AnthonyMouse

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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
"It's not a monopoly" is exactly the framing. Antitrust isn't inherently concerned with monopolies, it's concerned with market power. It's just that a monopolist has no room to move in claiming that they don&#x
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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
Defeatism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
> Technology can be sandboxed, permissioned, signed, fingerprinted, attested, scanned, and blacklisted. Many of the things you're listing are the exact things the platforms would have to be banned from doing by the regulation you&#x
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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
That's because they are the same thing. Integrating the complementary goods into a single offering is obviously vertical integration. Not integrating them would make the acquisition pointless -- or even more nakedly anti-competitive, w
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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
Do you expect Hugging Face to remain a neutral platform with no preference for any given GPU vendor's technology?
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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
The banking system in some countries (including the US) does regard that information as secret. This is, of course, fully insane and the only reason it persists is that the regulatory institutions in those countries are too intransigent t
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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
> I don't think there's a name for "buying makers of complementary goods". That's still vertical integration, you're just looking down the tube from the wrong end. Suppose a company that sells PCs also makes
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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
The common components are irrelevant. Even Apple still has components manufactured by Foxconn, buys RAM and flash from the same vendors as anyone else, uses ARM's ISA, etc. The phones made by Xiaomi et al are perfectly capable of runni
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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
Context: Liz Lemon has been buying two products together because one of them creates a need for the other. Jack Donaghy: The only thing I will be discussing with the House Subcommittee on Baseball, Quiz Shows, Terrorism, and Media is
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by AnthonyMouse 1mo ago
> the PC revolution only happened due IBM's mistake, everyone else was vertically integrated IBM was extremely vertically integrated. What actually happened was that Compaq reverse engineered their BIOS and made a compatible system
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
That's just conceding that you don't actually want to have laws and really only want to punish people when you don't like them.
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> This isn't arbitrage, it's looking for loopholes. "Have someone who pays the lower amount do the thing" is precisely arbitrage. > That would level out in their feasting years, after all (assuming you're usin
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
It's a common complaint but the complaint is ridiculous because the penalties already scale with the scope of the activity. It's typical when you sue a corporation for the penalty for willful violations to be treble damages, i.e
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
The prosecution can say whatever they want, but the worst of the existing laws are the one that are pretty easy to prove, and it's the court rather than the prosecution who makes the decision. You'll also get some nice incentives
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
Isn't that the other way around? The law already can't be enforced against the TBTF corporation, so what do they care if it stays on the books? But now you can't enforce it against someone else or they can point to you not
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
You're missing the symmetry. The two party system is a false dichotomy. The enemy is not the other party, it's the system that causes there to be only two alternatives that are both captured by mostly the same interests. Each part
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> The prosecution offered 6 months in low security in a plea deal. That's the racket. Getting any jailtime for "mass downloading" is a severe penalty, but that gets turned into the carrot because the stick is so unreas
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
The trouble with lawyers is that their quality varies tremendously but the client has very little ability to tell the difference until after it's too late. In theory this is why they have to be licensed but in practice that consistentl
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
Proposals like this are how you get the billionaire paying their chauffeur's $50 fines so they can get everywhere faster while sticking some small business owner in an industry with feast or famine years with a $50,000 ticket for havin
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
If you're going to say things like that you have to give examples.
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> If it applied equally to everyone, then more people would be outraged as it affected them. In order to do this you need to have laws that are designed to be reasonable for people to actually follow instead of laws that are designed to
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> More specifically your question is like asking what if you have a car that requires diesel, what substitute is available to let you use cheaper gasoline? It's like asking what the available substitute is for diesel fuel from Shell
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
> Is it more than zero? This is like complaining that Fox News offices use water in their restrooms because you don't like their reporting. It's transparently not about that. > I need to eat Do you need to eat alfalfa grown
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
I don't understand what makes people think Sony should get a pass here either. If you want to port Blender to PlayStation so people who buy a PlayStation can use it for 3D modeling then what business of that is Sony's?
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
How does that help you when the malware authors can get more signing certificates the same way they got the first one? Notice that this is easier for malware authors to do than ordinary people because their business is compromising others
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
The cooling infrastructure for a data center is a radiator with a fan. A gas turbine is essentially a jet engine.
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
A market is the set of things which are fungible substitutes for each other. Essentially every brand of gasoline is in the same market. By contrast, gasoline and diesel are separate markets, because some vehicles require gasoline and can&#x
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
People obviously consider it a computer; they install and use third party software on it. The question is whether the vendor should be allowed to monopolize the market for the third party software even when both the user and the third party
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
The premise here is that there isn't a single government in the entire world which is more willing to protect its population than oppress it. If that's the case then maybe we need to start considering what kind of alternate mechan
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by AnthonyMouse 2mo ago
Signature revocations are functionally equivalent to malware definitions and correspondingly don't actually require code signing.

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