advael

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811.
by advael 3y ago
I don't think you need a tying argument at all. This is a deceptive business practice and harms apple's customers moreso than non-apple customers. Apple users who expect their text messages to be secure because of how imessage has
812.
by advael 3y ago
So in this analogy, to be clear, the product that apple is supposedly selling access to here is "Sending secure messages to your friends" When someone exchanges phone numbers with a friend, you might not even know what kind of pho
813.
by advael 3y ago
> Then that language itself, learned from outputs, becomes the cognitive apparatus that enables the child to imagine, to reason symbolically and abstractly. Humans bootstrap intelligence on top of language, which itself is learned by mim
814.
by advael 3y ago
"Interoperability is picking apple's pocket by allowing people cross-platform secure communication in a way that's usable to them" is a take that is bending over backwards to lick corporate boot. I get that part of apple
815.
by advael 3y ago
One workaround is something like barrier/synergy, if that still works on macos. Doesn't cover phones, but it's something
816.
by advael 3y ago
The former seems to clearly be a more parsimonious explanation of what we've seen. After all, what is often at stake, as in the case of the linked article, is financing based on concrete promises of progress, and the claims made by Mus
817.
by advael 3y ago
I had to look up reflexivity, as I was not previously familiar with it. I fail to see how it salvages your claim, and suspect you're fixating on this bit of economics trivia because you dislike that I made fun of the thing you said, an
818.
by advael 3y ago
When someone's entire argument is "doing x would be dumb, and we know this guy isn't dumb", I see value in pointing out that this is a rather circular logic
819.
by advael 3y ago
I'm glad I'm not alone in finding the people who insufferably whine about things in a creative work not directly serving "the plot" to be wasting the time of whoever happens to consume their "critique" far more
820.
by advael 3y ago
Do we assess a person's intelligence by what their frothing fanboys think of them now, or is that only for rich celebrities?
821.
by advael 3y ago
First off, I think loss leaders are an almost textbook example of anticompetitive tactics indicative of detrimental dominance in a market. We should expect tactics that need regulation to seem normal, because if they weren't effective,
822.
by advael 3y ago
Frankly I think the only reason the revival of antitrust legislation in the current administration isn't already tackling this is because this pattern has already gone on so long that there are much more impactful anticompetitive behav
823.
by advael 3y ago
The more power companies have to regulate their consumers, as well as the information available to them, the less responsive to demand they have to be. We are in a monopolized enough environment across multiple industries that we can't
824.
by advael 3y ago
There's like not one but multiple microgenres of music you could likely cobble together just out of working musicians' songs complaining about the music industry. In the modern world, probably the by-the-numbers majority of workin
825.
by advael 3y ago
A slavery justified in the narrative by being a kind of sapient creature that simply naturally prefers slavery. And named after the one who wanted freedom due to, supposedly, being a weird exception to boot
826.
by advael 3y ago
Truly an awful choice of name
827.
by advael 3y ago
Not if we successfully neutralize this paradigm's ability to take over crucial institutions, such as by enforcing lines of responsibility as I've suggested
828.
by advael 3y ago
I don't see any of those "pet peeves" as justifying totalitarian policy, and people who do are useful idiots for authoritarian projects
829.
by advael 3y ago
I'm somewhat surprised no one here views this as an automated decisionmaking problem It's increasingly clear that automating important decisions like this is causing a lot of harm while removing most forms of recourse available to
830.
by advael 3y ago
There is no way to fix this without law changes. The best would be killing DMCA 1201 entirely, if not the whole DMCA
831.
by advael 3y ago
Software patents are dumb, no exceptions Then again, I think IP is a bad paradigm that does more harm than good in general
832.
by advael 3y ago
Found the logical positivist. Discussion doesn't necessarily or even reliably lead to "absolute truth", just as armchair pondering about idealized versions of some phenomenon doesn't necessarily lead to actionable predic
833.
by advael 3y ago
I think the case for "weapons mean war" or even "walls mean war" (weaker, walls can be built for privacy or defense against theft, but larger ones make a good case) is a lot stronger than the case for "infrastructur
834.
by advael 3y ago
It's incredible that reporting on crime and poverty has been so captured as to sound delusional. The article even goes so far as to link this rise in piracy to an increase in homeless encampments, but somehow declares the latter a &quo
835.
by advael 3y ago
I really seldom ever see them though. Like the vast overwhelming majority of people who reject what may be the broad scientific consensus these days will not outwardly claim to be rejecting "the science", they'll say they bel
836.
by advael 3y ago
Big fan of anything that harms the control companies have over computers they've sold people, especially in deadly weapons like cars. Excellent work
837.
by advael 3y ago
The DEA was invented as part of the most successful effort in human history to create a totalitarian police state, and it is no surprise that they want to further clamp down on civil liberties at a national level Drug enforcement was always
838.
by advael 3y ago
The coupling between results and costs is fundamentally broken in the minds of most people who get to make the decisions
839.
by advael 3y ago
The linked article is a clear case of the messaging from the company trying to downplay the risk, as I wrote before. The example of financial advisers selling risky products is an apt one, because very famously, the entire finance industry
840.
by advael 3y ago
The DMCA is very much a shitfest designed to serve large companies with boatloads of IP. The takedown notice procedure negates the benefits of "safe harbor", which has been pretty thoroughly weakened in other laws and rulings as w

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