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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because it's called Full Self Drive and Musk has said it will be able to drive without user intervention?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The mistake you make is that you assume the law works the same in China as in countries that have rule of law. China doesn't have rule of law, they have 'rule by law'. The Communist Party isn't just above the law, the law is a tool for them to use how they see fit. If you are undermining the Communist Party then that is by definition misinformation.

Remember, this is the same country where one day the minister of health aplauded a journalist's effort to combat pollution with a documentary called under the dome, and the next day it was gone from the internet as if it never existed. Whenever they have internal issues they stir up some hatred for the USA or Japan, only to be forgotten somewhat later.

They took 1984 not as a warning, but as a manual

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Be aware that using open source doesn't protect you completely from this, look at what happened to Simple Mobile tools, best install your open source applications from f-droid.

Do you have any good open source alternatives for Nova Launcher?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That sounds much more reasonable, but don't forget these numbers are also skewed by sexism, on many levels. Victims might not even realize they are victims. In many jurisdictions a woman having nonconsensual sex with a man isn't even considered rape.

Now, I don't believe the numbers are even close to 50/50 or that women don't have the right thing being wary. But being wary is one thing, simply banning all sleepovers at the house of single male parents is another. I'd still call that sexist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

How many of your car rides are really necessary?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Explain to me how that is not sexist?

Here's the Oxford Dictionary of sexism:

sexism /ˈsɛksɪz(ə)m / ▸ noun [mass noun] prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex: sexism in language is an offensive reminder of the way the culture sees women.

To burst your bubble, some of the most famous rapists and child molesters I know of had their wives help them. Women can be monsters too.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Do you also not allow your kids to set foot in a car? Much more dangerous than sleepovers

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Exactly, in the best case a shitty form of democracy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You have zero power as a citizen over the currency you use. You do not directly vote for the Central bankers, Federal Reserve board, etc. Even the politicians you might vote for who appoint them will almost always side in their own favor than their constituents.

I didn't say it's perfect, but it's not zero power.

You are also confusing Bitcoin’s Proof of Work with a shitcoin’s Proof of Stake, which is where wealth gives you more votes.

Proof of stake is arguably even worse, but the energy required for proof of work isn't free either (and that's by design, if it was free Bitcoin wouldn't work).

As for the hash rate you’re contributing as a miner, there’s no additional power you’re given. Even if you attempted to 51% attack the network, it’d be gaining nothing beyond a double-spend by rewriting the blockchain transaction.

There is more than double spending. Who decides how Bitcoin evolves? When new features are added, hard forks, etc. How much power do you have over that?

https://www.bitcoin.com/get-started/what-is-bitcoin-governance/#what-is-a-bitcoin-hard-fork

How ever you turn it, at best it's a shitty version of democracy.

Fundamentally money is all about trust, and I, despite all it's flaws trust my government much more than a random group of developers and miners.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Fiat currency is controlled by the government over which we have a bit of power (for those of us who live in a democracy).

Bitcoin is by definition controlled by those who have the power and thus the money to mine. It's a bit like democracy only that the more money you have the more votes you have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

None of those companies even make a blip on global chip production though

Neither does TSMC, high end chips is just a tiny part of the number of chips (albeit an important and lucrative part of the market).

TSMC is alone at the top is because it's so damn expensive and the market is not that big, there's basically no place for a competitor. Anyone trying to dethrone them has to have very deep pockets and a good reason not to simply buy from TSMC. The Chinese might be able to pull it off, they have the money and a good reason.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (15 children)

Designing a chip is something completely different from manufacturing them. Your statement is as true as saying TSMC is such a stupid company, all they are doing is using ASML machines.

And please tell me, I have no clue at all who you're talking about.

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