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by zanny 7y ago
And my phone autocorrected "obsoleted hardware" to "obsoleted the h". Thanks Google.
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by zanny 7y ago
You can only play financial trickery with obsoleted the h for so long and Intel's entire product stack is dead in the water except for low cost consumer class CPUs with the lowest realtime latencies in the world (and those are mostly u
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by zanny 7y ago
Better things don't pay, at all. The most betterest things you can do as a developer - make infrastructure that makes other developers more efficient, or invent protocols or fundamentals to build ecosystems and industries on - often yo
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by zanny 7y ago
If you want to work but cannot because of societies prohibition on your gender entering the labor market you are slave to your husband who is allowed to earn a living when you cannot and are thus made wholly dependent and indentured to them
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I'd more ask why we need corporate charters sponsored and endorsed by the government. They solely exist to exonerate private persons from responsibility for harm done.
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Having all of your population employed isn't even necessarily a good thing. You can see low participation in the metered labor market when individuals are prosperous, well off, and self sufficient enough to avoid the rat race. It only
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by zanny 7y ago
> Should we celebrate or protest when the LIUR increases? By itself the metric seems pointless. For anyone looking at it. Participation does not imply utility or value - wartime nations would present extreme LIURs but building bombs does
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It has two interpretations. On one hand, the rise indicated women who had careers in their lives entered their 55+ years and brought the average up. Before then it simply wasn't an option as a woman even if you wanted one. On the other
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by zanny 7y ago
We are in effect the same tragedy that encompasses Octopoda. They are provably relatively intelligent and emotive creatures but have extremely short lifespans for their mental capacity and thus can never take real advantage of their learnin
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Those cities are "grappling" with problems of their own creation by decades of NIMBY zoning and investment policy. We should have more and better rail infrastructure but part of that in terms of commute is insuring that the statio
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by zanny 7y ago
I don't think there is any chance we make it a thousand years without either reaching technological singularity or destroying ourselves. In the 80 years of transistor technology we went from string manipulation via pneumatic tubes to r
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The only danger is there is the propensity for majority nodes to try to break federation. Normal people will still just use the most popular instance - the value of a decentralized protocol is in how it keeps all actors honest to keep parti
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ActivityPub. Prismo already tried it, the developer just burned out before it got anywhere usable.
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by zanny 7y ago
Prismo[1] was an attempt at that if anyone wants some historical context. [1] https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo
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Instances can A. block bots on themselves, B. block other instances known to harbor bots the same way they ban bots on their own instances, and if necessary C. whitelist federation if there is a pandemic of hostile actors.
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by zanny 7y ago
Do you have the right to get between two people if one is trying to convince the other to take drugs? To self harm? To harm others? To verbally abuse them? To maliciously deceive and lie to them? To swindle or rob them? Those last few point
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by zanny 7y ago
Even better ending their exploitative ad model business would promote the use of decentralized social network solutions. If people couldn't easily monetize the platform the way Facebook does it opens up the market for diverse platforms
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by zanny 7y ago
Advertising is zero sum. It doesn't create value, it just redistributes it. And even worse it redistributes it through psychological manipulation. Modern advertising is an arms race of capital to rob the poor of their time and money th
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by zanny 7y ago
Someone suggests DuckDuckGo in practically every single post that even mentions Google.
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> at least as long as hardware manufacturers let it run on their computers. Linux is thankfully totally emancipated from this now. There is no longer an exclusive x86 hegemony of desktop computing - its fringe for now, but ARM, Power, an
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by zanny 7y ago
Discoverability on the Internet is borderline nonexistent. There is no place people regularly go that would present them with foreign websites hosting content to their interest - there is too much money to be made in isolating and siloing u
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by zanny 7y ago
Peertube already exists and has seen growing usage: https://joinpeertube.org Of course, it doesn't have an ad or patronage model built in.
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by zanny 7y ago
I like and use Mastodon, and don't think its "low quality" Twitter.
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by zanny 7y ago
I don't believe anonymity is a requirement for a decentralization technology, if anything, it hampers it. The burdens of anonymity seen in projects that try to preserve is often so cumbersome as to make the software totally unusable by
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by zanny 7y ago
I'll definitely put a few of these on during my down time, you probably got yourself at least one new subscriber here!
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It used to be about the only thing you had going for you if you didn't have the political connections of wealth was the ability to become an expert through extreme effort to acquire cloistered information. This is also certainly a cont
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by zanny 7y ago
> People vote their emotions When its plastered all over TV. We just had elections days ago - obviously turnout is even worse than year than last where the national average was 50%. But nobody was voting emotionally there because largely
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by zanny 7y ago
Rust is extremely good at this with newtype syntax and the ability to apply impls and derives to masking types. Your JSON data might be a string, but having a Json type that guarantees its valid Json is way better. Same with stringified Bas
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by zanny 7y ago
I've been using AMD GPUs since they first stabilized the radeonsi driver ~6 years ago. 7870 -> 290 -> 580 -> just got a 5700 XT yesterday. They are good. It generally takes 6 months after a card is announced for the drivers to
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by zanny 7y ago
It could also be correlation without causation. Moneyed interests love to depower the working poor - using a generational boundary coinciding with the grotesque expansion of corporate autonomy and authority over society minimizes the risk o

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