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"they can do that because there's plenty of articles on the web on how that shit works along with all the technical documentation, and we have blog posts explaining how to apply th…

> In a crisis, state intervention works, actually. There, fixed that for you. Stop calling literally anything that isn't 100% raw free market capitalism "socialism".

Also by the Fed: 4 in 10 Americans lack enough money to cover a $400 emergency expense: https://fortune.com/2023/05/23/inflation-economy-consumer-fi...

Capitalists as in capitalist governments centrally organising commercial legislation and regulations, subsidies, tariffs, standards, etc.

All "capitalist" economies have very large amounts of central planning for them to function (not to mention state subsidies and other protections from failing to make money), and u…

Didn't somebody register dot.com and had an email address of dot.dot@dot.com? You could have dot.dot@dotsucks.com

My understanding on China's coal plants is that it's not the number of them, it's whether they're running that counts. Coal-fired generation is currently cheaper than storage for b…

If (and it's a big if) the human race survives to deal with the effects of climate change, the next great battle will be to prevent waste from becoming the existential problem.

I used to naively think that some kind of PKI/trust network for online media would have to rise up to thwart misinformation. But anger is the real the reason why people want to bel…

Not downloaded that app, but does it deliver exactly the same features as the web app but just look a bit different? If so, I wonder whether anyone working in the respective web an…

The weird thing is that companies will pay for entirely separate engineering, product and marketing departments for their apps which duplicate their web apps in every way (or usual…

Issues are a mess because they get used like bulletin boards for any random brain fart anyone has, despite Issue Templates trying to plead otherwise. IMO the way to fix this is to …

Element is a great example with well over 3,000 open issues, most of which would be far better worked out in Discussions from which the maintainers could raise issues or PRs from w…

Literally on the day you posted that comment: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/30/end-of-an-e...

Yes, we've got that and it does help a bit. But we're often forced to be heavy-handed and just close junk issues with a comment asking the poster to open a Discussions thread. I fe…

If Issues could be restricted to repo maintainers (with everyone else using Discussions), it would make contributing to F/LOSS projects far easier because you could easily see what…

I have a theory called "marginal cost pricing" that will blow his mind.

> That changed this year and they're now building some very large battery farms and i invasive their coal builds will drop. This is an under-considered point: just because energy s…

I see - I got the impression that the 70-80's was a sort of dark age for beer in the UK, with mass-produced low-quality stuff from the likes of Watneys and Carslberg etc. taking ov…

When was this? I was up in TVC (and later in that newer building up the road from it) in 1996 prototyping the BBC News Online publishing system with Fujitsu ICL. Didn't meet anyone…

> The great brewers – Watneys, Whitbreads and so on—are disposing of all that rubbish: that’s out now, finished with, they say. So was this the start of the great decline in the qu…

There are many implementations of rent controls. Argentina's were rather badly done. Compare to: Germany - where landlords can't charge more than 10% above the local average rent. …

> "It's a shame where we live in a world with nutrient-limited degraded ecosystems and also nutrient-rich waste streams. We'd like to see those things come together a little bit," …

I'm confused. We started off talking about how the President of the European Parliament is elected, but now you're talking about the European Commission. Those are separate bodies,…

Reminder: the term "free markets" originally referred to markets free of the distorting effects of monopoly. To ensure markets remain free, fair and available to all, legislators n…