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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
The same reason you might scream out loud to no one in particular instead of just thinking it in your head.
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
It depends. Does fining someone 99% of their income make it impossible for them to live with basic dignity? There are many, many people for which it wouldn't, especially if you limit to W2 income (as so many income-based tests do). I&#
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
In the past, it has been humorously and falsely attributed to a Final Fantasy game.
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
I just saw an ad for Instagram's teen features, aimed at parents. You can't advertise for your product and then say that people are using it of their own volition. We are right back to the 90s and Big Tobacco.
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Making a statement like this puts every other in which you appeal to objectivity in question. Where it's not so broad that it says nothing, it's trivially falsifiable. I read it as a passive-aggressive concession from someone who
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
>Do you believe that the same government people that is influenced by lobbying is going to vote to close the ways in which corporations give them money to control their decisions? How could that happen? I just told you. >Tyrants belie
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
A Forbes editorial is unconvincing. Tim Worstall is far from a dispassiinate observer; in fact, as an Adam Smith Institute fellow, it's safe to say that he has a major conflict of interest. That reducing wealth inequality makes a more
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
I understand now that this line >and Meta pays out to the affected parties probably won't come to pass, which I agree is not nearly as good. But I was responding to that possibility, as put forward by the the parent.
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Let's be accurate. We're a first-world shithole. I'll be explicit in saying that this is because "third-world shithole" is often used as a pseudo-euphemism for "brown people reside there" - as in, this pla
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
The point of a fine is to change behavior. It's not outsize if it's enough to do that. >If this fine remains, and Meta pays out to the affected parties, these kids could end up rewarded with thousands of dollars for just for ha
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
Because environment makes culture and physics are the environment at relativistic speeds and cosmic distances.
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I'll give you one thing: you're bold to try to spin a comment like this. There's not a sentence here that isn't a falsehood or working in service of one. Ghandi was not poor. He was a trained lawyer with experience worki
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
You regulate cartelization in part by reducing their access to capital and redistributing it to non-cartel rivals, i.e., reducing wealth inequality. >if it doesn't work don't blame capitalism, blame governments Corporate captur
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You're either under the mistaken impression, or have constructed the impression as a strawman to argue against, that any of the concepts and states which we're talking about are absolute and don't exist in a state of flux. Bu
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No, it doesn't, and no, they weren't. They were depicted as more comfortable and capable with the technology that they'd never known a world without. Some adults weren't able to keep up, but some (most) were. If children
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by 59percentmore 2mo ago
It's used correctly here. Advertising to children is a moral hazard because the money used to buy the advertised product comes from the parents, not the children (mostly). The point of advertising is to inform and influence a consumer,
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by 59percentmore 3mo ago
>we knew that apple would only release something when the user experience was right. And, as has been the case since the iMac release, they can only get the user experience right when others have done the important work of getting it wro
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by 59percentmore 3mo ago
VR can be transformative, if the people who work on it decide that they want to make something transformative, rather than a walled garden that they control and that exists primarily to harvest user data. But everyone seems dead-set on the
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by 59percentmore 3mo ago
I think they weren't naive enough for either, and that they released exactly what they wanted to release. It's just that what they wanted to release was as much about preempting their rivals' strategies as it was about releas
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I don't know that that's an accurate description of the circumstances in the books. They were born into a world of ever-present and almost-ubiquitous connectivity, and heavily encouraged to string together modular black boxes to b
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What.
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I think it's the opposite. None of the players in XR wanted to be Apple'd, least of all Apple. That is, create a base product that someone else would refine in order to drink their milkshake. Apple delayed the AVP multiple times h
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by 59percentmore 3mo ago
His read on the Apple Vision Pro (both the circumstances of its creation and its path forward) are incorrect in quite the discouraging manner for me. AVP wasn't released early (late, if anything), and it wasn't a dud because of Ti
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by 59percentmore 3mo ago
Literally Rainbows End. Vinge was an oracle. It's a real shame that no one ever got that book in front of Hayao Miyazaki's eyes.
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by 59percentmore 3mo ago
Part of the (relatively) happy denouement included the Chinese coming in with the nondestructive process and everyone being quite happy with that. So yes, the Shredders were the villains.
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by 59percentmore 3mo ago
>Dictionaries are easily available. You should use one. >He said, without citation. Also it seems you don't know much about poor people. It is a structural impossibility for a poor person to be as absolutely corrupt from an extri
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>Impossible if there's competition between producers and it's at world scale. That's a goalpost move if I've ever seen it. Maybe a No True Scotsman fallacy, too. Geography confers varying conditions at world scale. He
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>A stronger or armed person has a power differential with a weaker person. A smarter person has more power than a dumber one. These are all examples of inequality. >There's is poor people who exploit other poor people. Poor peopl
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"He" being "ryandrake".
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by 59percentmore 3mo ago
Well, no. The low-trust society comes (partly) from corporations betraying the trust of consumers, not consumers recognizing that the corporations saying, "Trust us," are probably bullshitting them. The initial assertion that ther

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