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FourPacketsOfPeanuts

@ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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  • What's your definition of a wealthy person? Sure, Bezos is rich, but where do you put the threshold?

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  • Living in London and working in the City so long really skewed my view on this. I guess because I worked with so many people earning six figures (and double that for household income) who were still very much "workers", were paying off the mortgage and hated commuting like anyone else. They didn't seem rich to me. Maybe if they sold up and moved out of town, sure, but just trying to live day to day they were counting the cost like an average person just up-scaled.

    I feel like being able to live off passive income / interest AND living where you want is where "rich" starts for me. I could live off passive income now, in a basic place far from London but I'm not "rich". I can live pretty much where I want in London, but I'd have to continually work for it. Being able to do either of these things would put me in many people's "rich" bracket but for me it's when you can do both at the same time.

  • You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence.

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  • I'm sorry you've been convinced that lowering your standards resulted in cheaper prices.

    It literally resulted in a cheaper price

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    Share Underrated Content!

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  • Voyage of the Sparrowhawk is a terrific kids adventure story book. Set just after WWI. Very much Enid Blyton vibes.

  • Denmark: Union website deindexed by Google in the firm’s latest search experiment

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  • Great thank you, I'll give it a try

  • Denmark: Union website deindexed by Google in the firm’s latest search experiment

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  • Recommended FOSS search engines anyone?

  • With enshitification closing in on all aspects of the internet has the american tech industry ensured the internet will never evolve past where it is now?

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  • See the enshitified hotspots as fly traps for the limp minded. An authentic, simple, commerce free web is still out there, one just needs to look outside of the drivel served up on page one of mainstream search engines

  • With enshitification closing in on all aspects of the internet has the american tech industry ensured the internet will never evolve past where it is now?

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  • FOSS is like penicillin honest to god..

  • What do you spend your time doing on your phone?

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  • Lemmy

    YouTube (Alex O'connor, RealLifeLore, History of the Universe)

    BBC news

    Radio (BBC radio 4, BBC radio 3, Classic FM, BBC World Service)

  • Cadbury's Campaign to "Make AI Mediocre Again"

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  • Lindt ftw..

  • What is your favourite fact?

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  • Over billions of years, hydrogen left on its own collapsed under gravity into stars, under went fusion, supernovaed, created all the heavier elements, formed secondary stars and rocky plants, evolved into creatures, which learnt chemistry and gave it a name. We're all stardust + time basically. But we're stardust that names itself.

  • What is your favourite fact?

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  • Hydrogen, if left on its own long enough, names itself.

  • What is your favourite fact?

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  • Ha that's a good one

  • What is your favourite fact?

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  • The first part is a matter of probabilities. It's very unlikely by virtue of the sheer number of possible configurations vs how many times a deck is shuffled in history (even erring on the high side)

    For the second part, the composition of elements in most stars is known. And the total mass of the universe is approximated by observing gravitational effects. Which is what you need to work out approx number of atoms.

  • What is your favourite fact?

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  • If you divided the universe's mass into 52! parts, each part would contain ~1x10^13 atoms. Which, as far as solids go, is not visible to the naked eye. Which is still quite mental..

  • You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence.

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  • The "upside" of planned obsolescence is that devices are markedly cheaper if you're willing to not live on the bleeding edge (which is itself just marketing fomo bs..)

    Case in point.. recently had to replace my phone. Since I now feel like a liability carrying around newish £500 one I took a look at some 2-3 years old. I eventually picked one I sort-of wished I'd gone for last time around except now I was spending 20% of what it would have cost me back then. So it's a little closer to the point of being obsolete than what it's replacing. But seriously. The amount of money people spend desperate to stay at the pinnacle of camera technology (that they can't really tell the difference on) or for Apple "AI" (I mean.. god.. really.. you're a smart independent person. How has Apples marketing team gotten this far into your brain?) is crazy. But the massively cheaper deals for what are, objectively, still amazing devices is something that only happens because of technology churn and "planned obsolescence".

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    How long until we're all replaced by AIs that try to kill us?

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  • There'll be an initial awful bit when private companies do without workers in droves to pursue greater profit BUT the technology that enables them to do that won't stay proprietary for long, AI is a technology wide phenomena, not a product owned by one corporation. What this means is that after a lag of several years the implementation of government services will also become cheaper to run. If farms are fully automated then farm workers lose their jobs but the government buying free meals for kids gets cheaper too. If automated trucks put drivers out of work then the government (or charity or whatever) shipping food and goods to communities gets cheaper too. In other words, profit seeking bastard behaviour will lead the way, but following after it will be lower and lower cost of providing social services. The barrier to entry for many businesses will drop as well. Automated call centre? Automated marketing? Well you and your out of work brother could start a cheaper insurance company if you're willing to do the work. Businesses the used to take 40 people to get off the ground will be doable by 2. Should lead to cheaper services for all etc..

    This isn't just speculation.. as a contractor I was putting in call centre automation for a car insurance company with 500,000 policy holders being run by 15 people. And if they'd been bold I think they could have done without at least 6 of those. Point being, these guys were undercutting the big players massively to bring people good quality cheap insurance that was the real deal and were using automation and "AI" to save people a lot of money.. So they hired less workers, true, but if the same happened at all the financial services we rely on a regular basis then people would have a lot more cash in their pocket..

  • Serbian authorities using spyware to illegally surveil activists, report finds

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  • I never in a million years would have guessed Israel's chief export was diamonds..

  • How has it taken this long?

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  • Presumably there was a crazy second hand market if they went out of production in 2011?

  • YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours

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  • ISPs will only be aware of the site you're visiting though, not specific content. So they know you're on reddit.com for instance, but not what sub. They'd know you're at neocities but not what personal site (i think). That's why the likes of lemmy.world are so important. Non commercial space to talk that ISPs can't snoop on.