31337

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[–] 31337 3 points 8 months ago

Wealth isn’t zero sum, it’s created all the time (and at a rate literally not achievable simply by underpaying employees, to pre-refute the expected response).

Explain. In a very basic sense wealth is created by acquiring resources (some of which are finite), then adding value through labor. So, the way I see it, the workers are creating the wealth, then the business/owners/investors/shareholders take a significant portion of the employees' surplus value of labor. I.e. there is a pie of value/wealth that an employee creates, and the more of that pie the business/owners/investors/shareholders get, the less the workers/wealth-creators get.

[–] 31337 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My electricity company says 76 is a good target, and I've grown accustomed to it. If sedentary, it actually feels a little cold. People acclimate to their local climate (last summer, daily highs were 100-110 for something like 3 months straight where I live).

[–] 31337 1 points 8 months ago

Lol, good catch.

[–] 31337 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

Wary of the bill. Seems like every bill involving stuff like this is either designed to erode privacy or for regulatory capture.

Edit: spelling

[–] 31337 7 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Where I live, I would still need to pay for a VPN to use torrents. I've been banned from an ISP before for torrenting (thankfully, I had multiple ISPs available for me).

At the moment, I just "pay" legally because I get a few "free" streaming plans from my mobile provider and ISP. Occasionally, I just use a free streaming site if I really want to watch something that's not available to me. Every once in a while, I try anonymous p2p such as Tribler or torrenting over I2P, but it's still extremely slow, unfortunately. I've never used Usenet, but I think it's about the same price as a VPN or seedbox would be?

[–] 31337 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

"In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison."

[–] 31337 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can understand capitalism resulting in slavery, because it wants to minimize labor costs, so slavery is the logical conclusion (also, slavery is still used by capitalists). I don't see anarchy resulting in slavery, because slavery is inherently hierarchical. I also don't see socialism resulting in slavery because the workers own their means of production/businesses/workplaces.

[–] 31337 2 points 8 months ago

What a "man" or "woman" is changes over time and by culture. Some indigenous cultures have more than 2 genders. "Boys" become "men" at different ages, depending on the culture. It is a social construct (though I'd argue constructs are "real").

[–] 31337 6 points 8 months ago

It's very unlikely they'll control the Senate. I don't even think they'll control the presidency.

[–] 31337 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Here are some that I've liked (haven't played them in years though):

  • Warsow
  • Red Eclipse
  • Speed Dreams
  • OpenTTD
  • LinCity
  • FreeOrion
  • Oolite
[–] 31337 2 points 8 months ago

I've tried a couple rolling distros (including Arch), and they always "broke" after ~6 months to a year. Both times because an update would mess up something with my proprietary GPU drivers, IIRC. Both times, I would just install a different distro, because it would've probably took me longer to figure out what the issue was and fix it. I'm currently just using Debian stable, lol.

[–] 31337 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's also trained on data people reasonably expected would be private (private github repos, Adobe creative cloud, etc). Even if it was just public data, it can still be dangerous. I.e. It could be possible to give an LLM a prompt like, "give me a list of climate activists, their addresses, and their employers" if it was trained on this data or was good at "browsing" on its own. That's currently not possible due to the guardrails on most models, and I'm guessing they try to avoid training on personal data that's public, but a government agency could make an LLM without these guardrails. That data could be public, but would take a person quite a bit of work to track down compared to the ease and efficiency of just asking an LLM.

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