It doesn't matter where the wealth comes from; in other countries it comes from the entrepreneurship and hard labor from its workers.
The trick is then to distribute the products of that wealth among all the people, instead of concentrating more than half of it on the hands of a very small privileged class that then gets to decide how it's spent.
This is an interesting perspective. Maybe the "problem" with Norway is more a problem with how the rest of us pick and choose which metrics represent our values. Productivity, work hours, student test scores. Why are these the goals? Why not happiness or contentment, however that might be measured? Or physical or mental health? Crime? It seems to me that productivity, work hours, and test scores are merely means to the real ends of happiness and well-being.
Be careful, you may be up to discover the European way of thinking where "productivity" and "net worth" and "concentrating all the political power in a few lobbies that control the government"* are not synonyms with economic health but rather "safety net" and "well-being" do.
*We tried the last one in the times of the Roman Empire and decided that it's not a good model to live with.
can we name it 'Actual Pluto'?
I suspect most here on slashdot would have sided with those "experts" had they lived at the time
And they'd do well, because the Ptolemaic guys were better than anyone else in predicting the movements of planets.
And by keeping with the good work, their successors were able to keep compiling and refining good observations, and ultimately be able to overcome the previous model that have served them well.
The point is not to have "The Absolute Truth" at any one particular point (only religious nutjobs do that), the point is to have a reasonable corpus of observations that get cross-checked with reality so that you do not get blinded by dogma.
Not to mention the fanaticism effect of being born and raised all your life with a "purpose larger than you".
There would be a few sceptics that curse their ancestors for condemning them to a life enclosed in a tin can, but my guess is for most of them to live like a small community of religious pilgrim settlers.
Is 2025 the Year of Linux on the Desktop then?
More likely 2026, when Valve releases Steam OS for desktop PCs.
I've got news: atoms are not 2 dimensional. I can't help but think any publication that prints this stuff isn't worth the paper it's no longer printed on.
By that logic, a map cannot be 2D because it will always have the width of the material it's printed on. The mere concept of 2D would be meaningless for anything but abstract mathematical objects.
However that's not how we use words and meanings in language. If you build a computer on a layer of material where the width is not relevant - because by design it's impossible to build it any thinner, for all practical purposes it's correct to call it a 2D material, and it's pedantry to point out that any physical object necessarily has at least 3 spatial dimensions.
AI scrapers use these residential proxies. It's not (just) VPNs and Tor routing. Several bottom-feeding companies openly advertise such scraping services, for pretty much any country you may want. I administer a wiki that's been on the receiving end of such scraping, and the majority of these scraping requests are in fact coming from residential IP-addresses rather than data centers.
I don't know whether these are hacked accounts, people getting tricked or paid to run these scraping apps on their devices, but it's impossible to block them all. Even if you let fail2ban block entire
Anubis seems to be taking care of it for now, but it's obviously only a matter of time before they can deal with that one too. Although its delay does enable fail2ban rules to block the IP-addresses before they get to stress the mediawiki php scripts, attempting to diff 2 revisions of a random page from 10 years ago.
Ok Gemini, block all ads.
... you know the rest 8-P
It sucks that she got death threats and all manner of illegal things, there's no excuse for that, though the vast majority of it is likely justified anger at the company she chose to publicly represent. She literally signed up to be a PR and public face, and now regrets the harder parts of that position. It's hard to feel too much sympathy for a well paid corporate shill.
That may justify criticism. It does not justify harassment. "Justified anger" must be channeled through reasoned opposition, not character assassination, which is what you're supporting with your stance.
how many are not spam accounts?
The ones created automatically from Facebook, Instagram or Meta Quest accounts, of course. Those remain totally unused.
What fucked up culture do startup tech bros live in, that they see all the technology used by Bond villains to enslave the world and think, "hey I could make that work!"??
Dudes, overreaching anti-privacy abuseable tech got a bad rep for a reason.
If I can't derive an income from what I produce, there is no reason for me to produce it.
So what? The whole premise is that production be automated, so there wouldn't be a need that you produce anything.
More importantly, where does it get the high-fidelity magnetic field maps that nobody ever made?
Maybe from NOAA? (at least until they get defunded)
Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green. -- Goethe
