Imagine all the things produced. How many are just replacements for things we already have? How many of the things we build could be built better and basically last a lifetime?
One of the big dumb fights I always see is "why even have swap if I have enough memory?" Which is responded with "but what if you run out of memory?" Which is responded to with "but what if I have more than enough?" Which is responded to with "but you might run out of memory"
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I don't know if I've read that article before, I but I like it and tend to agree with it.
One thing I've thought about a lot is that the rise of the enlightenment also came about because of an increase in sobriety. Discourse was moving out of the bars and into the coffee houses and that represented a step change in the character of thought.
I think the numbers show we're in an age of unprecedented chemical sobriety. People are struggling to make ends meet so getting drunk or high every day just isn't an option for many people. However; if you look at television and our current social media as intellectual intoxicants, we're still hammered all day every day. Establishment media is designed specifically to fog your vision and your thoughts and makes you surly because it makes them money and gives them power.
The independent media isn't always perfect, there's lots of noise to the signal, but the signal is there and it isn't there if you're only talking to the establishment.
One thing I've thought about a lot is that the rise of the enlightenment also came about because of an increase in sobriety. Discourse was moving out of the bars and into the coffee houses and that represented a step change in the character of thought.
I think the numbers show we're in an age of unprecedented chemical sobriety. People are struggling to make ends meet so getting drunk or high every day just isn't an option for many people. However; if you look at television and our current social media as intellectual intoxicants, we're still hammered all day every day. Establishment media is designed specifically to fog your vision and your thoughts and makes you surly because it makes them money and gives them power.
The independent media isn't always perfect, there's lots of noise to the signal, but the signal is there and it isn't there if you're only talking to the establishment.
Cirrus Logic would have been a halfway decent budgetish 2d chip for the era. I had a bunch of cards with that brand of chip.
I think it maxxed out around 2MB of vram.
I think it maxxed out around 2MB of vram.
His last album hardly sold any copies, I figure he's doing everything in his power to try to get some relevance back.
Selling you the idea of environmentalism instead of actually doing something good for the environment. And we fall for it hook, line, and sinker.
And before you ask, yes it does come with the attractive woman. That's why nobody ever got fired for going with IBM.
The stagflationary depression was already coming. This just gives them an excuse other than "We shut down the planet for 2 years and thought pieces of paper could stop the consequences"
I had a lovely snippy remark about inheritance taxes, but Canada apparently doesn't have inheritance taxes.
That's a good point. The ideological idea might say you can get some hypothetical society that is immune, but if the data shows the Japanese can't escape it what society possibly could?
It could potentially work if you had a unified culture that was incredibly stringent on supporting the common good, but by definition we're not that. It appears that we don't want to be that either, and that's ok, but it does mean there needs to be less universality to the universal.
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One historian I like following on youtube has said we're right on the verge of a major revolutionary event based on models which correctly predicted some major events during the time spans they occurred.
Not all revolutions are the same. Sometimes it's like the bronze age collapse where people collectively just said "fuck this shit" and went off to live relatively independently. Other times it's an authoritarian takes power (as happened when the roman republic became the roman Empire), and yet other times it's a bloody revolution like the French revolution or the Russian revolution.
It's really a scary roulette wheel. The chances of coming out of an era like this one with a new golden age of prosperity and freedom are infinitesimal.
Not all revolutions are the same. Sometimes it's like the bronze age collapse where people collectively just said "fuck this shit" and went off to live relatively independently. Other times it's an authoritarian takes power (as happened when the roman republic became the roman Empire), and yet other times it's a bloody revolution like the French revolution or the Russian revolution.
It's really a scary roulette wheel. The chances of coming out of an era like this one with a new golden age of prosperity and freedom are infinitesimal.
It's not pretty, but it's correct. You have two classes of people: Net Tax providers and net tax consumers. If you let the net tax consumers vote, then they will inevitably vote for more things for the net tax providers to pay for. From there, the only option is for the leadership to try to make more and more people net tax consumers to placate them and buy their votes.
That's all right to think that you're smart, but you need rubber to meet road and actually have some reality to check your finances against first.
One of the biggest problems today is that anyone can say anything and it doesn't matter if it's falsifiable and or not, if it sounds good it's true.
One of the biggest problems today is that anyone can say anything and it doesn't matter if it's falsifiable and or not, if it sounds good it's true.
"journalists, who have an IQ of 100 collectively added together, decided that Mastodon was dead because it's too hrrrrrrrrrrrd"
Oh thank God.
Oh thank God.
A lot of people want a civil war. But they actually don't. They just think they do because they don't realize how shitty life gets in a real hurry if that happens.
That sort of reminds me of this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNMwO3DywIE
People who otherwise would be at each other's throats dropping everything to work together to battle a greater evil lol
People who otherwise would be at each other's throats dropping everything to work together to battle a greater evil lol
At this point, I don't even think VR is going to be nearly as big as the tech companies think. They lucked into some really cool technologies with smart phones but don't necessarily understand why smart phones were the biggest thing since sliced bread.