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If it's boring and you hate it and you'd rather masturbate it.
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Or it could just be that tech firms don't want to deal with the complete nightmare that is hackable security. The situation is already almost at complete collapse already. Backdoors built in are the last thing anyone needs.
It's time to blacklist China from international commerce. It's clear that they aren't going to change their ways through the liberalisation of trade and they are just screwing the West so they can challenge the United States for global hegemony. Time to shut the commies down and take the planet back for democracy.
Taiwan is not China despite the rhetoric out of the PRC and USA does not need to have tariffs on Taiwan, South Korea or Japan. Specifically it is Chinese Labor dumping and Chinese price manipulation that is the problem. Let China sell to India and Africa. America has trade with huge chunks of the world already. If other nations want China they can deal with the defence and economic consequences of dealing with China. Many countries are already waking up to Chinese sovereign interference and are moving to take action. Trump just got out in front of the issue.
The reality is that America remains the largest or second largest consumer market on the planet. If Australia tried to do tariffs we would be screwed because we don't have the buying power that America or China has and our economy is entirely reliant on exports, metals/food. However. The USA has this power. Because there are 300 million consumers inside the United States. Tariffs will work. Only 11-13% of the US economy is exposed to external trade. (Google Trade as % of GDP USA) 87-89% of the US economy is based on trade inside the United States. At worst 13% of US GDP gets lost, but it won't even be that bad. The USA is limiting the trade war primarily to China at the moment. Because of the lack of reliance on outside trade, and because of the robust consumer economy inside the United States the tariffs are capable of bringing jobs back to America. The globalists are not being honest with people about the US situation. If America cut off Australia's imports, Australia would instantly be plunged into a depression. If Australia cut off America's imports the USA wouldn't see much difference at all. America has a great trading power and they need to start using it. Trump is doing the right thing. We need action taken now before the Chinese move militarily to take over the world. They are already making moves to take over Australian territory in Antarctica and they are trying to colonise the South Pacific, using loans to ensnare nations in debt and then build military bases. America needs to bring the tech industry back. Obviously China is still going to have tech capacity. But many western nations refuse to buy networking equipment from China on national security grounds. If America starts making technology again there are many companies that will refuse to buy Chinese tech on any level.
What about the Americans in the Appalachians who have no opportunities? Why can't Apple offer those Americans a job? Everything you can say about Chinese poor moving into work applies equally to Americans. There are millions of Americans living in third world squalor who can't get out of it because their local economies are in tatters. Why shouldn't America try to do something for those people?
America is the largest consumer market in the world. All this does is open the door for another American tech company to come in and beat Apple only this time they can use American tech workers to do it.
Sure they still do, but China is beginning to manufacture X86 CPUs directly. It's only a matter of time until they catch up and crush Intel and AMD through undercutting, and throwing money at the problem.
https://www.tomshardware.com/n...
Except this doesn't just hit Amazon, this hits Walmart as well. It's hilarious to see Americans having a complete bitch fit over common sense regulations. If these laws pass the companies will NOT go overseas, just like when unions came in in Australia work and capital didn't magically fly overseas. Where is it going to go? The whole point of Trump's tarriffs is if Capital wants to leave America, that's fine. But good luck reimporting your cheap Asian goods into America. It'll be taxed on entry to make it cost as much as the American local goods and btw, America is still approximately the largest consumer market in the world, with China only just beginning to equal it in size now. That's a hell of a lot of money being left on the table by any company that doesn't want to play by America's rules. Trump's biggest mistake on trade has been to not get the Europeans in on the China bashing action.
