is the first in the history where companies own the country

Hum… You need to learn some history.

I wonder what “limited lifetime warranty” means.

It probably means you can complain any time about a manufacturing defect, but not anything else.

Anyway, the terms should be printed somewhere on the box or in a paper inside.

Stuff like history, art, and how a fucking analog clock works

Well, I don’t exactly disagree… but one of those things is completely different from the others.

I would agree more if we were talking literally about “how an analog clock works” instead of the convention to reading them. But it would still be a niche knowledge that you can take from Wikipedia if it ever becomes relevant to you.

Kids these days do absolutely still know how to read analog clocks.

Besides, they probably shouldn’t put effort into that. Those things are close to useless nowadays. It’s mostly a case of schools being conservative… but then, it’s not that much of an effort, so there are more important things to care about.

Do you know what “Exchange-Value” represents?

An attempt of pushing some amount of subjectivity into his value theory, but still in a way that keeps it objective and still fails to predict trade.

None of the LTV hold up. For a start, it predicts that people won’t ever trade. That’s quite a big flaw because, you know, people do trade. Theories of value predicting people won’t trade was a big problem by the time Marx was young. His one doesn’t solve the problem at all, but well, it wasn’t a problem anymore when he published.

The family of theories of value that predict that trade happens are called “subjective theories of value”.

For example, the entire labor theory of value doesn’t hold up on the real world and Economics had already better explanations for the phenomenon it was trying to explain.

In that it ignored the previous half a century of (well tested) advances on the area and just made claims that were already known not to hold on the real world.

In that it’s an outdated economics theory… In fact, it was outdated when it was first published already.

Psychoanalysis is an outdated philosophical theory, so indeed just a scam now.

Quite like Marxism.

Yeah, if you transmit less data in total, your odds of having a random problem reduce. But not much, because electromag interference tends to last for relatively long times and you still need to communicate often for minimizing latency.

That is, unless the problem is a saturated channel. If that’s the case, your situation may improve much more by sending less data.

After you establish a connection, it doesn’t hop anymore.

I don’t think BT devices do frequency hopping. The audio bandwidth is reduced just because the mic signal is added and has to share the connection. There’s no change on the physical connection.

(Now, it would be great if there was some frequency hopping and your phones could reserve a full FM channel instead of messing with digital compression.)

Does ML censors parts of words now?

“Mail the sysadmin every 5 minutes” looks like an incredibly useful script to know.

That said, eating asbestos flakes isn’t the most dangerous thing. Plastic partially burning close to your food, but too slowly for you to notice seems way worse… And there are many fire retardants that are safer to handle in a factory but that will give you a really bad time if you eat them.

It’s sausage coated with some material made of corn.

Every time I see people talking about them on the web I wonder what it tastes like. Is it sweet?

If you didn’t expect a machine that has very hot elements very close to your food to make such food burn if used wrongly, that’s on you.

Yes, if it did defy the laws of physics, there would be lots of people and billions of dollars rushing to understand it.

Oh, right, there’s servers there too.