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- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, fuck that mouse, there’s no excuse for that one.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, aren’t those mini PCs meant for HTPCs/home servers? You’re not really supposed to turn them off, and if you really want easy power button access you can just set it upside down. I’d say it’s a good idea if you take into account that it’s aimed at Apple customers who care more about “design” over usability. They truly “think different” over there.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
What?
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
It has a store page, basically an embedded web browser, I redeem free epic games through it, don’t know about GOG but I’d imagine it works the same.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
The heroic launcher supports GOG.
- Comment on Adopting a stray cat 4 months ago:
I think the horsefucker would agree with me.
- Comment on Adopting a stray cat 4 months ago:
Neither do crackheads.
- Comment on Adopting a stray cat 4 months ago:
Yeah being homeless sucks, what does that have to do with cats reproducing?
Even if we assume that all unplanned kittens end up homeless, it’s still some twisted version of financial cat eugenics. “Your life will probably not adhere to my standards of what a good life is, so I will prevent you from existing in the first place for your own good. I will cut off your balls because your kids would be homeless.”
Now apply the same logic to humans. I know we are talking about cats but from a moral standpoint it should make no difference, the degree of “bad” might change, it’s less bad if you do that to an animal and more bad if you do that to a human, but in both cases it’s still bad. I can’t think of anything that this logic doesn’t apply to, even when it comes to something we do all the time like killing, if you do that to a human, that’s murder, which is obviously terrible and if yo do that to an animal, that’s acceptable, because we need it for food to survive but it’s still bad. If we could get meat any other way I don’t think anyone would be opposed to that.
If you don’t want to get castrated by aliens\AI overlords then don’t do that to your pets.
- Comment on Adopting a stray cat 4 months ago:
Are cats not allowed to reproduce anymore?
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 4 months ago:
Have a look at ardrive and arweave permaweb.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 5 months ago:
I don’t have cameras in my store and i doubt you walk around with a gopro strapt to your forehead. Crypto stores develop reputation as well.
On what are you basing the opinion that MUCH larger percentage of the crypto ecosystem is devoted to scams? Legal action is the only recourse you have with cash, the same can be done with crypto. If design of crypto incentives scams then so does the design of cash.
Yes, but gullibility is the #1 problem and again, crypto has no safeguards or recourse.
Neither does cash, gift cards and all of the methods Nigerian princes and certified Microsoft technicians from IRS have been successfully using for years to scam their victims.
The whole point of making the system decentralized is so that a powerful actor can’t seize control over it. There are hundreds of chains with different rules and regulations, you can chose the one that fits your needs, and if a powerful actor tries to change it’s rules the community can decide that the version of the chain with altered rules isn’t one they want to take part in and split off. It has happened before with block size wars that resulted in btc/bch split. Both chains run fine to this day, each with their own rules decided by their own community.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 5 months ago:
How is it harder to scam with cash? You come to my store to buy something, you hand me the bill, I take it and don’t give you anything in return. Even if you call the police it’s my word against yours, how will you prove that I took your money?
Most scams are done irl with FIAT (fake bills, overpriced cooking pots, fake tech support, palm reading, IRS google play cards, nigerian princes, fake e-bay items, fake charge-backs for real e-bay items, uber ride cancels, uncancellable memberships, hidden costs…) at the end of the day you can’t protect everyone from everything, especially from their own gullibility. The design of crypto, when used properly, prevents all of the non-gullibility based scam types (chargebacks, cancels, hidden costs, automatic deductions etc.). For some people complete control over their money is a plus and some prefere to have it handled by banks and governments, maybe crypto just wasn’t made for the latter.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 5 months ago:
Scammers have been doing that with cash, PayPal, gift cards and even regular bank transfers that are supposedly so safe.
Crypto transactions being irreversible are no different than cash or gold transactions, you can’t magically revert giving someone cash once you realize they scammed you. Only thing you can do is report it to the police. Crypto works the same way, but for transparent coins like btc, or eth you at least have a proof that a transaction took place unlike cash.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 5 months ago:
And that never happened with fiat, everyone knows thoes wild west snake oil salesman were using bitcoin.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 5 months ago:
Code is the law of the blockchain, his transaction wasn’t reverted, he got caught irl. It’s like saying constitution isn’t law because laws of physics don’t prevent murder.
