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- Comment on The super-rich are disappointingly boring. 3 months ago:
It’s worth noting that there still exist some eccentric types of Billionaires who can and do end up doing stupid things. John McAfee, for example.
- Comment on The super-rich are disappointingly boring. 3 months ago:
$100B estate never means you’re sitting on a pile of $100B worth of cash. It just means you own stuff that’s currently worth $100B on paper, most of which you can’t actually sell because either the regulators won’t allow it, or even the mere idea would reduce a lot of its value.
Even if you had that much petty cash to burn at a moment’s notice, such antics will only end up having unpredictable consequences. A lot of Billionaires’ wealth is tied up with their reputation. The value of the stock they hold can go up or down solely based on their image and personal behaviour. If their investors or promoters stop viewing them as reliable, their value will plummet.
I don’t spend my money in stupid ways, despite having a relatively high disposable income. Yet I am, in fact, really human.
- Comment on The super-rich are disappointingly boring. 3 months ago:
To be that impulsive with large amounts of money to do the actions that you’re describing, one would very much have to be a moron.
The super-rich aren’t morons. Even in cases where they lack the required intelligence they are surrounded by smart people who think for them and prevent them from being morons.
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 3 months ago:
Everyone would have still loved him had he stayed away from Twitter and worked with a low profile. But he uad to toot his own horn at every chance and let his true self get exposed.
- Comment on Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier? 4 months ago:
I can visualize the person who wrote this and I don’t like what I see.
- Comment on Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier? 4 months ago:
This still won’t apply to most low birth-rate countries like Korea and Japan, where the population densite and job scarcity is already too high.
- Comment on Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier? 4 months ago:
Yes. It is profitable for big corporations. Is this news to you?
- Comment on Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier? 4 months ago:
Why would you voluntarily create a job scarcity in your own population? Immigration reduces wages, increases prices, strains public services and causes overall decrease in Quality of Life.
Just look at the state of the USA with 28% immigrant population.
- Comment on Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier? 4 months ago:
They’d be in jail for committing a hate crime quicker than I could get to the nearest Greggs.
No they wouldn’t. Shouting slurs is shitty but not a punishable offence. Touch grass and hit the gym you fatso.
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
The more we use and recommend Linux the more of a chance we get of first party support in the future!
I don’t think that has ever been the case. Hardware vendors are not very likely to listen to the whims of a tiny fraction of retail customers, especially the kind which don’t make them much money. Institutional clients are the only one who can have any such sway, and that too is a stretch in most cases.
Whatever push desktop Linux support may get, it will be coming from enterprise customers. So if you have any influence on IT get them to ask for it, especially since this is a golden opportunity as the dissatisfaction with Windows is at an all-time high.
- Comment on Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail 4 months ago:
Conviction means nothing if you can’t enforce it. I highly doubt any of them would ever actually see jail.
- Comment on Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail 4 months ago:
It’s not about the money. It’s about power.
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 4 months ago:
Use Enterprise LTSC until it lasts (~2027 iirc). And pray that Linux gets enough first-party support from hardware vendors till then, otherwise we’re properly fucked.
- Comment on Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. 6 months ago:
Writers are people, not AI that improves its output quality the more money (hardware) you throw at it. The writers of the Halo TV show should have just been replaced with an entirely new team that actually understood the source.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 6 months ago:
Downvoted for truth. Too bad for them this isn’t reddit
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 6 months ago:
AI art tools democratize art by allowing those who weren’t born with the affinity, talent or privilege to become artists themselves. It allows regular people the freedom of expression in new dimensions. It is amazing.
They are not made to replace human art. They are made to supplement it. The “artists” who feel threatened and offended at its existence are probably not very good at their art.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
This being “smart” is entirely based on the assumption that the average user who’s actually trying to just get to their home screen won’t be pissed when the bloated chatbot pops up instead. And that assumption is wrong.
- Comment on I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why. 9 months ago:
Bluesky and their AT Protocol sound much better.
They follow a federated model quite similar to Mastodon, except with better feeds powered by a variety of user-choosable post ranking and content discovery algorithms. It is the true federated Twitter/X clone.
- Comment on Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year. 9 months ago:
Why hasn’t Vimea taken off?
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
Getting a job as an indulgence because they are interested is fine. Getting a job because their parents are not capable of giving them a dignified lifestyle is downright disgusting and such kids should be rescued. Often greedy parents mask the latter as the former because they are scum.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
No lie, I actually had to shift to Chrome from Firefox today. Some websites are straight-up broken on Firefox, while others load painfully slow (e.g. try arc.net on Firefox vs any Chromium-based browser). Not to mention the massive shame of Mozilla leadership treating its own flagship product as a second-class citizen in favour of “AI initiatives” or whatever the fuck those C-suites want to stud into their resumes.
- Comment on Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge 10 months ago:
It’s a genuine shame because Edge could very easily become the best browser on Windows if only MS played their cards right. Resource optimization of this browser is terrific and it leaves both Chrome and Firefox behind in terms of speed and snappiness. All MS needs to do is make it FOSS, strip down the unnecessary bloat and ensure firsthand content blocking support, and it will be straight-up unbeatable.
- Comment on Any recommendations for time loop games? 10 months ago:
Katana Zero
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 11 months ago:
And Europe and USA are? With over 45% divorce rates?
Not defending ME gender cultures in any way, I know they are fucked. But putting the western ultra-individualist dating convention as the standard is a hieght of ignorance. Almost all Asian cultures have existed without delinquent dating being the norm for centuries, and in no way are they any lesser than Western cultures.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 11 months ago:
there simply cannot be a pricing model like that
Microtransactions? Battle passes? Episodic releases? Is the guy purposefully playing dumb?
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 11 months ago:
Case study: Literally every Ubisoft game in the late '10s and '20s
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 11 months ago:
You are unfairly holding the entire world to your personal myopic standards. Romantic relationships don’t hold the same importance for everyone (they aren’t even held as positive by many orthodox communities of the world), and the fact that more people have started to avoid having them just out of convention in the West may even be a good thing. Who are you to denounce every single man as someone sick or deficient? Why does the existence of a relationship have to be tied to a person’s social skills or standing?
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 11 months ago:
A vast majority of the non-Western world doesn’t see juvenile relationships as conventional or even a good thing. In fact, youngsters fooling around with the opposite sex without parental consent is straight-up delinquent behaviour in almost the entirety of the Middle-East and Asia. What you call “bad” is rather ideal for the better half of the world.
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 1 year ago:
All the biggest tech/IT consulting firms that used to hire engineering college freshers by the millions each year have declared they either won’t be recruiting at all this month, or will only be recruiting for senior positions. If AI were to wipe out humanity it’ll probably be through unemployment-related poverty thanks to our incompetent policymakers.