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This is simply a symptom of economic misallocation, decades of wealth concentration has moved the incentives away from normal healthy investments, to a minuscule minority desperately trying to chase ever shrinking short term gains, when all they are really doing is gambling on hooking the next tech evolutionary whale.

So much human potential given to such a tiny group of incompetent morons.

When the history books are being written, this era will make the robber baron/gilded age pale in comparison.

A drunkard, ex-fox news host, wants mass surveillance and automated killing, what could go wrong?

I wish I thought enough Americans had the spine required to stand up to this, and I know for a fact that a lot do... the solution is literally written into your constitution.

The US is shitting their pants and dancing around in it, enjoying the warmth. None of their former friends are gonna help clean up the mess.

In other news, fuck dilbert jfc

It’s not hard, the dilbert guy was a psycho, sucks if you liked him, he was emphatically a psychopath. Maybe it’s time to reconsider some of your atrocious views, and learn some empathy

This is naive to the point where it is indistinguishable from disinformation.

Aside from a tiny minority of people applying their own encryption (with offline confirmed public keys) at end points with securely stored air gapped private keys, this information is available to the US government, it’s the god damn job of the NSA.

Why would their pitch to prospective targets reflect their corporate aims?

Do facebook or google do this to their users?

“Business Idiot” seems like a bit of a superfluous phrase, outside of criticizing that particularly dangerous group of people hell-bent on destroying humanity as a concept. But the article is woefully lacking in that regard.

As long as sufficient amounts of wealthy people are able to wield their money as a force to shape society, this is will always be the outcome.

Unfortunately,in our current society a rich group of people with a very restricted intellect, abnormal psychology, perverse views on human interaction and a paranoid delusion that kept normal human love and compassion beyond their grasp, were able to shape society to their dreadful imagination.

Hopefully humanity can make it through these times, despite these hateful aberrations doing their best to wield their economic power to destroy humans as a concept.

Regarding 2. How are comptime values restricted to total computations? Is it just by the fact that the compiler actually finished, or are there any restrictions on comptime evaluations?

Mehdi Hasan and Hasan Piker are two different people.

That’s easy to answer, The Powell memorandum. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_M...

There’s a clear through line from what that cruel, despicable man put to paper that year, to the incoming presidential administration in 2025.

DRM is a government sanctioned desecration, by corporations, of your private property rights, by its very definition.

Whether it’s in the GPU, CPU, TPM, or any other part of computing property you ostensibly own, is an utterly irrelevant distraction, the root is the unholy alliance of government and capital power.

It’s either pure delusion or malicous distortion of reality.

Cars are indisputably garage, and a detriment to society. A pitiful stopgap, that has unfortunately been embraced by troglodytes.. jill the psychopath who believes in this salvation

Man, this feels like a frustratingly good way to get back into Haskell, and on the cutting edge of GHC to boot…

Or should I take the plunge and do it in rust?

(If only I was unemployed and could do this in agda/idris/lean…)

I’m guessing it’s not a popular opinion around here, but what’s described is so insanely dog shit I would have been fired and sued if I had been responsible for developing anything even close to how stupid this system was.

I know people who have worked with military systems, and as dumb as the process around developing these things tend to be, due to the asinine cluelessness of the decision makers, none of them would have accepted even a fraction of the idiocy on display here.

I mean, not “slaving” the cursor still feeds garbage data into the system, immediately reusing 4 digit codes in a way that is pretty much guaranteed to create confusion, no real cooperation or coordination between the same system running on ships in the same battle group, supposedly essential data displayed without the actual essential details shown to decision makers in charge of death and destruction…

It would be laughable if it was the worlds strongest military we were talking about.

The people in charge of deciding to make this “system” in this way should be in prison.

Governments all over the western world has been fueling a housing bubble to artificially inflate GDP to make up for disgustingly unfair tax cuts to corporations and wealthy people, who’ve been laughing all the time he way to the bank.

It won’t stop for years, and nothing fundamental will change until supposedly middle class families are forced out onto the street. Then, maybe, we will see the political will to change this insane, cruel, predatory and hateful housing policy change.

To everyone who owns property, YOU are complicit. Either deliberately evil or willfully ignorant, there is nothing else.

It’s not that hard, YAML is disappointingly and unfortunately, unnecessarily, extremely ambiguous, which is exactly what you do not want in the contexts where it’s dominant.

The solution is uncannily simple tho, fuck YAML, just generate it from Dhall; enjoy the subsequent bliss!

Regardless of whether there exists any underlying universal morality, why would shifts along cultural and/or time axises preclude it?

If they are not performing their job, they will be fired.

Unless by “low performers” you mean the supposedly weakest pawn in some “feelings-based” CEO’s desperate attempt to increase profits. And when that overpaid asshole realizes that he doesn’t actually have any ideas or other ways of impressing the board (which conveniently also consist of overpaid CEOs that think that desperately squeezing employees is the only way forward), shuffling around employees whose jobs he doesn’t understand in the slightest, becomes the way to seem actionable.