I saw this technology in 2012 in Akihabara Japan where it was being used to livestream the London Olympics opening/closing. Japan's goal is to have 8K HDTV broadcasting nationwide for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Because as wonderful as Ben Shapiro's reasoned arguments are, a lot of his premises are flawed and do not work in the real world. If opportunity was equal everywhere then much of the Libertarian ideals would be valid, but sadly we don't live in a world where people start off equally. We live in a flawed world where much of what one achieves is based on where you are born, who raised you and who you are allowed to hang around with. Democracy and Capitalism cannot survive monopolies, and yet that is exactly where we have been heading for ages. Just look at Amazon to see where unbridled abuse of monopoly power is heading. American retail is in free fall collapse without a whiff of competition. Food production has already for the most part been captured by 6-8 international mega companies. In Australia banking has been captured by 4 companies, telecommunications by 3 companies (1 of which basically doesn't compete), Electricity approximately 4 companies, Grocery Retail by two companies, Mining by 5 companies. It's a nation of monopolies and crony capitalism. What's urgently needed is a break up of most major companies, especially Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Coles, Woolworths, All 4 Australian banks (which a Royal Commission is currently finding all conducted gross fraud that threatens the economy). Capitalism is completely broken without strong regulation and a government that's willing to trust bust. CEO compensation is just the canary in the coal mine. None of the companies should be getting this big.
Is this really surprising? There's still tons of software out there that makers no longer support or distribute, tons of TV shows that Netflix doesn't stock. As fragmentation of the online streaming market grows (Disney Online) Expect piracy to grow back in as people's $10/month subscriptions fail to deliver them the content they want and rather than pay $80+ for 8+ different streaming services they just go back to piracy.
Most likely the hack was being done by the Chinese government looking to catch up on CPU manufacturing technology. Taiwan operates as an independent nation and the Chinese have made it very clear that they intend to retake the island and are putting plans in motion to make it happen. Economic warfare against Taiwan by mainland China makes sense. Additionally China has made massive leaps in catching up to the USA with CPU manufacturing but is still behind on die process. Hacking TSMC would give the Chinese CPU designers a leg up.
Desktop Linux has a couple of problems but none of them are as severe as most people think. I've been around the development scene for a while now and I've gained some insights which I'd like to share.
1. Any sort of game editing tools are just a complete afterthought to the developers making Linux games. Don't expect the modding community to make much when they have to become programmers to edit games on Linux.
2. QT is a terrible API, far too bloated/too much kitchen sink in there to quickly get an application written in a few lines of code. I already learnt C++ I shouldn't need to learn how QT wraps OpenGL just to write GL code.
3. GTK completely sucks for Object Orientated Programming. Sure you can call it from Objective-C or C++ bindings, but there's no way to connect GUI callbacks to signal handlers without writing tons of boilerplate code. The entire point of having an IDE such as glade is to avoid unnecessary boilerplate code. GTK has completely failed to provide this. (A quick solution would be to extend Glade to allow connecting call backs to class methods in OOP Languages e.g C++/Obj-C)
4. GNUstep has completely failed to provide a web browser, or binding for a browser, as well as any desktop configuration tools. No point running a MacOS-alike/NextStep clone if you can't configure sound/video/networking and can't integrate with the other desktops/have other desktops integrate with you.
5. Lots of little converter applications/middleware tools are missing. This is easy enough to fix but the APIs need to be improved. It shouldn't take more than 5 mins to create a small application that creates a notebook of text.
Most tech workers ARE underpaid. Because most tech workers are not rock star coders. They are sysadmins, and network engineers who slave over keyboards all day building/running/maintaining systems for large/middle/small companies. Thanks to contracting it's getting worse. I work for one of the top 100 most profitable companies in the world but as a contractor. I pull $60,000/year. If I was an internal staff member I would begin on $70,000/year and with my current skills/experience would be on $90,000/year based on other workers in my area. So I am basically being ripped off $30,000 for being a contractor. Hell we had one employee jump ship in the same are to take up $130,000. Now she admittedly had qualifications/experience beyond my own, but I was able to fix equipment that she couldn't. Pay is not really related to what you are really worth. I suggest that everyone analyse your conditions closely and jump ship when you need to. Remember the golden rule: No company or boss is going to be loyal to you. Punch your 2-3 years so you don't look like a flight risk and move on if the conditions aren't what you need.
If you want open hardware then you're going to have to buckle down and start designing and writing drivers for it yourself. Sandisk/AMD/Intel/NVIDIA/WesternDigital/Seagate/RAID manufacturers/Creative clearly don't give a shit about making open source hardware. Now many of their patents and methods have already expired so it should be possible to raid the patent libraries to make some pretty reasonable hardware, but the software is going to all have to be written from scratch as existing code is under copyright protection.