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 5 months ago:
People on here are straight up brain washed, even more than on reddit… Good on you for not having kids though, you’re making society a favor, just for different reason than you think.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 6 months ago:
True. As an outsider to US politics, it painfully obvious to me that the only difference between DEM and GOP is rhetoric, but when it comes to action, they all do the same thing.
EU politics is no different. It doesn’t matter what the people want, “democratically elected leaders” will do what they want, or rather what they are told to do, regardless of what the people think.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 6 months ago:
I download all of the videos like this so that in 30 years when free speech is illegal and you have to scan your id embedded in your brain chip to access the internet i can show them to the future generation before my brain gets fried for wrong think.
- Comment on Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services * TorrentFreak 6 months ago:
ENS, unstoppable domains, tor, i2p, ipfs… I think this is actually good for the Internet, it will normalize and popularize private, censorship resistant tech. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
- Comment on Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services * TorrentFreak 6 months ago:
ENS, unstoppable domains, tor, i2p, ipfs… I think this is actually good for the Internet, it will normalize and popularize private, censorship resistant tech. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
Situations like this are a good opportunity to increase the rate of tech literacy in a broader population or to promote decentralized solutions, but unfortunately that’s a pipe dream.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
You gave ma a supposed real world example where something didn’t happen. I asked how do you know it didn’t happen and you said you don’t know how and you don’t even know if it happened or not. It’s the proof for me being wrong that you decided to cite.
You can prove a negative, it’s difficult so I don’t know why you chose to try to do it but it’s possible. I can prove you weren’t in my house an hour ago by having a recording of my house being empty or a recording of you being somewhere else. In this case a good proof would have been the same price on a receipt for the same product from affected company from before the tax was introduced and now, if enough time has passed for it to take effect. I realize that it’s not reasonable to expect you to have a proof like that but if you can’t disprove my claim then don’t lie by citing “real world examples” and point out the flaw in my logic instead, unless there isn’t one. Otherwise it’s just wishful thinking on your part and basically saying “I think that you’re wrong despite not knowing why and having no reason to think so”.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
So you can’t disprove it either. You say the prices didn’t increase but you have no proof for it.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
I’m not familiar with your example but how do you know it didn’t happen? Have you checked the prices of goods and services from the companies whose owners and employees were hit by it?
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
It’s not price gouging but a gradual increase.
Let’s say you are a rich guy who works in a bread oven factory who makes $10000 a month, then a new tax gets introduced and now you are making $8000. You can accept it and take a hit to your standard of living or go to your boss and ask for a raise so you and your colleagues ask for a raise, your boss used to make $100000 a month now he makes $70000 because of the new tax and increased cost. He can accept it and take a hit to his standard of living or increase the prices, so he increases the prices. Now in some bakery one of the bread ovens breaks and needs to be replaced. Because the prices of bread ovens increased the bakery has to charge more for the bread that it’s making to cover the costs. Because the prices of bread increased every customer of the bakery goes to their boss and asks for a raise or increases the prices in their business and so on and so on…
That’s how the tax gets pushed onto the consumer with a side of inflation.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
If you tax the rich more they’ll increase the prices to offset the cost and you’ll end up paying $20 for bread to cover it.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
Doesn’t matter if you’re Elon Musk or a regular guy you both eat the same amount, sure a regular guy will get a $5 hotdog every day and Elon will get $500 stake every day but that’s peanuts compared to what his companies are supposed to pay and in reality is covered by regular everyday consumers.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
But the idea of a tax system is flawed to the point that it’s impossible to apply it fairly because the consumer is always the one paying, no matter what you change you can’t get away from it.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
Sales tax, gas tax, utilities tax, property tax directly or included in rent, excise, all of the taxes imposed on businesses and their owners trickle down to the consumers because they have to increase the price of their products and services to cover what they pay in taxes. Every single tax is always pushed onto the last link in the chain - the consumer, and the poor have to spend the biggest part of their paycheck on consumption.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
The poor pay taxes too, in fact they pay the highest percentage of their income because they have to spend most of their income and can’t afford to invest or save. By removing the burden of taxes you give them additional funds that they could invest, save or spend on necessities and let charities, non profits, donations fund infrastructure. What’s more beneficial to a poor person, extra 2 meters of road in their neighborhood or doubling their paycheck?