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Umbrias

@Umbrias@beehaw.org

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Umbrias ,

legalization of slavery

I'm sorry but do you think private commerce had zero interest in the trade of flesh?

A government is not some magic special construct. Am authoritarian governance system is the same whether it's enacted by something with a national moniker or a corporate one.

Umbrias ,

Under the extremes of libertarianism the logic for why slavery would not happen isn't that "it wouldn't be allowed", remember, they view a government system as bad, there's not strictly a government to enforce a lack of slavery.

The extreme libertarian position is that the market will self regulate moral bads, so slavery would only be disallowed inasmuch as it was uneconomical to forcefully enslave people. This, under their reasoning, might be true because you're under contract with a security company who keeps you from getting enslaved, among other services, and will actively go to corporate war to protect the sanctity of their contracts for fear of losing business in the future.

This is obviously a fantasy.

Libertarians generally have no qualms with slavery, not in a strict sense. Some libertarians certainly dislike it, but don't have a strict philosophical backing for why it wouldn't be allowed under true zero government systems.

Umbrias ,

That's not ancap libertarianism nor effectively even mundane libertarianism, ultimately. In a practical sense that libertarianism is only opposed to strictly chattel slavery (at best! Get many libertarians behind closed doors they may not even go that far!), not things like debt slavery, wage slavery, company scrip, etc.

Because they ultimately don't generally care about market freedom, they want the unrestricted power to be feudal lords of their polities.

Umbrias ,

This license while not the most permitting does not appear to hide the code behind any proprietary shielding though.

Umbrias , (edited )

Ah. Of course. Something being open source doesn't make it open source. It all makes sense now thank you for clarifying.

That also wasn't technically a response to my comment, it was an ideological defense mechanism to avoid addressing the content of the license.

Umbrias ,

Yeah I don't agree with the osd being the only approach to being open source. Turns out people have differing opinions on that. You're welcome.

It wasn't a response to my comment because you didn't respond to my comment. You said is proprietary. I point out that it's not a terrible license. Then you resort to a sound bite non response.

You could have pointed out for example that ftl 3.2 and 4.1 are pretty shitty limitations to impose.

Umbrias ,

"Government hates what it can't control"

tiktok

Lol. Look it sure was authoritarian the specific method used to ban tik tok. But you're complaining about an authoritarian slap fight.

Umbrias ,

Why do you feel that the researchers are wrong about their physics research?

Umbrias ,

More of an actual comment, good. More efficient capacitors in both speed and heat certainly helps in charging devices of all sizes. Of course it wouldn't be charging large batteries in seconds, but that doesn't mean no improvement.

Umbrias ,

Almost every electrical system on the planet uses capacitors. Especially high power systems. Of which evs are.

"No real point in mixing capacitors in with a large battery" ?? That's done literally all the time for both filtering and for intermittent high power output. Like when I say almost every electrical system uses caps, I mean almost every electrical system.

Umbrias ,

Or you know, reducing thermal load by using broadly more efficient capacitors allowing you to shove more current in the car. Or by meeting grid scale requirements for car charging by smoothing out the grid impact of a bunch of charging at once. Or any number of benefits.

Ultimately this certainly benefits car charging. It benefits all electronics. No you won't be getting two second car charges with this.

Umbrias ,

At this point I can only determine you are arguing for the sake of arguing.

Much of what you said is very wrong but it's not worth arguing about.

Umbrias ,

Charitably I am fairly certain they are making fun of this particular meme and not in general. This meme is certainly something many people experience autism or not, though there are reasons toys experience might stick out for those with autism.

Umbrias ,

No it's a security and fingerprinting tradeoff.

The more your browser acts to hide your behaviors and limit tracking, the more unique your fingerprint is. The most private browser setup is one which appears to be identical to all the other traffic in a non unique way, or noise. This definitionally lacks information for tracking.

Also security flaws and tracking exploits need to be constantly patched.

This is a fundamental tradeoff for privacy. Using more obscure browsers can (not always) then expose you to behavioral fingerprinting because they look different and react to web pages differently.

Umbrias ,

It's not just the user agent that fingerprints a user.

Hence a good most of the exact comment you responded to.

Umbrias ,

This isn't actually a measure of resource usage in reference to a closed system tho.

Umbrias ,

I'm not, it's literally not a metric relevant to the Earth as a closed system, it's a measure of carbon capture and production.

Umbrias ,

Not sure what this has to do with me pointing out your reference for earth effectively being a closed system is wrongly applied.

But also I agree, your memes analogy between capitalism and cancer doesn't actually make sense. It's just punchy but nonsensical.

Umbrias ,

Of course they do know there are professional agitators at the protests, they're them.

