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This is simply a symptom of economic misallocation, decades of wealth concentration has moved the incentives away from normal healthy investments, to a minuscule minority desperate…

A drunkard, ex-fox news host, wants mass surveillance and automated killing, what could go wrong? I wish I thought enough Americans had the spine required to stand up to this, and …

The US is shitting their pants and dancing around in it, enjoying the warmth. None of their former friends are gonna help clean up the mess.

In other news, fuck dilbert jfc

It’s not hard, the dilbert guy was a psycho, sucks if you liked him, he was emphatically a psychopath. Maybe it’s time to reconsider some of your atrocious views, and learn some em…

This is naive to the point where it is indistinguishable from disinformation. Aside from a tiny minority of people applying their own encryption (with offline confirmed public keys…

Why would their pitch to prospective targets reflect their corporate aims? Do facebook or google do this to their users?

“Business Idiot” seems like a bit of a superfluous phrase, outside of criticizing that particularly dangerous group of people hell-bent on destroying humanity as a concept. But the…

As long as sufficient amounts of wealthy people are able to wield their money as a force to shape society, this is will always be the outcome. Unfortunately,in our current society …

Regarding 2. How are comptime values restricted to total computations? Is it just by the fact that the compiler actually finished, or are there any restrictions on comptime evaluat…

Mehdi Hasan and Hasan Piker are two different people.

That’s easy to answer, The Powell memorandum. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_M... There’s a clear through line from what that cruel, despicable man put …

DRM is a government sanctioned desecration, by corporations, of your private property rights, by its very definition. Whether it’s in the GPU, CPU, TPM, or any other part of comput…

It’s either pure delusion or malicous distortion of reality.

Cars are indisputably garage, and a detriment to society. A pitiful stopgap, that has unfortunately been embraced by troglodytes.. jill the psychopath who believes in this salvatio…

Man, this feels like a frustratingly good way to get back into Haskell, and on the cutting edge of GHC to boot… Or should I take the plunge and do it in rust? (If only I was unempl…

I’m guessing it’s not a popular opinion around here, but what’s described is so insanely dog shit I would have been fired and sued if I had been responsible for developing anything…

Governments all over the western world has been fueling a housing bubble to artificially inflate GDP to make up for disgustingly unfair tax cuts to corporations and wealthy people,…

It’s not that hard, YAML is disappointingly and unfortunately, unnecessarily, extremely ambiguous, which is exactly what you do not want in the contexts where it’s dominant. The so…

Regardless of whether there exists any underlying universal morality, why would shifts along cultural and/or time axises preclude it?

If they are not performing their job, they will be fired. Unless by “low performers” you mean the supposedly weakest pawn in some “feelings-based” CEO’s desperate attempt to increa…

Yes, tech eliminates other jobs, and like what the OG luddites had a problem with, the issue is not the technology or even the eliminated jobs, it’s the effect on the labor populat…

Non-unionized tech workers finally facing the music… The smart ones know what to do, hopefully they will be a majority against the ones indoctrinated into right wing market fundame…

This whole “plastic ban” is just a feeble and disgusting distraction from the orders of magnitude larger environmental issues facing humanity. But since we apparently, absolutely n…

It’s insane to me that “cable theft” is even considered a criminal offense… it’s literally a civil dispute between a corporation and a person, about alleged misuse of service, with…