homura1650

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because "mate" is an Australian thing. They were probably trying to localize it for a non Australian audience. While still valid, the meme hits differently if the rich person is also a foreigner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The interesting thing is, the US has helped setup several democracies over the years. Not once did they encourage a US style system.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

Overall, the dissent is good. But it makes 1 fundamental mistake of constitutional analysis:

The Constitution cannot be evaded by such formalistic distinctions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In addition to the raw compute power, the HP laptop comes with a:

  • monitor
  • keyboard/trackpad
  • charger
  • windows 11
  • active cooling system
  • enclosure

I've been looking for a lapdock [0], and the absolute low-end of the market goes for over $200, which is already more expensive than the hp laptop despite spending no money on any actual compute components.

Granted, this is because lapdocks are a fairly niche product that are almost always either a luxury purchase (individual users) or a rounding error (datacenter users)

[0] Keyboard/monitor combo in a laptop form factor, but without a built in computer. It is intended to be used as an interface to an external computer (typically a smartphone or rackmounted server).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Miniaturization is amazing. The limiting factor to how powerful we can make phones is not space to put in computational units (processors,ram,etc). It is the ability to deal with the heat they generate (and the related issue of rationing a limited amount of battery power)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

At a $188 price point. An additional 4GB of memory would probably add ~$10 to the cost, which is over a 5% increase. However, that is not the only component they cheaped out on. The linked unit also only has 64GB of storage, which they should probably increase to have a usable system ...

And soon you find that you just reinvented a mid-market device instead of the low-market device you were trying to sell.

4GB of ram is still plenty to have a functioning computer. It will not be as capable of a more powerful computer, but that comes with the territory of buying the low cost version of a product.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

pretty

You monster!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Trump did experience more racial discrimination in housing than most black people ever will.

https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yes. Anything other than a new law or new decision by the Supreme Court is subject to the whims of the current administration.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Without the courts, the law stands. The Supreme Court is not the problem here. The Republican legislature is. The Supreme Court is supposed to be a check on the legislature; and their failure to do that is a problem.

Also, this case is not about women's rights, it is about trans rights. Trans men are impacted too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If that were the case then they would have written that into their constitution 70 years ago. And they wouldn't have assasinated their own prime minister 30 years ago.

Heck, the current minister of national security Ben-Gvir was rejecting from mandatory constriction by the IDF, and convicted in an Israeli court of supporting (Jewish) terrorism after being indicted by an Israeli prosecutor.

These are not things that happen in a country that is unified in its goals.

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