Super_Jambo

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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
If you get any kind of traction please start competing with Check-a-trade they're absolute hell for the consumer and I imagine not amazing for the contractors either. You'd be in a pretty good position for this given the view you&
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Banks likes twists. The Culture is his attempt at writing a viable techno utopia. Every other book has a more pro-culture viewpoint. But if you're after 'good guys' and 'bad guys' Banks might not really be for you.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
"The Internet" isn't to blame. The problem is advert funded media & technology and the 'free market' of eyeballs. Competitive markets; our greatest engine of innovation and creation are racing to discover our bi
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
America has a huge economy & relatively few legislators. The return on investment for corruption in America is _huge_ compared with other democratic countries. I do think the FPTP system in the US and UK concentrates power. And that mak
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
I would guess most count oppression and exploitation cumulatively not by maximum event size.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
> True, but it is too much to ask Google to throw "the baby out with the bath water", as it were. No it isn't, the 'baby' of targetted adverts is a net negative for society. We'd be net better off if most go
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
I briefly looked at this a while ago. The short answer is no, space mirrors (or lenses which focus light away and need less fuel to maintain position) are not a viable solution launched from earth. We'd be better off reducing emissions
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
> Who cares if people involved with google make more money. Anyone who cares about moral hazard?
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Corporations are obviously far more than just an association of people. There are huge tomes of legislation that define them, give them extra powers & limit their actions: Limited Liability, Tax codes, Health and Safety, Child Labour, E
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
It depends who's paying. If the product seller pays then it's an advert. If the product buyer pays it's not. The difference in economic incentives is... stark. Ad supported media has a similarly skewed structure. If I'm
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
My idea for this is that we should nationalise advertising & product discovery. Over consumption is killing the planet, processed foods are destroying our health, user engagement hacking is eroding free will. Powerful companies like HSB
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
My view is we should be aiming for _competitive_ markets or perfect markets. Markets which approach as near as possible perfect competition[1]. It's obviously impossible to realize in reality. However, it's instructive that we get
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
We could fix it with better regulation of product information though. No one seriously argues against weights and measures legislation. We've supposedly had an information revolution but I still can't really trust any source of pr
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
They should be, if product success is determined by the skill and technology of advertisers then product _development_ is irrelevant and the only thing which matters is a companies ability to access advertising. In that world even people wh
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Better public transit can't be leveraged into a monopoly though, it would just quietly improve peoples lives.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Looks fantastic! Did you try fading between images? Relatively easy with changing alpha channels in pygame.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Only if you don't have a monopoly...
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Aha, thanks.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Having just read the readme I think this is perhaps missing two layers to model human behavioural 'evolution'. It's a super cool project though despite that and I wonder if you could extend it to put the two missing layers in
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Can you expand upon point 3? I do not really follow sports.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Problem persists with addons turned off so perhaps you've been HNs DOSed.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
I attempted to signup with my google account. Firefox pops up a window briefly which then closes. I'm running on ubuntu, firefox with umatrix & ublock origin.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
Given modern consumerism is making the planet uninhabitable this is a weird argument to make in favour of tribalism.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
But we are positively drowning in music, video and written words. We don't need more incentives for people to create copyrighted work. We need more effective markets for consumers to judge it.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
They're free for the consumers of lies. They're paid for by the consumers of whatever product is buying the adverts.
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
This is the logic of economics based on infinite growth and advertising which accounts for a great deal of modern 'IT'. Companies hacking the human brains availability heuristic need to out-advertise their peers. So they're a
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
> The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. Unregulated markets have had near a century of exposure and yet here we are. So I think maybe we also need reform to stop
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
I'd say it is normal, the vast majority of time since humans started living in cities have been like this. A society based on a corrupt system structured to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a ruling class. The abnormal time
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
What, why is the presidency two party in nature? Any transferable vote system would change this surely?
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by Super_Jambo 6y ago
The problem with this analogy is that personally reducing demand is ineffective at stopping production. If I stop eating beef (which I have) there isn't an equivalent reduction in beef production. Instead the price goes down fractional

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