Coopr8
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- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 1 week ago:
Possible yes, practical no. Effectively you would need to build a new sub-continant to have an appreciable impact on sea level. That said, you don't need to dredge from the low point in the ocean, all that matters is displacing solid material from below sea level to above sea level, so the best option would be to find a shallow sea with an existing archipelago of islands and build up from there making it a deep sea with the islands connected as a continent. Alternately you could go after reefs, despite the collateral damage, with the great barrier reef being the obvious choice, essentially pump up dredged sand from the surrounding ocean bed onto the reef to make new land, the reef has the advantage of being very shallow and stabilized with lots of surface area, so good for making lots of land if you don't mind being the architect of an ecological apocalypse of unprecedented proportions.
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 1 week ago:
Not if it was deposited on bedrock, or even if it wasn't if it was done in a way that works with the currents. There are many examples of artificial islands being built successfully.
- Comment on How can I find a post I saw about a local alternative to Perplexity? 2 weeks ago:
Cool, is it good?
- Comment on AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham 2 weeks ago:
Who can lead us to cooperative ownership of datacenter and internet hard infrastructure? Who will organize the collective digital workforce? Who will assemble the fund?
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 2 weeks ago:
Bernie Madoff had the largest fall from $65 billion estimated at peak to $17 billion at time of arrest then dying in prison.
Changpeng Zhao of Binance will be the richest person in the US, and probably ever, to do time in prison after conviction, but his wealth won't be impacted and it is only a few months, so hardly much Finding Out involved.
Sam Bankman-Fried is potentially an even bigger Find Out than Madoff, because unlike Madoff who maintained a large estate even after going to jail, SBF has gone from around $24 billion to $15.5 Billion at time of arrest, to now close to zero on paper as almost all his wealth was tied up in FTX and crypto and it was "all" siezed as part of his conviction and the FTX winddown. Now that said, he probably has a lot of crypto stashed in cold wallets somewhere that have appreciated substantially since his arrest, so it is hard to know how much he would be worth if he ever got access to them, but as I understand it he is basically banned from using computers and facing over 100 years on his sentence, so he better be putting in a lot of good behavior of he ever hopes to see any of that secret stash again.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
At first read I see a flaw in the first part of your argument, which is that centralization vs collectivization of economic ownership is not directly indicative of policy, rather it is the percentage of economic output which is used for collective services that dictates the Left/Right spectrum, which indeed is how a Far Left position can be coextant with a market economy and private ownership but with a tax or public stake in economic actors that returns a majority of the "profit" to collective service, it is rather the degree of enforcement of property rights as one of a set of rights and regulations by a central Authority which lies on the Auth/Lib spectrum that dictates the structure of the economic order. This is how for example you could be a Lib/Left Marxist who prefers central planning of the economy, so long as you don't believe the central planning should be enforced by monopoly of violence and instead implemented by collective consensus, there is no fundamental conflict in the position. Leninism on the other hand implies use of force by a centralized state military/police to restructure the economy along central planned lines, which is an Authoritarian position.
I agree the "quiz" is very flawed, it would need an order of magnitude more questions to be accurate, and authorship bias is certainly an issue.
That said, the compass itself I find to be quite accurate to the mental political models of most individuals. What you are pointing to, Centralization vs Distribution, is a relatively new way to concieve of the older Federal vs Local or State vs Community political framework. I would indeed view this as a "third axis" or omission by the two axis compass, as both Authority and Economy can have organization and flow biased towards fewer or more numerous nodes of participation/enforcement. To go back to your Lib Left Marxism, you could say that the Marxism part of that formula calls for a State economic planning model with high collectivization of economic output and low State enforcement of policy. On thing often missing from the Auth/Lib axis description is that reduced State enforcement does not mean reduced enforcement overall, but rather that the enforcement does not rely on the state monopoly on violence, instead directing enforcement through social exchange relying on the individuals applying their independent power onto each other to discourage deviancy from the consensus.
