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by Fargren 3y ago
The word "just" here implies quitting is a simple solution. For most people quitting is anything but simple. Leaving a job can be costly and risky, if not outright dangerous. Rather than suggesting people quit their jobs if their
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by Fargren 3y ago
"Are there better numbers?" is not a question that justifies trusting bad numbers. If the best numbers you have are known to be unreliable, using them just because you don't have better ones is not justified. Let's say t
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by Fargren 3y ago
Let's explore this scenario, I think it is interesting. You are a small time creator and make a new kids cartoon series with an original concept. Regardless of Disney, how did you monetize it? Did you get commissioned to make it? Then
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by Fargren 3y ago
I'm probably misreading your argument, because it seems inconsistent to me. You are saying that piracy is immoral because it causes harm; and that it causes harm because in some cases the downloaded would have purchased the downloaded
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by Fargren 3y ago
Whenever I've been offered stock, it has either been stock options for a private company, or RSUs for a FAANG. In the first case, I value them at 0. The stock can't be sold unless there's an IPO or the company is sold, and me
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by Fargren 3y ago
The happy medium for me would be working less than 20 hours per week. It's not about the work but about how much time it consumes. And part time software engineering jobs don't seem to exist... I would happily live on half my inco
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by Fargren 3y ago
I don't know how to write this without sounding snarky, which is not my intention but: maybe if you are intending to build a Patreon competitor, you should look into how this model works. It's probably not a big source of their pr
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by Fargren 3y ago
I think you misread my comment. What I meant is that I'm not only assuming Meta does not exist, but also assuming that no other company that fills the same niche exists. If there's another company which is essentially the same, ju
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by Fargren 3y ago
It's hard to see into alternative worlds. I can tell you what my belief is, but I can't really prove it: if Meta did not exist (and no other similar company filled the same niche), the world would be better by most measurements. P
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by Fargren 3y ago
But at that point anyone can copy it, since copyright has expired. Would publishers really want to publish books anyone can copy and share freely? (if the answer is that yes they would, it implies that it's profitable to publish withou
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by Fargren 3y ago
I'm sure they could release those things, but how could they hold a monopoly when everyone is allowed to do their own translations, sequels, and movie adaptations? Maybe there would be some big successful publishers with that business
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by Fargren 3y ago
I really don't see that as very problematic. For me, the value of the books is the value they provide to their readers, not the money they provide to the author. We want author to be able to get money because it will incentivize them t
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by Fargren 3y ago
Thanks for doing this. Maybe I was wrong. I edited my post to reflect this.
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by Fargren 3y ago
I don't think content creators can choose not to have ads in their videos. Creators can turn off monetization, but YouTube can still play ads, they just won't pay the creator. https://www.makeuseof.com/youtube-ads-
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by Fargren 3y ago
OK, I can see the point of buying the food as a way to support a cinema you like. Specially now that cinemas are mostly struggling. I feel somehow icky paying upwards or five or ten times the cost for something I don't really need. But
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by Fargren 3y ago
Watch a movie without food or drinks is what I did most of my life. Same with almost everyone I know, I don't feel like this is a weird choice to make. Where I live now it's illegal for cinemas to stop you from bringing food in, s
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by Fargren 3y ago
I know there are lots of people who do it, but I can't wrap my head about why any normal person pays for drinks and food at the cinema. It might not be the biggest ripoff I can think of, but it's probably the most blatant one. The
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by Fargren 4y ago
Yes, what you describe is a sunk cost fallacy. I get it, people do fall for them, we're wired that way. But a public company with stockholders shouldn't make decisions like this. It's either better for the company to make the
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by Fargren 4y ago
I've heard this a million times, but isn't that a sunk cost fallacy? They don't get their money back when people come back, and they can either stop renting or sell. They aren't charging employee's rent for using th
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by Fargren 4y ago
It's not about drawing the line, it's about quantifying the impact. I think this is what people don't get about the study. The study is not saying no one should drink. It's not saying that the risks of drinking outweigh
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by Fargren 4y ago
You are replying to someone who is saying "I don't think it's good that things are this way" with "things are this way". I hate these kinds of comments. The other guy knows how it's not up to him to make t
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by Fargren 4y ago
Those seem like reasonable predictions.
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by Fargren 4y ago
I have a question that this is probably not the best forum for: I don't run, but know plenty of people who do. Everyone is running what I would call marathon-style, by which I mean their goals are measured in how far they can reliably
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by Fargren 4y ago
In Spain (and I think in all of the EU) every item in every menu in every [law-complaint] restaurant has a list of allergens. This is clearly not unrealistic to do, as demonstrable by the fact that many places do it. There's a list of
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by Fargren 4y ago
There was once a time when I would have written a comment like this one, but now I'm down-voting it. There are two ways to read this message, and both of them are not something I would encourage, of different reasons, and being ambiguo
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by Fargren 4y ago
All I'm saying is I don't see how the pre-existance of mandatory ID under a democratic government would be a significant boon for an eventual dictatorship. I understand that based on principle one might prefer not to have them, bu
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by Fargren 4y ago
Both of the examples I used had mandatory state IDs during their dictatorships. The IDs were not significantly instrumental to the government's power. I don't think the addition of RFID really would change that in the event of a n
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by Fargren 4y ago
There are many places with mandated ID. Can you mention one in which any of the others on the list have "eventually followed"? You are presenting speculation as unavoidable fact.
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by Fargren 4y ago
This is a strawman, and plainly untrue. Many countries have mandatory id. I have personally lived in Argentina and Spain, both of them have it, for close to a century (89 years in Spain, 54 years in Argentina, but it replaced a pre-exisitng
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by Fargren 4y ago
Copyright addresses a real issue but at the same time creates new issues. It's not obvious to me that a world without copyright is better than one with it. Just because something solves a problem doesn't always mean that it's

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