Faark

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by Faark 8y ago
Then you better stick to that classical sales model that seems to be on the way out. The minute you sell the full package of an unfinished products, people will feel entitled to what they expect it to be (rightfully, imo). So you'd sho
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by Faark 8y ago
> while the wealthy will easily be able to afford the kind of lawyer who can get [..] more reasonable terms. That will be the case with any effective punishment. You can be sure they'll fight points just as hard. Ofc still way bette
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by Faark 8y ago
Digital game stores are a great comparison. Lets stick to windows gaming, since I'm most familiar with those. Steam & co did cut out physical media production and distribution, obviously driving the price down. But there is also co
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by Faark 8y ago
We humans usually don't focus our resources on a single issues. Have you ever heard we have to stop spending money for cosmetics because right now we have to fix amazon deforestation? And even then, we usually don't go all in on a
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by Faark 8y ago
Sure, it always existed and isn't necessarily always a problem. But, as with anything, it can quickly become a problem once we get better at it and turn it to eleven. Last century, forming a sect was hard work. Now this kinda seems to
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by Faark 8y ago
Nice straw man. He got 500k during 9 month in 2017, as you probably know if you've read the WaPo article... and I'd kind of expect that considering how active you comment on that topic. And yes, if you want a significant public of
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by Faark 8y ago
Yeah, but I'd give them the benefit of a doubt unless it's visible on actual codes or there is evidence this was intentional. You end up with that pattern all the time when you try to efficiently pack rectangles around a different
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by Faark 8y ago
A problem with this split is preventive care. You want to incentivize prevention, otherwise non-emergency issues can become way more costly emergencies. And just like that are both tied together, again...
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by Faark 8y ago
Your entire line of reasoning is based on the assumption that risk of fire is unavoidable and such we don't want to exert pressure on them to reduce that risk any further than regulation requires. I disagree. Government should regulate
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by Faark 8y ago
Even one-time, comparing the hash of a git commit or an installer is annoying but practically doable. I'd have no idea how to safely do something like this for a website. And I for sure ain't able to audit those ~200kb js by mysel
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by Faark 8y ago
They also shot one of their cars into space... i wonder what SpaceX would charge other car makers for such an add. They do marketing and are great at it, just in unconventional ways.
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by Faark 8y ago
Nuclear is not a solution to the upcoming energy problem of developing countries. We don't want them to develop those capabilities. And the US government will likely bomb the shit out of those who try and cannot be stopped with softer
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by Faark 8y ago
I wonder if those sales could be force to an open market. A bit like anti trust laws. I'm sure they would pay a lot more for their trademarks if other companies could otherwise snitch it for like a year. Or why not having to accept or
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by Faark 8y ago
The sad part is everyone would prefer taxing profits, but that just doesn't work with multinational firms. Since, you know, they will restructure their company to on paper generate all profit in a tax haven. For example their algorithm
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by Faark 8y ago
I agree with many of your points. Religion was a useful tool in the development of mankind. And we should replace it with something more useful, that doesn't suffer religions intrinsic downsides. Something that isn't built on dogm
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by Faark 8y ago
> it creates the chilling effect-- a business that's technically legal but can't get the services they need They can get it, but have to pay for that. Just like the porn industry had to build their own payment providers. The ch
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by Faark 8y ago
Except right wing populists aren't satisfied with bashing against those not willing to immigrate. The Bavarian government makes cultural assimilation as hard as possible (well, "made", at least actually. That topic died down
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by Faark 8y ago
> you can get fined for insulting a civil servant Not really a thing according to wikipedia [0]. But doing so is dumb in the same way you shouldn't sue a lawyer... he is fighting on home turf. > Can you call Mohammed a pedophile?
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by Faark 8y ago
You are missing the point. For a society to work, it's members have to perceive it as somewhat fair. The naive idealist would demand equal opportunity for everyone born. But we humans want to use the means available to us to directly i
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by Faark 8y ago
No, if Germany would switch to the US voting system, those two parties would quickly absorb all others on their respective "sides". [0] is a 6min youtube video for those unaware why FPTP voting is bad. And just like in the US toda
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by Faark 8y ago
You say it will be ignored, but here we are after the shooting. And gab was not willing to take it down. Nor did laws help. I love the idea of free speech to explore the space of possible ideas even against the current flow. But now we have
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by Faark 8y ago
Oh cmon, afaik §103 StGB was copied from older law, never used then quickly removed the linked issue occurred. I'm not familiar with the second case, but feel confident in someone writing "Kill Pope Francis" on his car being
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by Faark 8y ago
It can work. It doesn't help that simple imaginary solutions that probably blame some scape goat are easy to sell compared to complicated trade-offs that marginally reduce systemic issues our society has. The US political system practi
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by Faark 8y ago
The sad truth is lefties are mostly irrelevant these days, shifting the overton window far to the right. When have you last heard significant people someone talking nationalizing industries? A few hippies or blue-haired university students
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by Faark 8y ago
Or a facebook post. Or a russian twitter bot. None of them you can trust. All of those selected for you to see by algorithms. And you really want to tell me this is no different or definitively better than the last century's news syste
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by Faark 8y ago
Do you need banners for self hosted analytics not shared with 3rd parties? I'd be fine with clicking through countless banners if that pushes the industry even just slightly in that direction.
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by Faark 8y ago
> public media debt collection agency You do notice this is kind of government work? (Organized in a way politicians are supposed to have little influence about broadcast content) I understand the US is special in regard of having very h
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by Faark 8y ago
> We seem to be unable to remove the profit motive from local governments As in, "such changes would be hard to achieve currently in the current US", or not possible in principle? I'd disagree with the later one. Redirect
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by Faark 8y ago
Some of Tesla's statements regarding safety were apparently a bit exaggerated, in the way advertising often hides fine print to tell you they are the absolute best. Non the less does Tesla seem focused on safety and I also haven't
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by Faark 8y ago
Others already mentioned benefits for us currently living humans. Long term it is also interesting from an evolutionary aspect. Humans communities on earth are less and less isolated from each other, making it near impossible to evolve in d

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