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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Alright, I'll never, ever write something this way now. Good to know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Absolutely not. Demographic data shows it's shit, income distribution data is best explained by a random walk process (neat graphic explainer here), and all the data on startups and investing show that there's no free lunch; capitalism actually does ensure everything gives the same steady return on average.

Every rich person won some sort of lottery. Even the bona-fide engineers are never the only ones that could have invented whatever thing - as technical person myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Honestly this seems less evil than a lot of stuff Google itself does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

There's a whole bunch of different movements that got crammed into "environmentalism", and the it's kind of confused as a result. GMOs being another stark example, where anti-science people highly oppose it, conservationists suspect it, and people concerned with adapting to or fighting climate change see nothing but potential.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Apparently they at least tried.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm guessing nobody checks anything at this point. They hear a rumour, they bomb it. And, of course, there's going to be a small but significant number of people on the Israeli side fabricating rumours whole-cloth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Honestly the less rights parents have the better, IMO. They need certain rights just to operate but man, some of them are very shit people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That's a good point. Supporting all hardware in particular is a pretty big ask. Maybe you could cleverly fit memory management into a small amount of code, but a pile of arbitrary standards can't really be meaningfully compressed.

In the video he states the OS he uses works on the original Pentium processor which came out in 1993. Four years after Reagan went out of office.

I was wondering. That didn't look like an 80's computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm told it might be a 18.x issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's a relative thing. Right now, what war there is is mostly within the internationally recognised borders, as opposed to across them. If shit really pops off we could see, like, Dubai being leveled by Iranian rockets and most of the survivors dying of thirst with no desalination plants.

Also, since we're doing nitpicks, the Middle east wasn't necessarily more warlike than every other civilisational region. It's just that China or the Himalayas aren't in the Bible, so Anglos don't think about them as much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I take it all the important stuff stays in America, though. There's a chance you couldn't even tell I'm Canadian if you met me, but there's still senior devs earning 60k up here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

In every country but the US, really. Someday, big tech companies will realise that a person in any other Western country can code just as well for half the price, but for now they won't even consider it cause 'Murica.

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