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by Draiken 3y ago
Are we forgetting that we live in cities with cameras literally everywhere? Where arguably the real creeps (cops and random security people) are actively watching you all the time. I get it, if a person takes out his phone to do this it fee
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by Draiken 3y ago
Did something happen recently to get the YAML hate train going again? I get it. YAML is not perfect. Neither is JSON, TOML, XML or even code as configuration (Xmonad anyone?). They each have pros and cons and projects/technologies take
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by Draiken 3y ago
Would you simply accept a random persons PR fixing a bug without basically re-doing all the work? I know I wouldn't. Even a simple line change (especially in huge projects like the kernel) can have unexpected consequences. Your fix mig
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by Draiken 3y ago
100% agreed. Our individualism and own greed are also a great contributing factor. After-all we ultimately elect those politicians and also have to profit similar to a company (hopefully not at all costs though).
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by Draiken 3y ago
Isn't that what lobbying is all about? You effectively have companies paying politicians to keep these zoning laws that keep the rents as high as possible. Profit above all else. Arguments that boil down to "government policy&quot
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by Draiken 3y ago
> even though we made public servants numerous and quite rich in the process. This is a communist dream. Aside from this nonsense remark, it was an entertaining post. We should have one that's more based on incentives instead. Separ
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by Draiken 3y ago
Rare for whom? At any point in time this is happening in many countries around the world. I don't see how the frequency changes my assertion though. That's the regular boom/bust cycle from capitalism. There are many theories
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by Draiken 3y ago
The only collusion is the default one: profit at all costs. Everyone raises prices to increase profits, increasing inflation, that increases prices further... I don't understand why people are so happy to blame governments and treat co
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by Draiken 3y ago
As far as I can tell that's the most common IPO company cycle repeating itself. The early investors and founders cash out first and the public that bought into the unsustainable growth trajectory are left with a failing company. This i
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by Draiken 3y ago
>Companies have a very strong incentive to ensure their products are supported long terms and work well. I would say that's not quite accurate. They have only one incentive: profit. Long term supported products are one way of gettin
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by Draiken 3y ago
In theory, that's true. But what I see every day is the opposite. It's essentially what people are calling "enshitification". Mostly short term decisions that screw customers up for a quick buck. I do agree that private
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by Draiken 3y ago
The profit motive inevitably destroys these types of businesses. There's a reason threads here on HN in the category of "what did you buy/read/do recently?" are so popular. People want reliable information that adve
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by Draiken 3y ago
If that was what advertisement was all about, maybe we wouldn't care so much. But in the majority of cases those advertisements are lies. Fake photos, fake reviews, fake claims, fake everything. I can't justify accepting all that
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by Draiken 3y ago
We're rationalizing manipulating people to extract more profit out of them. Can we all agree this is insane or am I going insane? I simply cannot rationalize this. It's gross.
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by Draiken 3y ago
I'd say the article is more about non-targeted ads, but nitpicking the example doesn't really help. An ad can target an individual about their dandruff issue which only works because previously the non-targeted ads created social
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by Draiken 3y ago
Come on. Linux is stable enough for anyone. So many people have done exactly what you said can't be done, and then never again had to play tech support for their relatives. I can get a flash disk with Linux and it will work for the pro
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by Draiken 3y ago
Mine was a cheap bastard... they gave me an old Macbook my boss had dropped from the top of a server rack. It still "worked" (with random freezes and other intermittent issues), so they thought: why not save a buck? I'm sure
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by Draiken 3y ago
I literally laughed out loud. I give up, this will be my last reply. No, I can't predict the future. I can, however, look at our world and its incentives. Look at similar companies and how consistently they change. Right now Apple is u
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by Draiken 3y ago
Be mad at Dell, not Linux. Pretty much every sleep issue I've encountered in the wild is due to the hardware manufacturer's shitty implementation. The only reason some features "just work" with Windows is because they on
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by Draiken 3y ago
You work with a MS stack? My condolences. Yeah this is a point that a lot of people forget: we don't always have a choice. Same happened to me years back but with MacOS. CEO was high on how "startups" all used Macs, and force
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by Draiken 3y ago
Come on man. This is not an abstract thought. You don't need to go far to see examples of this exact scenario. You can choose to ignore it. That's your prerogative. But what I'm saying is not a lazy generalization. It's
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by Draiken 3y ago
By then, they have all your data and can do whatever they want with it. That's my whole point. This is not something you can retroactively deal with. Once that data is collected its completely outside of your control. You can choose to
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by Draiken 3y ago
That's an awesome story and I'd love to believe that's how it will always be. But I can't. I'm sure we could find great examples of other companies that made similar privacy aware decisions, only to then turn around
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by Draiken 3y ago
I agree with you. But my point is that how it looks now is irrelevant. The world changes. CEOs change. Incentives change. What won't change is the ultimate goal of any company: profit above all else.
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by Draiken 3y ago
This inevitability is inherent to our system. It's not specific to Apple. I don't need to convince anyone of this. History will repeat itself as it always does.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Because it will. It's simply inevitable because of the system we live in. At some point or another, they will need to grow revenue and suddenly that trove of data they have collected beforehand, regardless of its initial purpose, will
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by Draiken 3y ago
Then you know what will happen. They will relentlessly spy on their users. This is a for-profit company. It will always do what is more profitable, even if they don't do it right away.
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by Draiken 3y ago
It might be less awful, but in no way, shape or form it is benign.
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by Draiken 3y ago
Dead on. No corporation in the world can stop this once they are big enough. Maybe if you had an already rich individual keeping his company private and making an active effort to not be evil. But come on, let's be real...
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by Draiken 3y ago
Trade and money existed long before capitalism. Capitalism is not trade and never was. Trade will always exist regardless of the economic system. >law of the fittest Fittest? Capitalism rewards who already has capital. Monopolies inhibit

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