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by blowski 4y ago
I think this is too pessimistic. There are always archivists and tinkerers who keep legacy technologies alive. Look at people today making C64 emulators, dot matrix printers. Then there are websites like archive.org. I believe the bigger pr
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by blowski 4y ago
If you don't think it's useful for you, then don't use it. I like it, so I'm going to use it.
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by blowski 4y ago
How on earth do you use a website without full screen parallax stock photos?
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by blowski 4y ago
I think that gets to the crux of the issue. If Brandon is culpable for his actions, it's right he is punished. If he is not, then should he have the freedoms that allowed him to do this? Let's assume culpability is a spectrum, not
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by blowski 4y ago
I hear you on this. As always, there is a tendency to view all crime and criminals as "not the fault of the perpetrator, they were just misunderstood". However, I don't think this article was suggesting we give people a pass,
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by blowski 4y ago
Where's the simple line that gets crossed? If I ask for a refund but am refused, am I being "entitled" when I push it? There are some obvious examples of both ends of the spectrum, but a lot of less obvious ones in the middle
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by blowski 4y ago
Perhaps that hints at the problem of intentionally developing a meme stereotype, and then using it as a stick to beat people with. The bar for having that stereotype becomes ever lower, and thus the set ever bigger. People then self-censor
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by blowski 4y ago
Strong disagree. The whole "Karen" meme reeks of old-fashioned misogyny wrapped up in 2020s language. "A woman, complaining? How dare she!". I recognise the meme is about entitled women being rude, but that behaviour is
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by blowski 4y ago
Gizmoduck back in the 80s had this worked out. His bot invocation was "Blathering Blathernsikes".
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by blowski 4y ago
I was renting a house in 2000 with three people who weren’t there most weekends. As such, all my friends came round for LAN parties, bringing their PCs and monitors on the Tube. We mostly played Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, and Unr
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by blowski 4y ago
You sound like a pagan worshipper in Ancient Greece, commenting on the sacrifices we must make for the gods on Mount Olympus. I’ll try to respond in the rigid language of the mythical Homo Economicus. If Taylor Swift could control the ticke
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by blowski 4y ago
Unsurprisingly, it’s restrictions from the publishers. https://cheshirelibraryblog.com/2019/09/10/why-do-i-have-to-...
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by blowski 4y ago
Cluckbait.
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by blowski 4y ago
If we can improve things during that timeframe, great (perhaps phrased better as “In the long run, we’re all dead anyway”). And by the time we reach the end of that timeframe, the context will be different.
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by blowski 4y ago
After 70 years you can, yes (in copyright's original form). It's why I can do a performance of Mozart or Shakespeare today. Before that, you'd need her permission, and probably share some royalties with her.
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by blowski 4y ago
The buyer says how much they're willing to pay, and the first seller to agree to sell at that price wins the auction.
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by blowski 4y ago
That's exactly how copyright was supposed to work, no? It balanced the artist's ability to make money against making their art accessible to everyone by giving them a temporary monopoly. It's modern incarnation is arguably mu
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by blowski 4y ago
This comment makes me feel uneasy, but I can't work out how to disagree with it. There are some services which are obviously utilities where monopolies are either bad, or must be otherwise regulated. Power, fuel, healthcare, education
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by blowski 4y ago
Within the next million years, I predict we’ll find different solutions. For now, I’ll focus on the next few decades.
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by blowski 4y ago
There are three categories of criticism being mixed up here. 1. You cannot influence the market, it will always revert to form. 2. You can influence the market, but in doing so, you will cause too many damaging side-effects. 3. You should n
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by blowski 4y ago
How very post-modern. Jean Baudrillard would have been delighted.
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by blowski 4y ago
So we can influence the market for travel, healthcare, education, military, environment, food, children’s toys, etc. But not for tickets to watch Taylor Swift?
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by blowski 4y ago
The market! The market! The market! This invisible beast which controls everything for all eternity! There are always ways of influencing the market. Taxes, subsidies, regulations, advertising. It requires imagination, but let's not fe
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by blowski 4y ago
I need to buy non-refundable hotels, train tickets, childcare, plus book time off work. Finding out whether all that's necessary with a few hours notice doesn't work. If you could do something like this for some large proportion o
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by blowski 4y ago
The hardest bit about climbing it is dealing with the crowds. There is literally a long queue for the peak, and people leave rubbish everywhere. But, yeah, it’s beautiful and I was one of the crowd so I shouldn’t complain.
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by blowski 4y ago
Not just the foods, but also the books, pills, programmes, etc.
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by blowski 4y ago
I have a mattock for breaking up the clods on my allotment.
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by blowski 4y ago
They're pretty common in the SE of England, where I live.
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by blowski 4y ago
If I run a website, to some degree, I’m running it for my benefit. If I want to put fancy schmancy JavaScript on there to show how clever I am, or because I think it will make me a billionaire, I’m gonna do it. Tech-Puritanism is not going
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by blowski 4y ago
Só if you send it to someone, what can they do with it?

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