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by CPLX 1y ago
Far more likely is that they needed to do this so that whoever does own windsurf at the end of this can’t sue Google on account of all the IP that the former employees walked off with.
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by CPLX 1y ago
Yeah me too, so it's found in many authoritative places. And I might be wrong but my understanding is that it's not wrong per-se, it's just wildly incomplete. Which, is kind of like the same as wrong. But I believe the airf
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by CPLX 1y ago
The Silicon Valley playbook for the last few decades has just been to acquire monopolies and then exploit them. That’s illegal of course but we stopped enforcing those laws somewhere in the early 2000s so here we are.
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by CPLX 1y ago
Developer access isn’t normal to a lay audience. That’s my point. To a lay audience developers are special computer expert people who do completely different things than they do. From the perspective of a non technical reader developer acce
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by CPLX 1y ago
It would be normal standard English to assume that special modifies the word access. That would make the sentence semantically be the same as “special access, specifically the type of access used by developers” Compare with a sentence like
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by CPLX 1y ago
The abundance mindset as described in Klein and Thompson's book fails to address the actual problem that prevents abundance, as defined by them. The problem that they've identified is real and obvious: people can't afford hou
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by CPLX 1y ago
It’s Andreesens all the way down. The abundance movement is not a grassroots group of people, it’s a lab creation of billionaire/donor types. Andreesen is one of them, that’s the context for the link. Reid Hoffman is another. These peo
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by CPLX 1y ago
Ad-hominem is a great way to understand a group of people that are obviously full of shit and engaged in self-serving advocacy. Unless you think this guy is actually interested in building more housing: https://fortune.com/2
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by CPLX 1y ago
> 1. Derek Thompson is flat out lying It's this one. The person he called made a lengthy follow up post. It's clear Thompson purposely misrepresented the conversation. It's helpful to understand why the "abundance&quo
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by CPLX 1y ago
This has nothing to do with journalism. Both sides of this argument are advocates for points of view.
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by CPLX 1y ago
The abundance movement IS a bad faith movement. It’s entirely the creation of the donor/billionaire set and its rollout is designed to stop the Democratic Party from taking the obvious next step of tackling concentrated economic power,
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by CPLX 1y ago
What it doesn’t address is the role of finance and the financial sector in explaining why things are the way they are. It’s not just a missing detail it’s fatal to their entire argument. Which isn’t an accident, since the goal of the “abund
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by CPLX 1y ago
> This helps me now and then to put away my phone and just post on HN. It's OK, we're all mad here.
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by CPLX 1y ago
I have had this thought too, but not sure I would phrase it the same way. For context I'm an older father who had kids mid-40's and had a lot of time to try life the other way, and a lot of time to observe friends life paths befor
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by CPLX 1y ago
What the Fed does isn’t “capitalism” it’s literally a government agency that sets prices.
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by CPLX 1y ago
This is a ridiculous statement. The Fed is a profoundly undemocratic institution that harnesses the power of the state to serve the interests of capital, and its current form is a recent development that coincides with the financialization
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by CPLX 1y ago
I’m old. They’ve been saying this for 30-40 years. It’s bullshit. We finance social security out of current revenue and always have. If the economy shrinks that creates problems if it grows that does not.
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by CPLX 1y ago
When you were younger and learned about history did you form a mental image of what kind of people the famous financiers, capitalists, and robber barons were? These are those people. Oil and railroads were high technology too. They want you
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by CPLX 1y ago
< This about enacting tboughtcrime and normalizing that two Americans cannot exchange whatever arbitrary information the current administration has decided is disallowed. It starts with porn and ends with any form of dissent. It's a
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by CPLX 1y ago
Yeah that’s the libertarian techno utopian Silicon Valley point of view. It’s not that I don’t understand it, it’s that I think it’s pretty clear at this point it’s just a PR pitch for a group of sociopathic assholes who think they deserve
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by CPLX 1y ago
Yeah but we didn’t do it, because our political system is built around deference to large corporations and we’ve abandoned antitrust and taking on corporate power. But here’s the thing. This effort to stop these corporations from delivering
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by CPLX 1y ago
Exactly. And the early internet lead directly here. Which is why going back makes about as much sense as picking up your baby and dropping it on the floor again.
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by CPLX 1y ago
The “freedom” of the early internet was bullshit, because it just meant “freedom to make money” and “freedom from having to deal with the consequences of your products on regular people.” It most decidedly did not mean “freedom from corpora
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by CPLX 1y ago
How did widespread adoption of the libertarian techno-utopianism of the early web work out for society as a whole?
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by CPLX 1y ago
> it becomes easy to deduce that based on point 2, switch was not human induced This just isn’t correct at all. The evidence isn’t conclusive but if a human operated switch was flipped, and one of the humans present says to the other one
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The report contains significant evidence that one of the pilots switched off the engines. It doesn’t rule out other options, and it doesn’t explain why they might have done that or if it was inadvertent but it’s still new information, and p
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by CPLX 1y ago
I have my doubts about how real that Threads traffic is. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an organic link to Threads or a business list a profile, I don’t even know what the icon looks like. Bluesky I am seeing all the time. Maybe that’s just a
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by CPLX 1y ago
If anyone is in fact confused instead of being purposefully obtuse, the point being made that being a Nazi (like being a member of a criminal conspiracy) has the attribute of conveying responsibility to those who associate with the group.
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Nazi is a noun. Also try swapping in the word “criminal” and you’ll understand the argument being made.
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Bluesky seems to be doing reasonably well all things considered. It’s active and relevant. They also seem to have a pulse and ship new features. Not saying it will emerge from being a niche thing and take over but it’s a pretty big niche. A

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