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New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth"

MightyBuzzard — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:21:58 +0000

Yes, they are. If they weren't you wouldn't care if someone made more than $15M.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "US unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War"

MightyBuzzard — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:05:36 +0000

Maybe because the US unemployment numbers have nothing to do with the actual number of working age people employed. By design.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Tech's DEI backlash is here"

MightyBuzzard — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:39:48 +0000

Sure. That's a perfectly legit criticism. It's not, however, an excuse for the terrible way things have been done.

If you want to fix a problem, you fix the original cause. You do not come along at the very end and adjust the values to where you think they should be.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades"

MightyBuzzard — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:45:33 +0000

It's not the codecs that were multithreaded in this release. Pretty much all modern codecs are already multithreaded. What they decided to parallelize is ffmpeg itself. You know, the filter graphs and such. They didn't do anything to the codecs themselves.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Zapping manure with special electrode to produce fertilizers, other chemicals"

MightyBuzzard — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:41:17 +0000

Given that most farmers already use chemical fertilizer rather than shit, we're not short on data for analysis.

One benefit you overlooked is knowing exactly what and how much you're putting in your soil. A bag of ammonium nitrate gives you a known quantity to factor with while shit is far from homogeneous in its makeup.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI"

MightyBuzzard — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:47:47 +0000

AI is not reproducing it any more than someone inspired by it creating something new in the same style would be. They're just greedy ass hats.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Let's Not Flip Sides on IP Maximalism Because of AI"

MightyBuzzard — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:45:35 +0000

Works are not ideas, they are expressions. Protecting ideas is insane.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Map: The states in favor of daylight saving time all year long"

MightyBuzzard — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:20:47 +0000

No, the problem is that DST is the incorrect time. If you want to stop changing the clocks, you set them all to the correct time and leave them alone. You do not declare "We shall be wrong from now on!"

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Reddit mods dumped tokens hours before blockchain program termination"

MightyBuzzard — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:10:11 +0000

If it was after the announcement, it was after the announcement. One second is plenty for him to be perfectly morally justified.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Southern Gumbo Trail (2006)"

MightyBuzzard — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:58:44 +0000

Why not? Gumbo is just Cajun for "yeah, throw some of that in there". It's got no requirement to involve seafood.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making"

MightyBuzzard — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 13:21:22 +0000

Thinking in words of any language is entirely too slow for anything except plotting out a sentence. I'll stick to thinking in abstract concepts.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Bored? How about trying a Linux speedrun? (2020)"

MightyBuzzard — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 04:02:01 +0000

Gentoo users win then. They don't need to boot from USB, because their installer is tar. The ones that use a BINHOST don't even have to fiddle with compiling anything but the kernel unless they demand non-standard USE flags

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Making 'The Blue Flash': How I reconstructed a fatal atomic accident"

MightyBuzzard — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 04:30:37 +0000

If you want to look at it with 21st century eyes, sure. Things were VERY different back then though. What you would call prudent and common sense safety measures, they would have called something that you would think they should be fired for saying. And the boss would have sided with them.

New comment by MightyBuzzard in "Medicaid Could Save $2.6B Within a Year If Just 1% of Recipients Quit Smoking"

MightyBuzzard — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:57:25 +0000

Your math is bad. 1% of recipients is nowhere near the same as the 1% of smokers you used.