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by zanny 8y ago
> There is no law of nature There is a law of capitalism for it though, which we have, as a species, put well above nature. These jobs are only so shitty because Facebook can get people willing to put up with them. We sit in ivory towers
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by zanny 8y ago
Apple is a major innovator in the bendable phone space, they were way ahead of the rest of the market with the iPhone 6 back in 2014. (search for bendgate)
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by zanny 8y ago
Yes you absolutely can, because the second you are writing C++ code with anyone but yourself you will eventually find, and have to rewrite, something someone wrote using malloc in C++. I've found code where developers casted perfectl
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by zanny 8y ago
> perfectly modern Its getting modern, but its no where near perfectly. There are three different ways to allocate heap data and at least one dates back to the 70s. There are at least five ways to initialize a variable last I checked. Th
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by zanny 8y ago
The man dying from preventable illness really should feel mighty grateful he lives in a country where he has the right to buy a gun with all that money he doesn't have. The black teenager being bludgeoned into permanent disability by a
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by zanny 8y ago
Yea it is wrong. High speed rail cost overruns are almost always due to how expensive eminent domain is more than anything. The estimations given to state officials are often an order of magnitude off how much land they would need to buy. I
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by zanny 8y ago
The worst thing is that the incentives are perverse. Your chronic pain friend can easily cost a society more than they will return in value, but if society will not take care of its feeble and weak than what value does it have? If your fr
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by zanny 8y ago
Uh, nothing to do with Mesa. Don't know how that happened, but I can't edit it now two hours later...
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by zanny 8y ago
AMDGPU is a kernel driver and generally has nothing to do with AMDGPU. r600 and radeonsi are the Mesa drivers, and both are Gallium based. I'm not aware of a Mesa driver in a condition of usability one would consider practical not usin
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by zanny 8y ago
Public utility is firmly defined, at least in the US, by the FCC. Even the Internet itself is no longer protected under such definitions, let alone your "right" to speak on a private companies website. I would absolutely love for
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by zanny 8y ago
> just allowing you to publish your videos should be unilaterally deciding Youtube is a not a public institution nor is it public land or space. Google can allow, or deny, whomever or whatever they want on their platform so long as their
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by zanny 8y ago
Labor is a negative word? We labor every day, our actions are labor, we set out upon labors, and most of us are labor. How Orwellian would it be to try to avoid calling a pig what it is because the word describing it makes you feel bad? Sof
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not a problem of time. Plenty have been born into wealth that never had to commit themselves to anything to survive. Anything they did was self motivated of their own accord - they could have lived and died a consumer of an endless stre
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by zanny 8y ago
The Rust server isn't dead at all, the maintainer is active but not proceeding until async / await is fully stabilized.
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by zanny 8y ago
I think OP means religion in the framing context of spiritual belief in a moral philosophy, less in which flavor of the god of Moses you want to throw your sword behind. Consumerism is, in large part, a religion. Its just, as you describe,
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by zanny 8y ago
Unless you have never paid attention to alternative phones / OSes over the past... twenty? years... of course it was delayed. These are insanely huge projects to undertake, even for the largest corporations in the world, so anyone tryi
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by zanny 8y ago
Because while you have a right to yell it, you will still be charged with disturbing the peace and inciting a riot.
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by zanny 8y ago
A pragmatic way forward is absolutely to ramp down the institution over time as obsolete. When the car came out farriers did not lobby the government that they needed their institution protected because that is just the way things are. Its
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by zanny 8y ago
How about instead of spending billions of man hours and dollars on an antiquated conception like intellectual property when the fundamental assumptions of its premise have changed (primarily, that information was not functionally free to st
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not exactly the same but its a felony to threaten the president in the US. US freedom of speech is not close to absolute with all kinds of exceptions made over the years, from yelling fire in a theater to verbal harassment.
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by zanny 8y ago
I live in a town here the main street has a posted speed limit of 25 that absolutely nobody obeys and the average speed of traffic is always around 40. If you take a road with a "natural" speed and try to artificially restrict wit
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by zanny 8y ago
Theres also plenty of evidence that children flourish way more under the guardianship of parents* rather than at least traditional day care. Having kids should push you out of full time work because raising kids is its own nigh-full time jo
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by zanny 8y ago
Raising children is a full time job. The broader problem is that the discipline is not at all treated as a profession. Instructors for those children are recognized professionals, but the guardians are not. If you want to be good parents th
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by zanny 8y ago
I wanted to suggest a crypto enclave built into recording devices that could sign recordings with private keys controlled by the manufacturer but even that wouldn't be too hard to circumvent by piping fake images/audio into such a
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by zanny 8y ago
The best part about Ebay is that if you do get a fraud item and can prove it Ebay simply refunds you and you can keep whatever you got since it wasn't what was advertised. Amazon to the best of my knowledge does make you return items f
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by zanny 8y ago
22 -> make crud Java apps at a corporate software farm for a decade and lose faith in humanity
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by zanny 8y ago
I don't believe for a second it requires "natural aptitude" to program. The problem is any programming curriculum starts with a text editor open. If a developer-to-be doesn't understand the framing context of what they a
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by zanny 8y ago
> At the end of the day, nobody can change Bitcoin's monetary policy A majority of hashing power in the network could change Bitcoins monetary policy.
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by zanny 8y ago
What is "pop culture" even? Its just a measure of targeted advertising towards the most ill equipped to respond to it productively or healthily. There was pop culture targeting your parents, yourself, your kids, and there will be
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by zanny 8y ago
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