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Stallman cries a single tear

>That US PCB manufacturer is also sending his kid to school,

that's great. but chinese schools are way cheaper than US schools so if somebody asked me to give up $100 to educate 100 chinese kids or half a US kids for x amount of time I would have to say the chinese on utilitarian principle since I can hardly justify that a US person is worth 100x a chinese person.

>paying state and federal taxes

a lot of which is going to welfare i.e. hands out for people not doing anything productive, which again is a very bad way to spend money.

>SS, healthcare for employees,

same arguments ditto

>and probably allot for hazardous waste service.

This is great. However, china is kinda too poor to have good hazardous waste removal. Thus money spent on china makes it richer and more likely to have hazardous waste, thus more likely that less people will be exposed to hazardous waste.

>What makes you think the Chinese PCB manufacturer is not in the 1%; just assumption the US manufacturer is.

because US is a wealthier country therefore all else being equal the probability of the US manufacturer being rich is higher than the same prob. for the chinese

Nothing personal to the americans of course. It's not their fault either than a bowl of noodles in US is 10x the price of the same thing in china so an american has to make way more money than a chinese to survive but i like to spend the least amount of money possible.

Given the choice of giving $1 to a chinese 1% or $10 to an american 1% I still choose $1.

>What makes you think the workers have any other choice? They're not "willing" if it's wage slavery.

that's like saying we are all physics slaves because the universe imposes the laws of physics on us...

slavery means a specific thing. when a person is owned as property and has no right and must obey his master on pain of death.

don't stretch the word

>What makes you think the people injured by pollution are willing? When exactly did they give their consent in this transaction?

Im still waiting on the my nuclear reparation money from the USA for all the extra exposure from all those atmospheric nuclear tests

nobody in the world has a legitimate pollution compensation scheme

>This seems equally likely in China.

well since im paying less for stuff from china im definitely paying less for a 1% yacht

Well if it's too local it kinda begs the question of whether it's one brain or multiple brains loosely linked together just as in your example it's not clear if the human society as a whole is a planet scale intelligence or a bunch of human scale intelligences bundled together.

a galaxy size brain would disagree with itself a lot.

My skull size brain is alreayd disagreeing with itself plenty.

It hasn't been long since somebody told me that unless you do 10000x item runs it's not worth it.

I wonder if this low unit cost for small number thing is a recent development.

If people in China are willing to work for a lower labour standards I don't see why I shouldn't buy from them.

They are already making huge sacrifices working in terrible conditions because they weren't lucky enough to be born in the US or western europe et al. Chinese workers are very smart and hard working, so their position in life is not based on their ability but simply bad luck (relative to people born in the US etc.) The least I could do is buy their labour so that they may improve their lives. If I bought from a US companies most of the money would go to a rich 1% new yacht and new iphones for his daughters. I would rather feed a poor chinese worker family and send a youngster to school.

>Nice, instead of supporting the PCB business 5 miles away, send it to China.

I don't see why he should support somebody who charges 5x the competitor.

Im not gonna pay $20 for a jar of peanut butter because the factory owner lives 5 miles from me.

Does this actually mean I can now write python code instead of JS for websites?

But why the name?

program is kinda hard to say because of the 2 r's.

You don't have to trust them.

That's the great thing about the free market.

Sounds like the "old wise sage master teaching grasshopper employees a lesson" pattern.

But has he such low opinions of his employee that he couldn't have simply told them "captchas are bad UX, try it out if you don't believe me"?

it just seems condescending to me

Whenever somebody told me that 'Desktops are gonna be obsolete because smartphones' I always told them that screens on desktops have always gotten bigger so there is a demand for big things that are easy to work with but he won't listen because some article on some website said other wise.

smartphones are good for stay connected but not for actual 'doing stuff'.

>and prefer to own my music

unless you wrote it and played it you don't 'own' any music.

>The desktop is almost dead

I disagree.

-sent from my desktop

ps. try running 4K VR on your tablet

b-but terrorists and pedophiles

we should have a first come first serve policy unless stated otherwise.

it would be very rude to take the name 'stickman' from an author just because some big important webscale global internet of things unicorn multi-national 1000billion users app company has an app with the same name.

why can't they just call it stickman_app and not steal other people's land?

although we should also implement LVT to fix the landgrabbing issue

> in defense of biological inception

the movie?

Isn't this just a fancy phrasing for "make your code easy to read"?

any regulator is bound to be captured because the special interest has more concentrated power compared to consumers.

Thus regulation always does the opposite of what it is supposed to do in the long run. This is a common theme with interference with the free market.

>The barriers to entry are raised so high it's impossible to have real competition.

once again the government is responsible for it.

don't worry though, im sure somebody will call for the government to 'reform' the industry and make all the problems go away.

Is Lua the new in vogue programming language?

But a hooker won't look like taylor swift while your VR CG GF will look like whoever you want.

flight sim isn't really that great with VR HMD because you can't see the buttons which you need for more realistic controls. With a HMD you are limited to only the joystick + throttle combination which don't have enough buttons for a fully simulated cockpit.

b-but isn't marketing purpose to generate sale?

None of the issues you mentioned is a problem with porn, which will be the reason why 99.9999999999999999999% of VR headsets are purchased.

>It encrypts data by comingling

does the use of the word 'comingling' here implies any kind of special combination technique??

try cranking it up to 110%

This is just ad-hoc changing the definition of wealth to suit your particular need at this particular time.