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ttlens407 karma

Japanese were considered "honorary whites" in South Africa during apartheid, too. This was more to do with Japan being willing to trade with South Africa (and buy a lot of S.A. exports) than anything else.

ttlens179 karma

I'm in my 40s so am very young compared to OP but old compared to many on Reddit.

The current times are not "nothing". We just went through the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, and are still dealing with the fallout. Much of Europe still has very high unemployment rates and in many countries there are right wing movements away from European unity. This type of situation, if handled poorly, has the potential to lead towards conflict. Maybe not all-out war but certainly great instability. The people usually hurt the most by instability & conflict are the ones who already have the least.

The situation in the US is also bad and electing a lunatic as leader in these times would be terrible for young people and poor people.

I hope reason prevails on both continents.

ttlens126 karma

I'd like to know the other 6 years and why they were great for OP.

ttlens44 karma

Firefox used to reach upwards of about 300,000K memory usage after using it for over an hour. Chrome is currently on 45,000k

Someone hasn't discovered that Chrome is seriously multithreaded. I just opened Chrome and then opened three tabs. Currently this is using 6 processes and a total of 185MB of memory.

Firefox has been running for a couple of hours and currently has 4 windows open with a total of 14 tabs (low for me) and is using 214MB of memory.

Chrome has advantages but a low memory footprint isn't really one of them.

ttlens38 karma

Technology always gets cheaper faster than most people expect. If it is cheaper for McD's to use AI to cook their burgers they certainly will. Also avoids all the problems of humans flaking out and not going to work or just straight-up quitting. Any repetitive job is on the chopping block.