- JCattheATMNot so long as private people can control capital, you don't.
- >If capitalism itself is the reason for not being able to pass good regulation, then what would you call that ?
A lack of regulation.
> We are living in a world where corporations are people and it’s ok to lobby
Corporate personhood is not the same thing as "corporations are people". Lobbying wouldn't inherently be an issue with an education and caring voting population.
- I'm not really sure how you've interpreted my comment - can you expand on your point, please?
- Looking at the wiki page, PISA seems to have some criticisms, one being it seems very gameable. I'm not really familiar with it.
It might be interesting to try and find some more objective support of my claim, and I'll try and post anything worth posting, but anecdotally...the difference between the US and other developed countries is night and day. It's so incredibly easy to run into people in the US who genuinely astoundingly lack the basic knowledge that in other countries it is taken for granted that adults hold.
There's a reason other countries talk shows don't have segments like asking random pedestrians to name any country, literally any country on a world map, so they can laugh when they fail.
- I think the US is rather unique from other capitalist countries in having such a large portion of its population being so poorly educated. This simply isn't the case in EU or Commonwealth countries - in the US its led people to vote against their own interests, allowing companies to lobby for things that benefit the companies and hurt people, in an ever increasing trend. I don't think it's to do with the size of the country, but the education level of the population.
- Exactly.
- > Then it’s not easy enough to deal with is it?
I mean, the solutions are easy, getting people to vote for them is a problem, although a problem more specific to the US.
> And capitalism seems to have created this situation so you could are the that this is inherent in the system.
I wouldn't say that, given most countries capitalist systems were able to deal with or avoid that situation altogether. Rather than this problem being inherent to capitalism, it seems it is the result of specific events that unfolded in the US. Really, it can all be traced back to Reagan.
- The people that blame capitalism are often wrong...they attribute to capitalism what is actually the fault of a lack of regulation. Capitalism has a ton of advantages that a socialist system would not have, the negatives are easy enough to deal with but while the rich rule the world, there is little interest.
Wealth and income limits for individuals and companies are a start. No one needs to be a billionaire, and they sure as hell didn't earn it.
- > As an European I have to say, perhaps the American approach is better.
It's not better, it's just more attractive. The EU isn't the only country with regulations, every single other western country does, every single other first world country does.
The US allows greed to flourish at the expensive of it's people. That might be better for the people developing the tech, but it isn't better for society in the longrun.
- Over-engineering to solve a problem that doesn't exist, thereby making one.
- > I mean, torrenting is decentralised and not technically takedownable.
It's fairly trivial to block torrent traffic.
- The two are not mutually exclusive. Sometimes content is posted on a site people don't want to support, so making a copy of it and viewing/sharing the copy is preferable.
- What's stopping you from making the archive link yourself?
- I don't find it awkward to pronounce in the least, and not in any way pretentious.
I think the name is fine as is.
- > I agree piracy isn't the same as theft, but it's extremely close still.
No, not really. Most of the time nothing is lost.
> If an author works on a book for 10 years and then the publisher copies it and sells it without paying them, is that okay because copying isn't technically theft?
If people genuinely like the book, people will support the author. If the author isn't being supported, that's an issue with their relationship with their publisher.
For most of history, the ideal of stealing content would have been rightfully viewed as ridiculous.
"piracy" is the natural state of things, and eventually it will become the norm again just as it has been for most of history.
- Because React is bloat, especially for something trivial where it isn't needed.
Use the right tool for the job, instead of using the one tool you are comfortable with for everything.
- That's funny, because I'm sick of people glazing it and glossing over its many flaws.
- I feel like people user it either due to fixation/hobby reasons, or because they've heard it's secure and good for routers so they just use it as a router, assuming the rumors are true.
Honestly myself, I prefer NetBSD approaches to many things, or for Linux Alpine, which is perfectly small, minimal and secure by default.
- > by the time my M1 macBook Air gets slow enough to annoy me (maybe a year or two from now?)
It should be good for at least 5 years from now, if not more.
- I don't see why you couldn't have a usage agreement or terms of service that said exactly that.