Gormo

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by Gormo 1y ago
A middleman is a specific party that mediates the relationship between two other parties. An aggregated system that everyone is using but no one in particular is in control of is not a middleman in the sense applicable here.
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by Gormo 1y ago
It's true that putting locks on your front door will reduce the chance of your house getting robbed, but if you do get robbed, the fact that your front door wasn't locked does not in any way absolve the thief for his conduct. Si
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by Gormo 1y ago
Although the Yamaha that makes music and audio products is the same Yamaha that makes golf clubs ( https://global.golf.yamaha.com/en/ ) and industrial equipment ( https://www.yamahafinetech.co.jp/en&#x2F
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by Gormo 1y ago
I suppose you're right, and it does apply to Google acting as a middleman between advertisers and content providers. I do think the dynamic there is still a bit different from where the term usually applies, since advertising involves
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by Gormo 1y ago
A Hollywood production often involves a huge number of distinct business entities in a complicated network of relationships with each other. Oftentimes, a specific business entity is set up to coordinate a single production, and that is th
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by Gormo 1y ago
That applies to what you actually make, even if you are "losing" much more on paper.
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by Gormo 1y ago
"The internet itself" isn't a vendor that one obtains specific services from.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Can you elaborate on that? It's not clear to me how advertising involves acting as an intermediary in a transaction between two other parties.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Is this actually a verbatim quote? The typo at the end makes that seem unlikely.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Oxide looks like it may be that sort of company.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Not sure "enshittification" applies here, as Google isn't leveraging a middleman role to maximize revenue extraction from both sides of a transaction it facilitates, but I think you're right that Google does still have m
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by Gormo 1y ago
Is it set to actually lose $132M, or just "lose" it in the tradition of Hollywood accounting?
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by Gormo 1y ago
That only applies to faux -native apps built in Electron. Actual native apps are rendered using the OS's UI toolkits, and look however the OS is configured to look.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Same, in conjunction with some of the format conversion tools that come with Ghostscript, and PDFgrep ( https://pdfgrep.org/ ).
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by Gormo 1y ago
It's kind of funny, because hardware text modes essentially are GPU-accelerated text rendering -- storing the character set in hardware and offloading the output rendering from the CPU is one of the oldest and most fundamental use ca
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by Gormo 1y ago
> So hiring juniors who provide negative value at the start is mostly benefiting the industry as a whole at your own personal loss. Which makes it a pretty easy thing to cut. That's true, but why are you qualifying this with "w
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by Gormo 1y ago
> You mention IDEs besides VS Code, Linux, and ricing as “green flags”. Those are not proxies for “being a good programmer” and they are not proxies for “being enthusiastic about programming”. They're just selecting for programmers
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by Gormo 1y ago
The problem with your last paragraph, of course, is that there is no "system", no generalizable concept of "societal good", no such thing as "true value" independent of the subjective evaluations of an object b
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by Gormo 1y ago
I wouldn't call the categories calcified in a conflict-oriented prescriptive ideology dating to the 19th century to be "ancient", but I suppose YMMV.
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by Gormo 1y ago
If that was your intention, why would you need a pretext? You're not obligated to hire anyone in particular in the first place, and apart from being accused of purposeful discrimination based on protected characteristics, you're
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by Gormo 1y ago
> You don’t see a reliability difference between a self-moderating and unmoderated system? I don't see there being a distinction between the two in the real world. An institutional system's behavior largely determined by the i
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by Gormo 1y ago
No. And the dynamics of inter-branch checks and balances within the US federal government aren't directly relevant to the question of whether the federal government as a whole is a reliable institution in the first place (nb: it isn&
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by Gormo 1y ago
No such thing as "democratic constraints" or "democratic society" at the level you're discussing. Democracy is an imperfect safeguard against certain types of extreme dysfunction of the political system -- a necess
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by Gormo 1y ago
I can't imagine what a court case about whether the US president has the power to unilaterally dismiss officials in executive-branch agencies could possibly have to do with this. At least you're referencing the United States in 19
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by Gormo 1y ago
It's not just a browser extension -- it's also available as a JS library that can be added added to any site to restore seamless Flash support.
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by Gormo 1y ago
Which political environment pre-1980s do you want to go back to? 1930s? 1850s? 1760s?
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by Gormo 1y ago
To make sure I understand, your position is that anything vitally important to the internet should not be under the control of a plurality of institutions subject to heterogenous incentive structures, but instead should be under the central
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by Gormo 1y ago
They're credited to NASA in the Ars Technica article, so they are likely public domain.
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by Gormo 1y ago
> They are conserving what they think the world has been all along. No, they very clearly aim to change things to conform to what they think it ought to be. > When you define conservatism as being a status quo a single "leftish&q
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by Gormo 1y ago
> You're confusing authoritarian vs libertarian ideology with left-wing vs right-wing ideology. I'm certainly not. In the US, there is a significant overlap between libertarianism and conservatism, due to American political tr

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