Draiken

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by Draiken 10mo ago
Except this is capitalism, so any improvements will go disproportionately to the owners. This narrative of improvements for customers has been repeated for decades and it keeps being wrong. More stock buybacks and subscriptions!
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by Draiken 10mo ago
I find it infuriating, but that's how the system's supposed to work. It's the definition of a monopoly and they're in the extraction phase. When there's no competition (and eventually there's always going to be
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by Draiken 10mo ago
Talk about utopia huh? Free markets never existed, don't exist and never will. Markets are defined by laws and regulations in which they exist in. They can't ever be "free".
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by Draiken 10mo ago
> a great tool to allocate resources efficiently Sorry but... WTF are you talking about? It rewards self-destructive behavior in favor of short-term gains. Shareholders have *zero* commitment to the companies they buy shares from and wil
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by Draiken 10mo ago
You mean the "license while they feel like it" kind of purchase? If I could pay for individual TV shows and actually own them I'd definitely prefer that over the disaster we have today. Buying a blue-ray and ripping it is not
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by Draiken 10mo ago
The marketing works because of what I said: people are dumb. Anyone that's not dumb will know (maybe after the heat of the moment) why they lost, but the vast majority of people will blame anything they can instead. Teammates, lag, the
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by Draiken 10mo ago
I mean, people are dumb. Anti cheats are as much a marketing ploy as they're actual anti cheats. People believe everyone is cheating so it must be true. People believe nobody bypasses the FACEIT anti cheat so it must be true. Neither o
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by Draiken 11mo ago
And what exactly are grants then? Tariffs? All the lobbied laws that benefit specific corporations or industries? Aren't they state backed advantages? Banks created their oligopolies and then who saved them when they fucked up? Isn&#x2
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by Draiken 11mo ago
Let me fix that: This feature is completely optional and is never turned on by default UNTIL MS DECIDES OTHERWISE . Sorry, I wouldn't take any chances.
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by Draiken 11mo ago
I use i3wm and I have this issue with escaping mouse in CS2. I thought about using gamescope but never did. You mention you found a solution so would you be kind enough to share it? That would definitely save me part of that hour you lost :
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by Draiken 11mo ago
> Fines are probably the best way to do that for rational actors How can you say that after not only this instance but also all the other instances that showed how ineffective they are? That also has the huge assumption that companies ar
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by Draiken 11mo ago
If only we had more of this. Why is it so rare? Do they have a benevolent dictator? Is this a temporary glitch that will be "corrected" when profits aren't looking as good? Are they a monopoly? I'm genuinely curious.
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by Draiken 11mo ago
I call BS. There's a big difference between people putting extra effort due to real external factors (e.g. company running out of money) and artificial pressure while executives enjoy their yachts. This is a myth and plenty of amazing
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by Draiken 11mo ago
You might be robbing yourself of the opportunity to learn SQL for real by short-cutting to a solution that might not even be correct one. I've tried using LLMs for SQL and it fails at exactly that: complexity. Sure it'll get the b
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by Draiken 11mo ago
> If a market is being ripped off by subscription, there is opportunity in selling the asset. Only in theory. Nothing beats getting paid forever. > Business models tend to oscillate between these two for a variety of reasons They do?
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by Draiken 1y ago
> Viewing corporations as amoral bots that are justified in squeezing every bit of profit out of humans Literally what a corporation is. This is capitalism mate. People will do basically anything with the "for the company" excu
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by Draiken 1y ago
I don't understand how we allow these companies to protect each other even in the face of egregious malpractice. This might even be a PR move. They fucked up and can merely say "a third party" did it. Who's gonna verify
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by Draiken 1y ago
And we rarely see meaningful change anywhere because electing politicians is barely connected to the actual outcomes people want. Now we have a pacified populace that allows corruption to run freely and keeps repeating "violence is nev
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by Draiken 1y ago
Regardless, if they didn't understand the risks before, surely they do now. The cat's out of the bag. Even if it was a mistake (it never is) this shows how they control YOUR data. I really hope they don't stay.
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by Draiken 1y ago
And it's basically free to create a rule "if it's from apple, auto-approve" even if it's a manual process.
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by Draiken 1y ago
Never said it's a bad idea. Just that it's not what actually happens or realistically what will ever happen.
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by Draiken 1y ago
Honestly reading comments in these types of news on HN makes me lose some hope in humanity. People are actively against anything that's not helpful for them and salivate at the idea of somehow profiting on top without a care for the hu
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by Draiken 1y ago
Isn't this wishful thinking? This basically never happens. Theory vs reality is very real.
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by Draiken 1y ago
AI will win because mediocrity is enough to generate profits and all that's all we care about. I hate it but I don't see how we can stop it.
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by Draiken 1y ago
100% my biggest fear. Whether the tech is good enough or not, it's already changing how new grads and juniors behave. It'll rob them of gaining knowledge at a crucial time and will end up forming a new generation that's 100%
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by Draiken 1y ago
Our votes are limited by who we can vote for. That's where the rich come in. The two party system is a great example of how to stop the masses from messing their plans too much. They can pick two candidates that are corporate friendly,
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by Draiken 1y ago
These are rich people hiring rich kids exactly to extract as much money as they can from the companies. A huge salary or bonus is the best way to do that regardless of company performance in the long term. Take a look at this: https:/
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by Draiken 1y ago
So much copium. People are so invested in this bubble they have to believe it will not burst at all costs. If this works as well as the evangelists say, they'll all soon be millionaires, right? Everyone is 10x more productive! I'l
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by Draiken 1y ago
Free markets are an utopia. This becomes more obvious the more you study. What really surprises me is how much of HN swallows the whole capitalist propaganda without ever questioning it. Maybe the promise of the journey from the garage to b
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by Draiken 1y ago
What a load of crap. CEOs are elites that were born into money in the majority of cases. They fail upwards while not doing any real work and reaping the benefits from the thousands that do. Yes a CEO has an impact on the business but so doe

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