Tinidril
@Tinidril@midwest.social
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 week ago:
Sounds more like “we got us” to me. It’s our system and our philosophies that made those pennies so precious.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 1 week ago:
Shit, Oracle was down in the low $400B range in May. Apparently being evil pays well in the current administration.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 1 week ago:
A little searching finds only on company that really fits the bill. Costco has a market cap of $433B and had a reported $14.8B cash on hand as of May 11. That’s an interesting possibility that I wouldn’t have guessed. Costco is less evil than most big corporations, so that’s a little hopeful if I got it right.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 week ago:
That is indeed a problem but, speaking strictly about competitiveness, it does have it’s advantages. For example, the US really needs more strategically important goods to be manufactured at home, but that is really hard to do if market conditions favor offshoring. China can just dictate the sourcing - even in the (so called) private sector.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 week ago:
Movies, fast food chains, clothing chains, etc. The American brand and lifestyle that goes with it. Not exactly the greatest cultural achievements of all time, but they brought in cash.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 week ago:
What makes the US the most powerful country in the world? It’s our cultural exports, our educational institutions, and our technology. We spent decades handing all our technology over to China, and undermining education. Now Trump has poisoned the American brand for at least a generation.
China is way ahead on building a science and technology culture, and promoting education. The dividends from those investments are already paying off, and they are going to start compounding.
A lot of Americans still think of China as the place to make cheap goods, but their manufacturing sector has benefited from decades of stolen expertise. It turns out there are benefits from having engineers and factory workers in the same location. Faster feedback means faster development. Now the US is falling behind.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only activities that people don’t think are worth the cost.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 weeks ago:
It took a long time for nature to figure out how to process wood, but it eventually happened. My wooden furniture is still standing though.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 2 weeks ago:
Those are IPv6 addresses that work a bit differently than IPv4. Most customers only get assigned a single IPv4 address, and even a lot of big data centers only have one or two blocks of 256 addresses. The smallest allocation of IPv6 for a single residential customer is typically a contiguous block of the 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses mentioned.
If Google’s security team is even marginally competent, they will recognize those contiguous blocks and treat them as they would a single IPv4 address. Every address in that block has the same prefix, and it’s actually easier to track on those prefixes than on the entire address.
- Comment on Amazon launches first Starlink-rival internet satellites 1 month ago:
At least where these satellites go it’s not something that would be a real long term problem. They are low enough that the time for the orbits to clear would be measured in years, not decades or centuries.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 1 month ago:
Awe, c’mon please educate me.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 1 month ago:
LOL, more ad hominems and zero content. You guys are a hoot.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 1 month ago:
I see half a dozen ad hominems there, but nothing saying I’m wrong, nevermind refuting it. Yeah, that’s about right for hexbear.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 1 month ago:
Yeah, because an occupation of Ukraine by Russia wouldn’t turn the whole country into an even bloodier warzone. /s
Appeasement just leads to bigger wars. Aggression can’t be rewarded or tolerated away.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 1 month ago:
I guess that means Europe is free to deploy troops to the front lines in Ukraine then. Only seems fair.
- Comment on Wifi networks and home automation systems are expected to last 50+ years. 2 months ago:
Depends on how it is used. If the home automation is on a separate network from everything else with a secure gateway and no direct Internet access, security vulnerabilities are likely irrelevant.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Adding in cost of ownership, EVs are cheaper than ICE vehicles. Electricity is way cheaper than gas, and electrics require almost zero maintenance. Also, even 200km meters the needs of a whole lot of drivers just fine. Our family’s secondary vehicle is a Gen-1 leaf with 140km of range and I think we’ve used a public charger 4 times in over 10 years.
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 2 months ago:
Best I ever managed was two.
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 3 months ago:
It always has been.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 3 months ago:
That’s just it. The laws of physics, at least as far as we understand them, absolutely preclude changing our position in any way that would reveal anything outside our observable universe. Lifespans don’t come into it at all. If you lived forever traveling at the speed of light, you would never achieve that change of position.
