Trump is not a good man, but he is undeniably a Great Man, in the sense of the Great Man theory of history, which claims that the path of history is set by a handful of specific personalities pushing the world in directions via their will.
Put it like this: the Napoleonic era was named after Napoleon because so much of the history requires reading Napoleon’s bio. Eventually, these last 12+ years will be called the Trump era.
If you’re learning to code on a toaster, just pick a lightweight language that has low compile times. (Or realistically, have someone knowledgeable pick for you.)
“You will ruin that rapist’s life!”
No, he ruined his own life.
how do you envision the improvement of people’s quality of life without growth?
To be fair, you don’t need RAM to code - modern CPUs have ~5MB of cache and that’s enough for an entire Lisp machine.
Also, let’s be real here: any computer from the last 40 years is enough to code on, as is any RasPi or knockoff (or with a bit more than zero effort/expertise, basically any system that can run Doom, which is basically any system). The most expensive parts are the screen, keyboard and mouse.
Sam Altman doesn’t believe the shit he says, he’s just saying it to get attention and signal his dedication to OpenAI. Your comment denouncing him (and implicitly accepting his comment as real) is giving him exactly what he wants from you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
Abbreviation
CCP (common) CPC (official)
Did you know the US’s actual abbreviation is “USA”? Yet nobody says that saying “US” means you know nothing about the USA.
Europe didn’t start the last century as a feudal backwater with 3 centuries of imperialists extracting its wealth.
Let’s not be hasty now. I’m pretty sure that describes describes Poland and the Balkans, but now Poland is flourishing and the Balkans are
China clearly wears the pants in that relationship.
Why do you think Republicans will expand their majorities? Polls indicate it’ll be a bloodbath in favour of Dems.
But one side wants to give you health care
Well, part of one side. There are Dem politicians who either don’t support M4A or only support it when it clearly has no chance of succeeding and thus their support will be irrelevant, dropping that support when it starts mattering.
Now I want to know the metaphorical post equivalent of chlorine trifluoride. Maybe the Israel/Palestine situation?
I’m not the person you replied to, I’m looking forward to www.arcan-fe.com reaching 1.0, and it’s capable of replacing X11.
It’s not exactly the same thing as X11 or Wayland, but Bjorn Stahl has clearly put a lot of thought into it’s design and Arcan is something I actually want, which is more than I can say of Wayland. Wayland destroyed WMs and is worse in several ways, and the technical discussions around Wayland basically don’t exist. Usually it’s just “X11 bad therefore Wayland good”, or “if you don’t like Wayland than go fork X”, or “Wayland is the most used therefore is best” (which is a really stupid argument from people who aren’t using Microsoft Windows).
Working for time is standard because working for a production quota was too easily gameable by the employer as it was used to pay workers less than a survivable wage and then claim it’s their fault for not working hard enough. It’s not antiquated.
If society is constantly getting richer every single year and has for decades… Why are people still struggling? Either poor people are unreasonable/irrational, we don’t actually care about reducing cost of basic necessities,or the wealth increases are being siphoned out elsewhere.
Population decline would be a non-issue in a functioning economy, because a small shrinkage of the economy would be a non-issue.
I’m pretty sure “beardos” is only there to rhyme with “weirdos”.
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Listen, you’re like Richard Stallman railing against the word “hacker” being used to describe security crackers instead of meaning just “tinkerer”, because that’s what it originally meant.
You’re like him in that outside of a tiny subculture you’ll be completely ignored, and you’re better off coining a new word and promoting use of that instead of waging war against the semantic tide.
“I’m not a Zionist, I’m a leptozionist” or something, then define your new term. That way people can speak concisely without having to guess what the other people thinks the definition of their word is. Your new term means either your new meaning or “what’s that?”.
And keep in mind that every minute fighting for your word back is a minute not promoting its merits. It’s makework. It’s not actually productive.
If I were Israel (as in, the whole govt of the country) and I wanted to act in good faith to resolve the Gaza situation, here’s what I would do:
Okay, take a look at Intel: they’re in the semiconductor fab business. Building a new-generation fab (including the next-gen machinery inside) costs approximately a trillion dollars.
Providing the US president a $1B bribe would be nothing compared to a 1-year delay on the project. This is normal. Some industries are just stupidly capital-intensive.
Now, let’s be realistic here: a $50M bribe is more than enough to buy Trump’s help on minor things. $50M is chump change for heavy industry. $50M is less than half a jumbo jet. You can’t make industry too small to bribe Trump without destroying them entirely.
And even if we did succeed, a $5M bribe goes a fair way.