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by chii 4mo ago
High valuations and other people's wealth doesn't need to improve _your_ individual quality of life - just the quality of life of someone who's willing to pay and the participants of that system.
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by chii 4mo ago
> someone is getting sued. but that doesnt mean any money gets recovered at all. Musk sure as hell aint giving anything back. The fix is to simply not buy it - those 401k aren't completely passive, you can choose a different investm
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by chii 4mo ago
This needs to be higher for more visibility, because the weighting and the float's proportions are an important aspect that most news sources or comments fail to mention.
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by chii 4mo ago
If they choose to discontinue it, it would be nice to have them opensource it so that the community could have a go at maintaining it tbh. Surely that's better than letting it rot (both rosetta and the old software that it runs).
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by chii 4mo ago
> Is the value provided by Cloudflare to public so great turnstile is not a public good, it's a private product, promoted to private entities that want to achieve a certain outcome that is beneficial to them privately. The mass surv
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by chii 4mo ago
... I played with your heart Got lost in the game Oh, baby, baby Oops, you think I'm in love That I'm sent from above I'm not that innocent -- Britney.
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by chii 4mo ago
> would all be using the same AI model i think this is a very large assumption. What if in the future, AI models are as guarded as nuclear weapons? Because why doesn't this argument apply for nuclear weapons, but does for AI?
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by chii 4mo ago
UBI only works if the technology advances to a level where there is zero scarcity. I dont believe AI will produce that level of abundance.
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by chii 4mo ago
> Unfortunately, many of my friends think I am crazy for not "enjoying life" more then, in 30-40 yrs time, those same friends all want gov't bailouts for their pensions, and higher taxation of people like yourself, to fund
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by chii 5mo ago
So you as a privacy-desiring car buyer could offer 2 or 3 times more than 60cents to the car OEM. Or, even 10x more. The monetization of that data by the third party surely cannot be 10x their cost - that would be an enormous margin that se
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by chii 5mo ago
all of those things you mentioned have damages sustained on third parties that did not have consent. And tbh, my opinion is that the banning of drugs have done more harm than not banning it (but instead, allow it to be sold safely and cheap
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by chii 5mo ago
if the content is sufficiently good, why does it matter that it is ai or not?
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by chii 5mo ago
> Is this good? it is good if the losers are voluntarily participating. They are not coerced (stupidity is not coercion) into it, and therefore, it is reasonable that they expected to win the bet. The only problem i have with polymarket
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by chii 5mo ago
> ...aimed at my side. that's how you know it's successful.
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by chii 5mo ago
Exactly! The "unfettered" free market examples are all externalities, which is unfortunately unavoidable. Therefore, the role of gov't is to remove by regulation and force, all externalities (and the best way, perhaps, is to
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by chii 5mo ago
as an example, complex numbers were from the abstract thinking of centuries ago, on which the modern physics derive much value from.
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by chii 5mo ago
why isnt it fair? Someone taller has a better chance at becoming a pro basketball player. Shorter people are not given more leeway. But both tall and short people have the chance to try out (at least on paper).
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by chii 5mo ago
> I fully believe labor needs as much leverage against capital as possible for the scales to be balanced at all Competition is required, rather than unionization. If an industry is dominated by monopolies, not only do customers suffer, w
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by chii 5mo ago
equality of outcome is unnecessary, only equality of opportunity is required.
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by chii 5mo ago
or you know, just charge for your content if you believe it to be valuable enough for the fee being charged.
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by chii 5mo ago
well, own dogfood and all that, i'm not surprised?
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by chii 5mo ago
> it’s just a parental problem seems oversimplifying. how/why did children survive all those generations ago where these dangerous things have existed, and all of a sudden, parents are now powerless and unable to parent?
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by chii 5mo ago
> work of running an open-source project (issue triage, security disclosures, contribution guidelines, CI, release cadence, dependency maintenance) so why not just simply dont do any of that? Ignore issues, ignore security disclosures, e
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by chii 5mo ago
The negative outcome has to be placed on a third, unrelated party that has not consented to having that outcome on them. If the only negative outcome is on the person who consented (e.g., the gambler), then why should they be denied their c
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by chii 5mo ago
the investment for a car is in the manufacturing facility, similarly with food. While there's a consumption component to both, it's the same as a house - it's an investment to build it, and it produces shelter (which would be
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by chii 5mo ago
> stop viewing housing as “investment” whether something is an investment or not is not a subjective opinion, but an objective fact. If it takes effort, capital and time/labour to create, it's an investment, because such resour
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by chii 5mo ago
> no ships were lost how much ammunition did the US navy use to shoot down incoming drones, and what are the cost of those vs the attacker's cost?
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by chii 5mo ago
fix this problem by make the rating value tied to some paid currency - a repo owner would have to pay for the PR, and that PR contributor will now have more currency than previously. In order to have said currency to pay, the repo owner wou
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by chii 5mo ago
is it better to have a thousand paper cuts, or a limb injury? I guess it depends on the person...
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by chii 5mo ago
The enforcement agencies all want easy ways to perform their enforcement duties. Enforcing it the hard way by catching people in the act, or even spot checking, is difficult, and takes work and budget. However, in asking such enforcement wo

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