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by zanny 7y ago
No mention of it, but the pressure should still be on AMD to open source or allow firmware disable of their Platform "Security" Processor. I would really like to be more enthusiastic for my next build to use something like this, b
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by zanny 7y ago
With this CPu chiplet design they couldn't have 2 8 core packages and a GPU on a single die. For the vast majority of professional use cases 8 core / 16 thread running at 4.5+ boost is going to be way enough for a while. AMD sure
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by zanny 7y ago
Barring legislative capture by the rich (which happens a lot because of their distortedly large influence) just taking money out of their pockets does a lot to remedy a lot of the negative consequences of such high inequality. They could ta
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by zanny 7y ago
They go hand in hand, and are not mutually exclusive, instead often feeding one another in myriad ways. Housing is an obvious one - the rich accumulate capital, the gross inequality reduces the market for the "good" kinds of inves
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by zanny 7y ago
Their design for 10nm and the implementation didn't line up. Whatever their (still undisclosed) problems were, the entire node was fundamentally flawed. It might have been hubris at having been at the cutting edge of fab tech for so lo
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by zanny 7y ago
I don't get the negative sentiment here. When Vulkan was brand new Google didn't want to force it in 7.0 or they might have had even more devices still stuck on 6.0 today. The fact they made it mandatory and independent of vendor
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by zanny 7y ago
The journalist that leaked the panama papers was murdered while nobody was arrested for hundreds of billions in money laundering and tax evasion.
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by zanny 7y ago
This is in some ways good for piracy. During the 2000s the MAFIAA was heavily invested in their war on sharing sites and protocols because of how popular they were, but now with streaming taking a substantial chunk of that casual pirate aud
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by zanny 7y ago
The GPL is hijacking IP to create a consumer right to repair that should exist but doesn't. Total IP abolition in combination with a strongly enshrined right to repair, which would necessitate access to source code of binaries given, w
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by zanny 7y ago
I feel like this might be coming from a position far above minimum wage, because in practice the poor aren't that stupid. You get trapped in cycles of incredible housing expenses keeping you in constant short term debt and the lack of
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by zanny 7y ago
At least for Antergos its a super fast way to get a "real" Arch install. Sure I know the process of creating partition tables, formatting drives, bootstrapping wireless and what not, setting up system time, adding a bunch of servi
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by zanny 7y ago
Manually processing DMCA takedown requests would be a huge hassle, but this is still on Google - even without the DMCA and just with regular IP law they would still have a system like this if for no other reason than to appease the companie
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by zanny 7y ago
Because wealth is power. Wealth is influence. If you control the means of production you have a disproportionately large voice not in government but in society . Not everyone has Jeff Bezos' pen that can in one fell swoop dramatically
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by zanny 7y ago
Alternatively, you use a fraction of the preposterous technological gains society reaps from the last century to guarantee housing to everyone regardless of means. Plenty of evidence shows solving homelessness is as simple as housing the ho
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by zanny 7y ago
This is exactly how I feel about the myriad artists on Twitter and to some extent Tumblr if they use the one blog for art / comics and also have conversations on it. Blogs aren't galleries or appropriate comic sites.
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by zanny 7y ago
If you are looking for speed tacking an event loop on an interpreted scripting language is trying to dig a hole with a rake. Its why the demand for such functionality was almost wholly absent from Python, PHP, etc for so long. Asyncio is a
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by zanny 7y ago
If you want integrated scripting with web pages PHP cannot compete with the language already being embedded in pages to run on the client. The rise of Node et al was in large part the fall of PHP.
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by zanny 7y ago
Its easier for an FCC chair in the future working in citizens interests to mandate an already existing, optional extension than to mandate the adoption of call blocking from nothing.
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by zanny 7y ago
I think this might hint to one of the greater arguments for communism, which is functionally society as religion. That being said, I don't feel for a second that religion is the only way to fill that hole practically. But it requires a
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by zanny 7y ago
YuGiOh and Transformers were largely toy commercials, but you lump Dragonball Z into the same class? It practically indoctrinated half a generation into fitness and physical self improvement, I still sometimes hear Bruce Falconers score at
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by zanny 7y ago
Corporate welfare, by design, is not meant to be accountable.
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by zanny 7y ago
> Every company out there is trying to employ more people. Every company out there is trying to make more money . If employing people doesn't correlate, and the trends between the two (making money and employing people) are divergi
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by zanny 7y ago
> Why should I invest for the long term in these companies? The pitch for Uber is that operating at a loss and aggressively capturing the market for point to point transit eventually puts their competition (mostly Lyft, often regional st
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by zanny 7y ago
Roads aren't a great comparison because there is legitimate induced demand for roads - if you build more roads, and the roads are not at capacity, those around the roads will trend towards more car ownership, more frequent usage of the
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by zanny 7y ago
The alternative to building housing is not building housing, which is not a solution to the housing problem either. Yes, wealth inequality needs to be solved, and its implications harm society through myriad aspects of it. That doesn't
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by zanny 7y ago
Currently its price the poor out of participation in the most productive markets like its good for them to have no opportunities to get ahead because whole regions of the country are price gated out of their reach by NIMBYs that want the sa
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by zanny 7y ago
I'd argue despite the posted revenue figures that no, it isn't right for Blizzard to focus on mobile. They are a total no-name to mobile gamers, and mobile gamers in general don't care about brand and have no loyalty. They wi
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by zanny 7y ago
Many popular programs are now seeing continuous paid development by patronage including Godot, Krita, Blender, GIMP, and OBS. It is unsettling that they all get this success on a proprietary middle man that siphons a portion of the money in
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by zanny 7y ago
More generally it comes back to the right to repair. We operate in this perverse economy where we lack a meaningful right to repair in the digital age because understanding on the subject is so scarce, but I personally believe in a strong c
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by zanny 7y ago
My personal take on it is that in practice software liberation is more akin to the right to repair than to a need for intellectual property. We currently have both a draconian IP regime and woefully inadequate right to repair, but fixing th

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