CoffeeCollector

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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Why is almost anything more expensive in the US than in other countries?
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
It’s time to bring back old hardware sitting in closets as while they may be obsolete from a performance perspective they are ahead in terms of privacy. Let’s stop stripping old hardware support out of the Linux kernel and keep distros for
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Why are you making this about you?
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
lol what an awful take
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Pretty sad that you of all people are getting downvoted for telling the truth.
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Seems to me this says more about the programmer than the language.
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Can’t we have a tight loop in any language? What’s special about C here?
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
What is a “tight C loop”?
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Based.
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
lmao yes, that is precisely why
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
High corporate profits = higher share price ???
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
These companies keep demanding more and more and more from employees and their customers. When will they be satisfied?? We fostered their development and need now to reap from them.
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
When will these big companies be satisfied? They have astronomical market caps, share prices and pay structures for leadership but it’s always more more more. These companies need to pull off the gas pedal and provide for their employees mo
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_inflation
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
> Personally, I believe it is more because of supply chain shortages Why?
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
What markets exist outside of government authority? No, black and gray markets don’t count because the increased money supplies created by governments will affect the overall amount of money chasing goods in any market.
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Most of your ‘refutation’ is dishonest, Keynesian, MMT nonsense. Fiat doesn’t get introduced unless printed or borrowed by the government. Full stop. Companies raising prices is not inflation and conflating that with government monetary pol
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
You are getting down voted for telling the truth. Every inflation discussion starts with the supply side economics or companies raising taxes, but inflation only happens in reality because of government spending, borrowing, and deficit spen
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Privacy and user empowerment stopped around 2007 and most technological advances suit the capital and political classes for their benefit, hegemony and ability to control us. It’s time to stop buying new hardware and to be content using old
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Completely agree. The pollution metaphor is apt: Not only the cognitive cost of looking over this code, realizing it’s displaying a CSV, and offering advice but also the real CO2 cost of hosting, packaging, distributing, running, and mainta
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by CoffeeCollector 4y ago
Remote work is one of the biggest labor corrections, restoring a significant chunk of compensation to workers, since the 1970s. The time saved, avoided fuel costs, and quality of life improvements are huge. The green movement and publicat