Too late. It’s all owned by Blackrock already.

I mean, ymmv. The historical flood of cheap memory has changed developer practices. We used to code around keeping the bulk of our data on the hard drive and only use RAM for active calculations. We even used to lean on “virtual memory” on the disk, caching calculations and scrubbing them over and over again, in order to simulate more memory than we had on stick. SSDs changed that math considerably. We got a bunch of very high efficiency disk space at a significant mark up. But we used the same technology in our RAM. So there was a point at which one might have nearly as much RAM as ROM (had a friend with 1 GB of RAM on the same device that only had a 2 GB hard drive). The incentives were totally flipped.

I would argue that the low-cost, high-efficiency RAM induced the system bloat, as applications could run very quickly even on a fraction of available system memory. Meanwhile, applications that were RAM hogs appeared to run very quickly compared to applications that needed to constantly read off the disk.

Internet applications added to the incentive to bloat RAM, as you could cram an entire application onto a website and just let it live in memory until the user closed the browser. Cloud storage played the same trick. Developers were increasingly inclined to ignore the disk entirely. Why bother? Everything was hosted on a remote server, lots of the data was pre-processed on the business side, and then you were just serving the results to an HTML/Javascript GUI on the browser.

Now it seems like tech companies are trying to get the entire computer interface to be a dumb terminal to the remote data center. Our migration to phones and pads and away from laptops and desktops illustrates as much. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone finally makes consumer facing dumb-terminals a thing again - something we haven’t really experienced since the dawn of personal computers in the 1980s.

It is definitely coming and fast. This was always Microsoft’s plan for an internet only windows/office platform. Onedrive and 365 is basically that implementation now that we have widespread high speed internet.

And with the amount of SaaS apps the only thing you need on a local machine is some configuration files and maybe a downloads folder.

Look at the new Nintendo Switch cartridges as an example. They don’t contain the game, just a license key. The install is all done over the internet.

Reddit was the good place after the fall of Digg 2.0. Now Reddit has become the bad place.

Not about free software, it is about capitalist greed and corporate software.

Just because something is free doesn’t mean it works better or doesn’t come with other issues.

It just means that the developers aren’t trying to fuck you over and squeeze every cent of profit from the customers while making the product complete shit.

Another solution is to create a tier of curated content that is only available for kids as opposed to full access to the whole uncensored internet.

Parents would setup the access level for devices since they obviously know their kids age and maturity level. Parents would be held accountable and in control of what their kids are able to access and therefore filter the internet.

As opposed to censoring the whole of internet reality by forcing every developer and adult to prove their age and identity. There would be no reason for children to be allowed on chat apps at all that are not fully monitored by their PARENTS as opposed to by the government.

Another solution is to create a tier of curated content that is only available for kids as opposed to full access to the whole uncensored internet.

Parents would setup the access level for devices since they obviously know their kids age and maturity level. Parents would be held accountable and in control of what their kids are able to access and therefore filter the internet.

As opposed to censoring the whole of internet reality by forcing every developer and adult to prove their age and identity. There would be no reason for children to be allowed on chat apps at all that are not fully monitored by their PARENTS as opposed to by the government.

People are more likely to buy product products and proximity to whatever it is they’re trying to cook. Makes perfect sense to have all the “stuff you put on a sandwich” ingredients and close proximity, rather than having a separate section for organic or plant-based alternatives.

A shopper who wants specifically vegetarian or vegan options has to make a special trip to that section which may be in some other part of the store. That leads to less sales for those specialty products and higher turnover.

But up non-discerning shopper might decide to try a plant-based option simply because it’s next to their usual option, or they might buy it by accident. Either way that’s a win for the retailer because someone bought a product they may not have otherwise.

Unfortunately most of these legislations fall to the consumer to make informed decisions with limited education and information, while at the same time battling deceptive practices of the retailer and manufacturer.

The whole reason a lot of these regulations even exist in the first place is the widespread deception of manufacturers lying about their ingredients or quality of ingredients and the danger of making people sick or tricking them into making purchases.

Something along the lines of Mexico’s labeling for excessive sugar etc would work well enough if adapted to “vegan/veggie/meat” etc.

The underlying issue here is it manufacturers try to hide what’s in their products and rely on people not taking the time to look at label ingredients or what they’re actually buying.

Better labeling requirements would solve a lot of these issues.

I mean the only profitable part of Google is selling you advertising. Everything else that’s marketed is being free simply there to collect data and sell it as a secondary revenue stream.

Even if you were to split it up in some sort of way most of it still paid for by profits from advertising.

Oh that’s an easy one Russia bought Trump and they have him by the balls.

This is why governments want a back door into vpns and encrypted chat apps. So they can find the organizers and disappear them.

I wonder if this deal will also be brokered by Jarad Kushners scammy investment firm.

Paying taxes on it doesn’t make it any more right. And it doesn’t really take any money out of the manufacturers pocket. They will continue to make substandard crap and sell it everywhere.

That’s exactly my point. This doesn’t solve any other problem except make EU citizens pay the government for the right to purchase goods without solving any of the underlying problems. It doesn’t stop sweatshops from existing or make those products any safer etc.

How does higher taxes solve this problem?

So once again the consumer gets screwed and has to pay higher taxes.

I’m guessing that third-party provider is Palantir or the NSA.

How do you figure they sold out by releasing This study?