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There's no way the plan was ever to actually create a fleet of high tech cars they own and maintain themselves, which depreciate over time and eventually have to be replaced. Surely that was just a lie to get the money.

Love watering my dishes honestly. Also a big "turn on the espresso machine then pass back out without making any coffee" kinda guy

They mean "makers," the kind of people into making using a variety of technologies including but not limited to woodworking, 3D printing, metalworking, leatherworking. Not usually all at once, but sometimes all at once. Incidentally you can rent a "maker space" which is just a physical space with tools to make things. Also, I think they meant CCP (Chinese Communist party).

Not to overdissect a meme, but it really should be an unsigned byte since that's what the digitiser would probably have as an input or output.

Oh I wasn't really responding to OP's meme, just providing context for what that guy was asking. For what you're saying, I mean, maybe? I don't think it's a particularly good comparison to look at current government employees in the society we have and say that's what a Marxist society of workers would look like. The incentives are different because imo "job security" isn't that important in a society where people aren't being threatened with homelessness or starvation if they don't have a job. Even that bit has to tie into a lot of systems, it's a society wide change in perspective. I don't think either of us can honestly say definitively what would and wouldn't work.

I do think Amazon has a secret sauce, though, in the sense that they have privilege that other companies don't. At the time it started, it may have just been any other online store. They weren't the only ones. Now it's a well known brand, and they got there through burning a lot of money to aggressively get customers, then sellers, to only then profit. It took them almost a decade to become profitable, I don't think there's many businesses that could afford to not be profitable for that long. Their secret sauce when they were growing was tons of money that most companies don't have access to (which of course also gets you the best people since money is just about everyone's main incentive in the society we've built), now their secret sauce is their network. Because of how entrenched they are, you'd need a lot more money than they did to try to recreate it now.

Not sure if that guy is trolling or not, but you don't seem to be, so to answer that question you aren't who Engels and Marx were referring to in the communist manifesto. If you invent something, you could sell your invention, either in the form of plans which do take labor or for actual builds of that invention (also taking labor), that's you being rewarded. But Marxists also (usually) don't believe in intellectual property - it's not very intuitive but the idea here is if you trace any novel invention's steps leading up to it, it is never the product of one person but of society as a whole. An inventor consumes media, sees problems in society, may be educated by a lot of different people, essentially given the seeds for their novel invention from the rest of their society. What you then shouldn't be able to do with your invention is skim off the top of everybody who ever builds your invention or uses your invention, just by virtue of having invented it without having to actually put in any additional labor. And what somebody else in general shouldn't be able to do is give someone else money to build your invention on their land, and skim off the top of everybody who ever uses it.

If you have some electronics knowledge I find that garbage much easier to repair. They're usually assembled with just screws and made of mostly plastic. Plus, Ali express is one of the last places you can buy a TV that's just a god damn TV.

And strangely that is NOT numberwang!

I don't think the point of the post was to say everybody huddle into 10-user instances. The problem currently is there are maybe 5 or so large instances roughly within the same amount of users, then lemmy.world has 10x the amount of the next largest. I'd like to see communities get more spread out into things like startrek.website but there isn't really a way to do that for the more general communities like Technology, Gaming, etc. because any instance could really have those.

I am assuming that the instances periodically update content by fetching the deltas.

That's incorrect, so far no batching is set up for sending multiple posts at once and the exchange is initiated by the sending server, not the receiving server.

OSM is very region dependent. I absolutely love the software and how so many people across the world have contributed to it, but I really don't want to get lost and just looking at the map of my own neighborhood I'm afraid that would be the case if I go anywhere else. I'd at least keep the GMaps app on standby just in case.

There's versions of VSCode you can run as a web app, including support for the terminal. You just need to roll your own build/run stuff.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as the clutch, is in fact, the clutch pedal, or as I've recently taken to calling it, the clutch+pedal. The pedal is not a mechanism unto itself, but rather another mechanical component of a fully functioning clutch system made useful by th

I think a balance can be struck. Early internet ads didn't have to watch you all across the internet. As far as I know DuckDuckGo ads are just old school keyword matches, too. Newspapers don't feel the need to know the last 10 stores you visited. It's this obsession with personalized, targeted ads that brings up all this spyware crap.

More complex build systems are just build.sh calling other build.sh in different configurations and using different software. It's build.sh all the way down.

NextCloud Text is going to have websocket support soon. Should make it run significantly better.