nivenkos

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by nivenkos 3y ago
But those jobs should be automated so no-one has to do them. And that process should be supported by a high minimum wage - hitting the employers, not taxing productive work to provide tax credits to subsidise such terrible jobs. Automation
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by nivenkos 3y ago
I'd love to move, but getting a green card is a nightmare. I don't want to work for 5 years trapped with one employer and facing deportation with a matter of weeks if I lose my job, on an L-1 visa (and to do that I'd still ha
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by nivenkos 3y ago
I mean economic mobility like making it easy for people to switch jobs, move city, work for startups, etc. So separating healthcare coverage from your employment is one important step, as is providing modern, in-depth STEM + Medicine educat
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by nivenkos 3y ago
But the awesome part is that you can ask it to explain parts and it usually does pretty well. I was using it for debugging WINE - where I have no DirectDraw4 / DirectX6 experience, and it's much nicer than trying to trawl through
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Or even arthritis.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Sad to see people always use tools maliciously, I found ChatGPT quite helpful for rubber duck debugging. Give it some log files and code excerpts, and it can help grab API docs, causes of similar issues, etc.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Ubuntu Touch and Mobian don't seem so bad. But good support is still far away. Especially since I'd really need Whatsapp and banking authentication on the phone, which both only support Android/iOS atm.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
I meant even in the case that man is not the child's father. France has this law. The US has it too if the man signs the birth certificate, and there's no way to force a paternity test.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
While together is much more reasonable than absolutely all of your assets as with marriage though.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Loads of places where before you'd just have amateur art / no art. We used it for department logos, etc. - it makes sense when it's so cheap. For it to really grow though it needs to be able to be more domain-specific, like b
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Compare European and US salaries sometime, you have no idea how lucky you are. There's a reason tens of thousands of European engineers, doctors, lawyers, developers, etc. are desperate to move to the US.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
It takes more effort to make internal code FOSS (i.e. upstreaming changes, protecting internal parts, etc.) - and often very few other people use it or contribute back anyway. I think it'd make more sense as part of a unified effort -
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Wow, even using "Russians under the bed" to attack FOSS now.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Microsoft wanted to control it all with Blackbird and ActivePlatform. Their greed ended up with them losing out (thankfully).
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by nivenkos 3y ago
"Open"AI
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Because people don't want to pay more for things. It isn't astro-turfing.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
It reminds me of the story about the New York beaches where they deliberately designed the transport to try to prevent public transport access to the "better" beaches, so they'd mostly remain only accessible to the wealthy (a
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Like Bill Gates saying he's part of the solution - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/im-part-solution-bill-gates-1... "Billionaire philanthropist" - the definition of an oxymoron.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
In the EU private jets are exempt from the new fuel duty as long as they make less than 243 flights every 4 months: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PETI-CM-731622... They don't even try to hide
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Income inequality is good, and fighting markets is like trying to stop the tide. It's accumulated wealth that is the problem (and leads to the corruption of free markets and democracy). Policies should be focused on that - taxing wealt
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Now? It was the same since the start.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Putin is the chosen successor of Yeltsin, who was backed by the USA. I wouldn't pin the current state of Russia on the USSR - the Orthodox Church, etc. have far more influence. Your point is definitely true for the psuedo-occupied coun
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Hopefully it will be finished one day. It's a shame how much the world has taken a step back with the collapse of the USSR and the rise of US unipolarity. The once-great Buran space shuttles lie derelict in Kazakhstan and Russia (not e
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Also low energy prices - people pay for heat pumps, triple glazing, solar panels, etc. in Sweden because it pays itself back. But when energy is so cheap, why bother?
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by nivenkos 3y ago
But that in turn creates political and economic pressure to improve the situation.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
It fixes itself over time. Now these people will have to find other sources of income, and that will create economic and political pressures.
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by nivenkos 3y ago
But it is the Biden administration that has pushed forward with the Inflation Reduction Act subsidies. Western Europe has the issue of much lower wages though, and they keep importing cheap labour to offset the "aging crisis", rat
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by nivenkos 3y ago
I thought the US wanted free trade and free markets, why do they put up with so much protectionism?
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by nivenkos 3y ago
It seems like a mistake, the role of the justice system should be to protect the public first and foremost. For serious cases this means they should never be released - the potential risk vs. reward just isn't worth it. Also the death
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by nivenkos 3y ago
Gotta love that good old American "Free Trade"... as long as it benefits them.

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