MasterBlaster @ MasterBlaster @lemmy.world

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Actually, that's not true. Quality of product and communist countries is generally low because there is no incentive to do quality work.

Your point is valid, but it lacks the empathy for all the people who are displaced. In our society, displaced people are not given help to find a new place.

When a skilled worker is displaced, and can no longer find work in their skills, their choices are to spend a huge amount of money to go back to college or trade school to get new skills or be forever lost in low-income jobs.

Going from $100,000 per year to $40,000 per year overnight is devastating.

I'm fairly confident that the encryption bans are only on those encryptions for which the government does not have the keys.

In that scenario, companies can continue working. The idea is flawed, of course.

This looks like a picture from around 1930, right after the stock crash. The man just lost all his money. The woman, she's in shock.

He's probably despairing from the abject failure of his ability to support his family.

If only it were that simple. There's a Venn diagram in this situation.

Remember - with age comes experience. I'm not a boomer, but don't discount them just because they're older.

It used to be the elders were the ones who helped us navigate the pitfalls they didn't Escape.

Lawsuits have shown evidence that they do in fact keep it. And use it.

The problem with that, is that you now have to maintain virtual infrastructure in many different syntaxes. And features of one do not exist in another.

Plus things like cash and session do not cross those boundaries.

More accurately, it's someone else's network of pluggable computers. "The cloud" is just a convenient metaphor for "it's up there,where someome else keeps it working".

The point is to free up resources in individual companies that would otherwise be used maintaining the infrastructure.

In a lot of companies that translates to having fewer employees to pay. Enlightened companies keep those people and allocate them to other, profitable, activities.

A wonderful and Powerful effect of vitualization is the idea of declarative infrastructure. Individual companies can allocate those Cloud resources in specialized ways. It's primary value is in economies of scale.

Absolutely. My only serious problem with it comes when an individual's only option is to use someone else's infrastructure.

The issues you describe are primarily business issues. Individuals generally don't have to worry about that stuff. If the software requires using a host, then it should be able to run on a host we can set up on our own hardware.

Virtualization is wonderful, and powerful. But it can also be weaponized.

This us why we all need to use and evangelize LibreOffice!

Just remember that whenever you convert, you are losing fidelity. The only exception is when you convert between lossless formats.

I suggest you get as much music as possible in FLAC, then make mp3 copies you use only for devices that require it. Upgrade equipment when finances allow.

For everything else, also keep your original, like m4a, to keep sound quality at the best you can.

I learned young that I have to use timers for all cooking tasks. I have zero ability to identify how much time passes. I've always been jealous of people who just throw food in the oven or on the stove, do a bunch of stuff, and instinctively retrieve all the food, properly cooked.

Yeah, professional disinformation disseminators are relentless. A takedown of certain nationstates will be required to stop them.

I ser by some of the comments here that the some of the reddit trolls found Lemmy.

That was too quick for my comfort.

Arrrr! I'll take you money , your life , or your rum! It's up to you, matey!

Definitely deserves a crosspost! I had the same thought.

Because of the encryption algorithms, mostly.

Roughly 500 years ago, maybe more. Recordings are spotty up to the 19th century. Monestaries often had a daily log of current weather, for example. There are likely recovered observations going back to Greek or Roman civilizations.

Average temperatures can be deduced from scientific observations of ice cores and geological records as well. The arctic and antartic ice cores revealed detailed oxygen, carbon dioxide, and particulate data going back a couple million years.

As long as this doesn't get repurposed to regulate "social credit", this is fine.