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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think the world would be a better place if streaming platforms and content producers were required to be separate legal entities that cannot collude, price fix, or trade in exclusive rights. If content is good, every streaming platform
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> borne out of a 4chan style sense of 'fuck the man' and do cool things that improve the world Has zuckerberg ever been subversive? I thought he started facebook out of horniness and desire for power, and that pretty seamlessl
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Sounds like their attitude may be a good reason to get them android phones
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Streaming service providers should be legally prohibited from exclusive ownership of content: anything they put on their platform should have compulsory licensing at the same rate they paid.
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Putting paywalls on culture puts culture out of reach to the lower classes. I think poor kids growing up with parents living paycheck to paycheck should have equal opportunity to become a great filmmaker as trust fund kids. That should be w
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Did magicleap actually get released?
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> sideload apps for free on the Quest only if you value your time at $0. the amount of time to keep sidequest working and fight official updates breaking it is not trivial.
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The previous quests are shoddily built - both in software and hardware. Very frustrating to try to do anything with it outside of using the default apps, which are frankly beta quality at best, and the ~3 fully fleshed out games. If you&
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Code is law. There are no such things as bugs in smart contracts. Just unforeseen implications of the chosen contract.
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Non custodial ownership is still an option, even if not advisable. If my non-tech savvy grandma wanted to own some bitcoin, I'd probably suggest she just keeps it on the exchange. Counterparty risk is probably less than risk of user e
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Yeah, it's pretty wild how brazen Hunter Biden has been, with essentially zero scrutiny from the liberal media. My meta-tinfoil hat theory is that stories of his depravity have been intentionally shared by dem insiders to conservative
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Biden admin has been making a lot of symbolically valuable half-measure gestures. If substantive change follows on each, he could be the greatest president since FDR. Or, he could lose re-election and we're left with a bunch of impo
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IMO podcasts without transcriptions shouldn't be allowed on HN. The vast majority of readers aren't going to invest an hour listening to the whole thing, so any discussion is just going to be about the title.
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This is a no true scotsman fallacy. It is crypto. It is the shallow, lazy, dangerous way of using it it, but it is still cryptocurrency.
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SimulaVR should try to explain to the courts how the subpoena itself is having an anticompetitive effect.
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or coconut oil, if the melt point is important
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Working on ads is a profession with significant moral hazard: thought manipulation is inherently antisocial. Being disrupted out of the industry could end up being a blessing for your mental wellbeing.
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I think the question is whether this surge of investment will lead to future complacency or whether the stockpile will be managed and maintained at this level into the future. The US trashed a bunch of masks without replacing them a few y
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Tens of thousands of people died at the beginning of the pandemic due to lack of medical and PPE supplies. Nurses were wrapping themselves in garbage bags and searching out construction masks.
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Yeah. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
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Do you think ads give you a good picture of the relative quality of your options? Whether you see an ad is entirely driven by how much the seller wants to spend to acquire your purchase. Ads give no indication of the actual quality of the
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Highway ads are a public safety risk and should be banned, IMO
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We need to start a social movement to punish advertisers. Ads are pernicious and pervasive thought manipulation which systemically decrease the life satisfaction of nearly every person in society. It is a cancer. We should strive to make
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Silicon Valley had a great bit about this kind of thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
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Most companies brainwash themselves into thinking they are making the world a better place. Selling snake oil becomes no more socially good when the salesman deludes themself into believing the pitch.
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That's a small sacrifice for ending pervasive thought manipulation and surveillance.
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I'd argue it's prosocial to mislead ad spenders into thinking they are reaching more humans than they actually are.
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The article was written from the perspective of a 5HT2a receptor
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Sounds kind of dystopian to me. For what kind of goods would you find this style of shopping appealing? Heck you could even selectively change what appears in the aisles based on shoppers preferences. But solution looking for a problem
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I bought a "deck" of counterfeit "proxies" of a bunch of the best old mtg cards from AliExpress. Once I have enough friends that would be into it, I'd love to organize an alpha booster draft that includes the moxe

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