The cosmic background is the leftover “noise” of the big bang, and we observe it roughly uniformly in every single direction. So where did the big bang occur? Everywhere. Everything that exists is precisely at the center of the universe, right where the big bang happened.
It’s all about the concept of spacetime. Spacetime isn’t space and time considered together, it’s a singular thing that operates by rules that we are ill equiped to comprehend intuitively.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 3 months ago:
As I just explained, it’s not really about observation, it’s about causation. If two objects can never possibly interact, then are they really in the same universe?
Looking out in space is also looking back in time. Anything (roughly) that is further than we can observe in the microwave background would be further back in time than the beginning of time, and therefore doesn’t exist at all in our universe. It a bit brain bending.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 3 months ago:
Thus the term “observable universe”. Everything beyond our observable universe is being expanded away from us at faster than the speed of light, so nothing outside will ever reach us. Causality is completely and irrevocably severed at those distances so, arguably, anything outside the observable universe is not part of “our” universe.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 4 months ago:
Anyone can be a pedophile, regardless of other characteristics. The major champions of actual sexual abuse of minors today are politically right wing. Compare age-of-consent laws in red states to blue, or advocacy/performance of child marriages, and a pattern appears.
The conflation of evidence-based methods of sexual education with “sexualizing children” is a bald faced attempt to make kids more vulnerable. Kids trained in the importance of consent are far less likely to keep quiet when dealing with an abuser.
I would not concede, as you have here, that there was ever any appreciable link between trans advocacy and sexual abuse advocacy. The fact that some people somewhere advocated for both is true of any movement of sufficient size.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
People irl have personal agendas that often make stark truthfulness difficult. They will call a leader fascist, but not acquaintances.
Fascism isn’t all jack booted thugs. It’s actually mundane and boring as fuck. It’s the most common political ideology in history, especially for morons.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 4 months ago:
So you’re smarter than Elon’s clowns?
In all likelihood I am. I’m certainly more experienced. That hardly matters though. They have an agenda that’s not compatible with reality, so they aren’t even trying to get it right.
Why are you here anyway. Lemmy is full of Marxist freaks you can share your ideology with.
How would you even know that if you stay in your lane? I’ll go where I want.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I guess you get that a lot.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Properly documenting a claim is excessive bureaucracy? Empty rhetoric in place of explanation is transparency? That’s some Orwellian bullshit there. Double plusgood fascist.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 4 months ago:
Who gives a shit about the “smell test”? You are just talking out of your ass, that’s the smell. You keep asserting that it needs to be fixed, but there is nothing to support that. If it’s not the system of record, then it’s irrelevant.
A null record is nothing but a lack of data. The front end systems typically handle that by showing no information or N/A. Elon’s clowns were not going through the front end systems. Depending how you query COBOL based systems, which these likely are, an empty record will come back as a 0, which COBOL interprets as the begining of it’s date system, which is in 1875.
With that, I’m done talking to you like you are a genuine human making the best interpretation you can. You are a partisan hack with an agenda who will glom on to any interpretation of realty that can be bent to your purposes.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 4 months ago:
Did I say 140 is proper data? We don’t know what the fuck it is. We don’t know if the field is even subject to audit - or should be. Assuming these people paid taxes (which they must have to get SS) the IRS would have the birthday. Maybe the field was added at some point as a workflow thing, but the IRS or some other database is the system of record for those dates. Again, we have no fucking idea.
I worked information security at a top five bank, and there were thousands of examples of data fields like this that could be distorted into “red flags” but really didn’t matter at all. Knowing what the system of record is for particular information is critical to proper audits, but proper audits take more time than would serve Elon’s political purposes. That’s a recipe for a trash “audit”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The comment was talking about the article. Even so, this list doesn’t contain a single credible claim. A credible claim should include, at a minimum, a full explanation for how the money was actually spent, what congressional authorization was claimed to support that spending, and how that claim was invalid. That’s even assuming these claims are real at all. A partisan hack writing their own summaries next to dollar amounts is bullshit.