What a shady, shady company.
Readit Newsrndmind commented on TikTok owner ByteDance explores self-designed chips cnbc.com/2022/07/19/tikto... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
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rndmind commented on Why can't the government put a limit on car sizes? ashlan.com/blog/why-can-t... · Posted by u/samemail88
Why can't they government fix my pet peeves?
This kind of thinking is what's leading us to a prison society without privacy or freedom, one little whiny step at a time.
The government should do as little as possible, and the least at the federal level.
big trucks are so cliche and should go the way of steam engines, but the government doesn't have the right to limit how big they can be.
The registration fee's should be much, much higher.
Tragedy of the commons is a real thing, it's not a pet peeve, you disingenuous dumbass
rndmind commented on Why can't the government put a limit on car sizes? ashlan.com/blog/why-can-t... · Posted by u/samemail88
I believe the government should increase yearly registration costs exponentially based on lower MPG.
If you get 10-18 MPG... you must pay 10 times the registration fee that a 40-50 MPG hybird pays.
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Massive offshore wind turbines
Hydrogen fuel-cell trains https://www.worldfinance.com/strategy/canadian-pacific-on-tr...
Tesla Plaid 0-60 in 1.9 seconds
Ebikes, super 73's, youngsters riding them
microtransactions and trustless decentralized databases (ethereum)
podcasts, and uncensored scientific and civilized communication
The list goes on, the future still looks good if you ignore the mass media
demand > supply == inflation
The fed can only reduce demand. Raising interest rates won't lower inflation if there are still massive disruptions to the supply chain. This is especially true for food and gas where people don't have much choice beside buy it or starve.
In the case of the recent wildly sharp increase in consumer prices is caused by lower supply of goods... not by increase of money supply.
If the demand stays the same, the supply goes down... then the price will go up.
It's pretty common sense if you think about supply and demand, but I am perplexed at the amount of people that don't practice any critical thought, let alone skepticism.
rndmind commented on The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/systemvoltage
Meanwhile, the Ruble is up from where it was just before the invasion. There is a sudden drop off during the month following the invasion in late Feb when sanctions were applied, but risen since then. It's currently sitting at a 5 year high.
Are you arguing that the ruble is more stable place to store your money than the Euro?
2005: your infrastructure is automated using a handful of Bash, Perl and Python scripts written by two system administrators. They are custom, sometimes brittle and get rewritten every 5 years.
2022: your infrastructure is automated using 10 extremely complex devops tools. You automated the two system administrators away - but then had to hire 5 DevOps engineers paid 2x more. The total complexity is 10x.
They wrote YAML, TOML, plus Ansible, Pulumi, Terraform scripts. They are custom, sometimes brittle and get rewritten every 3 years.
EDIT: to the people claiming that today's infra does more things... No, I'm comparing stuff with the same levels of availability, same deployment times, same security updates.
Today's shit has 10x or 100x more throughput, it makes sense that upgrading data response and availability requires more people.
But, todays devops has become a proprietary mix of aws protocols, constantly changing standards and languages.
I still use bash scripting wherever I can, it is much more simple and has been ultimately unchanged for decades, which is nice for compatibility
rndmind commented on FDA Denies Petition to Ban All Phthalates in Food Packaging consumerreports.org/food-... · Posted by u/ParksNet
CR has lost credibility with their anti-GMO stance and echoing EWG’s organic-is-better nonsense.
Anti-GMO is tantamount to being against the extreme overuse of pestisides and herbicides, being anti-GMO is actually rooted in evidence as well as common sense... I don't want my strawberries or my corn bathed in round-up ready. Even if the corn does grow larger... glyphosate is bad.