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by dalbasal 4y ago
It's inexact, but not contrived at all. If you've ever worked in online advertising, you'll know to treat apple users as a distinct segmentat without worrying to much about why exactly. There's a reason Google pays Apple
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>> It's not technically a monopoly What is the technicality? It's certainly a monopoly in layman's terms. Is the technicality monopsony? IE, the fact that Spotify have more power over artists than consumers? Is it the f
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Apple is a much bigger company than Spotify. In. fact, it's quite impressive how monopolistic they managed to become for their size. There are a lot of monopolies and wanna be monopolies about. That's why big tech profit margins
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Kettle. Pot. Black. Monopolistic practices is what Spotify is, not just something it does. Recently they went about buying podcasts. The idea was/is to kill off the free protocol and centralise podcasts under their control... That way,
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by dalbasal 4y ago
>> whenever you start a new payment scheme - because you are doing precisely this! - you WILL have to follow banking laws and regulations Sure. Problems problems. The FTX coin reference was supposed to tongue-in-cheek over specifics.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I feel like Kickstarter is more like a tactic than a strategy. That said, this might be a good "real startup." The problem domain seems modest (e-ink playing cards) but... could be a bridgehead to interesting territory. These mi
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by dalbasal 4y ago
One card pp might be adequate for the hold cards. It's easy enough to represent two cards on one little screen. Feels tidier to me. For holdem, you ideally need a plinth that can "deal" cards upside down. Maybe it's more
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Agreed. I don't see the economic realities stacking up. The price of cheap, processed meat products is pretty low... and not all of the price is ingredients. It's a long way to the bottom. Meanwhile, the higher end ethical consum
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Polling my own bubble, I'm dubious about lab meat. Across the board, it seems that people want lab grown meat for others. Vegans want omnivores to eat it. Omnivores think it'd be good for vegans. Meanwhile, any mass market product
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Fair enough. I can see why you say this, and I would probably feel the same way if our positions were reversed. Perhaps there is a better way that I should have phrased this. OTOH, I'm somewhat stumped. Some forms tend to be condescend
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by dalbasal 4y ago
When you already believe something, you can start seeing proofs everywhere. Water grids malfunction. Some water management departments suck. Some are good. Some cities have better infrastructure than others. Inevitably though, these are tak
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by dalbasal 4y ago
So... some ignorant questions? (1) Is there much daylight between unsafe to drink and unsafe to shower/etc. IE, is there such a thing as nonpotable water that's still OK for domestic use? (2) If there is such a thing, are there ma
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by dalbasal 4y ago
So... This is a conversation that needs to be had. Or rather, it's a conversation that should have been had before YouTube/FB/etc. gained control over the world wide web. Podcasts are, and have long been the freeiest medium.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
One of the reasons MuskStuff us getting boring us that he hasn't said anything real/significant regarding his intentions, strategies, motivations, analyses and whatnot. There was an investor case/ business plan that could ha
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Nonsense. No one said any of that.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
"People who say that WikiLeaks isn't a journalistic organization because it has an agenda" We're like 15 deep into a flame thread... and I'm pretty sure no one up this thread has said anything like that. As I said,
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by dalbasal 4y ago
No. I acknowledged the comment about the NYT, but it's not particularly relevant. We were discussing wikileaks. GP's point was that no one's opinion of wikileaks' could have been influenced by the conduct of wikileaks&#x
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by dalbasal 4y ago
And by shades of shit we mean all of human thought, all publications, political projects, and basically everything else? Sheesh... Smarty pants nihilism has devolved into a mishmash of clichés. No wonder if automates so well.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Sure. As I said, hypocrisy exists... by the bucketful. All I am saying is that things besides hypocrisy also exist and can play a role in the world.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I suppose your handle speaks to this but... No. I disagree. Not everything is the same because no one is perfect. There are differences of ethos. There are also hypocrisies, but that still doesn't get you to equivalence. If you have a
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Apropos of WikiLeaks itself, does anyone remember " information wants to be free. " As years go by, the www is decreasingly capable of disseminating information without monopoly, government or some other official backing. Basic we
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by dalbasal 4y ago
What is it subject to? .. or defined by? Democracy is a word with almost no consistent meaning or definition, yet everyone treats it as if it's clean and defined. Other than "communism is whatever the communist party does," w
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Democracy is alway a threat to democracy.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
So, this doesn't settle anything but... If you listen to WikiLeaks people or the greater associated clique, I think it's clear that they're a politically oriented group. It's not a conventional/general journalistic
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Way tangent but... NLP prompts remind me of websearch circa altavista.
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Yes but... That often leads a dirty game. Litigation, especially license and IP related litigation, is often all about the meta, the strategy games and ulterior or adjacent motives. The legal action itself, with associated costs and stresse
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by dalbasal 4y ago
No need for war. This list is objective, so it can't apply the standard canadian handicap, as is traditional for most ranking lists.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Matters of taste are subjective, but subjective does not mean "all in your mind." There is such a thing as good music, good conversation, etc. There are no objective tests, but that's not the same as non existent. Good tast
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Finally! An objective ranking of apples. I for one am fed up with apples-to-oranges comparisons.
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The last one is almost witty. Greenwich is near the mouth of the Thames, I think.

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