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whitemary··on Mouse scroll wheel acceleration, implemented in user space
Yeah I’m addicted to it. I can't use any other mouse since trying the Mx Master 3 scroll wheel.
whitemary··on US pay transparency laws result in worker discontent
I guess we'll need to start censoring then.
whitemary··on New Arkansas bill to keep minors off social media exempts most social platforms
As Karl Marx correctly illustrated 150 years ago, a state under capitalism is merely a capitalist state.
whitemary··on WebGPU Fundamentals
The Honda Financial website is Chrome-only.

https://honda.americanhondafinance.com

whitemary··on The US Could Use Some Separation of Media and State
That sounds an awful lot like some things Karl Marx told us 150 years ago.
whitemary··on AI Poised to Transform Video Compression Landscape
We truly don't need AI to tell us what is important or not. We already know this, objectively. It's mathematically defined as the visible spectrum of the a available information, adjusted with relative high/low thresholds for compression level.
whitemary··on Canada is seeing violent crime like never before. What's behind the crime wave
I think you mean "life becoming unaffordable..."
whitemary··on It's time to reveal all recommendation algorithms – by law if necessary
Open source them, along with ML algorithms and model weights. Anything less is effectively meaningless, and if you insist that doing so is a privacy risk then your product is unfit for society.
whitemary··on Gig Workers Are Being Stabbed, Stoned, and Abused in India
> (Uber India spokesperson Ruchica Tomar says that they reached out to Devi as soon as they were made aware of the incident. The Uber app has an “in-app emergency button through which the driver can directly call the local police,” Tomar says, adding that Uber’s records show Devi didn’t use it after her attack.)

Why even publish such hollow meaningless drivel? Wired is pathetic.

whitemary··on South Korea to give $490 allowance to reclusive youths to help them leave house
This just shows how little you have actually thought about the matter. Another deprived person does not negate the deprivation. Two wrongs don't make a right. Ignoring the root of the problem is only postponing the solution.
whitemary··on Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
See Black Mirror S02E01 (it doesn't work out very well)
whitemary··on Most people thinking about suicide don’t tell anyone
It's a rational decision. Capitalism enforces para-social behavior and ostracizing the weak.
whitemary··on Twitter Is Blocking Likes and Retweets that Mention Substack
posting
whitemary··on James Niehues Ski Map Artist
I'm pretty certain peak to peak opened earlier than 2005. More like 2002.
whitemary··on New allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein
No. Lichtenstein didn't paint depictions of comic books. He painted the actual images from within the comic books.
whitemary··on Google to ban financial lending apps from accessing user photos, contacts
> You could offer me $1000 cash and I wouldn’t do it.

You may not need $1000, but some people literally do.

whitemary··on For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get
> also has corollaries across different groups than just low income

Nonsense! Nobody who wants to go to college joins the military unless they are low income. The US stopped drafting in 1973!

whitemary··on For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get
> the Asian, White, African American, etc, students who also just so happen to be all be wealthy

In other words: the wealthy students

The racialization here is so silly. Your suspiciously included categories account for the overwhelming majority of the US population. Also, as we all know, completeness would have required listing every single race.

whitemary··on For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get
This applies to every aspect of education and early career advancement, by design. It is ludicrous to think so-called meritocracy could sustain under capitalism. At best, we get hope and anecdotes.
whitemary··on 60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically
I'm struggling to see the profit potential in this.
whitemary··on Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
Extremely unfortunate. These things are built like a rock.
whitemary··on Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
The late 2012 unibody retina Macbook Pros were truly unstoppable. I have replaced the battery in mine 6 times and it travelled the world with a photojournalist for the first 4 years of its life. Still running strong w/ Ubuntu.
whitemary··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
What kind of trackball?
whitemary··on Paul Berg has died
Ukraine was part of Russia until the Russian Revolution in 1917.
whitemary··on The anatomy of the Cayman Islands offshore financial center (2016)
Source?
whitemary··on ‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’
Income tax and sales tax are both regressive taxes. In other words, they both promote inequality by favoring the capitalist class.
whitemary··on The anatomy of the Cayman Islands offshore financial center (2016)
It means "to be determined." To be clear, it does not mean their claim will be denied. And if very recent history, politics, presidential speeches are to be believed, it means their claim will be accepted.

The first clue about contemporary political economy could tell us that the entire SVB meltdown would be socialized by the US state. See my comments in this thread for my predictions pre-bailout: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094447

whitemary··on The anatomy of the Cayman Islands offshore financial center (2016)
Right. Ironically, Great Britain, who financed the construction of the Nazi's military infrastructure, did in-fact draw the line at 'Hitler is in charge.'

Under capitalism, the line is drawn by the owning class. Unfortunately, working people don't get a say.

whitemary··on The anatomy of the Cayman Islands offshore financial center (2016)
If it weren't wrong, it would not be an analogy. Most intelligent people will realize that the current state of the law is irrelevant, but if you really can't get past that:

If shoplifting were undesirable and if some people shoplifted to feed hungry babies, is shoplifting then desirable?

whitemary··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
Wow. I knew it was bad, but this angers me on a whole new level. FWIW, if working class Americans (the kind liberals hate) realized this was happening, I think you would have their sympathy. Unfortunately, however, they will probably never realize it.
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