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bleepblorp
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
To an extent. Ultimately, the US problem is insecure employment, bullshit jobs, income inequality, and multiple generations of compounding wealth inequality. People without opportunity turn to destructive behaviors, including glorifying gangsters because they are the only people they see in their neighborhoods who have any kind of wealth or self-determination.

Poor communities didn't turn into the kind of places you describe until after the jobs went away. I do not see this as a racial issue, however.

Poor communities in the US have broadly similar attitudes, and social problems, regardless of their ethnic identity. That problem hit urban African American communities many decades ago and is hitting rural white communities now.

People need money and personally meaningful work. Unless they have it, things go wrong. When people don't have it for generations, ghettos and violence are what you get.
bleepblorp
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
Unless these devices have enough performance to do on-device speech recognition, they could have to stream audio on an ongoing basis.

I think the data stream from uploading compressed audio for an extended period would be difficult to hide.
bleepblorp
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
By all means take protective measures when interacting with American police, but by no means should this expectation of submission be considered normal in a developed country. Not should it be assumed to offer much protection; US police are sufficiently trigger-happy that they'll kill people even for following their commands.

American police kill 35 people per ten million population; in Canada that figure is 9.7. In Europe, the UK, Australia, NZ, and Japan, that figure is under 4.[0] The problem with American policing is the police, not the fact that too many Americans 'lunge' for cell phones during police stops.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
bleepblorp
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
The function of an adtech recommendation system is not to find content that you want to see but rather to show you content that's the most profitable for the adtech firm that's serving it.

The videos that YT recommends over and over again are probably videos that have a high ratio of advertising revenue (meaning good demographics) to playback cost (meaning low overall byte size) and a high likelihood of going viral by being shared off-platform (meaning broad appeal, non-controversial, short, safe for religious conservatives, safe for work, and easy to summarize within 280 characters).

The videos you want to watch don't meet these criteria, so Youtube won't find them for you.
bleepblorp
·قبل 6 سنوات·discuss
For desktop use, what problem does btrfs solve better than lvm+ext4?

Btrfs is slower than lvm+ext4, doesn't like working with large files, requires more ongoing maintenance (scrub, rebalancing), and is more prone to data corruption. Given that lvm can do snapshots under ext4, the only real benefit of btrfs is btrfs send, but for most use cases that doesn't seem like a large enough benefit to be worth the rest of brtfs' drawbacks.