ExLisper

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[–] ExLisper@linux.community 7 points 2 years ago

Come on. Obviously not all letters in the alphabet are worth the same. X is not that popular even if you take into account its different uses like ':x', 'xoxo' or 'xxx'. Not that many words use x and if one day it collapses and becomes unavailable you can just substitute it with 'ks' like 'seks' or 'meksican'.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but what if there are snakes on the plane?

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The last mile is not that expensive. Where I live you there's provider offering fast internet to rural, sparsely populated areas and it's not much more expensive than fibre I get in my apartment. I will be more expensive to connect a house like that definitely not thousands of dollars like they try to charge people in USA. In USA it would also be cheaper if the monopoly would not block smaller companies from rolling out the service. There's a lot of stories about neighbours joining together and building the last mile themselves at fraction of the cost Comcast wanted to charge them.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Exactly. It's crazy how quickly this type of services get the "can't live without it" status. One day people are cooking their own food, calling taxis and walking around and next they will starve to death if someone can't bring them their BigMac and can't get anywhere without Uber or electric scooter.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure it's not because the country is big. It's because couple of companies have effective monopoly and there's no competition. A lot of municipal fibre projects got killed by lobbying and lawsuits and even big companies like Google struggle to enter the market because existing laws protect the monopoly. The government could provide the central infrastructure like it does in Europe but it's corrupt and not really interested in building infrastructure any more.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 10 points 2 years ago

That's because you're not a typical consumer. Average consumer those ads target is a mindless capitalist zombie with the sole goal of owning more stuff. Especially in US (but not only) people are trained by their capitalist master that 'you are what you own' and spending money is a way of living there. I'm sure you see it everywhere. People go absolutely crazy over brands like Marvel or Star Wars and spend thousands of dollars on useless gadgets. People go crazy over snickers and buy hundredths of pairs. People go crazy over phones and and take credit just to own the latests model. And the ads are there to program those people into wanting more and more things.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago

Yes but at some point they will display the video encoded on the screen and you will need Nueralink style chip embedded in your brain to decode it. It will be impossible to record the content, strip the adds and share it outside the platform. Or maybe we will figure out how to decode the video by just monitoring the brain activity?

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Now what if learning of these machines was as fast or faster than a human’s ?

What do you mean? It's already faster than human's. I takes years for a person to learn basic language and decades to gain expert knowledge in any field.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 6 points 2 years ago (11 children)

How much is it? Yesterday I saw an offer from a local provider offering 500Mb/s for 15 euro per month.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago

Of course you can find examples of conflicts not motivated by religion. But do you think that for example Balkans would be such a shit show if all the nations involved had the same religion? They have the same ethnicity and similar language. What's the divisive factor there? The rest of the Soviet Union managed to transition peacefully. Why is that? And what about the crusades? Was the motivation really the land? Or simply religion? What about missionaries and all the harm they have caused? Did any polytheistic religion had missionaries? I don't think so.

And before you start listing other wars and crimes not motivated by religion I'm obviously not saying that without monotheism the world would be perfect. I'm just saying it would be better.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So you don't think religion often drives a wedge between groups of people that otherwise would live together without issues? Well, I disagree. And of course there are other reasons for people to hate one another but 'my made up guy in the sky is better than your made up guy in the sky' is the dumbest one.

[–] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Who said it would eliminate all wars? Of course it would not. But I think that monotheistic religions throughout history were one of the most divisive factors among people that otherwise would get along just fine.

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