An easy example of this is in many tribal groups and including pacifist Western religious sects the worst corrective action an individual faces is shunning, which relies on all of the individuals of the community independently choosing to no longer participate socially or economically with the individual being corrected. The decision to do so may be more or less centralized or decentralized (for example a Priarch/Priest might declare shunning in a nonviolent Christian community, while a specific tribal group may only do so through a process of full group consensus, or even the most lib/local of all a spontaneous reaction of each individual against the deviant based on norms.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm... not sure why the image won't load https://imgur.com/a/Lgl07Uf
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
Because politics is not limited to Left and Right, compressed down to it's minimum reasonable simplicity it is at least two dimensional. In mass media you see "Left" vs "Right" division, on Lemmy you see Lib Left vs Auth Right vs Center divisions, which are just as strong but largely suppressed by entrenched political interests especially in the US but also across the industrialized world where Lib Left has been suppressed by the capitalist political apparatus.
Note that most of the time when someone on the Fediverse decries "Liberals" they mean capitalist centrist in the "Neo-Liberal" mode. In some specific circumstances though you might see Auth Left criticizing Lib Left with the term, essentially insulting them by lumping them in with the Centrists. In other cases more in line with mass media you might see any Right position using the term against anyone center or left of center.
Essentially, Liberal has become a term only meaningful in context, and for that reason largely useless in common discourse. This is why the Political Compass is so useful a tool, situating political positions in their context, though of course it is flawed by being only two dimensional when actual political groups are very much multidimensional.
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 2 weeks ago:
@lizard_socks can you clarify?
- Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it very much depends on the definition of Homo sapiens.
There is a strict genetic definition in which a set of defining genes constrain the species, in which case there was likely a first human, but there is every possibility that their first descendents didn't meet that definition and it took a few generations of back and forthing and natural selection for a consistent line of humans to exist.
On the other hand you could define the species based on social behavior, in which case the "first human" only arose in context of at least one other member of the species, and "Adam and Eve" or "Annie and Eve" or "Adam and Steve" scenario.
Then you go to what most agricultrually minded people think of as a "species", which is fetile interbreeding. In that case it seems like there never really was a separation between Homo sapiens and Homo erectus and Neanderthals, as there is now broadly accepted evidence of interbreeding long past the "differentiation" of the species, though social and territorial differences seem to have kept them from re-merging into a unified population.
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 2 weeks ago:
If you are familiar with Azure there is the project PandaCap by @lizard_socks which is a self-hosted reader for activity-pub, ATProtocol, RSS/Atom and integrated with DeviantArt and other art sites.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 weeks ago:
I haven't actually issued it over to my ereader yet, but I have a Boox so I will probably just use the Kiwix android app
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 3 weeks ago:
Have you actually smelted and alloyed useable steel from ores before?
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 3 weeks ago:
This is a good reminder, I need to upload my Kiwix backup to my eReader. I keep a Wikipedia essentials download, survival and medical encyclopedias, and a bunch of "from the ground up" engineering resources backed up offline.
- Comment on Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge? 3 weeks ago:
I actually like the single-user Delft hosted aspect.
As far as the Microsoft stack goes, could it be hosted on a home server running Windows or does it have to be in the cloud on Azure?
- Comment on Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge? 3 weeks ago:
One other question, how does PandaCap handle PeerTube posts? Same as image posts?
- Comment on Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge? 3 weeks ago:
PandaCap is freaking awesome! Pretty much just what I had in mind when I posted previously about a single client to act as inbox for all ActivityPub and RSS/Atom content, only I had imagined it as a browser plugin or full on custom browser so that the content from the inbox would be opened in a client of the user's preference based on post type.
Really awesome project! including DeviantArt etc is really great for the art angle.
The only feature I would miss here vs. other clients is the search function as you mention. I assume that is omitted because it is a lot of work to implement. Have you looked at extending your project with someone else's code for that function? I know sometimes that is more trouble than help, but it would really take the project to that next level of "completely full featured client".