Basically I follow the stock market, and I read https://www.whocrashedtheecono...https://www.macrobusiness.com.... and I followed the US GFC. I studied housing bubbles, not just Wikipedia, but it has been helpful and educated myself on financial history, the great depression and how bubble behavior works. It became apparent to me over 10 years ago that Australia was going through classic bubble economics where house price to income ratios were rapidly climbing above the classical safe threshold of 3-5x income to 10-13x income with no end in sight. The hardest part has been to predict when the actual crash would happen. But the fact the bubble kept getting larger was obvious. I avoided cryptocurrency for similar reasons, sure I lost out on the crazy profits but I also missed suffering the crazy losses from earlier this year. TBH I thought the mining boom ending would be the trigger to crash Aussie housing, but I underestimated the impact of immigration and Chinese money. Now that the Chinese are easing off, we are finally seeing the low interest rate fueled bubble coming to an end.
Haha better Demographics in Australia? You must be new here. Australia has an aging population problem, high immigration, and crazy house prices. 80% of the ~280,000 new immigrants to Australia each year are settling in Melbourne and Sydney which now have median house prices of over $1 million. Combine this with worse than pre-GFC debt to income ratios and Australia is set up for a massive financial crisis in the next few years which many predict is already beginning to occur (watch the September/Spring clearance rates in the Australian property market for some entertaining viewing).
Meanwhile in Australia, we give away our natural gas practically for free while suffering through insane domestic gas prices. Qatar which is a Middle Eastern shithole, actually collects more tax revenue from their gas exports than we do.
I have a new computer running Linux and it'll quite often lock up when running Chrome. It only happens in Chrome. Such a crap browser, but I still prefer the web experience slightly more than Firefox so I live with the pain. Thank god for SSDs running at 1800mb/s.
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If it's boring and you hate it. automate. If it's boring and you hate it. automate. If it's boring and you hate it and you'd rather masturbate it. If it's boring and you hate it. automate.
Or it could just be that tech firms don't want to deal with the complete nightmare that is hackable security. The situation is already almost at complete collapse already. Backdoors built in are the last thing anyone needs.
This is why half of America doesn't give a shit if Trump crashes Wall Street. Main Street stopped relying on Wall Street ages ago.
State's rights only applies if you're a fetus don't you know?
It's time to blacklist China from international commerce. It's clear that they aren't going to change their ways through the liberalisation of trade and they are just screwing the West so they can challenge the United States for global hegemony. Time to shut the commies down and take the planet back for democracy.
Tiananmen Square showed the Chinese government are filth that needs to be cleansed from our world.
Taiwan is not China despite the rhetoric out of the PRC and USA does not need to have tariffs on Taiwan, South Korea or Japan. Specifically it is Chinese Labor dumping and Chinese price manipulation that is the problem. Let China sell to India and Africa. America has trade with huge chunks of the world already. If other nations want China they can deal with the defence and economic consequences of dealing with China. Many countries are already waking up to Chinese sovereign interference and are moving to take action. Trump just got out in front of the issue.
The reality is that America remains the largest or second largest consumer market on the planet. If Australia tried to do tariffs we would be screwed because we don't have the buying power that America or China has and our economy is entirely reliant on exports, metals/food. However. The USA has this power. Because there are 300 million consumers inside the United States. Tariffs will work. Only 11-13% of the US economy is exposed to external trade. (Google Trade as % of GDP USA) 87-89% of the US economy is based on trade inside the United States. At worst 13% of US GDP gets lost, but it won't even be that bad. The USA is limiting the trade war primarily to China at the moment. Because of the lack of reliance on outside trade, and because of the robust consumer economy inside the United States the tariffs are capable of bringing jobs back to America. The globalists are not being honest with people about the US situation. If America cut off Australia's imports, Australia would instantly be plunged into a depression. If Australia cut off America's imports the USA wouldn't see much difference at all. America has a great trading power and they need to start using it. Trump is doing the right thing. We need action taken now before the Chinese move militarily to take over the world. They are already making moves to take over Australian territory in Antarctica and they are trying to colonise the South Pacific, using loans to ensnare nations in debt and then build military bases. America needs to bring the tech industry back. Obviously China is still going to have tech capacity. But many western nations refuse to buy networking equipment from China on national security grounds. If America starts making technology again there are many companies that will refuse to buy Chinese tech on any level.
