Have you been to Mexico City or (even more so) Guadalajara since the Pandemic? Multinational techs are investing and building up campuses like crazy. Reminds me of the go-go years of Bangalore in the 2000’s.
Mexico has a real possibility of moving up the value chain and gobbling up all the good stuff Trump is pushing away from the USA
And similarly why you find a lot of Caucasians with Mandarin script tattooed on their skin. It’s cool, they like the meaning, and they don’t have to be Confucian or whatever
Some of us Atheists unironically wear religious stuff because it looks stylish, because the words sound cool, or because we like and appreciate the fandom of a particular story, even if we realize people made it all up. I can wear Dr Who swag for the same reasons.
Lemmy is better because there are open standards and alternate servers.
Humans are mostly all the same; incentives pervert or ennoble us.
Centralized power and monetary incentive tend to the former
state murdered aaron
I want a President do declare Aaron Swartz Day a day of national mourning and shame, with hopeful reflection on the immense value of open source & creative commons. Maybe with a public investment in open source commons like browser or mobile OS.
Yes this is my hobby horse and I am riding it
which cancer is worse
all of them, esp when we have a cure (Fedi/OpenSource)
I work for one of the world’s largest proprietary software companies.
100% agree with you
Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.
This. I am a Silicon Valley manager, been hiring & managing teams for 25 years. For the same budget I can bring on 1 developer in California, vs 2-3 in Mexico or India.
TBH the quality of engineer has very little to do with their nationality. It has a lot more to do with what school they went to. It depends most on how much fire 🔥 is in their belly.
noop; noop; noop;
This particular coding leaderboard matches my own personal experience. Llama4 is hitting ~15% ; Claude Opus4 ~70% (I haven’t used others personally)
LOL I’ve been on super niche blockchain based socials with dozens of active users … and still had advertising spam for penis pills and random mattress stores.
As for Reddit, browse it read only to save your sanity via a libreddit instance
9 days after my son was born his umbilical stump fell off and I could not help lament to my wife that he was no longer eligible for the 100-year gate
Yes you should.
Like all Neal Stephenson books (except “The Big U”) it is one of the best novels I have ever read.
There are some secrets and reveals so I’ll spoil nothing but there is much to reflect on our society today, the human condition, and Hilbert Space
If you have a physical Dymaxion Map, you make each vertex a hinge so you can swing to connect the bits you want to be adjacent for the purpose at hand.
Monero works for anonymous payments for cocaine and fent across international boundaries, it can more than handle the illicit video game trade
DYMAXION MAP OR GTFO
EDIT: details
It has less distortion of relative size of areas, most notably when compared to the Mercator projection; and less distortion of shapes of areas, notably when compared to the Gall–Peters projection. Other compromise projections attempt a similar trade-off.
More unusually, the Dymaxion map does not have any “right way up”. Fuller argued that in the universe there is no “up” and “down”, or “north” and “south”: only “in” and “out”.[9] Gravitational forces of the stars and planets created “in”, meaning “towards the gravitational center”, and “out”, meaning “away from the gravitational center”. He attributed the north-up-superior/south-down-inferior presentation of most other world maps to cultural bias.
NYT did a whole article about it, here have a free one. 86 47! Epstein files!
Trump’s Oval Office Is a Gilded Rococo Nightmare. Help.
clearly built the world in a way that does not absolutely prove his existence
There is nothing we observe that requires supernatural explanation.
We have multiple plausible naturalistic and quantitative theories about the origin of life, the nature of consciousness, and the origin of matter and spacetime.
At this point you need God to explain the Universe the way a fish needs a bicycle.
His bro DJT says the same thing about what will happen if his tariffs are blocked
The end of the world, to these guys, is someone not agreeing with them