WarmWash

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by WarmWash 29d ago
I think you might be confused, because any creator can make their content free to access. If they are playing in someone else's house, yeah there might be rules they don't like, but it's also not their house. Nothing stops cr
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by WarmWash 29d ago
I don't see anywhere that I apologized for it? My observation is simply that we don't know what Bernie's immigration enforcement would look like.
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by WarmWash 29d ago
>If you aren't being maximally greedy in all things, including entertainment and general internet stuff, you aren't doing capitalism right. It transcends capitalism (or really free markets, I haven't bothered so far in thi
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by WarmWash 29d ago
I'm not totally dismissive of FLOSS, but it's kind of a unique situation so you can't really extrapolate broad generalities about society from it. Software basically has zero marginal cost, and is pretty unique in that regard
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by WarmWash 29d ago
Because yt pays creators more than the others, both in absolute (total dollars) and relative (revenue share) terms. As long people are "sticking it to the man" with ad-block, youtube gets to keep it's monopoly. They have lite
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by WarmWash 29d ago
The article that I need to hand over my monetizable information over to read? The article written by a journalist getting paid to produce content so it can be pushed to the market of articles to retrieve more than it's cost to procure?
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by WarmWash 29d ago
We won't ever know. I know this sounds like a cop out, but Bernie isn't Ghandi just because he thinks socialism is cool. The immigrants who got shot were "fascist riot inciters" and it all just vanishes into the news med
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by WarmWash 29d ago
>Am I the problem? Is the person who stays home and doesn't vote the problem? Network effects are strong, but trends can absolutely upend them with disruptions. This is much harder nowadays, because for each user who refuses ads or
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by WarmWash 29d ago
No, it's about value. Money is just a convenient abstraction of time and energy. Basically everyone, all the time, is focused on min-maxing their time and energy (optimally is another question, hah). These are both fundamentally scarce
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by WarmWash 29d ago
On some level there is local/small businesses. They are less efficient and hence you usually have to pay more for less, but it avoids the a lot of the "power structure" that people have strong distaste for. On a deeper level
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by WarmWash 29d ago
None of which has more the 1-2% of twitters MAU. If any of those were highly profitable, they would be able to grow. But more profit for them, means less profit for users, means they are stuck fighting over crumbs from Twitter.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Read the story of vid.me, YouTube's only ever credible competitor. There is also nebula and curiosity stream, which also illustrate my point. Both solid good services with <1% conversion rates. There is no better service than YouTub
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
I can't write out here how economics works, how things have value, and how humans barter time and energy using abstractions like money. By virtue of people spending time on twitter, twitter has value. If that sentence is non-sensical t
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
The wrong part is fooling yourself that you are above those principles while actively devoting all your energy too them. And I'm not talking food, water, medicine here. I'm talking entertainment and general internet stuff.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Funny that your critique is still capitalist...
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
You can rest assured, 100%, that account walls are also there for money. I'd be tickled if you argue that corporations create friction for any other reason than money.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
All the evidence in the world that corporations are greedy doesn't detract from the fact the end users are also greedy. It's all greed, all the ways down. I also can't read the article, not going to make an account, and I sta
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Correct, but the size difference of the hook can be so dramatic that you can't just hand wave it away. The trainer who trained the lion to kill will probably be in jail for life. The one who happened to oversee a lion that went rouge w
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Then the correct action is to either create a competitor, or point money/ad views at a competitor. But like I said, the internet is largely unwilling to do this. You won't make a competitor that is a charity, and the internet at l
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
>Capital interests have this innate expectation that everything must be profitable. What rubs me the wrong way about statements like this, is that it is almost always said by people who totally miss that they are advocating for things th
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
"Middle America hates immigrants because they are racists. I don't want H1-Bs because companies use them as cheaper labor, undercutting my value." Absolute peak "lost in the political sauce". Most people aren't
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
The problem companies have is that "doesn't suck" generally means "it's free with no ads". The internet has this innate expectation that everything digital be totally free and have no form of tracking or ads, o
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Intent is what is being discussed here though, not liability. A circus lion biting somebody's face is legally different than a circus lion trained or instructed to bite somebody's face.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Math produces a bunch of theories when you extrapolate a system forward (or sometimes backwards) Experimentation is the hammer that smashes all the incorrect theories. Without the ability to do experimentation, deriving new laws is virtuall
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Nobody picks up pitchforks for rational nuanced takes. Knee-jerk surface analyses is far more powerful.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Step 2.5 is "Start harvesting value by cannibalizing your own products (keep price high, cut quality), since there is nothing competitive in the pipeline."
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
In the hardware engineering space, I don't know if I have ever seen a mac. Linux pops up a bit because of the rise of micros, but it's still 99% windows.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
By "plenty of things" you mean one thing with a 10yr service interval?
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
Trump will 100% ignore the defense reserve. Congress won't stop him either.
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by WarmWash 1mo ago
>Nobody is saying HOA except you. Me and the founding mission of flock when it got seed funding from HN in 2017. Flocks original goal was private security for HOAs, nothing to do with police/government. Hence this whole debacle here

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