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When you have a surplus of poor people that might insinuate insurgency it's always possible (and cheap) to hire one half to kill the other half. Problem solved.

Same in Finland. The ruling party (represents the rich and the business owners) gave tax cuts for rich (high income earners and and those who have capital gains). Next they're plan…

Not disagreeing with you but the "resource allocation" which I presume to hint at the fallacy that capitalism is somehow great or optiomal at allocating resources is not really tru…

When you take away the cost people will treat the result worthless. For example if you hiking in the mountains, reaching the summit and enjoying the views are valuable experiences …

"It's not clear how civilisation functions if humans become effectively useless and the only thing of value is one's ownership of wealth producing assets." You can get a hint of th…

While the idea is itself not without merit the problem is when people design these data oriented systems without abstractions and in fact it's often difficult to find good abstract…

I find the cookie banner always ironically wrongly labeled. Everyone claims to "respect your privacy" while actually disrespecting the privacy. If they did actually respect the pri…

OpenGL is not obsolete and is totally fine for many use cases. Vulkan is way too complicated and cumbersome for many. Even if OpenGL doesn't get new features what exists now will c…

I'm afraid to trust technology coming from companies operating under the jurisdiction of a rogue aggressive nation that is continuously attacking other nations both (so called) all…

3 miles is less than 5km. Perfectly fine by bicycle. Oh wait.. I guess you have too much freedom and no infrastructure other than highways so you gotta drive and burn all the fuel,…

The western countries deindustrialized themselves though. That's just capitalism chasing ever increasing profits and moving production to where it's cheaper, i.e.from west to China…

Yep. I'm not an economist but my social democratic common sense would tell me to look at the bottom 10% income bracket and see how they're doing. Incidentally these people are the …

There's no paradox here. Distribution of wealth matters. Rich got richer and everyone else didn't. Simple as that.

It doesn't play golf at the club with the C level.

This and plenty of other problems that plague the society now and over the past centuries could be solved by eliminating the distinction and gap between "rich" and "poor".

You can call JS in which you can manipulate the DOM. Of course architecturally (also regarding your file access) it's better to use the wasm for logic as much as possible where the…

Why would they need to be any more worried about those now than before? The same holes exists and have existed for some time already. If he was not worried about them before why be…

Yeah and it took about 150 years until industrial revolution started to actually benefit the common people and the workers started to have their working conditions improved. What i…

User entering wrong input is a logical condition and typically handling a logical condition (point being it's not an error from the software's operational point of view) using tool…

Why can't people just leave? What compels them to write these lengthy self grandiosing posts "zomg I'm leaving company X".

Gstreamer is a multimedia framework where the user creates media DAGs by placing video/audio/multimedia elements such as demuxers, decoders etc in a pipeline. The framework then ta…

Either you were a head above the rest of the team and had the intellect to produce high quality value adding work, or then you were the "move fast break things" type of guy produci…

Sorry but how exactly does the sandboxing help? You download and run an app that you expect to be useful and that you need. The app needs permission to access your data. If you wan…

so let's call it what it is then? Corrupt individuals instead of "financial gravity"

Was it "financial gravity" that made the decision at VW to install emission cheat devices? Was it "financial gravity" that made the decision at Google to cheat at the ad exchange? …