beaconstudios

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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I know this place skews libertarian/neoliberal, but I try to inject a little spice where I can ;)
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
To take a minimal case for an example - if I hire two people, pay them $20,000 each to produce widgets and then sell those widgets for $100,000 a year respectively, and keep the remaining $60,000, would you consider that exploitation consid
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
It's a classic "great man of history" narrative, painting a Randian picture of the world being pushed forward by the overwhelming efforts of a few people. The reality is that nobody works hard enough to earn a billion dollars
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Does Anybody actually use milliard? Here in the UK million is a thousand thousand, billion a thousand million etc. I always assumed that was the same for our mainland cousins.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
> "Figure it out" mentality. Even if there is a national or even global trend, responsibility to solve the issue is pushed onto the individual. Or worse, global mentality shifts to accept what is going on. "Yeah buying was
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I can see a resurgence of social democracy coming soon as the problems with things like real estate investment and unrestricted emissions come home to roost. We've already seen a little bit of that with Bernie Sanders.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Plus you want to encourage models like a housing co-op - they're pretty good for keeping people's housing costs down and building community relations.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Well, thanks for fighting for standards adoption, even if it didn't work out. It's always good to have interoperability represented on the inside.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Quite a few! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_cooperative I think it's a valid concern to ask about incentive alignment - if you're wanting to do a tech-for-good project, you probably want to make sur
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Yup, my family minecraft server fell victim to that. Thankfully it was a new map with only a couple days' work into it, but annoying nonetheless. Whitelist your private servers!
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Cash spent on an activity does not reflect the time that it takes, doubly so if you were able to reduce the administrative layers involved in eg health insurance.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I think he's trying to differentiate between intrinsic desires (creativity, passions) and compulsive desires (spiritual junk food of various flavours). I do think he goes too deep into purple prose though, forgetting that poetic langua
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
A small percentage of today's work goes towards these things (except the Internet, which is an endless sinkhole of mostly pointless labour).
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
There are a couple of issues with UNDO too: - (not intrinsic) many interfaces only give you a few seconds to undo your action, which wouldn't help in this case - (intrinsic) some events can be layered on top of your change, meaning tha
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I agree 100%, material conditions are the initial cause, but that outside the affected area that simply causes disaffection - terrorist propaganda directs that disaffection towards killing civilians. Given that far right radicals are create
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Wealth distribution is not the same as class conflict, it's an effect of it, but yes class division has existed since civilisation began (not so much beforehand though). In feudal times it was between the aristocracy and the peasantry,
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Yes the problem is class conflict, not a handful of people. The handful of people are just a sign of how badly the capitalist class are winning the conflict.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
The author did exactly that: > “I’m committed to that 99 cent price — when things go against you, you tighten your belt,” Vultaggio said on a Zoom call in early April from his headquarters on Long Island, N.Y.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
It's not quite that simple - not only can absolute free speech be absurd (a condition I don't really care about to be honest, untruth will always be prevalent), but it can be actively dangerous: free speech can include terrorist r
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Interestingly the Russian dashcam phenomenon is similar to "florida man" - it's availability bias. Florida has more published wacky crime stories partly because of their public records policy, and Russia has a lot of dashcams
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Polio was solved by vaccines, and sepsis was partly solved by hygiene and partly by antibiotics. Modern medicine has helped with many conditions.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
They limit trade with NK, unfortunately that probably does contribute to impoverishing the people, alongside NK's own practices doing so, but as I understand it the point of sanctions is to stop material aid (trade, gifts, tech sharing
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
There are sanctions that are worthy of criticism - the decades-long sanction on Cuba, for instance, even though I disagree with their regime - but North Korea is pretty transparently a despotic regime that should be opposed.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
He's helping an enemy state to avoid sanctions - countries will always prosecute cases like that. If he didn't want his mind locked behind bars, he probably shouldn't have done what he did. I'm sure he's a smart guy
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
If you want to say I have no proof that's fine, but I draw the line at sarcastic insults. So don't do that and I won't insult you back. I haven't collected evidence for my point because I'm not trying to make a cour
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I guess that depends on the point of the community - to my understanding, the point is to discuss. Reasoned discussions are based on arguments and observations, not just evidence and citations. I don't even know what kind of evidence y
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I'm glad you understand what I'm trying to say, even if "speculation" isn't quite the right term for it. I think scams are an obvious harm, but the highly financialised and speculative nature of crypto is a more sub
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Why would you make a personal attack based on a discussion about an industry? I didn't think this was a flame war, more a discussion about the crypto industry - I'm not upset, I'm just bored because I'm stuck in hospital
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
HODLing is also speculation. I'm saying that crypto isn't driving useful economic activity like investing in startups or small businesses can do. It's all just people trying to make money by finding a greater fool. Even specu
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I don't claim to have the evidence, I claim to have made an observation. If the parent wanted to make a counterargument they could do, it wouldn't have to be concretely evidence based because I'm not holding a forum conversat

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