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New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

deadfoxygrandpa — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:57:00 +0000

there are police booths on many street corners in urban areas of china. they're very common, and people don't act afraid of them. the most common interaction you see is people asking them for directions

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax"

deadfoxygrandpa — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:16:40 +0000

the us government has both. they have a record of your pay and employment history as well. i bet most governments do

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax"

deadfoxygrandpa — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:15:01 +0000

the social credit score is a score that businesses and business owners have/will have that unites different systems for rating how trustworthy their businesses are to work with

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

deadfoxygrandpa — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:10:27 +0000

its not official public policy, but there have been people in the US government saying that if there is a war then the US will bomb tsmc facilities in taiwan

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax"

deadfoxygrandpa — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:05:46 +0000

china doesnt have anything like this

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

deadfoxygrandpa — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:14:52 +0000

yep. the ppp loans alone dwarf any state subsidies any other country has ever done

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

deadfoxygrandpa — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:05:53 +0000

manchuria? are you sure that's a good example?

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks"

deadfoxygrandpa — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:37:34 +0000

dude you can stop using the computer sometimes. its gonna be ok. take a break.

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer"

deadfoxygrandpa — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:19:15 +0000

no, i still use an electronic tuner with my acoustic guitar. but i can feel the body vibrating differently when i get close to being in tune vs being a semitone off

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

deadfoxygrandpa — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:14:20 +0000

hmm yeah. its cool that musk knows more about this than the entire industry

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer"

deadfoxygrandpa — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:17:30 +0000

depends on the instrument. with acoustic instruments the resonance chamber is often tuned so that you can feel the body itself vibrating more when you're in tune

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "I'm scared about biological computing"

deadfoxygrandpa — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:15:12 +0000

i dont think its clear that logic gates can ever replace neurons in the first place

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "Is AI a tool or are you?"

deadfoxygrandpa — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:20:36 +0000

karl marx wrote quite a bit about this type of thing in capital

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

deadfoxygrandpa — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:02:47 +0000

if there was no room for "errors", how is it possible that there are tens of thousands of different bread and cookie recipes and stuff like that?

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

deadfoxygrandpa — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:43:52 +0000

what do you think china's credit system is like?

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom"

deadfoxygrandpa — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:50:06 +0000

private property has only been a fundamental right or guarantee in very recent societies. like in the last couple hundred years

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

deadfoxygrandpa — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:20:43 +0000

again, marx didnt see it as a fixed pie. thats the whole reason behind his idea of absolute vs relative surplus value, is that the pie isn't fixed. he absolutely saw the (at his time) modern capitalist economy as a revolutionary, dynamic force that brought about a great increase in the absolute amount of productive capacity and wealth in the world

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

deadfoxygrandpa — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:17:01 +0000

theres nothing to rebut. you made an assertion thats false on the face of it and posted a link to something totally unrelated. it's so wrong i dont even know which part you're misunderstanding.

but one of the core ideas of marx's conception of history is that human needs, wants, and human nature itself are constantly in a state of change and that those needs and desires are in large part a product of the environment in which you live, and further that humans and human society in turn change their own environments which in turn change human nature itself

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

deadfoxygrandpa — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:06:10 +0000

no, he didn't, and your link has nothing to do with your fallacy you were talking about

New comment by deadfoxygrandpa in "Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts"

deadfoxygrandpa — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:09:48 +0000

i also like to make things up