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by 26fingies 3y ago
> Under the rules of capitalism, you aren't allowed to use your size to bully competitors out of the market. That’s not a “rule of capitalism”. What rules? That _was_ a rule of the United States, but if it is still it’s not enforced
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by 26fingies 3y ago
This article is missing an important part in the relationship between the developed world and the developing world which is exploitation. When companies start offshoring to the UK for cheap labor or taking its resources for pennies on the d
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by 26fingies 3y ago
you can
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Printing at a fedex store or whatever is pretty cheap. A lot cheaper than buying and maintaining a printer on a per page basis for most people, I bet.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
The point really is that individual action is sisyphean. The energy is too diffuse because the vast majority of people lack any real power or even real autonomy over their lives. The only way the things that were done by mass action can be
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Weirdly "Writing articles about why I don't have a girlfriend" doesn't appear in the math
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by 26fingies 3y ago
I think any manager with the ability to hire, fire, promote, demote, give raises is going to be problematic to fit into a labor union just because they're by default "on the other side of the table". But maybe low level super
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by 26fingies 3y ago
At the end of the day when you're management you're on the company's side despite not being an owner of the company. This might explain the contradiction you feel when you get promoted to management. If you're in a union
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by 26fingies 3y ago
i guess we are about to embark on a grand experiment to see if Marx was right
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by 26fingies 3y ago
> Regular users on linux shouldn't be downloading software through their web-broswer at all; that's a Windowsism have you ever met a regular user?
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by 26fingies 3y ago
the way the quote reads it sounds like this physicist is saying that gravity is not a field at all.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
why not just rent a car instead?
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by 26fingies 3y ago
yea well i pay people in money not crypto
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by 26fingies 3y ago
one of the really nice things about SEPA is the 0-fee instant transfer (ime 45-60 seconds). Will FedNow be able to do the same thing?
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by 26fingies 3y ago
I think the phrasing is what’s objectionable here. Sure most users are lurkers, but does that mean they’ll never produce anything original? Give me a break. This is just a roundabout way of calling other people “NPCs”
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by 26fingies 3y ago
OTOH you, as a library supplier, may be somewhat hamstrung to improve things you think ought to be improved but consider the productivity hit to your downstream consumers if you constantly break things for them. Stepping back to consider al
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by 26fingies 3y ago
That seems to be the logical conclusion of commodifying literally everything. Now that everything is commodity every interaction is a sales pitch.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
I disagree with you. Facebook, instagram, telegram, and discord are all very different. People use them in different contexts for different reasons. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Discord, Youtube, Twitch all have specific niches in
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Wealth inequality
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by 26fingies 3y ago
you walking around the tenderloin? yea homelessness is bad but man HN (and reddit) loves to really play it up
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by 26fingies 3y ago
I think over the past couple of decades the market has proven out that there can really only be one in a niche
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Multiple tech companies have said that. I really wonder about why any of these CEOs thought it was a permanent state of affairs though. The prior example, the Spanish Flu, was fought with lower tech and science and lasted what 3-4 years?
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Reading the article it makes it seem like Niantic has leaned in to pay to win a little too hard.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
I don’t like the Amazon example in this article. It’s not a good analog to social media where I’ve more often see people use the term enshittification. Amazon charges money in exchange for goods and/or services. Obviously they ran for
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by 26fingies 3y ago
i think this was a joke lol
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by 26fingies 3y ago
That’s just how capitalism works. People try to invent all these different terms and nuances that at the end of the day are really just properties of capitalism when the state is captured by capitalists. Monopolistic behavior? Oh that’s _co
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by 26fingies 3y ago
I really don’t think the argument that because China is authoritarian, by your measure, internet communists will do ??? to mess with private instances holds any water.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
I think you’re going to have to be more specific with what you mean by “authoritarian control” because I have a feeling that there are some fundamental differences between the way China operates and the way an open source message board proj
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by 26fingies 3y ago
The lemmy.ml authors appear to be communists. Their ideology and support of China doesn’t mean they are somehow funded or corrupted by China. That is an irrational and conspiratorial line of thought. Or would you prefer to ban communists an
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by 26fingies 3y ago
> It would be the same principle, but moved into code, documentation, audio, and other areas I think this is already the case though. Between the amalgamation of markets around the world and commodification of most things in life we are

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