughly than on the military. Social security goes from taxpayer to retiree often to be spent immediately at market for goods and services useful to many fellow countrymen. Medicare
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by zanny 7y ago
The broader issue is that, while most would consider the alternative power vacuum bad, American imperialism and projection is obviously not the optimal way to organize global society. The UN is wholly inept and incapable with a security cou
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by zanny 7y ago
The answer to an aggressive and militant China would be the same answer to any upstart nuclear power threatening the world - we have already seen how effective sanctioning Russia has been in the wake of their aggressive imperialism stints i
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by zanny 7y ago
If the US only holds its economic ground at gunpoint I don't feel justified living my dainty American lifestyle thanks to boots to the throat of peoples around the world. Europe endures and prospers without threat of violence or econom
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by zanny 7y ago
Properly executed an explosive startup that burns fast and fails hard can still net the founders substantial change just by setting their own salaries and running investor money through the ringer fast and furious. I don't really think
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by zanny 7y ago
AMD is up because they are eating Intels lunch. The whole pie might shrink with sanctions on China, but AMD is in the process of going from crumbs to a legitimate slice of their own for the first time in over a decade.
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by zanny 7y ago
IP is largely a tool of oppression. The only ones who can usually practically take advantage of it are incumbents with the financial capital to use the legal system as a weapon against competition. We see case after case of small time creat
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by zanny 7y ago
The electoral college is the tip of the iceberg. It is fundamentally undemocratic to have a winner take all first past the post race for head of state no matter what middlemen you put between the ballot and the winner. I'm a firm belie
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by zanny 7y ago
Mind blowing that a majority of the people might win a democratic election. Its all hyperbole overshadowing the root problem - first past the post non-proportional elections are hugely undemocratic. You need proportional legislatures where
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by zanny 7y ago
Of all the monopolies in the world conspiring against the interest of the general public ICANN is probably one of the ones most able to be usurped. People only use DNS through public facing DNS servers. You can run your own if you want, whe
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by zanny 7y ago
Systemic racism and sexism (bigotry in general, and America to this day is overflowing with it - for Muslims, LGBT, Hispanics, Africans, Chinese, etc..), historical revisionism / fantasy, American exceptionalism, ideological imperialis
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by zanny 7y ago
The point is more than density is an optimization of the marginal cost of maintaining a person. Manufacturing all the autos, maintaining all the roads for them to travel on, and providing supply lines across vast areas of low density are im

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