cogman

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[–] cogman@lemmy.world 59 points 6 days ago

Yup, the band is already littered with 6g devices. It'd be a stupid purchase.

But also, 6GHz is somewhat of a useless band for carriers. It's high enough frequency that it'll get absorbed by most things yet low enough frequency that it'll struggle to really carry a whole lot of data.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

It's remarkably cheap for a billionaire to do this shit. Bezos bought wapo for $250M

It'd frankly be dead cheap for a billionaire to setup and run a progressive newspaper and/or fund a hundred YouTube progressives and progressive politicians.

Heck, they could setup and operate a general union fund and support union campaigns and union relief funds. They could indefinitely support striking workforce. Doing that just once would completely change how companies interact with unions.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 34 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly.

He could have seen another trial, but it'd be with a new jury.

Arbitration is usually faster and cheaper than setting up a brand new trial.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They don't have the votes to pass a law, they do have the votes to stop laws from being passed. Further, the Republicans just killed a rule that allows 30 senators to block all bills by challenging executive decisions. The Republicans killed the rule to roll back a Biden admin decision to allow California stricter emission standards. Every challenge requires a mandatory 10h of debate. There are about 100 years worth of Trump admin decisions Dems can challenge to block the upcoming budget bill.

Will they do that? Probably not, because they rolled over on the CR when they could have easily filibustered it.

And yes, Schumer knows about this, he wrote an open letter warning Republicans not kill the rule.

This is what I hate about the Democrats. They'll happily roll over, yet I guarantee you the Republicans will abuse the hell out of this rule if a Dem president gets into office.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Exactly.

The senate is particularly bad. Schumer is basically MIA and is effectively rolling over because thinks letting republicans get everything they want somehow looks good for him.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Clean code is more expensive than shit. That adds to the problem.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope.

The reason you do react native is because it's easier to hire react native devs. Further, there's a plethora of react native libraries that make it easier to make UXes above other UX frameworks.

The problem MS has is they have spent decades making platform locked UX frameworks because they were deathly afraid someone would use Linux instead of Windows.

Browser tech won because every major platform needs a browser and basically no organization was investing in multiplatform UX libraries. The likes of both Microsoft and Apple are openly hostile to such frameworks (QT and GTK come to mind).

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Andor is a documentary about radicalization, resistance movements, and fascism set in the Star wars universe. It is VERY true to life and based on real revolutions.

It did an excellent job showcasing real politics and social dynamics. Tons of characters and they all had depth.

The first season is very good, the second season is, IMO, some of the best political drama ever produced. It's also highly entertaining.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It'll all be super PAC donations. Because that's untracked and allows for unlimited donations.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

You're probably affected by this even if you didn't participate.

The thing about genetics is you can make reasonable predictions about individuals if you have data on their relatives. Heck, you can reasonably make regional predictions with genetic data that will be fairly accurate.

If any of your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, etc took this test, then you are now at least a little exposed.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I literally had an econ professor years ago who directly told us "do not take a genetics test". This was before the ACA

The reason was simple. It's information that once a private company gets a hold of it, they will use it to hurt you. Whether it's a drug company that learns you're predisposed to addiction, so better to give you it people around you nice temporary discounts on addictive meds, or an insurance company that learns you're predisposed to cancer, so better to look for ways to deny or drop coverage.

Once these companies know a little bit about your nature, they'll exploit any aspect possible to increase profits.

This was not a progressive/socialist econ professor. Just someone who knows how capitalism works.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every CEO thinks like this. CEOs are so incredibly bullish on AI BECAUSE they want to replace people and not tasks.

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