Shame that it’s closed source and by Samsung. :/

I stand corrected.

That’s what Samsung tried with Dex. You could even run an honest to god (emulated) Linux on it. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out and no one knows about it today.

I think Canonical pitched this about 10 years ago.

Cool that you weren’t scared away by all the Toxicity in he other comments.

We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.

Ursula K. LeGuin

The other comments are quite sarcastic and I want to give you a bit of a less antagonizing response why Steven Pinker is kind of a hack.

He more or less “cooked the books” when it comes to explaining how much good capitalism helped the people around the world by doing very selective data analysis. In the end he really advocates for being complacent with the status quo and basically argues for the argument of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (which has been disproven a lot by anthropologists.

These videos are quite long but go into more detail:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2gwS4VpHc
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXV71hF7cs

And if you prefer to read: I’d recommend The Dawn of everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

Joking

I thought the “/j” tone-tag was enough ;_;

woosh

Not sure if sarcastic and woosh, or adding to the joke ಠ_ಠ

I did (skimmed it, at least) and I liked it. 🙃

If you are so sure that you are right and already “know it all”, why bother and even read this? There is no comment section to argue.

I beg to differ. You utter fool! You created a comment section yourself on lemmy and you are clearly wrong about everything!

You take the mean of 1 and 9 which is 4.5!

/j

Get that unfunny,creatively bankrupt, so-called “AI” bullshit out of here.

There’s a book on the subject by Simon Singh, where he writes about all the math jokes in the Simpsons. There are a bunch. ;)

I meant line 2 (it’s actually a joke the math professors on the writing team of the Simpsons put in there: it doesn’t disprove Fermat’s Theorem, but most calculators at the time didn’t have the accuracy to cumpute that directly, which is kind of the joke)

Did Homer just disprove Fermat’s Last Theorem? O.o

Reducing value to nothing but commodities is already a very ideologically charged act. We were talking about value before. The value of commodities is only a subset of what counts as value.

My tone is reflective of my mistrust of your intention

How have I earned that mistrust? Do you think it’s fair to continue that mistrust after my efforts to elaborate my point?

I am sorry if that is uncomfortable.

Pardon my tone, but: That’s a nonpology. I can do without those.

On the contrary, I think applying theoretical models to current real-world economics is the only way to make sense of where theory and reality deviate.

I agree. My original “reminder” was to point out that deviations occur. The mental shortcut that I meant was to only take LTV into account when discussing economics.

I would have found it more interesting if you had been more specific in how you think LTV was being misused.

I don’t know if “misused” is the right term, but one example where LTV falls flat is that it doesn’t model the destruction of value due to environmental pollution.

Thank you for that comment. I feel like finally someone understood what I was trying to get across.

Probably formulated it badly, but still: the answers are a bit exhausting.

EDIT: Thought of another example of your qase where harming nature decreases value. Having to buy carbon certificates for releasing CO2 models the destruction of value by polluting the environment.