criley2

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by criley2 5y ago
I didn't deny that landlords have power. But the power of the vote includes the ability to regulate and control nearly every form of landlords inherent power. Rent control and eviction moratoriums nearly completely neuter landlord powe
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by criley2 5y ago
Who said it's a good OR bad thing? This is a discussion of who has the power, not the ethics of the power. Having said that, I think the current balance in some places can be harmful because there is a non-insignificant number of tenan
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by criley2 5y ago
Voting is by person, not by land parcel. Just ask landlords in Seattle how it goes when the renters have more political power than the landlords.
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by criley2 5y ago
There is nothing cheaper and easier and more scalable than nuclear for baseload gigawatt generation, especially when you actually account for the insane amount of batteries required to make wind/solar/etc viable as a baseload tech
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by criley2 5y ago
Again, that's your personal opinion which clearly deviates from the public opinion. It's okay to not like it, but to call it bad because you dislike it is ridiculous. We're talking about business models here, we're talk
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by criley2 5y ago
It isn't poor quality stuff. Just because you don't like the content that Youtube creators make doesn't make it poor quality Ironically, when I go to Peertube, all the content there is objectively low quality with extremely p
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by criley2 5y ago
I feel like you completely validate my point that people aren't willing to pay for content, the original sin making alternative monetization a requirement. You're willing to watch the content, just not pay for it. This is why conc
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by criley2 5y ago
I mean, radio and TV were free OTA for decades. I don't know what you want to call the "start" of content, but ad-supported free models have been around for a very long time.
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by criley2 5y ago
The primary motivation of most creators is to make money. What is PeerTube paying per view? 0$? Why would any creator spend all that time and money making content to give away for free? Do you give away your daily work for free? They can ea
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by criley2 5y ago
People expecting content for free is the Original Sin. Advertisers are just a side effect of peoples unwillingness to pay for their content.
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by criley2 5y ago
Here's my hater take: "Full Self Driving" is an absolutely dangerous and egregious marketing lie. The vehicles are not full self driving and require by law a driver capable of taking over at a moments notice. I do not believe
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by criley2 5y ago
Users must give youtube a permissive license to post videos. Not so for lyrics on Genius.
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by criley2 5y ago
There is no way to have a fair App Store where the organization approving your app is the same organization creating apps to compete with you. This is a fundamental, existential problem with the App Store model. You can't compete with
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by criley2 5y ago
Desktop browsing is the minority and shrinking every year. Google will always have more Chrome users on Android than there are Windows devices in existence.
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by criley2 5y ago
Windows 10S only allows Microsoft Store downloads and you have to change to Home/Pro to allow .exe's to run at all.
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by criley2 5y ago
If you think it's crazy that a user who you send messages to can send your messages to Facebook, wait until you realize they can send your messages to literally everyone and anyone. E2E only protects between the endpoints, not after.
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by criley2 5y ago
I'd be willing to try linux again, but the thing that stops me every time is having to go into terminal and start building my f'n software and manually updating or fixing some terminal only setting that is breaking things I absolu
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by criley2 5y ago
I wonder if users who are unwilling to deal with increased hassle in browser changing will also give up things like iPhone/iOS which outright ban competing browser engines.
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by criley2 5y ago
>Basically, as others have said, there is an evolutionary reason plants do not naturally grow this big (they'd kill themselves off in a few generations). The undomesticated cultivars which evolved over time evolved to work in their
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by criley2 5y ago
I think you made a similar mistake in your thought process with "public forums" which almost always took place in private places, like churches, clubs, etc. It's not a given that public forums were on government property, and
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by criley2 5y ago
They have not petered out, and if the Republicans take control of the House in 2022, they have already sworn to immediately pass legislation on this subject. And with this radically anti-Free Speech conservative supreme court majority, you
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by criley2 5y ago
I think you misunderstood what you quoted here, because Madison in no way suggests that invididual newspapers should be forced to print opinions they disagree with in the interest of Liberty Instead he argues that there should be a lot of n
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by criley2 5y ago
The entire conservative war against Big Tech is about fake "censorship" (which is actually Free Speech by the private network) and they want to change laws and use the courts to force Facebook and Twitter to allow any content they
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by criley2 5y ago
It's terribly put. The American concept of freedom of speech has nothing to do with access to public forums but rather is a limit on government action against your ability to run your own forum (newspaper, etc), and if you consider tha
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by criley2 5y ago
The issue is that the governments offering tax evasion to corporations are smaller countries that use their evasion schemes as a competitive advantage against larger countries. The incentive for a big country like the US is to make these co
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by criley2 5y ago
Like how Apple bundled iTunes and forced streaming competitors onto uneven playing fields with the 30% tax to dominate online music sales, bundled the App Store and banned competing stores to ensure no competition, bundled Safari and banned
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by criley2 5y ago
Microsoft's crime was doing it in the 90s. What Apple has done with iOS and OSX takes Microsoft's bundling, third-party lockout and lack of consumer choice to an exponential level, and it's celebrated as a feature now. iOS li
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by criley2 5y ago
>The main benefit was that cast-iron could be made before steel was invented, it does not retain heat better than aluminum alloys Actually, both "steels" and "cast iron" are iron-carbon alloys, and we have evidence of
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by criley2 5y ago
That is not the case, and it seems like you've been misled. It's completely routine and legal for unmasking to occur, and in fact is integral to understanding the intelligence. How could an analyst understand the conversation with
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by criley2 5y ago
We understand that the intelligence agencies can and do monitor a number of people associated with hostile foreign governments. For example, this is believed to be how "Tucker Carlson got surveilled by the CIA" -- he is believed t

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