I have looked at wafrn, definitely a cool project and I like that it handles both protocols, but it has some limitations that hold me back from switching to it as my main client. I didn't know it was using a PDS in that way, do you mean it uses a server side PDS to mirror ATProto content or is it PDS per user?
- Comment on Threadiverse... on ATProto?! 3 weeks ago:
Why do ATProtocol projects tend to look so much more polished even in their infancy? Is that where the front-end people dwell?
- Comment on Threadiverse... on ATProto?! 3 weeks ago:
No community modded groups, not a Reddit-Like, FrontPage is more of a Digg-like I guess? Anyway nookie looks way more useable.
- Comment on Red Dwarf and Constellation: could we skip the Bridge? 3 weeks ago:
I realize my title has little to do with the post, lol, tired ADHD brain. I did have the thought that if someone were to be ambitious and motivated enough, the Red Dwarf code could be used to build direct access to BlueSky content into a Fediverse client.
But then, I'm always the guy in the corner pining for the good ole' days of Trillian for IM, the one client to reach them all ^_^
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
If the owners primarily want to make money by taking out a portion of revinue as dividends or distributions, like a family business typically does, then stable revenue is more important in some ways than reinvesting in growth.
If the ownership wants to make money by eventually selling their stake (shares or equity) in the company then growth is fundamental to the strategy.
- Comment on Fediverse blogging? 4 weeks ago:
huh, interesting, a private text based internet protocol where everything runs server side and all sends are encrypted by default. I see the appeal.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 4 weeks ago:
The biggest difference is that the Dot Com bubble was strongly focused on tech companies going public and pumping small cap stock prices up.
The AI bubble on the other hand is almost entirely being built by private equity, with the largest players all privately held but with large cap stock companies holding substantial stakes. Rather than a bunch of small companies getting pumped up stock prices of many multiples of their debut price then falling to zero, instead we have large cap stock companies bumping up their value substantially, but not by major multiples, while the actual value of the biggest players in AI are all speculative and can't be invested in by retail investors.
This is all by design, the financiers of the AI boom are well aware that a public stock oriented rush into AI for retail investors would lead to massive speculation and an inevitable crash, instead with all the retail money going into large cap stocks they hope to capture that value and funnel the money into buying long term gains by making sure that those big companies have some stake in the "winning" private companies. When the first big AI companies go bust, they will be consolidated into their investor groups and harvested for innovation to transfer over to the winners.
Overall this strategy seems sound to avoid a major retail stock bust, but isn't wothout its own risks, for example if open source AI ends up winning out and the biggest private players fall flat they could become toxic assets and drag down the large cap stocks, and thereby the Indexes and Index funds in favor of leaner players. In the current landscape, that would mean Microsoft going down with OpenAI while Apple goes up, Apple is waiting on the sidelines with a huge cash warchest, ready to buy.
- Comment on Fediverse blogging? 4 weeks ago:
When OpenWrite says "publish to the open web, Gemini, or Mastodon" what does it mean by Gemini?
- Comment on Fediverse blogging? 4 weeks ago:
Indieweb is for you! Give Micro.Blog a try, it has native ActivityPub integration.
https://indieweb.org/Micro.blog
https://micro.blog/ - Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 4 weeks ago:
OuterTune is nice, thanks for the tip. I thought for a second it was going to have my number one desired feature for a YouTube front end: playlist folders, but alas it's all just a list once again.
Is the local view missing sort by artist and album or am I missing something?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 4 weeks ago:
What? I pay $23 for YouTube Premium Family Plan, which includes ad free video and YouTube Music for 4 people. Still pretty reasonable IMO, never going back to Spotify that's for sure, I have thought about trying Qobuz for higher quality, but the price increase across my family plus the fact that I never ever want to war h ads on YouTube makes it a difficult value prop, I'd probably rather buy one album a month from BandCamp.
- Comment on how come Lemmy show more upvoted posts further down the thread instead of at the top? 5 weeks ago:
Just a note that comment sort is currently broken on Interstellar app, but they are working on fixing it. You can change the default in settings and that will work, but not the menu in posts.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Windat
