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So. To reiterate, the employee in Arkansas is paid a wage of 30$ per hour, and
the state in which the corporation is based (say, Oklahoma) is paid 30$ for
each hour that employee works. However, these dollars are specific to the
region, and cannot leave it - Oklahoma and Arkansas *must* reach an equitable
arrangement where their dollars equal out. Balance is desired, as it brings
stability and provides a foundation for future growth. If one side prospers,
so does the other. Why should the Oklahoman have less than the Arkansan?
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🖼
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@user-880
![[picture of a mastodon post that's 15 characters over the limit. So I decided to just put the contents of the post here instead, where there's an extra five hundred ish characters to work with.] men are my favorite part of humanity. Well, aside from women. It's pretty much tied in my mind, they're both pretty great. what's that? you don't know why? oh well let me tell you...! there once was a man who lived somewhere that gave him a pretty good tan. he was strong because he liked using his body, and he was friendly because he liked how it felt to be adored. he helped those weaker than him, because he knew they would help him when he was weakened, whether by age, sickness, or injury. then, came the witch. she told him that there was a promised land, and that all he had to do to reach it was to take unto his hand this sword that she handed to the man, and slay his greatest of rivals. but the man turned down her plan, and he embraced his rival as a friend. for they were together, in the end, and it turns out they were super duper gay and really reallllllly into each other. and the witch was like "damn I was trying to teach morality or something" and she went off to pout in the shade of a willow tree. [end text]](/similar-different/media/3212fc9224646ea7.png "[picture of a mastodon post that's 15 characters over the limit. So I decided to just put the contents of the post here instead, where there's an extra five hundred ish characters to work with.] men are my favorite part of humanity. Well, aside from women. It's pretty much tied in my mind, they're both pretty great. what's that? you don't know why? oh well let me tell you...! there once was a man who lived somewhere that gave him a pretty good tan. he was strong because he liked using his body, and he was friendly because he liked how it felt to be adored. he helped those weaker than him, because he knew they would help him when he was weakened, whether by age, sickness, or injury. then, came the witch. she told him that there was a promised land, and that all he had to do to reach it was to take unto his hand this sword that she handed to the man, and slay his greatest of rivals. but the man turned down her plan, and he embraced his rival as a friend. for they were together, in the end, and it turns out they were super duper gay and really reallllllly into each other. and the witch was like \"damn I was trying to teach morality or something\" and she went off to pout in the shade of a willow tree. [end text]")
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what if operations were required to be funded ONLY from revenue and projects
were required to be funded ONLY from investment, communal, governmental,
personal, corporate, or otherwise?
and hey throw in the idea that profit MUST be utilized to improve the
operation of the business somehow, because the wage of the employees IS the
profit
including the wage of the shareholders, who are employees that contribute
their insight and collective will. (two tasks which frankly are much better
suited to the employees doing the work, I might add)
meaning if you want to be a capitalist you can't hide from taxes anymore by
earning money from a company without being paid
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my aspirations do not end at a city, a state, a nation. I literally want to
save the world.
why would you strive for anything less?
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There *absolutely is* a standard for normality. Humans have existed for *so
long* and our conditions have stayed fairly consistent. We had good lives and
most of us knew nothing but peace. Our modern era of the past 400 years or so
is strange. Life changes between generations, and now it changes year by year.
Soon there will be no consistency at all, and that is exciting and
interesting. Not always in a good way. We'll see how it goes.
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@user-246
Oh yeah? Almost as if people who are coerced into situations of desperation
and scarcity will fight for their right to life. Wolves are no different.
Wolves are animals, after all, and so are we.
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In mythology, the wizard only dies when the needs of the party outstrip the
power of their magic user. Thus, proving that magic is indefinable in its
nature and has limitations.
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I think every law or policy should be required to be labelled as "short term"
or "long term"
the short term ones are meant to gather information, to try things out, and to
reassess after stated conditions have been met. Ideally with protections
against "infinite loops" - a term that any programmer will know.
The long term legislation is something that can be relied on for quite a
while. If there is enough momentum, then an alternative can be created, but
the original must remain operational. The alternative must be "short term",
and if it's deemed successful and does not harm the long-term it's
contrasting, then sure yeah go ahead implement both.
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toki pona is so cute. gimme more of those cute translations like "semi-solid
mammal" for cat
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@user-883
graphics isn't too bad in C if you use Raylib. Here's my template project:
If you ever want to do something with a GUI or a game or something then I
definitely recommend that library. It's soooooo nice as a C programmer
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Similarly, if someone wants to "perform" a piece of digital media, via a
"let's play" or perhaps a ROM hack or public screening, the copyright holder
cannot be allowed to prevent them from doing so. They must only be able to
demand a reasonable and non-exclusive fee in return for the privilege of
performance.
These performances are considered derivative works, but they are still works
on their own, and therefore should be able to be sold.
The greater the difference between the original and the newly created work,
the less the price must reflect the necessary "tax" levied by the original
owner, until eventually the work is so distinct that it cannot be considered
to be deriving from the original at all.
Consider a mod for a video game that replaces the dragons you typically fight
with giant cartoonish train engines. A silly sight to be sure, but people do
that. What percentage of the game is replaced? what percentage tax of the new
mod's price must be given to the original copyright holder?
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If you want an LLM to generate ASCII art, don't try through text. First
generate an SVG and then use a separate program which approximates SVGs with
ascii characters.
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computer science exists as the border between philosophy and mathematics,
while society exists as the border of computer science and biology
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changelogs are an innovation that bureaucracy could not manage without
computers
and indeed always sets upon your data a time-limit, no matter the
implementation method
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@user-1005
Right, but, the next song will take 3 hours, then perhaps just one, and soon
you'll be sight reading. : )
Right now, the goal is not to play Zelda songs. You can't read music,
remember? Your goal is to learn to read music! And that'll happen when you're
done. Then, you can play Zelda. Then, you can play whatever you want! Keep at
it, if you don't grind mobs in Ashenvale you'll never explore the Molten Core.
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If you look at the modern state of machine learning and AI and can only think
of:chatbotssingularity god-mind AI that solves all our problems
then either you haven't worked with the technology or you are not applying
your imagination as you could.
AI is not a smartphone. It is not the internet. It is not the printing press.
AI (as it currently exists) is a special kind of "if" statement that you only
use for very specific, non-performance intensive tasks that require judgement
or reasoning and cannot easily be translated into numbers or booleans. These
situations are rare, but they unlock new possibilities for the programmers,
not their marketers.
If an LLM can't run on a laptop, then it is useless.
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it's trivial to run a C compiler inside of a lua interpretation of a script.
And vice versa - you could totally run lua functions from C. Just point to the
spot in memory where they're stored / operating, and call
"update_class_exhibitor_type_d()" and the linker will come along and say "huh
this looks like something from this library that's part of the requirements up
above" (the "includes" section is where you say which files include the
functions you're going to be calling) and in this particular case it would see
that you need to start up a lua interpreter inside of the [either compiler or
running program I can't remember] to properly execute the function of the
function that you're pointing at with a lua-pointer style data object which is
part of a struct that stores all the other lua functions in a spot in memory.
this would enable you to write computer programs in whatever language you
choose, and build them into one large project. Essentially opening up software
development to ANYONE WHO CAN PROGRAM
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@user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-352
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