facile3232

> There is really one ultimate question here: "Is this the best use of our tax dollars?".

The government has far more ways of financing things than taxes. I’m not sure why we refer to money this way—it’s fundamentally disingenuous. A federal budget is not the same thing as a household budget in any way.

Politics feels like an integral part of finding a partner nowadays. Which makes sense—values are important to agree upon.

> They have both positive and negative consequences.

They have zero positive consequences for anyone but manufacturers.

I like this take a lot. I also think that America competing on manufacturing is obviously never going to happen.

I’m surprised most manufactures even offer individual sales!

Give me a way to filter out results with ads on them please.

Edit (hn doesn’t let me post this fast): is finding places to buy shit really an issue? How many times in your life have you thought “damn I know what I want to buy, I just don’t know from which site to buy it”? That’s hard to imagine of anyone. This user story just seems like a problem made up by search indexes to court capital.

Edit2: Kagi is great. I'm a full subscriber.

> If the environment is continually shouting at you it's hard to hear the whispers, where the meaning is.

So do we currently live lives completely devoid of meaning? That's certainly what it feels like. That's certainly what the color schemes available to us connote.

So much fear of meaning we remove all meaning from our environment....

Man the world you paint is just not one I want to live in. Without color what's the damn point? I'd rather be corny than have to live like this.

You can trust me, facile3232, instead. I will improve upon all things the leader of automattic.com failed to improve upon.

I suppose it depends on what you want from 9front. If you want a terminal with decent power management you should just buy a mac.

Welcome! Good luck for a hard job.

Plan 9 gets tailscale before a browser! Somehow this makes sense

> I'm not on board with accepting AI-written articles.

I haven't been on board with the "journalism" of the last fifty years, but this hasn't exactly prompted it to improve. Newspapers still have advertisements. Subscribers still have no say over editorial staff. The board still has say over the editorial staff. It's all fucked unless we can punt private ownership out of the equation.

It makes sense if you follow the narrative arc of the country. The above people I mentioned slot right into the WASP trend of the ruling decorum of the country, even if the trend abandoned nominal white Anglo-Saxon protestants generations ago.

It's the same reason why white supremacy is still relevant despite the color of skin being less important: it still ties into colorism and the implicit introduction of others that allows the oppression of the general population for not being "civilized" enough, as if the word had any meaning to a person whose brain hadn't been turned to porridge by interaction with finance bros.

> but it really just highlights how efficient the modern supply chain is

This "efficiency" relies on the assumption of writing off the entire battery set at sale. That's not impressive at all.

> Drawing the same image in Photoshop, or modeling and rendering it, in the same quality and resolution on the same computer, would require much more time and energy.

Right, but there was a point at which we could stop people from doing stupid shit because it's useless and they're bad with money. Now it seems we've embraced irrational and misanthropic spending as a core service.

We honestly just need to take money away from people who obviously have no clue what to do with it. Using AI seems like a perfect signal for people who have lost touch with an understanding of value.

By definition, all people responsible for the british museum not taking accountability for their crimes, apologizing for their arrogance, or returning items, are alive.

To be fair, other museums in britain have been far more pro-human in their response. Perhaps this is only an issue with a certain demographic within britain.

I don't think they'll be complicit in pro-human crimes.

I won't take the WASP specificity bait, but I will say you're retarded to think that nadella, pichai, or huang have managed to make the ruling class of this country somehow less generally oppressive. All of these people hate humanity.

Ah, I suppose you're correct. I can't say this is anywhere near the worst part about living here so I was surprised to see it make the list.

> What country's govt acts the "exact same?"

You seem to suffer from reading comprehension issues. My thoughts about the cartel are exactly the same as my thoughts about the us government. Both are entities that use extreme violence to control the flow of commodities.

> One example would be kidnapping to extort farmers, causing them to lose their farm and livelihood

I take it you don't read much about the activities of our military or intelligence services over the last eighty years or so.

Or, for that matter, the activities of the paramilitaries your 401k or mutual funds financed.

Judging by the description, literally any one in history? I live in the us though. Using violence to control the flow of commodities is basically what a state is. None of us consented to being governed by the current government any more than the people of Mexico agreed to live under the cartels (although, I suppose if you vote you do sort of consent).

If a country declares war on an individual something has gone deeply wrong.

But, the idea of tariffs being anywhere near as bad as harassing visitors is ridiculous. That's a whole nother level of violation.

Canada should just be happy someone's talking about them and they didn't even have to move to LA to make it happen.

I would count the police presence as a far better reason to not visit this country than the crime. By a wide margin.

> with conditions that would certainly be illegal in the US itself.

Why would you assume this? We're also under investigation for human rights abuses in our prisons. AFAIK most of the rights you have as a prisoner are civil rights.

"High crime rates" compared to what?

The rest is true of course

> Generating a single image at 1024x1024 resolution with Stable Diffusion on my PC takes somewhere under a minute at a maximum power draw under 500W

That's insane, holy shit. That's not even a very large image.

Apparently I was off on my estimates about how power hungry gpus are these days by an order of magnitude.

Universities aren't exactly a great model of freedom from private interests. And it's not clear why many of them do still charge tuition—i just assumed it was some effort to emphasize classism in a world where they also want to look gracious for paying for poor people.

And believe me, for the colleges I examined this at, tuition was a rounding error compared to the return on the endowment. It is just for aesthetics of charging students in a uniquely american show of stupidity.

The tariff war? Not concerns about being detained?

Will give it a shot if you add Mandarin/simplified or swahili.