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Bicycles can't be stolen

It's Amazon, I'm pretty sure they know who to pay for any book they want. They are all already on their platform, with payment information too. They don't even have to ask the author where to send the money, they already know. They could do it whenever they want, they have the funds to do it, billions of dollars laying around.

They've just decided they'd rather have it for free and keep the money.

But don't you dare think you could do the same, you should pay for copyrighted work, and you should buy it on one of Amazon's services that sell you access to say copyrighted work. Fucking peasant...

That's because it was entirely voluntary. It should be integrated in the browser by law, and the choice should be binding

You don't, but they are certain of it. It's clearly been an insurrection all these years, since when the democrats colluded with the lizard people to administer the vaccine and steal the elections. It's obvious if you think about it.

Btw the lack of American affordable healthcare is by design, not due to budgetary constraints. The US military budget is actually not completely unreasonable in comparison to GDP, being 3% and including social security for veterans.

In comparison Russia is now spending 6-7% of GDP on the military, possibly more since the Russian economy is shrinking. China is around 2%, and the world average is around 2% still. The US has a massive economy, so their 3% dwarfs all other countries.

As for healthcare, the US government is already spending twice as much per person as other western countries. If the US government wanted affordable healthcare, they could make it happen yesterday, all while reducing healthcare expenditure. The problem is just a political one, not an economic one.

Most if not all empires were built on slavery and oppression.

Gifts. Such a waste of time and money

Also Mariah Carey. All I want for Christmas is to not hear you

Why would he think he could cover that up by tossing his gun?

He's 15, just shot his little brother, saw his sister die and is freaking the fuck out.

But yeah, he should have been better at pondering the ramifications of his actions 🧐

Working on it doesn't mean they have something even remotely functional.

Btw, shouldn't they be working on 5nm before 3nm? I'm also not sure how many 7nm chips they can produce. Have they made anything other than that one chip for Huawei? Has that been sold anywhere in the world other than China? Is that phone common in China?

I don't know about that. This could reinforce the alliance between the US and the Saudis, which we all know are against Iran.

The end game here could look like a US sanctioned and supported invasion of Yemen by the Saudis, maybe in exchange for support to Israel by Saudi Arabia. This in the end would just increase US power in the middle east.

Because 42

That's obviously not what I'm talking about.

Not really that obvious. The imperial system is not used in base 12. It's used in base 10 like everything else, therefore, if it were consistent with its units (which it isn't) it would be more like 12 -> 144 -> 1728.

Since changing how we count is honestly not realistic, the prospect of having to deal with a system that's not based on 10 is kinda scary.

Well, that tech really progressed fucking fast. We went from calculators being a huge industry of mechanical and electro-mechanical monsters to wristwatch calculators sold for 20 bucks in like a couple decades.

Go look at asianometry for some interesting videos on the matter

Afaik for storage it's exactly what it says on the tin: a 1GB drive is exactly 1,000,000,000 Bytes. Then you put it in the computer and Windows, who thinks that 1GB = 1,073,741,824 Bytes says, well that's a 0.93 GB drive, aka 930MB. So you start asking yourself where those 70MB went, while in reality windows is telling you that the drive is 930MiB, which is equal to 1GB.

As for networking, last I checked we use Megabits and Gigabits for that, which are a whole different can of worms and use a small b instead of a big B. 8 Mb = 1 MB

I've never seen anyone use Mebibit, if it exists, which I'm not sure it does.

And as for benefit, I'm not sure whose benefit it is to create this confusion. In my opinion, no one's, as the drive makers get accused of false marketing while at the same time Windows gets accused of being a broken OS (fair)

I recall learning in school that it should be left to right when in doubt. Probably a cop-out from the teacher

I don't agree. It might sometimes be cool, but with a numerical system in base 10, having a unit system in base 12 becomes really hard to manage. Let's take meters:

1m = 10dm = 100cm = 1000mm VS 1m = 12dm = 144cm = 1728mm

How many mm is 15 dm in each system?

To make a base 12 system work, you'd need to change the numerical system also, by adding two new digits, like we do for hexadecimal numbers, so you'd have ...8-9-A-B-10, where A = 10 and B = 11 (in 10 base), so that 1m = 10dm = 100cm but in base 12.

Anyway, good luck trying to pass that, I've seen people who can barely count on their fingers, let alone understand a new base 12 numerical system. And for what?

Depends for what. Still better than random scales like 3, 12, 1760 and units that don't mean anything like hundredweight, which isn't even one hundred anything, unless it is because you live in another part of the world where the same word means a totally different thing.

Fancy a pint?

Mega is 10^{6 , Mebi is 2}20 aka 1024^2 bytes

Edit:

The confusion comes from the fact that Microsoft in Windows calls 1024 bytes a kilobyte, which makes no sense whatsoever, since that word has a meaning and that ain't it.

When MS first launched MS-DOS maybe made sense (maybe), but right now it's only creating confusion. Calling kilobyte a kibibyte is around a 2% error, but with terabyte it's more than 9%, which is a pretty big deal when you buy a 1TB disk and only shows up as 900 and something GB

I mean, this is the same country who walled off an entire city to stop people from leaving. This is not really surprising

Thanks for the link, I wanted to read up on passkeys since the other day, as GitHub asked me to set one up with Bitwarden