It’s far easier to get rid of an employee not doing their job, than it is to get rid of a delusional billionaire CEO or boardmember.

The real question is how do we get rid of these abysmal, low performing CEOs/boardmembers who hide behind idiotic ideas that fuck around with their employees lives or depend on exploiting people from poorer countries, to cover up their own ineptitude?

(And no, “shareholders” are just an effigy, conjured to represent private equity and geriatric pension funds, represented by a handful of investment bankers. It’s by definition a dysfunctional market, because the number of actors are tiny, and contained within the same industry. I mean, Adam Smith literally warned us about this…)

Yes, tech eliminates other jobs, and like what the OG luddites had a problem with, the issue is not the technology or even the eliminated jobs, it’s the effect on the labor population. In the situation we are actually discussing in this thread, normal employees where terminated, and then replaced by employees on H1B visas, people in a vastly more precarious position, allowing the companies far more control over its employees. If you’re an employee, I’m curious how you feel this is valuable to you? Especially in the longer run.

Are you claiming people are not employed to maintain MS Exchange? That’s just a fairly simple issue of ignorance; get out of the SV tech bubble. Those jobs are not gone, albeit somewhat reduced in numbers by competitors providing better service like you say.

Unfortunately this also brings along the concept of outsourcing these jobs to countries with lower salaries because these “feelings-based” overpaid CEOs lack any other substantial ideas for reducing costs. A union that opposed this kind of globalization arbitrage, would have forced these overpaid CEOs to provide policies that actually increased profits, instead of simply exploit desperate employees in other countries. Ergo, weak unionization creates inefficiencies, who would have thought??

See also amazon drivers unionization efforts. A union would have very simply blocked the idea that drivers should be obliged to piss in bottles and shit in bags while on delivery.

I think we can safely conclude that most people enjoy deliveries NOT contaminated by feces, YMMV.

I mean, unless you are the rare tech employee who enjoys doing your toilet needs in a garbage can in the middle of your hot desked, open office. I’ll leave it as an open exercise for others to determine what’s more laughable.

Non-unionized tech workers finally facing the music…

The smart ones know what to do, hopefully they will be a majority against the ones indoctrinated into right wing market fundamentalism.

In any case, the unionization issue will sort itself out eventually, when the spoiled assholes are no longer in the industry, but damn it’s probably gonna be painful for a while.

This whole “plastic ban” is just a feeble and disgusting distraction from the orders of magnitude larger environmental issues facing humanity.

But since we apparently, absolutely need to continue to burn down the house we all live in, banning plastics is seemingly a great and democratic compromise on environmental issues.

Yes, plastics are bad, but it’s like plugging a single hole in one bathtub on the Titanic, which apparently large amounts of politicians across the western world feel is a great win.

It’s insane to me that “cable theft” is even considered a criminal offense… it’s literally a civil dispute between a corporation and a person, about alleged misuse of service, with very little damage outside of theoretically “harming” the profits of the corporation, a notion that quite literally requires assuming an argument ad absurdum.

How stupid does a politician have to be to promote this as a criminal offense? It just denigrates criminal law.

Edit: my bad, it was promoted by Barry fucking Goldwater, a bona fide fascist. So not stupidity, just genuinely evil cruelty.

The same way that you wouldn’t accept your elderly relatives trying to burn down the house you both happen to live in, every fossil fuel based company should be nationalized and shutdown as quickly as possible, while reducing the impact on society’s poorest who depend on that type of energy.

No, wait, private ownership and corporate freedom have actually been proven to be the pinnacle of human economic organizing, so please hand back the lighter and petrol to your demented grandparents and their delusions ideas.

Unfortunately, the people running and investing in these companies will be long dead when their decisions come back to bite us all in the ass.

Rural population are also strongly opposed to homosexuality, gender nonconformity, queers, atheism, non-dominant religions, alcohol, metalheads, goths, emos, scene kids etc.

At least the amount of sundown towns have started to diminish.

There’s still absolutely no reason to extend this provincial bigotry to national legislation. When the insanity is locally contained, the people discriminated against can at least leave the shithole.

The ONLY reason these disgusting predators can colonize human cultural output like this is the antisocial, and tremendously stupid copyright laws enacted.

It always makes me wonder why people want a tiny cartel of companies to own humanity’s music culture, and subsequently be able to bully companies like Spotify, Youtube and others into enforcing extrajudicial policies that maintain the cartel’s dominance.

Like, seriously, what is the perceived societal value here???

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Agda goes above and beyond that when you consider their mix-fix syntax… While it might not be perfect, it’s a hella lot closer to mathematical proving/programming with normal functional programming “constructs” (for lack of a better word… idris etc, also the struggle with sized types)