flabberghaster

flabberghaster wrote

The thing is, you're absolutely right. "Finance" does serve a purpose. I don't think there'd be a stock market where rich people gamble on pieces of companies like poker chips, but the finance industry does serve a purpose under capitalism and a similar thing would be needed: the allocation of huge amounts of society's resources. Financial companies are just capitalist central planners, and they optimize to keep themselves rich and keep capitalism running. Such a thing would be needed under socialism too, but with different incentive structures and goals.

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flabberghaster wrote

Reply to comment by voxpoplar in hi how do I network by voxpoplar

Well the original idea was to run something that accepts a TCP connection, and then run wireshark and see if you have a lot of retransmitted packets, which would mean the cable is probably bad and dropping packets.

You can probably still look at ping and see if there's packet drops but yeah, probably not as reliable doing it that way.

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flabberghaster OP wrote (edited )

Currently only a few people I know use signal so if I had to maintain two appsz one for signal friends and one for just SMS friends it's going to be a big bummer and I probably will just end up not using signal. As is, I could get people to switch to signal as their main app and I could signal with them, but otherwise it was a normal texting app for them. But now his am I gonna get my mom to install signal and a regular SMS app? Not gonna happen, which means unencrypted messages.

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flabberghaster wrote (edited )

It's probably not custom for this site, is my guess. Either a bot that someone made a postmill plugin for because postmill exists, or more likely, someone in a click farm somewhere manually made an account and has to make x number of posts a day. I'm just guessing.

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