Jyek

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[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yes but that isn't changed by the amount of data used. There is no cost to supply per kb supplied, only a cost to maintain the equipment that governs the speed of the connection.

Here's an analog example. If the city you lived in started charging you more for the water to come into your house faster as well as charging you for the amount of water you use. Obviously you should pay for the amount of a finite resource you use but the speed at which you acquired that resource should be limited only by the physics of the water transportation system.

Data on the other hand, is not a finite resource. There is no limit to the amount of data one can acquire given endless time and energy. So the only way to bill for that becomes the speed at which you acquire the data. You pay for the data speed and that funds the infrastructure to supply that speed indefinitely. End of story. The only reason data caps exist is that they want to charge more money for you to use less bandwidth so they can sell that bandwidth to other people. When what should really happen is, they should invest in higher bandwidth capacity and sell that to their customers to return on that investment.

Either supply me infinite speed and bill me for the amount of data used or supply me infinite data and bill me for the bandwidth. Not both.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is not me saying you're wrong because I don't think you are, but as a fun thought experiment, I know the argument for this from the theologist perspective. There's quite a lot of philosophy behind it.

Being both omniscient and omnipotent simultaneously would require a totally different perspective of time. God would need to be an observer to all that is, was and will be at once as if you were looking at a painting. But to make changes to that painting, if you will, God would need to enter time to interact with the people of his creation to make things so.

You have this sort of chicken and egg situation as a result. While God theoretically knows Abraham is faithful, he knows Abraham is faithful through the trials of Abraham which God would have had to perform to know what he knows. So in effect, God knows the result of these actions before hand, but the actions still must occur, otherwise God would not know.

I don't have time or the memory to drive deeper into this discussion but I remember this was a very long discussion I had during my theology studies before I left the church.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

3 seconds when under 65. 5 seconds when it's raining or I'm moving faster than posted highway speeds. It pisses people off but I'm hauling a ton of steel and plastic around, I'm not going to risk my life and everyone's around me just because some guy is late for work or can't be patient and needs to get where he's going a few seconds before me. People tend to lose the reality of the situation when driving their super fast metal explosion machines.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Pink as well.some cultures still just refer to pink as "light red". Some cultures don't distinguish between blue and green. Some cultures make specific distinctions between blue and light blue. (see Italian; Azzurro)

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I actually go out of my way to shop from Palestinian owned businesses and donate to Palestinian causes. Don't question people like that, it's not up to people to disclose private donation to a cause. It can also lead to persecution down the line. Lots of non-jews died in the Holocaust for helping Jews too.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just let Elon Musk handle it, it will be ready in two year tops. Perpetually two years away.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guess who will also commit war crimes? Conservatives. Guess who gets into office if too many people vote third party? Conservatives. Third party literally has 0 chance of winning this election. And if conservatives win, third party may very well never win any election ever. So you shouldn't be voting for the change you want right now, you should be voting for the right to vote for the change you want to see tomorrow. It's pretty simple.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I think I want him to be president.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What is absolutely absurd to me is the fact that there are votes against from Texas, Florida, and Louisiana. The three states who vastly out consume the FEMA budget annually since 2015.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

An MSP is an IT company that supports several other companies. They're saying they have users who don't know how to open PDFs all the time in multiple industries.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

We didn't call WW1 a world war until america joined 3 years into the European war. The second world war wasn't called that until after the war had formally ended. Who knows.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But also they can target you if you have a pager too.... Clearly.

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