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Comment Re:Wayland? Who cares. (Score 3, Insightful) 20

How well does X.org do with a dual screen system where one is 4K and the other is 1080P? For folks running laptops this sort of scenario is increasingly common, and X11 just doesn't do it very well.

I'm contemplating buying a 4K monitor and my main concern was how well X11 and the various desktop environments do hidpi. Having switched to Wayland, though, and with Firefox natively on Wayland and supporting fractional scaling, it makes the purchase a bit more comfortable.

Comment Re:The world is ripping off China (Score 1) 34

It's very clear that you didn't read the article, don't understand the arguments involved, but SOMEHOW feel entitled to spout your opinion.

Why?? Why not just read the article and become smarter? You don't need to show your ignorance off to the world, you can easily read the article, become non-ignorant and say something informed.

Comment Re: Whats new? (Score 1) 34

The only reason th US is where it is right now is because the dollar is still the world currency. It remains so because you need dollars to buy oil.

People who complain about the US dollar and oil are people who've never taken an economics class.

If you're too lazy to learn economics, then do a simple search to find out the world's oil production compared to the number of dollars in the world, and that should give you an idea of how much influence it actually has.

Comment Re:infrastructure remains (Score 1) 45

Better question is if you can drop a letter-shaped parcel to some post but not actually post-office and have it delivered to someone (ideally still to the post box, but it'll be the letter-shaped-parcels box I guess). And if you can how's that different from a regular letter, except that it's handled by that company.

Comment Re:money and acturial medicines (Score 1) 234

Simply stated, the psychological industry has a monetary profit motive in getting more people on daily maintenance medicine. Each person on a daily maintenance medicine means 2 to 4 office visits per year allowing a psychologists to have a steady stream of paying customers.

This is much cheaper than actually going through the labor intensive process of psychoanalysis, so insurance companies like it.

Comment Re: Who thought this service was a good idea? (Score 2) 95

Actually that's the proper way to design these, of course with some kind of backup way in (usually via a PIN). Only emergency exits and similar should "fall open" in case of outages and even there of course great care should be taken so this can't be easily exploited.

Comment Re:no... (Score 1) 61

You might have gotten rid of your managers, but I'll bet somebody is still doing all these tasks.

Right...new managers have been spawned from within existing employees - think agents in The Matrix - that's why the productivity increase was limited to 3x :-)

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