AnthonyMouse

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by AnthonyMouse 5d ago
I notice that you haven't actually answered the question of what they're supposed to be needing to buy.
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by AnthonyMouse 5d ago
You're still assuming that the insurance companies are the biggest problem, and on top of that that single-payer is the best way to improve even that part of the system. For example, why do we have insurance companies "negotiating
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by AnthonyMouse 5d ago
> it will still allow any Amazon out there to host your code for free as part of their service catalog, while you are left to go out of business. Most other licenses allow them to do that without even contributing back improvements, sinc
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by AnthonyMouse 5d ago
> If you don’t punish the corporation they won’t ensure they vet their employees and have strict policies and procedures around handling customers. What if that's what you want? Why should we be pressuring corporate middlemen to be
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
That's the middle manager's rationalization again, but meanwhile nobody actually uses their OEM-specific app store and the two dollars they made from the two percent of customers who accidentally bought an app using their store is
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
Disassembling a binary to tell you what it does is neat, but it doesn't give you anything new against free software whose source code was public to begin with. Whereas if you ask it to generate a new large complex piece of software, th
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
There is a meaningful difference between allowing someone to use your code for whatever and assigning the rights to it so that you can no longer use it. And requiring contributions under BSD/MIT doesn't seem to be a huge problem
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
If PE buys something that doesn't have a moat then they can't enshittify it because the customers would immediately switch to alternatives. They often still buy those things, e.g. when there is a failing company in a competitive m
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
> But why should an owner of a practice sell to their junior staff when PE is there offering 2, 3, 5x as much? The better question is, why does a medical practice have a moat? What exactly is the PE firm buying? When the senior doctor re
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
> It boggles my mind when I still occasionally hear people speaking out against all forms of single payer healthcare in the US saying they don't want to have to wait weeks/months to see a doctor like they do in Canada/UK&#
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
> They need to sign away their rights to their code so you can sell it. They can't accept contributions under the AGPL, but what stops them from accepting contributions under e.g. the BSD license? Does the BSD code stop Apple from s
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
> AI's ability to rewrite entire codebases is quickly killing 1 People say things like this, but can you name an instance of this actually happening? What non-trivial existing free software has been displaced in popular use by a vib
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
There is a pretty reliable way to do this. Which is to distribute the code under two licenses, where one of them is the AGPL and the other is a paid license. AGPL allows you to satisfy the free software people (and the free-as-in-beer peopl
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by AnthonyMouse 6d ago
The premise is that you want to make something that competes with Safari, e.g. you want to provide a graphics API to third party developers. Doing that in Safari doesn't work twice. First, if Safari doesn't already expose whatev
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by AnthonyMouse 8d ago
> The reason why no one runs AOSP is because the phone market rewards differentiation. This is what empire-building middle managers say to rationalize their boondoggles, but in actual fact most customers can't even tell the differen
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by AnthonyMouse 8d ago
> Because breaking the stranglehold that the tech megacorps currently have over devices is not going to be cheap. In the end, if users won't pay for it to happen, it won't happen. Paying for an ad blocker and paying for a devic
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by AnthonyMouse 8d ago
> Like you get a frame-buffer to draw on with something like a wasm vm. Web pages get replaced by programs (which they essentially are anyway). The biggest thing standing in the way of this is actually Apple, since they don't allow
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by AnthonyMouse 11d ago
The general problem with this is that starting a business generally requires money, which for-profit companies get from investors. For a non-profit to do it they need to get it from donors, and then your actual complaint isn't that nob
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by AnthonyMouse 11d ago
> The steelman is that by lowering the cost, more pets can afford better food than what they currently eat. No comment about whether that is reflected in the consumer facing price or in profits. For your steelman to be relevant it would
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by AnthonyMouse 11d ago
> Developers need full control over their own devices to develop apps. But they don't need users to have such control. But they do need that control. Otherwise apps can't do the things they want them to do, like blocking ad
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by AnthonyMouse 13d ago
> To most people, "general purpose computing" just means their computer (or more likely their phone, these days) can run any app they want it to run. That's the same definition as the one where developers have control over
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by AnthonyMouse 13d ago
> He literally says he'll cut a check for $5,000 for every adult american if the Republicans win both the House and Senate in the midterms. Which is exactly why it doesn't apply. The money would go to even the people who didn&#
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by AnthonyMouse 13d ago
You're quoting a paragraph talking about EPA air pollution permits, which are about things like NOx and particulates rather than CO2. Moreover, those types of permits aren't a sensible way to deal with CO2 even if they were actual
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by AnthonyMouse 13d ago
Your one example was plausibly the result of fog of war, and if you're going to go back to events that happened before the moon landing like that then Canada and the US were on opposite sides in the War of 1812. Moreover, the point is
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by AnthonyMouse 15d ago
Gift cards don't allow reloading which consequently makes them a significant inconvenience to use for subscriptions. It's sort of like saying you can pay for something by going to their offices and paying in cash. Okay, but then w
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by AnthonyMouse 15d ago
That interpretation seems... odd. You seem to be implying that if your policy is to give everyone a tax credit (i.e. give them money) if you win then you're not allowed to tell anyone about it.
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by AnthonyMouse 15d ago
About the only type of pollution which is actually global is CO2, which is exactly the thing this kind of review has nothing to do with. If you want people to emit less CO2 then you price carbon and as a result everyone has that amount of i
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by AnthonyMouse 15d ago
If a nuclear bomb vaporized New York and you were forced to guess who did it between Israel and Canada, the better guess would be Canada and they don't even have nuclear weapons.
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by AnthonyMouse 15d ago
> While eliminating bullshit jobs sounds great on its own merits, eliminating the wages for said jobs can actually clog the local engine by lowering wages, raising unemployment, slowing hiring, and curtailing growth. If you get rid of BS
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by AnthonyMouse 15d ago
> I always wonder if anyone else considers BS jobs societies implict UBI? BS jobs are the anti-UBI. With a UBI you get to avoid starvation even if you refuse to take a job which is excessively dangerous or degrading or low-paying, which

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