ComradeKhoumrag

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

Have some perspective, the middle east has been radicalized by war since the time the west hated gays and people of color. But now since the majority of Western powers has progressed past this for like 10 years out of the last 80 that we’ve been involved in these conflicts, they’re the savages?

It would be much easier for civil discourse to mature in these countries if most of the people weren’t traumatized by the predominantly Christian imperialist countries.

Unfortunately, conflict is always going to be more common in the middle east. The North American center of command [NOR-COM] barely touches the south American COM. America itself, shares borders with only two countries that it’s allied with.

The middle east COM has 3 COMs around it, the most of any other. The geopolitics of this implies the other COMs are going to meddle in their affairs the most, since they’re the buffer to other rival COMs

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

Good behavior is about having empathy, not mocking how people view the entire universe. I don’t like how the middle east isn’t as progressive as the west, and I don’t like how they don’t have as much empathy for gay people as the west does now. But mocking an entire religious community - a community that extends far beyond the middle east - for not being peaceful, doesn’t make sense when the west succeeded in bringing imperialism to the entire world. Especially when the west hated gay people for most of that time.

It’s easier to discuss these issues when you don’t have to worry about your school being bombed the next day. It’s easier to have empathy for the western values of diversity, while not having to worry about the west bombing you because of religion

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

You’re sarcastically calling it a religion of peace, that’s mockery

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

There’s a lot of truth to this, however for public transport, there were plans to modernize the public transport until Musk derailed those plans with a failed hyperloop

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

While quantum mechanics certainly gives random jumps, by no means is anything in control of those random processes (otherwise, they wouldn’t be random)

So, even though the universe may not be fundamentally deterministic, that doesn’t mean free will exists

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

By most metrics, the economy is still gloomy long term. It’s a prediction over the course of years not months.

Consider the great depression, the economy was fucked months before the stock market crashed, but if you only looked at the stock market to determine that, you would think everything was fine up until it was too late.

I recommend watching wealthion and anyone they interview on their channel.

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

Looking at the mid term election results, current voters seem to value social policy over economic policy (it should have been a right wing blow out, but it wasn’t)

I wouldnt say bad news about the economy is due to an election cycle. The average boomer is a year past retirement now. There are going to be huge consequences over the next 10 years because of this as their children will need to take care of them, and there won’t be more kids than parents which our society is used to to fill in the labor gap as the boomers leave.

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

Post deletions?

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

Mid term election should have been a right wing blow out and it wasn’t, that’s pretty foreboding for Trump

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

Wat

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

Whenever EA or Ubisoft releases a half assed game with stellar marketing

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

USA is absolutely a huge hypocrite. But that doesn’t mean other countries are justified for doing the same

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

Would be interesting to divide these numbers by expected camera availability and surface area coverage. Consider how many more cameras are on any US military vehicle (there’s at least 6 on every tank, for example) and those vehicles are spread across the world

ComradeKhoumrag , 10 months ago

No good person would put up with being a mod for reddit after this shit show with spez. The only incentive to put up with that is the financial gains of allowing astroturfing as a mod (for example) or having a really weird power trip. Very curious to see how reddit will evolve with that kind of leadership

ComradeKhoumrag , 11 months ago

He has a cocaine addiction

ComradeKhoumrag , 11 months ago

Edit: instead of downvoting, let me hear your counter argument

Capitalism isn’t necessarily bad, but unregulated capitalism encourages the most cut throat to thrive.

Capitalism is a great economic model when you can have a competitive market, but oligopolies, monopolies, and monopsonies are natural. After you have no where else to go, labor is a cost, and capitalism encourages the cut throat to minimize that by any means.

Also, even right wing economists agree there are some market failures within capitalism. It encourages you to not consider the economic impact outside of your company. These are typically referred to as negative externalities.

Smokers are a negative externality to the health care system. When a corporation gets hacked, their clients suffer the consequences for when their stolen data is abused. No corporation can stop all other corporations from polluting with cheaper energy, and the most cost effective will thrive in a capitalist system. So all corporations have to choose dirtier cheaper energy.

These are all examples of market failures. Regulation compatibile with capitalism include taxing negative externalities and using that money to subsidize positive externalities.

Tax smokers and use the money to fund health care. Fine corps for getting hacked and subsidize hackers to pen test systems. Tax dirtier forms of energy and subsidize greener sources.

ComradeKhoumrag , 11 months ago

Upvote for matrix, it’s more than just a chat app damnit C:

ComradeKhoumrag , 11 months ago

Python is as inefficient as js is ugly

ComradeKhoumrag , 11 months ago

Reddit third party apps migrating to Lemmy might address this

ComradeKhoumrag , 11 months ago

While applying it where most shitcoins have applied Blockchain, I agree it’s all hype. But Blockchain doesn’t solve a non-existent problem.

Trusting humans is an inherent security flaw. Blockchain solves that problem. You don’t have to trust banks to not shortsell the housing market with your own money (causing a recession for the entire world) if you could cut humans out of the equation.

Forget money. Say the data that you want to be able to transact and operate on is health data instead of financial information. You could create a decentralized identity system based on people’s biometric information. From there, you could automate and decentralize governance in general.

Suggesting Blockchain solves a non-existent problem is like suggesting Lemmy solves a non-existent problem

ComradeKhoumrag , 11 months ago

At the very least it compounded it. But didn’t the banks that short it know the crash was going to happen? Why would an institution that large bet again the housing market, when the stigma was

ComradeKhoumrag , 11 months ago

Alright it’s early so I’m not structure this so much, but here’s my cypherpunk argument

So, a decentralized ID system could be implemented by having a microchip implanted in the heart. The measured signals are more unique than your fingerprint, and if someone stole it, they’d have to kill you by ripping it out of your heart.

But no one can trust a single company or government to make such a chip and not abuse that very rich health data which you can infer emotional states with. So instead a standard is developed so other people can develop the device independently.

But decentralization goes beyond just manufacturing of the device itself, but also in governance of the data it collects. It doesn’t matter if your data is encrypted on the way to a single corporations servers, they still own the data.

Furthermore, fully homomorphic encryption could be used to perform operations on encrypted data without ever decrypting it (unless you decrypt it with the keys from your microchip)

So decentralization and FHE can remove the element of human trust from both monitoring health and establishing an identity system. While being transparent but also keeping your personal information hidden. For me, trusting humans is a security flaw. If that element of trust can be automated away, it should be.

The problem has always been can you trust the people automating. With Blockchain, you can trust the servers are running the code that’s been agreed upon by the node operators and miners. With FHE, the data processed by the miners stays anonymous, and if you need to display that data say to a doctor, you have the ability to retrieve your encrypted data from a decentralized database (no one wants to manage their own data, like how most people don’t manage their own Lemmy instance)

Anyone can splinter off and change the code, but if its incompatible they’re isolated on their own network. Kind of like if sublemmy instances content moderation policy is incompatible with others, they get defederated

ComradeKhoumrag , 11 months ago

I like it, but I miss how plentiful yet niche reddit communities could be

Also, I doubt people that don’t like the app are more likely to interact with this thread