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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by MrLeap on Saturday October 21, 2023 @09:16PM (#37972007)
A large amount of inefficiency is actually a chain of accountability. Trust, and failing that assigning blame, and trusting those assignments, is the root of so. much.
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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by namaria on Monday October 23, 2023 @06:05AM (#37983614)
The whole of life is built on inefficiency. Earth is just a filter for slowing down the diffusion of star energy from the Sun and step it through ecosystems complexity before it being lost to the vacuum. I have no idea why people can be so obsessed with order, control and efficiency when life itself is just the interval of disorder, freedom and delay in energy dissipation.
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