…or organize, start/join unions, get involved with your local community and build up some real resistance that isn’t based off obscene wealth, lawfare or media brainwashing. Once you have experienced something real, it’s quite hard to understand how or why anyone would fall for the alternative.
Well, there’s the Defined Benefit pension, however typically these pension funds then become institutional investors who seek to own shares in… you guessed it - stocks.
At least those institutional investors are at least somewhat responsive to public pressure campaigns, as the state/local comptrollers are a politically appointed position.
When you give your money to a 401k, the fund manager gets all the voting rights on the corporate board and is generally only accountable to “A reasonable rate of return”
just without the hope in the future, investment in human capital, rise in living standards etc…
The same author did another similar novel called Thin Air, which you might like - it maintains that tech noir theming.
The first season does the detective noir thing pretty well, and doesn’t deviate too far from the novel. They tried rolling the second book (Broken Angels) and the third book (Woken Furies) into one season, it didn’t work out at all.
Now I want to make an ai slop Altered Carson poster.
There’s so many great book series out there. Ian Banks’ Culture Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin series, could re-do Altered Carbon properly and base it on the second book more faithfully; which was actually quite interesting. Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space series. Terry Pratchett’s last contribution in The Long Earth series. What happened to the supposed adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars series? Neal Asher’s Polity series. Dan Simmon’s Hyperion, anyone? And that’s just a small fraction of more modern SciFi.
None of these series really get a look in because we’re still busy repeating the same formula ad nauseam until the fan base literally can’t take ingesting another two hours of recycled dross.
Let’s try something new.
Public Money, Public Code.
Unfortunately, there are a great many directors and senior level administrators who aren’t up to the challenge of managing competent technical teams or projects, hence they prefer to go the easy route and just pay someone else for the headache.
There is also the cost of power and computer hardware to factor in, which probably raises the barrier to entry, but you’re right. Once you have all the equipment or have it anyway for other purposes, it’s very cheap.
At this point, why would anyone do business with broadcom at all?
Give me something like Talos2 with a full OSS firmware and a performant CPU… and hell, a half-competitive open source graphics core too. It doesn’t need to be peak performance, it needs to be good enough.
I’ve been trying to work with SBC’s for a while for video decoding platforms and just wound up getting stuck on x86 because the ARM situation with weirdo custom kernels for anything useful is just… annoying.
Just another reason to keep away from shitty offices then!
Thank you for the information. My (incorrect) assumption was the oft-paraded “gun show” loophole.
I think consistent effort is required to erase any misconception about the availability of firearms.
Road trip to Georgia and back, basically.
Because they are scared, and hiding behind the skirts of a paper-thin layer of incompetent fascists prior to facing the music from everybody they’ve hurt.
If someone could spit out some nice high-performance RISC-V CPU with an integrated open-source and most importantly mainlined GPU (which also includes a video encoder/decoder which could handle 4k 264, 265* and AV1) … I’d be SO happy…
And here I am stuck in an apartment in NYC with one option… spectrum cable. That’s it. I mean you COULD get Verizon DSL (lol) or some horrendously overpriced LTE thing, but realistically you’re at the mercy of whatever bloodsucking landlord thinks you deserve.
They’re actually quite annoying, the documentation is there but makes a lot of assumptions about what you already know.
I prefer podman systemd generate…just makes more sense to me.
There’s little evidence that debate changes people’s ideas.