[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

It's moreso the reverse, having a VP that opposes the president especially on foreign policy allows them to collude against the White House. This was a big problem in the Obama administration with Biden frustrating Obama's foreign policy at times.

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can't create infinite information from a set of rules. Kolmogorov proved that the true amount of information in a signal is the size of smallest ruleset to produce it. The rest is really just fluff, from an information science perspective.

See: Kolmogorov complexity, and the field of algorithmic information theory.

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo phones have Google Play outside of China.

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

The difference between MAD and the Samson option, is that in the former you're only attacking whoever attacked you, while in the former you're attacking bystanders that refused to intervene on your behalf.

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If your goal is independence, two sources are always better than one.

Reducing fossil fuel use by increasing costs and funneling profits to America is a neoliberal approach to climate change and doesn't work. All it's going to do is make people poorer and move production of petrochemical-derived and energy-intensice products elsewhere. This is because the market is not able to make a sustainable change away from fossil fuels, especially not for a temporary wars, as these investments have to be amortized over decades. If you want to actually reduce fossil fuel use for heating and electrcity, you need governmental investment into nuclear and renewable energy and programs to install heat pumps. Becoming dependent on American gas is not actually going to help, and neither will changes in prices because it's a non-market solution.

Unless of course you think America is inherently more ethical than Russia and should be preferred - I'll let you make that argument.

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never said working class. I said PMC. Ie, not bourgeois. Being a glorified excel formula or a janitor for a parasitic industry does not make you guilty and it's not equivalent to being a cop or a soldier. The class interests of those respectively are PMC and working class.

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

95-97% of the people in a typical high finance office are working class or PMC people. The reason why finance is so lucrative is because it concentrated wealth so effectively. I know this because I was an IT guy in a very very high finance firm a long time ago - the vast majority of people are paper pushing schmucks and excel/PowerPoint contortionists and, like, 3-4 guys are partners or whatever and take the dough. And most of the times they're going to be at home or on a trip sipping martinis, possibly with clients. Another 4-12 people are going to be sharing a bit of the profits in exchange for overworking the rabble. It's a bit different nowadays since the quantitative finance people took over a lot of it and they only employ people that could work in tech but yeah traditional finance is mostly a PMC trap. The bourgeoisie is too smart to spend their life in a cubicle. At most there would maybe be the replaceable CEO.

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Can you give me an example? I built my own ebike so I'm familiar with the componentry, going something like 40mph (ripping past 30mph) requires a serious battery and a very expensive motor. You can't just modify a normal legal ebike to go that fast, the motor will overheat and the battery won't last 20 minutes on a charge or long in general.

Also, nothing that can go past 28mph is considered an ebike in the US. The moment it goes any faster it's an unplated scooter/motorcycle

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

50km/h for a short amount of time is far from unusual for most cyclists. The fastest cyclists can do 90km/h in a burst which requires ~5x more effort than going 50km/h.

Most people with a little training can do ~1200W which is enough to get to those speeds with a good position on a well adjusted bike.

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Not true, I've gotten a dozen or so.

[-] sysgen@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I wonder why he isn't. It's not like he can evade trial for it where he is now.

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