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Re:The failure of self-checkout technology on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:47PM (#39060148)
Noticing negative outcomes is racism.

What happened in those dense metropolitan cores was bad, and so the good people fled, happened over and over again and people didn't learn.

There's a reason Hong Kong can have extreme population density and low crime, and detroit and any where else filled with Obama's sons is simply a place where even progressives who say things like you do try to flee.

Re:The failure of self-checkout technology on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:31PM (#39059938)
You haven't seen many of the slow cashiers at walmart then.

I was a fast cashier as a teenager but its no longer a job for teenagers in many places, its broken people barely there.

The fast check out is far more than 8 machines in half decent areas, maybe double that and I can get out of there in record time.

I'd rather handle it myself than stand in line.

High trust scan and bag won't work in a low trust diverse society, let alone one where some groups are now entitled to theft.

Re:The failure of self-checkout technology on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:23PM (#39059830)
Its entirely rational, the net tax contribution of the other races in question other than asians is a net negative.

If you want open borders and are foolish enough to add "diversity" you cannot afford generous social safety systems.

People with genetic and cultural ties are more likely to sacrifice for one another, go figure, this has to be explained now to the progressive which is madenning. You cannot have nice things when you turn the social contract into a rental car.

Race matters, its why those nordic countries the left looks at longingly as example were made possible because they were homogenous, something they've been foolishly trying to undermine by following our example. Race matters, in homogenous countries a stranger is more related to their country men than the mixed race child. Why is Japan still functional, again, its homogenous, they are a cohesive people, and yes they do fat shame.

"Immigrants use more Welfare than Native populations: " https://twitter.com/AndrewQuackson/status/829594116929511424

"Asylum seekers and immigrants from Morocco and Horn of Africa costs the Dutch state €475,000-€625,000 per immigrant.

This can't be the best use of resources! Even if you are only interested in using the tax money to help non-Dutch people, you can save a life for ~€5,000." https://twitter.com/jonatanpallesen/status/17425869645769609...

"In the 18-24 age group, immigrants commit 90% of pimping crimes, 56% of **es, and 53% of robberies despite being only a small percentage of the population. The Italian government refuses to release data showing the percentage of these crimes committed specifically by Africans." https://archive.is/20230914033526/https://twitter.com/monito...

High grade human capital for import dried up after ww2, we are no longer importing Einstein, even worse in europe to be sure.

Re:New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:18PM (#39059769)
Nope, people aren't equal. More children in Africa is a bigger climate footprint as they are unlikely to develop next stage energy technologies which will transform how civilization functions, in fact if high iq people do not breed, the low iq will take over.

So really your take is self defeating, but much of the progressive lefts antinatalism is which calls into question their entire agenda.

Re:Why Men Are Hard to Help on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:01AM (#33056435)
Women aren't certainly more productive in a post industrialized economy. Its only due to government mandated favoritism and hand outs that women gain economic independence. After all, if the old claim of women doing more for less were true, no one would be forced to hire them. Any venture primarily manned by women fails for all the usual unmentionable reasons, and we have to pretend this isn't true. They sometimes say women are better represented in successful companies, but as with all consequences of regulatory capture, its more that they are able to carry the burden to suppress the competition.
Biggest one of all they always exclude is genetics, intelligence, predisposition, drive, these are not evenly distributed, and why would they be under a system of evolution.
Data Shows Affluent Black Kids Are More Likely to Be Incarcerated Than Poor White Kids https://eji.org/news/study-rich-black-kids-more-likely-incar...
They were bombed out disconnected from family lines, lost history and recovered in a generation.

The people you are likely referring to for the chattel excuse history also under perform in country after country where such things were never allowed. Diversity is difference, and difference will lead to persistent disparity.

It's usually a false correlation as gender "equality" is usually not a cause of anything, it is the luxury of excess that allows a society to afford it. There hasn't been a modern test of where a society hasn't been forced to pretend at equality to see where the outcomes would end up, the results may even be better as productivity wouldn't be undermined to support an ideology.
Intelligence without faith and spirit just turns in on itself. The 60s benefited from peak functional values before the decline, they braved danger when we lock down today. They were also likely the last generation before the rot of mass dysgenics set in. Why Was the 1960s the Peak of Human Accomplishment (and Pro-Sociality)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kokKSIq5Z0g
In reality they have proven to be the same.

As studied, and as the logic would follow the elite simply transfer from system to system as performance disparities persist through the generations because of genetics. Through revolutions under different systems tracked family lines out performed others regardless of system. A look at "communist" china. Persistence through Revolutions http://www.bristol.ac.uk/efm/media/workingpapers/working_pap...

The problem is they are always addressed in isolation of the most dominant factor which is genetics.
Notably their genetics. These things tend to go together.

Furthermore children are likely adapted to be parented by their parents.

The "Three Identical Strangers" documentary on the twin study they buried over likely inconvenient conclusions could only hint at it. The triplet that came to a bad end had a parent very unlike themselves in disposition.

Adopted children also do not gain the full benefit of natural children of good parents.

Recently they found the negative effects of spanking is more related to genetics than the action itself. https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1516070970624249857

In the nurture over nature debate, nurture will only ever continue to lose ground.

Re:H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC) on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:33AM (#23756338)
I still remember when my pc would take 24 hours to compress a dvd to a high quality h264 mkv, sure you could squeeze it down with fast presets in handbrake but the point was transparency. Now I'm sure for most normal pc's the time to compress at the same quality with h.265 is the same 24 hours, in 4k, even longer, I'm sure h266 would take more than twice as long easily.

Early pc's had separate and very expensive mpeg decode boards just to decode dvd, creative sold a set, the cpu simply couldn't even handle mpeg 2. I know its hard to believe but there was a time when playing back an mp3 was a big ask, all these algorithms could be made long ago, but they would have been impractical fantasy. Only now are we seeing real partial cheated resolution ray tracing in modern high end gaming hardware now which is a good comparison, ray tracing has been with us for a long time, only hardware advancement over decades has made it viable.

It amused me that they claimed 4k uhd h265 is now 10GB for a movie, that's garbage bitrate, they always ask too much of these codecs.

It's interesting that this is the result of a country practicing a hands off policy, instead of the "cultural imperialism" many complain about. The Saudi's chose to work with the US over the brits because we agreed to firewall our operations to keep their culture/society "pure" as possible.