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by cowpig 5mo ago
Their business model revolves around people to choose to pay them for products, which aligns them with customer interests on a fundamental level. They have to work within those constraints when they engage in lock-in chicanery Most of the o
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by cowpig 6mo ago
better is always good when something you think is bad gets better but not better enough, say "more please"
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by cowpig 6mo ago
Can you explain why they are mutually exclusive?
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by cowpig 6mo ago
A couple of my favourites to add to your list: - Patrick's Parabox - Blue Prince
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by cowpig 6mo ago
pro: if the world devolves into an authoritarean hellscape, people will still have a form of undetectable currency until they find a way to get rid of this con: this improves the chances if the world to devolving into an authoritarean hells
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by cowpig 6mo ago
> I think it’s likely (at least in the short term) that we all pay the burden of increased fraud: higher credit card fees, higher insurance premiums, a less accurate court system, more dangerous roads, lower wages, and so on. I think the
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by cowpig 6mo ago
There are also many biological examples of evolution producing "anti-social" outcomes. Many creatures are not social. Most creatures are not social with respect to human goals.
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by cowpig 7mo ago
A sure sign that this is completely, utterly, decoupled from market forces is the way that a 5M-person streaming platform (which likely has negative margins or is struggling to make profit) is expected to pay $0.45/user, while Netflix
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Looks to my uneducated eye like China has been enforcing competitive markets internally, with consistent economic policies. Meanwhile the US has stopped enforcing antitrust altogether and keeps violently changing its mind about economic pol
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by cowpig 7mo ago
> "free market" is often used as a dogma against companies that are actively harmful to society This is a predominantly America-specific piece of propaganda, and it's pretty recent. Adam Smith's ideas are primarily ar
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by cowpig 7mo ago
The statement that "this is how it works, it's completely corrupt" is what enables the corruption. It is only through the collective demand that systems serve us that they can be aligned. If you believe that the system is cor
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by cowpig 7mo ago
And in some of those cases they can warp incentives, right?
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by cowpig 7mo ago
this kind of cynicism is malignant
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Well, there are laws against insider trading.
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Insurance is usually for things that primarily affect the purchaser?
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Interesting piece! I was first exposed to how complicated the biology of sex is when I listened to Radiolab's series on the subject: https://radiolab.org/series/radiolab-presents-gonads/
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Just game-theoretically, suppose you bet $100 on some disaster. That disaster causes $10,000,000 of harm, but only causes you $90 of harm individually. You've gained $10, but your $10 gain is a millionth of the harm caused. Generally-s
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Just wrote up a quick article on how greywall[0] prevents this attack: https://greyhaven.co/insights/how-greywall-prevents-every-st... [0] https://greywall.io/
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Tried running the compromised package inside Greywall, because theoretically it should mitigate everything but in practice it just forkbombs itself?
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by cowpig 7mo ago
What was the company, and what did they inject?
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by cowpig 7mo ago
To me, this deal makes it pretty clear who holds actual sway
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Is this something like what you want? greywall.io
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Interesting, I find sticky headers to be the bane of my existence, and the ones that disappear but reappear on scroll up are a lesser evil
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Containers and VMs are really annoying to work with for these kinds of applications. Things like agent-safehouse and greywall are better imo
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Show HN: Userland local agent sandbox with real-time network control dashboard(greywall.io)
7 points by cowpig 7mo ago|1 comments
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by cowpig 7mo ago
This is awesome! I think this is one of the most important technical hurdles in deploying agent applications right now. I'm involved with a project building something very similar, which we literally open sourced an alpha version of la
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Your comments are just totally out of touch with the realities of being a parent today. The average person can't afford to raise a kid because of the time demands of constant work to make rent and afford food. We're discussing an
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by cowpig 7mo ago
Yeah keep up the fight against big baby keeping our child labor rights down.
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by cowpig 7mo ago
I feel like the time demands of modern life are the main culprit here. Today families mostly need two working parents, which means nobody to take care of the baby full-time. If you have someone taking care of them full-time, toilet training
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by cowpig 8mo ago
Zulip is an actual slack upgrade

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