Readit NewsSee: Yeonmi Park and the absurdity of her stories that are essentially a product of South Korea's day-time TV.
(North Korean refugees typically can't get work permits, some of the little work available is telling people how bad NK is. It is illegal to say anything good about NK in SK)
How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245229292... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100612
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465127 - March 2025 (26 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529256 - December 2024 (10 comments)
(You're right, it is a suboptimal socioeconomic system)
It might be a valid strategy and a very likely future, but I hope all the "we will just let immigrants in so don't worry about birth rates" people think about the implications here.
We're essentially legitimizing a pyramid scheme here. Economics and policy are all centered around extraction and share holder value. I've never seen any attention paid to making an industry stable or resilient.
Nearly every issue we face day-to-day is either due to companies holding massive control over our society, or companies degrading services we rely on because profit is no longer increasing.
We're not allowed a stable, peaceful life in a stable climate because someone else needs to get one over on someone else.
We could provide for everyone but we have decided making immaterial numbers go up is #1 priority.
When I ask why can't we have companies that exist in a steady state, the answer is another company will take advantage if the first company doesn't first. Why do we live like this? Is this system truly responsible for our technology and comfort? or is the comfort a side-product that can be produced by a number of other systems?
We're being played for fools. We all know it, but we can't imagine an alternative because they've got us all by the balls controlling our health care and housing.
In my case I keep a copy of K9 Mail 5.6 with the original UI (the reason I choose K9) and I sideload it to every device of mine. I'm afraid that I'll have to register an account and what, claim that that K9 is mine?
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Sexuality is part of the human condition that doesn't start on one's 18th birthday just because over-protective parents want complete control of their child.
It's weird that parents believe they need to control every facet of their child's life, down to being able to learn about why they feel the way they do. It's a form of abuse and coercion.
You do understand that there are creeps out there grooming children, right? Parents definitely do need to have oversight over their own kids.
Children should absolutely not have privacy on the internet.
The ID requirement is terrible, but saying that children need privacy to explore their sexuality on the internet is very problematic.
If this is the position the UK government holds then that brings into question their desire to protect children online in the first place.
AI producing visual art has only flooded the internet with "slop", the commonly accepted term. It's something that meets the bare criteria, but falls short in producing anything actually enjoyable or worth anyone's time.
Most of those efforts stem from the underlying notion that “…this is all a problem with the tooling!”
This approaches the problem space from a very software-centric lens. Fundamentally, gateware design isn’t software. It’s wiring together logic gates if you really boil it down to fundamentals. Treating it as a tooling problem is to misconstrue how much you know. Plainly: no open source toolchain is going to have insight into Xilinx’s internal fanout or propagation delay specs. You’re reliant on Xilinx to encode these into their tools for you.
As a result: “Vendor tools are God in FPGA land. You don’t go against God.” (Quoted from the staff FPGA engineer on my team.)
I think the "vendor tools are god" attitude is overall negative. The vendor tools ARE leagues better than the open source alternatives, but it doesn't mean the open source stuff is just for toy projects.
For example, Vivado is a monolithic pain in the ass. If I want to use an FPGA as electrical super glue for a project, I don't want to be downloading 150GB onto my machine. I think the open source tooling is particularly useful for smaller projects, and the general attitude towards the tooling is really frustrating.
The research that has gone into the RE the bitstream structure and the overall structure of FPGA fabric is extremely impressive. Vendor IPs are often bloated to get you to buy the bigger chip, where open source IPs take up much less of the fabric.
There's give and take but from my perspective a big problem is the tooling.
It's reasons why this that I refuse to associate with Republicans in my daily life anymore. They are undeserving of respect or decency for how they continue to make our lives worse.
It's not the most productive but for all the pain their "opinions" create, the least I can do is make them feel the group believes their opinions to be ridiculous as the group all laughs.
I don't think they should get civility outside of the voters booth if they're uncivil within the booth.