The previous poster is more or less quoting Marx and Engles who praised capitalism in the same way and for the same things, while suggesting it was time for it to be superceded in the same way.
Now I know that not everybody has read their work, but you sound like somebody who might be interested.
That’s exactly how it started! People would go to a major bookmaker like Lloyd’s coffee shop and place a bet against themselves. So you would bet that your ship would sink or your house would burn down or that you would suffer a crop failure. Then if the bad thing happened you would win the bet.
Of course, if the odds are close the bet would be very expensive, so you’d have to do monthly financing. But what if the catastrophic event happens before the bet is fully paid?
Somebody had the genius idea to pool everybody’s bet and run the odds.
OP’s choice of the word “heavier” is interesting because you could argue that the information density of a compressed file is greater than that of an uncompressed one.
Of course that’s abusing the metaphor a bit.
OP: maybe try larger and smaller next time.
It’s almost like we’re a multiparty democracy or something.
The press and others tend to report proposals by one part or another as though they have already been passed into law. I think it makes for better headlines.
And Andy Yen uses it for what agenda he has, like moving into cheaper German data centres or whatever.
It’s almost like we’re not a single monolithic entity or something. Go figure.
You’re responding to a comment using Swiss speed limits as an example. Here in Switzerland changes in the speed in an urban area do not cause changes in rural areas.
Anyways, I suppose I should thank you for providing more evidence that drivers are selfish morons.
What are you talking about? If Lausanne sets a speed limit of 30 km/hr in Lausanne that does not change the speed limit in Morrens or Bercher or Savigny.
Duck them.
They can drive however they want in their villages. But they need to follow our rules when they come to town.
If they’re going to do that they should also ban french tacos.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is bothered by this shift away from software being a noun.
We have our own system, Twint. Wero was based on it, but so far they’re not interchangeable.
Someday we’ll have Gate gate, or maybe even another scandal at the Watergate complex, so Watergate gate.
I can’t wait!
Just be sure to make it look like an accident.
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Piracy is when you board a ship, kill or kidnap its crew and steal the cargo. Copying a file is nothing like that.
You know, I can see where you’re coming from there, but people have to resist with the tools they have at hand. I think it’s a lot more powerful sometimes to keep your resistance in the family, both literally and figuratively.
Or Jewish friends who publicly denounce what is now clearly a genocide are to be protected and lauded, of course.
But those who resist quietly among family and friends, also deserve our admiration. Sometimes quiet diplomacy is the most effective thing, and it’s perhaps even more brave when well meaning folk like yourself are creating these litmus tests requiring public resistance.
Ben-Gvir himself should be tried and punished for his participation in the conspiracy to murder Yizhak Rabin.