Yeah, my argument against deregulation is probably relevant here: big corporate is just big government by another name, except with even less transparency. Never fully trust any entity which has enormous power over your life; even the most well-intentioned mega-entity is still prone to accidentally ruining lives through bureaucratic oversight. So I would hope people protesting government intrusion would also realize that e.g. Facebook is a de facto global governing structure of sorts...

Though this might work for some things, unfortunately, I think it is susceptible to Nazism. "Does this video make society a better place" could get a "yes" from plenty of people who have just sat through a video telling them how $marginalized_group is the root of all evil and must be "dealt with" =/

Yeah, I'd call that sentence more... vapid and awkward, like much corporate speech, than tortured. It's not like it's unparseable; the meaning is fairly clear -- it's just pointless in the context presented. It serves no constructive purpose for the reader, being a vague attempt to invoke a nonspecific sense of nostalgia, likely to distract people from the frustration of the shop being closed? Corporations churn this slop out with or without LLMs

I'm not the person you replied to, but the Fairphone 5 meets their specification list.

As a side note, everything the parent asked for is common on older phones. Asking for them all together is not like asking for unrealistic / unicorn options.

A 512 MB module cost $100-$200 in 2006. Sold in an $1000 machine. 10% of the cost.

And now a macbook air costs order of magnitude the same, but the RAM they're putting in it.... $10-20 (1-2% of the cost).

I wonder if that difference in cost is going to some other part of the machine or into margins?

(I know Apple don't pay retail prices for their RAM, which is what I quoted here, the actual percentage of cost will be lower)

You want me to do busywork so Apple doesn't have to pay an extra $10 for memory on a thousand dollar machine?

There *is* a heck of a lot .. on 16 Psyche.

I dunno about you, but the idea of shipping off in a space ship for a year or two, to mine my fortune in space minerals, sounds kinda .. fun ..

The Hulk film film grossed $264.8 million worldwide, making it the lowest-grossing film of the MCU.

You have an interesting definition of success. I suspect what we're seeing here is confirmation bias.

Uh? No. SHA1 has been vulnerable to faster-than-brute-force attacks since 2005

NIST and most other real security professionals were recommending against using SHA1 since 2010/2011-ish.

Unlike you, I do not claim to be a security professional, but even I know SHA1 has been unsafe for a far longer than a decade.

I feel sorry for your clients.

CO2 (metric tons in 2020) per capita:

Germany's: 7.72
US: 13.68
Australia: 15.22
Singapore: 9.45

But Germany gets the fuck you? I don't think I'd hire you for your critical thinking skills.

The problem is that this mentality encourages them to constantly spend every penny to pursue growth. If the company isn't growing, it's failing. As growth cannot continue forever, this means the company has to "fail" at some point.

Dividends are healthier for companies, because they give an option other than constant growth for you to measure their success by. Which means that instead of constantly taking risks to pursue this impossible infinite growth they can instead invest in shoring up their current holdings, making for a more stable company.

I think the big issue is that many companies have stopped paying out dividends, so investors only see profit if the stock goes up. Stock price could stagnate and you'd be happy as long as you were still getting dividends. But with companies who have stock price driven value, it forces the company to constantly expand - which as you said requires constant growth, which is not sustainable.

Well, how about we just look at what they're paying for popular shows that move from the broadcast networks and use those as comparison points. Streaming services are paying billions for Friends and Seinfeld episodes, so it should be easy enough to compare viewership numbers on those and what they're paying, and compare that to viewership numbers on the streaming-first shows and give them a similar compensation.

The difference is that the pay rates are calculated differently for those industries. Basically, the residuals have long been considered part of their compensation in the entertainment industries, so the up-front pay is lower. Now the residuals are being cut out, but the up-front pay isn't being increased - and the studios are instead just keeping all that extra cash for themselves.

Think of it this way: The residuals are part of the benefits package. You take a lower-paying job because the benefits package is better, so while you get less cash up-front than at the other job, the better benefits makes it come out about the same. But suddenly the benefits package goes away - while on paper your pay didn't change, in reality the loss of benefits significantly changes your actual compensation for the work.

It's not 100% cut and dried like that, but it does make a difference. If service A has 10 shows I want to watch, but service B has 20 shows, I should always pick B, right? But what if 5 of those 10 shows on service A are shows that I am really, really into for some reason, but the 20 shows on service B I'm lukewarm about? Now it's service A I'm going for.