Umbrias ,

Hierarchies are opposed, not mediating third parties nor organization. Ask ten different anarchists and you'll get twenty methods to approach your thought experiments.

Umbrias ,

Important to differentiate in context learning and training.

Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home (www.physics.ox.ac.uk)

The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...

Umbrias ,

There are plenty of quantum resistant cryptography methods that already exist and have existed for a decade or more.

Umbrias ,

That's not answering the question though.

"Pick a number between 1 and 100" doesn't mean "grab two d10" or write a script.

Umbrias ,

Spoiler votes are hardly smoke or even a controversial concept. They are a natural consequence of first past the post elections.

Star voting would solve almost all of these issues.

Umbrias ,

I'd more likely agree that it's a cold way to put it. Hardly flowery, and hardly is someone trying to convince you to vote a certain way voter suppression. That's just called politics. That's like, the core conceit of an election, no less.

If you're going to protest vote at least be honest about what it is, "it's not a spoiler vote, I'm just intentionally not voting for the candidate I [most likely] prefer on this candidate I know won't win."

Umbrias ,

would you join an instance

If I could read those languages yes probably.

Umbrias ,

It's both, and comes with a lot of historical baggage with systems slow to change. These arguments about the role of education are neither new nor were they settled decisively one way or another historically.

Umbrias ,

The actual problem is that the language of the bill is looking to make it far easier for a president to ban any given potentially foreign influenced video platform. That's not fantastic and it's been masked under these compounding layers of absurdity.

Umbrias ,

Being your own bank is 99% of the problems crypto runs into. It turns out being your own bank is hard and makes most people into marks. This is of course, by design, and most of the space, the vast majority of the space, is scams.

Also bitcoin has kept its promises just as much as USD has. That's not really a useful metric.

Neoliberal adaptation (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and...

Umbrias ,

Clearly posted on mastodon.

Umbrias ,

There's a source in the post text and their handle is in a mastodon instance :P

Umbrias ,

Because perhaps you were curious about whether it was posted on Twitter... The thing you asked about...

Umbrias ,

This seems like pretty blatant deflection when you had multiple opportunities to find out your exact question by clicking one link or reading a little closer. Both things faster than making a comment.

You assumed wrong twice, made an inciting comment, and now you're upset about it. Interesting.

Also why bring up whitepeopletwitter? This isn't reddit...

Umbrias ,

Not only is the noise ratio low, this seems like a good lesson in "encyclopedias are not primary sources nor arbiters nor authorities on information." Yes, people use Wikipedia that way anyway. No, baking in an even lower trust system does not seem like it's actually a fix to any of Wikipedia's problems.

Umbrias ,

There are thousands of excellent systems out there completely different from and much easier to learn than d&d. Just stop playing DND. It's not hard, and it's often free or inexpensive.

Umbrias ,

Meh plasma could in theory be a very good radar absorber. Plasma stealth isn't just buzzwords necessarily. A myth possibly.

Whether they got it working in practice is dubious though, it's an extremely hard engineering challenge. Interesting if true, unlikely given it's being announced.

Light phasing is already concerned with quantum effects so without seeing the actual claim I mean... Anyone could basically claim that lol.

Umbrias ,

316L is perfectly capable of rusting especially under pitting corrosion. I don't know who told you it is physically incapable. It is just unlikely under normal food conditions.

Umbrias ,

In all reality this tokenization and llm language processing is useful for all sorts of things which can be mathematically somewhat modeled similarly to language. Using them for shitty web searches is not ideal.

Umbrias ,

This is genuinely great content for demonstrating that ai search engines and chat bots are not in a place where you can trust them implicitly, though many do

Umbrias ,

"Why, we aren't at fault people are using the tool we are selling for the thing we marketed it for, we put a disclaimer!"

Umbrias ,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features/the-new-bing?form=MA13FJ

It would have been easier for you to just search it up yourself, you know.

Umbrias ,

Lol.

Umbrias ,

Unions aren't the ones who decide salaries outright, they negotiate with the employer. Wages go up under unions, not that all union workers are paid better than all non union workers. A Delta Union would almost definitely make their deal even better.

Umbrias ,

Alternatively, lol

Umbrias ,

"People want to talk about the things they care about when they should be talking about the things I care about!"

Umbrias ,

Technology and ethics and politics are not airgapped magically distinct things. Pretending that they are is a strategic political choice you are actively making.

Umbrias ,

If that's what you feel is the case if you don't separate politics from technology then that sounds like a personal problem to address.

Umbrias ,

I use these curves for real world cooking constantly, both sous vide and other methods. Why wouldn't this be useful for real world cooking?

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