What about the Americans in the Appalachians who have no opportunities? Why can't Apple offer those Americans a job? Everything you can say about Chinese poor moving into work applies equally to Americans. There are millions of Americans living in third world squalor who can't get out of it because their local economies are in tatters. Why shouldn't America try to do something for those people?
America is the largest consumer market in the world. All this does is open the door for another American tech company to come in and beat Apple only this time they can use American tech workers to do it.
Sure they still do, but China is beginning to manufacture X86 CPUs directly. It's only a matter of time until they catch up and crush Intel and AMD through undercutting, and throwing money at the problem. https://www.tomshardware.com/n...
Except this doesn't just hit Amazon, this hits Walmart as well. It's hilarious to see Americans having a complete bitch fit over common sense regulations. If these laws pass the companies will NOT go overseas, just like when unions came in in Australia work and capital didn't magically fly overseas. Where is it going to go? The whole point of Trump's tarriffs is if Capital wants to leave America, that's fine. But good luck reimporting your cheap Asian goods into America. It'll be taxed on entry to make it cost as much as the American local goods and btw, America is still approximately the largest consumer market in the world, with China only just beginning to equal it in size now. That's a hell of a lot of money being left on the table by any company that doesn't want to play by America's rules. Trump's biggest mistake on trade has been to not get the Europeans in on the China bashing action.
I saw this technology in 2012 in Akihabara Japan where it was being used to livestream the London Olympics opening/closing. Japan's goal is to have 8K HDTV broadcasting nationwide for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Because as wonderful as Ben Shapiro's reasoned arguments are, a lot of his premises are flawed and do not work in the real world. If opportunity was equal everywhere then much of the Libertarian ideals would be valid, but sadly we don't live in a world where people start off equally. We live in a flawed world where much of what one achieves is based on where you are born, who raised you and who you are allowed to hang around with. Democracy and Capitalism cannot survive monopolies, and yet that is exactly where we have been heading for ages. Just look at Amazon to see where unbridled abuse of monopoly power is heading. American retail is in free fall collapse without a whiff of competition. Food production has already for the most part been captured by 6-8 international mega companies. In Australia banking has been captured by 4 companies, telecommunications by 3 companies (1 of which basically doesn't compete), Electricity approximately 4 companies, Grocery Retail by two companies, Mining by 5 companies. It's a nation of monopolies and crony capitalism. What's urgently needed is a break up of most major companies, especially Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Coles, Woolworths, All 4 Australian banks (which a Royal Commission is currently finding all conducted gross fraud that threatens the economy). Capitalism is completely broken without strong regulation and a government that's willing to trust bust. CEO compensation is just the canary in the coal mine. None of the companies should be getting this big.
Is this really surprising? There's still tons of software out there that makers no longer support or distribute, tons of TV shows that Netflix doesn't stock. As fragmentation of the online streaming market grows (Disney Online) Expect piracy to grow back in as people's $10/month subscriptions fail to deliver them the content they want and rather than pay $80+ for 8+ different streaming services they just go back to piracy.
Most likely the hack was being done by the Chinese government looking to catch up on CPU manufacturing technology. Taiwan operates as an independent nation and the Chinese have made it very clear that they intend to retake the island and are putting plans in motion to make it happen. Economic warfare against Taiwan by mainland China makes sense. Additionally China has made massive leaps in catching up to the USA with CPU manufacturing but is still behind on die process. Hacking TSMC would give the Chinese CPU designers a leg up.
