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Well, that was the whole point of the 2A: effective preparedness.

But gun manufacturers ragebaited this exceptionally effective marketing campaign around their products and here’s where you folks stand

Found the SO mod…

There are other forces besides market prices... regulatory compliance comes to mind..

the [somehow] is pretty clear: exploitative working conditions.

free the "animal spirits"?

/s

Well, they ask for proof such as a valid passport or id card.

Well, until recently Greece was struck by a savage “restructuring” and “reforms” package that left people without pensions or even chemotherapy when in need. I don’t think aircon is the priority for many of them

The delusion of engineers is that finally we have the means to stop compromising on quality to deliver, and fix all the garbage we’ve had to put out rationalizing about “cost-benefit”.

Trouble is management, who has the signature on the bank account which ultimately controls if and when the bailiffs are going to knock down your front door and throw you onto the street.

Management thinks we can now continue putting more, much more, of the same compromised garbage. Cheaper, faster.

Reminds me of a film I saw…

;)

I remember seeing a comic strip about this exact argument but I can’t find it any more

I really like this new HN skin for Reddit

Compute is also a rapidly depreciating asset.

I don’t know but this dude at my son’s school has a 32GB RTX 5090 and it’s worth more than what he paid for; and he did the same trick with the RTX 4090 before that.

Until shortages are the rule, these assets are appreciating

Or locked away in litigation for decades… See what became of the Amiga

Well, at the risk implying intention and thus anthropomorphizing Larry... you know sharks don't eat, they simply consume food, like a fire consumes wood, this is what Larry Ellison advocates for:

"Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on"

The Flair scene? Oh seriously than got me so much vicarious embarrassment, I feel uneasy just at the thought of it.

They even added ansi escape trickery to hide the directive. It’s malicious, whoever did it knows it.

It’s an EIP, called Claim Check.

https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/messa...

It’s still free on Windows. Your argument doesn’t have legs to walk on.

Bullshit. Ignorant people (which correlates to poor) don’t think about the long term responsibilities of having children and just fuck unprotected on a Friday night. Oops

Sound like “the beatings will continue until morale improves”

I’m not sure US academia is mediocre. It’s more like… normal?

But America being what it is, it attracts those with most potential creating and sustaining a network effect.

But there’s nothing intrinsically good or bad of the US, and it’s quite easy to mess up the equilibrium and go back to the mediocrity you mentioned

Perhaps it’s not capitalism that’s the problem but the unboundedness of the greed of a few, with respect to the other needs of humanity.

Also Adam Smith implied that unbounded avarice is irrational and disruptive to society.

The assumption is that morality survives grotesque wealth accumulation, we see many examples proving otherwise

Well, isn’t Musk doing something similar with his new solar panels fab?

Frankly it’s ridiculous how we (the West) dropped renewables like a hot potato because it became synonymous with subsidizing China’s dominance in the field.

That’s an entirely different framework, one that doesn’t concern investment decisions of Apple or Google.

I do agree that USA and EU could foot the bill and subsidize a couple billions in such industrial infrastructure, perhaps taking back a cut of the profit rather than privatizing all of it.

But they’re not doing it, or are making pitiful efforts at that

It is unfortunately still common practice among irregular agricultural workers in many parts of the world (I’m Italian so I definitely remember news about busts in southern Italy)

AI thoughts

“solve”, why not solution? Like “spend” and not expenditure, why use the verb as a noun and not care about grammar?

I would never have these privileges granted directly to my account.

Indeed it’s a good practice to use roles where supported (AWS has them) and explicitly switch when needed

Claude, fix the bug. Make no mistakes.

/s

Hmm, anxiety of making the wrong choice and have it on record? I’ve read that later gens are extremely aware of “the internet never forgets” and are terrified of any choice being the embarrassing and defining moment of the rest of their life