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It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

So does air, or the thing you’re sitting on.

I imagine depending on the rules, this would turn the whole world into a gigantic gold ball, which would then collapse into a black hole or something.

The death penalty makes sense, but only for CEOs or politicians who knowingly make choices that result in the deaths of hundreds. The Boeing CEO should have been executed for knowing negligence that resulted in that string of crashes.

That’s because there is much less of a chance of “getting the wrong person”, since the buck has to stop there, the fish smells from the head, and it is the one situation where the value of deterrence trumps rehabilitation or other concerns.

Which end to which end?

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Does GPL/AGPL require you to publish the code even if you are not selling the software? As in I could run a library computer with my custom Linux distro without giving anyone the source, but I wouldn’t be able to publish it or sell it only as binary blobs, right?

Then you’ll be happy to know that Lemmy is 100% EU funded.

It also opens up a big question, is US military tech and the US army as much better as they claim because of their funding, or is it overvalued by orders of magnitude as their AI tech seems to be?

Apparently someone doesn’t get to hug or kiss his wife in public.

I worked as a techie in adtech, investment banking and healthcare.

With adtech, there is a complex inscrutable network of layered data brokers, and each as you see is the result of a complex but very fast auction of your eyes at that time.

The other aspect is that there are companies that collect data, other companies process them, and a third layer are the ad companies selling ads themselves. While Google is doing its best to monopolise the whole thing via Chrome, there are a lot of companies either piggybacking on them or doing their own thing. There are also “mom and pop” shops spying on you, not just Big Tech. You decide if a competitive or a monopolistic ad industry is better, I think the whole thing shouldn’t exist.

Investment banks DGAF about regulations, but are super serious about compliance. We had to attend like 12 yearly training sessions about not having the WhatsApp group we had. They are a weird mix of cutting edge and awfully obsolete tech, the feeling is that the business will keep printing money either way, so do whatever. Also, because since 2008 there are apparently regs that you need a higher up to sign off on some stuff, titles are super inflated. A Vice President might not even be a team lead.

I watched an innovative healthcare startup that actually saved lives be acquired by US big pharma. We sold AI medical imagery, not the quack kind, but the “proven by studies and active use to save lives” kind. European healthcare providers paid us 5-7 EUR per scan where it cost us 2 EUR to make one, and we were wildly inefficient, startup spaghetti code. A US monopoly bought the whole thing, along with a bunch of others like it, and billed insurance 100 USD in some bundle deal for the same thing.

Insert “I’m tired boss” meme. This was all in like 5 years.

What’s up with world? I’ve seen that there are a lot of complaints going on about it, but what is the underlying problem?

Well, some people in Lebanon disagree

Double middle ear infection, couldn’t let my head tilt to either side for three days, or absurd pain ensued for an hour.

How did I sleep then? Exactly.

This thing.

The assumes that the US Democrat-Republican spectrum is indeed a straight line in that space, and they are diametrically opposed.

Non-US politics is more complicated than “left vs right”.

Cyrillic cursive takes that shape to an extreme. No tittles though.

Hungarian “dob” for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them

A tanú (The Witness) - Hungarian comedy of communism