CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Did you get something back?

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Absolutely not. Demographic data shows it's shit, income distribution data is best explained by a random walk process (neat graphic explainer here), and all the data on startups and investing show that there's no free lunch; capitalism actually does ensure everything gives the same steady return on average.

Every rich person won some sort of lottery. Even the bona-fide engineers are never the only ones that could have invented whatever thing - as technical person myself.

[–] CanadaPlus 7 points 2 years ago

Thankfully I'm not on Google for anything, but I will think of this every time I send an email to someone who is.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

It isn't looking like a great moment in China, I'll give you that. Banning shortselling is a doubly bad sign, because it indicates a major issue and is also guaranteed not to help solve it.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ChatGPT is pretty good at taking your Wendy's order, even without fine tuning. That job is probably a goner.

Electrician, on the other hand? Lol no, they're safe.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's the big question mark here. On the other hand, I'd expect people would overestimate the difficulty of their own job on average, so I'm still inclined to listen.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mostly agree, although I wouldn't say the enemy, because it's really just the biggest autocracy rather than the only one.

I don't see how that makes them less likely to succeed at a basic income, should they choose to do that, though.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lol, I'm already up and running. It's pretty good, and I can actually use my mouse with it in bash. Protip, it seems very important to use the right window size. It's good enough to do a lot of normal browsing, but openstreetmap understandably had broken controls. The only local issue is that I can't see what I'm entering into the URL bar.

It's also designed to run distributed, so you can use shitty bandwidth between a rendering machine and the display machine. I should try fitting it into a radio channel or phone connection or something, haha. I also wonder if it could be adapted to work with Tor Browser.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

Really? Is it open source, or are we just going by reputation of the developers?

I actually don't know much about the kernel they use, I was really just trying to emphasise the level of trust you put in your OS.

[–] CanadaPlus 7 points 2 years ago

I certainly don't want them to be the future, anyway. I'm pretty big on things like equality and rule for the interest of the people.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

Also, I read that Xi J is anti-welfare.

Really? He's interventionist in general, so that surprises me.

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