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by zanny 6y ago
At the very least the commodification of absolutely everything is pretty extreme.
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by zanny 6y ago
Heres an alternative way of thinking about it - why are you around someone you dislike? Businesses are not families, but if you cannot get along with your cowokers you cannot be that cooperative with them. Fundamentally I at least do not
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by zanny 6y ago
Its enlightened centrism and a place of profound privilege to be comfortable in the world as it exists thinking all of those "extremists" advocating for change are just being too emotional and partisan. Centrism is de-facto the st
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by zanny 6y ago
Meanwhile we have been compiling the same C and above code for mips, arm, power, x86, and riscv for decades in portable ways while still getting performant code. Now to be fair GPUs have a legacy of slowly becoming generic processors wherea
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by zanny 6y ago
You don't have to implement Metal, Valve had MoltenVK open sourced specifically to fix the Apple hole in Vulkan coverage.
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by zanny 6y ago
Well yeah, of course. Pretty much every US city is buried in homeless populations because human decency is off the table if there isn't a profit motive behind it. You can look at the glass is half full view of this, though - thanks to
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by zanny 6y ago
Its on the sovereign authority of other nations to sanction or place tariffs upon international actors they deem harmful. If the US doesn't like Irelands tax policy ban US companies from setting up Irish subsidiaries. A lot of this jus
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by zanny 6y ago
Who you tax is more important than how much you tax. If you levy your tax burden entirely on the poorest aspects of society than of course its going to look bad. The US is largely socialism and profits for the corporations and free market a
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by zanny 6y ago
Since you run the matrix server in that environment you can add a hook for a master corporate account to be auto included in every room made. It would then be privy to any encryption keys.
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by zanny 6y ago
There is a ludicrous amount of wealth in almost every industrialized nation. Every single one has way in excess of the ability to guarantee minimum income to all citizens without exception let alone just a social security equivalent for the
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by zanny 6y ago
Just having people in your country doesn't equate to economic productivity. Western nations will want highly educated young people doing hard mechanical labor that often takes two decades of training to get proficient at. And yes, we
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by zanny 6y ago
Its working completely as intended. The stratification of class is a measure to maximize profit. The disconnect of markets from actual human wellbeing feeds into a perpetual profit loop that makes capitalists numbers bigger without actually
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by zanny 6y ago
Its never been "sustainable", its just a question of when society wants to bring the proverbial chickens home to roost.
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by zanny 6y ago
Pretty much every western civilization on Earth is fully capable of providing a minimum standard of living to its entire population today, let alone just a larger chunk of the pie elder group in half a century. Its an active and intention
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by zanny 6y ago
Seriously if they want to sell LO just stop offering free downloads. Yes, its free software, and alternative builds would percolate around for normal users but you have the brand and I cannot imagine most companies would be keen on either d
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by zanny 6y ago
The trillions weren't squandered for the thousands of defense contractors and suppliers that made fortunes off said wars. Its why they lobbied for them in the first place. Now a lot of warmongers profiteering off occupational imperiali
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by zanny 6y ago
It doesn't mean its productive. We could be spending half a trillion on civil engineering to rebuild cities, roads, high speed rail, canals, etc. That has appreciable and visible benefits to society. Occupying a desert on the other sid
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by zanny 6y ago
Most of these experiments come out of the US where there is overwhelming pressure by society that your value as a human is how well you can sell yourself. This is especially true as more and more people are priced out of broader economic pa
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by zanny 6y ago
Loyalty to the group - family, workplace, country - is huge in Japan. The expectation is that those who are no longer productive for society will still be taken care of, by family, prior workplace, or society. And then the US is on the oppo
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by zanny 6y ago
Definitionally they kind of are inevitably the final solution. We will either totally automate all production, go extinct, or get trapped in a loop of destroying civilization putting the survivors back to pre-industry and having to rebu
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by zanny 6y ago
The audience of h266 and whom will "win" the codec war isn't individual consumers, even powerusers that know what a codec is. H266 will be adopted by broadcasting and archival and will make mpeg tankers of money. Whatever
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by zanny 6y ago
Is there any indication that rav1e is so inefficient as to have substantive double digit percentage speedup left to be realized? Because even if you cut encode times in half, they already take hours per minute of video on a quad core. AV1 i
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by zanny 6y ago
I don't have the Netflix / Disney+ / etc containers to analyze but Youtube has pretty much totally purged mp3 from every video on the site. Billions of watch hours a day of Opus audio there at least.
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by zanny 6y ago
Which then begs the question - why are video compression standards developed in the US at all? MPEG is obviously US based but Xiph is also a US nonprofit. The software patents should be hugely crippling the ability for Americans to develop
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by zanny 6y ago
Kevin Macleod has probably enshrined himself in auditory history just by making so much royalty free music that has taken over platforms that aggressive copyright systems police. I swear I hear something of his multiple times a week in tota
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by zanny 6y ago
Google still has shorter support periods than Lineage manages. The Nexus 6 was dropped by Google at Android 7 but you can install Lineage 17.1 (10.0) on it today. Same with some really old devices like the Galaxy Note 3 or S4. And even olde
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by zanny 6y ago
You can get a Threadripper 3990x with 64 cores in a "regular" workstation.
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by zanny 6y ago
The workflows of Phabricator, having Tasks as Issues and attaching patches to them is way archaic to how people who are used to Github do things - they fork, make changes, and submit merge requests. If you want to solicit outside contributo
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by zanny 6y ago
Insert paradox of intolerance here. We want to act like we are purely rational beings, and maybe some of us operate on that level consistently, but those of us that do not, even for a moment, are ripe to have their animal brains taken advan
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by zanny 6y ago
This comes from such a place of profound privilege. The Internet has given voice to extremists, anti-intellectualism, conspiracies, echo-chambers, etc. It also largely enabled the movements that have liberated the rights of LGBT and also

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