Desktop Linux has a couple of problems but none of them are as severe as most people think. I've been around the development scene for a while now and I've gained some insights which I'd like to share. 1. Any sort of game editing tools are just a complete afterthought to the developers making Linux games. Don't expect the modding community to make much when they have to become programmers to edit games on Linux. 2. QT is a terrible API, far too bloated/too much kitchen sink in there to quickly get an application written in a few lines of code. I already learnt C++ I shouldn't need to learn how QT wraps OpenGL just to write GL code. 3. GTK completely sucks for Object Orientated Programming. Sure you can call it from Objective-C or C++ bindings, but there's no way to connect GUI callbacks to signal handlers without writing tons of boilerplate code. The entire point of having an IDE such as glade is to avoid unnecessary boilerplate code. GTK has completely failed to provide this. (A quick solution would be to extend Glade to allow connecting call backs to class methods in OOP Languages e.g C++/Obj-C) 4. GNUstep has completely failed to provide a web browser, or binding for a browser, as well as any desktop configuration tools. No point running a MacOS-alike/NextStep clone if you can't configure sound/video/networking and can't integrate with the other desktops/have other desktops integrate with you. 5. Lots of little converter applications/middleware tools are missing. This is easy enough to fix but the APIs need to be improved. It shouldn't take more than 5 mins to create a small application that creates a notebook of text.
Most tech workers ARE underpaid. Because most tech workers are not rock star coders. They are sysadmins, and network engineers who slave over keyboards all day building/running/maintaining systems for large/middle/small companies. Thanks to contracting it's getting worse. I work for one of the top 100 most profitable companies in the world but as a contractor. I pull $60,000/year. If I was an internal staff member I would begin on $70,000/year and with my current skills/experience would be on $90,000/year based on other workers in my area. So I am basically being ripped off $30,000 for being a contractor. Hell we had one employee jump ship in the same are to take up $130,000. Now she admittedly had qualifications/experience beyond my own, but I was able to fix equipment that she couldn't. Pay is not really related to what you are really worth. I suggest that everyone analyse your conditions closely and jump ship when you need to. Remember the golden rule: No company or boss is going to be loyal to you. Punch your 2-3 years so you don't look like a flight risk and move on if the conditions aren't what you need.
If you want open hardware then you're going to have to buckle down and start designing and writing drivers for it yourself. Sandisk/AMD/Intel/NVIDIA/WesternDigital/Seagate/RAID manufacturers/Creative clearly don't give a shit about making open source hardware. Now many of their patents and methods have already expired so it should be possible to raid the patent libraries to make some pretty reasonable hardware, but the software is going to all have to be written from scratch as existing code is under copyright protection.
Basically I follow the stock market, and I read https://www.whocrashedtheecono... https://www.macrobusiness.com.... and I followed the US GFC. I studied housing bubbles, not just Wikipedia, but it has been helpful and educated myself on financial history, the great depression and how bubble behavior works. It became apparent to me over 10 years ago that Australia was going through classic bubble economics where house price to income ratios were rapidly climbing above the classical safe threshold of 3-5x income to 10-13x income with no end in sight. The hardest part has been to predict when the actual crash would happen. But the fact the bubble kept getting larger was obvious. I avoided cryptocurrency for similar reasons, sure I lost out on the crazy profits but I also missed suffering the crazy losses from earlier this year. TBH I thought the mining boom ending would be the trigger to crash Aussie housing, but I underestimated the impact of immigration and Chinese money. Now that the Chinese are easing off, we are finally seeing the low interest rate fueled bubble coming to an end.
Haha better Demographics in Australia? You must be new here. Australia has an aging population problem, high immigration, and crazy house prices. 80% of the ~280,000 new immigrants to Australia each year are settling in Melbourne and Sydney which now have median house prices of over $1 million. Combine this with worse than pre-GFC debt to income ratios and Australia is set up for a massive financial crisis in the next few years which many predict is already beginning to occur (watch the September/Spring clearance rates in the Australian property market for some entertaining viewing).
Meanwhile in Australia, we give away our natural gas practically for free while suffering through insane domestic gas prices. Qatar which is a Middle Eastern shithole, actually collects more tax revenue from their gas exports than we do.
IA-32 Patents have all expired, shouldn't be anything holding back using it.
I have a new computer running Linux and it'll quite often lock up when running Chrome. It only happens in Chrome. Such a crap browser, but I still prefer the web experience slightly more than Firefox so I live with the pain. Thank god for SSDs running at 1800mb/s.
Just another reason for the librem by purism. Can't wait to have a phone with adblock. No more garbage web experience on my phone!