F00bart

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by F00bart 7y ago
I think most people are simply ignorant of the sheer volume of transactions of counterfeit goods on Amazon and similar platforms. The platforms benefit from each transaction regardless, so the platforms often evolve to encourage volume, not
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by F00bart 7y ago
Amazon has benefited tremendously from counterfeiting, and has done little to combat it until recently, mostly because the pressure to act has increased and the benefits of stalling have decreased.
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by F00bart 7y ago
This. The influence of Conway’s law is underappreciated. We are all trained to see hierarchies as the only principle for building structure, it’s a dominant normative ideology. Once we see how to build decentralized systems, we can discover
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by F00bart 7y ago
Are you really sure that is the distinction. A lot of conservative policies results in even the conservative voters being worse off as a result. And there IS a direct profit motive by those who fund conservative politicians (a.k.a. scammers
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by F00bart 7y ago
You‘d need to break it into much smaller pieces, but that is the obvious solutions the problem.
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by F00bart 7y ago
I don’t remember the author talking about the soviet union existing before 1922, he does talks about soviets (assemblies).
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by F00bart 7y ago
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
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by F00bart 7y ago
Duckduckgo claims to use 400 sources [0], so you’re probably not totally spot on. Edit: However, that includes their Instant Answers feature, and the numbers are outdated, it’s 1600 sources, most of which are catering to an specific and tin