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It doesn't really matter at all, frankly. The workplace is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship. Whether you view the workers as nuanced complex moral human beings or just cogs doe…

Who wants to rent? I imagine most would opt to own instead. Rent is certainly far higher than a mortgage would be, which makes little sense if you're trying to encourage ownership …

Why ban by ideology? Just do it by behavior of the route/node.

> Each Tesla is connected to an account and therefore a person. Why do people put up with this? Seems absolutely insane to connect a car's functionality to the internet, aside mayb…

> providing the kernel interface through stable syscalls is actually the super power of Linux I thought that it was drivers? Linux isn't particularly unique for having a stable abi…

> Once again the EFF is proving that they'll stand behind their principles and defend freedom even for those they disagree with. They are one of the few remaining organizations tha…

I meant "alignment" there not "aliasing" but the point is the same.

I agree that gaming on mac is fairly grim, but I've been quite happy playing games on my 13" M1 macbook (air i think?). This excludes most AAA games, but I've certainly enjoyed Vic…

Is this the equivalent of directly asking the os for more pages, or does it work via some other heap-like mechanism that simply isn't garbage collected?

"Artificially high" by a factor of maybe 3. We need to look at how to get to a factor of 100 or 1000. Oil is much, much more valuable in the long term as a material commodity, not …

I've seen the fuel or carbon tax pitched with a program where wealthy states directly subsidize the growth of non-carbon-emitting processes (or a low amortized rate, for instance f…

Fair.

This seems to be an artifact of using Qt Creator. Generally speaking it is just a matter of running the same compilation steps with different targets (so long as you don't have arc…

Yes. I'm going to specifically recommend Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ursula Le Guin for particularly socially-focused fiction that is, in many ways, much more relevan…

The parallel on a website would require a clickwrap, I think they're just being bold and hoping nobody notices and/or they want the suit.

Hell if we're calling reactionary politics a reaction to climate change, call me a reactionary.

The Mars Trilogy relies on a number of very idealistic characters to carry the politics specifically past what the earth was capable of, as well as unrealistically effective resolu…

I agree with this assessment. However, the book was never supposed to be realistic, simply a plausible beginning to a story. Idealistic hope, and imagining yet unimagined sci-fi st…

Same as anywhere: write off theft and make bank off the rich people. The idea that SF is somehow unique is asinine. If i were to guess they want the public to foot the bill for cop…