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  • Then why are most “uncivilized” societies have more egalitarian and non-violent than “civilized” ones?

    Uncivilized societies engage in violence much more frequently than civilized societies.

    That’s the case for individual/personal violence, and also for institutional/mass violence.

    Civilized societies are better than uncivilized society in anything they do collectively, be it science, production, or murder.

    Since civilized societies are so much better at murdering, the few cases where mass murder does happen are much more significant.

    However, such cases remain an exception, as opposed to what is the case for uncivilized societies.

    Uncivilized societies may be harmless, but they are certainly not peaceful.

    Civilized societies are more powerful, but they yield their power much more carefully.


  • argon@lemmy.todaytoMemes@lemmy.mlsomeone teach them LaTeX
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    3 个月前

    When I went to college the dot was used for the dot product (scalar product) of two vectors while the cross was used for the cross product (vector product) of two vectors.

    Since in this case numbers (read: one-dimensional vectors) are multiplied, the dot product is used, which should be denoted by a dot.

    (But really, if I were to write a formula in Latex I would just use the * symbol, too.)










  • Windows 11 doesn’t even support first gen Ryzen CPUs. The amount of hardware that runs Windows 11 without tinkering is a tiny fraction of the hardware that runs Fedora Workstation without tinkering.

    Linux is much better with drivers and hardware support than Windows. Windows only works well if you use the very small subset of hardware it supports.




  • If left wing policies were truly more popular, why didn’t the Democrats win? The voters didn’t get Bernie, so if you can’t get your ideal option, you instead take the worse of the two remaining ones? Even if voters were only voting for damage reduction, they’d still vote Democrat in that case.

    But the Democrats didn’t win. The voters don’t want damage reduction. The voters want damage.


  • argon@lemmy.todaytoLinux@lemmy.mlCan I ignore flatpak indefinitely?
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    4 个月前

    Another upside is the easy permission management.

    You can revoke network access from your password manager to reduce attack surface; you can revoke camera access from your chat app to prevent accidentaly enabling it; You can restrict an app’s file system access to prevent unwanted changes; etc.

    It’s not yet fit to protect from malicious apps, but it still finds some use.


  • If the vast majority of Americans believed the Democrats to be less evil, the Democrats would have 90% of the vote. If that were the case, the Republicans would move ever further left, perhaps even overtaking the Democrats, until they get a chance at winning again.

    The reason the parties are right wing is because the voters are right wing.

    That’s why we need a communist revolution where everyone will be a happy little comrade

    The reason that people don’t vote Democrats is the same reason that people won’t join your revolution.

    If you found enough people to support a revolution, that’d mean you have enough people to change the system by simple voting.



  • My cat likes to jump on my shoulders. When I wear clothes, she uses her claws to keep her balance. But when I’m topless, she doesn’t use her claws (and instead awkwardly tries to get down). It seems like she knows that clothes mean I’m protected and that she can use her claws without hurting me.