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by dalbasal 5y ago
There's an element of having shot themselves in the foot. FB moviled from content driven purely by your friends and what they post to content that FB have decided to feed you. That worked great in a lot of senses. You never run out of
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... I had a green-marxist mate in college. Everyone should have one. Great chat at summer bbqs. I believe he has since run for state office in Victoria, at some point. He introduced me to the anti-growth stance, emphasising historical rel
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I lived in Australia 10 years ago. It wasn't like that then. What it meant to be Australian did seem to be troubling the national psyche moreso than in most places, but the authoritarian streak absolutely was not there. Young and old,
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Agreed, and I think most on this thread agree. The point is that accounting practices are not the smoking gun.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Re: CB interest rates I realize this is controversial, and many economists still disagree. I do think that wind is blowing in my direction though. IMO, this is Monetarism's big mistake. Now that floating exchange rates are the norm, th
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Sure. I don't disagree. I'm suggesting that this may be besides the point. I don't really know, but I suspect that while being an economist lends a lot of form, it might not be all that important to substance... or less impor
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Taste. I realize this is unsatisfying to many, but there really is no other choice. A strict empiricist has no way of knowing whether or not art is good. In fact, a purely empirical worldview will find it hard to have art in it at all. Ther
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It may be a mistake focusing on " Cowen is an economist. " He does happen to be one, but everyone is something . This may mean that he's applying a economist's mindset, like an engineer might apply an engineering mindse
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I can see the logic of this statement, and it is in line with a lot of economic thinking... but I disagree with the jist. First, the "price of money," is not set by markets if by "price of money" we mean interest rates.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I can see the argument by analogy to GPL, but I don't think this is about software licensing in practice . It's about control. Apple control how and which apps get to users, and use this control to impose terms, license or otherw
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by dalbasal 5y ago
At this point, I'll take malware over monopoly. There's a lot at stake here. That said, I think it's unlikely to get as bad as W95.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I wouldn't call that the "wrong direction." What you are suggesting is applying the same logic to App stores that they're applying to payments. That's more likely, not less, if this legislation goes through in SK an
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I agree with your point on semantics. "Free Software" means whatever you define it to mean. That said, sharing your code to be used in certain ways, not others, or for purposes you hate is maintaining control. That is relevant to
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The concessions Apple & Google made to "stave off regulation" are informative in themselves: It also agreed to let developers inform their users about payment options outside the App Store, using the email addresses that user
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Good point, but it kind of confines "Reasonable Person Principle" to the realm of equal relationships only. At that point you can get stuck in a hyper litigious culture.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... I think a lot this is two problems, not one. One is definitely climbing the transaction ladder to the point of no oxygen, Astronaut Architecture. But, I don't think that alone explains the amount of bombastic, heroic, utopian, g
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by dalbasal 5y ago
> All they’ll talk about is peer-to-peer this, that, and the other thing. Suddenly you have peer-to-peer conferences, peer-to-peer venture capital funds, and even peer-to-peer backlash with the imbecile business journalists dripping wit
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> People simply want to listen to music created by people, even if AI music were perfect. Only in commercial applications like stock music or jingles is AI composition in demand. I understand that you can move the goalposts With ne
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This is the Guardian getting causation extremely wrong. I don't think causation runs one way. The financial industry & "Government" aren't clearly delineated. You can see this all the time in "compliance."
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> But do you think some hidden power would organize banks together behind the curtains and ban… porn? I think a secret meeting to form a secret cabal is unlikely. More like an approximate consensus, that has always existed in an indu
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I suspect that "accountability" is a problematic frame. Platforms are the accountability mechanism, increasingly so. As for banks... Everything new is old again. Financial institutions have long been the unofficial regulators, a
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by dalbasal 5y ago
...and back to platforms :)
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by dalbasal 5y ago
True fact. I'd call the medium "email" though.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I am. will do. Realizing that spotify was trying to "steal" podcasting in order to challenge youtube was a depressing thought to me. I always hoped that podcasting, as a free medium, would evolve to the point where it can usurp
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Ironic-not-ironic maybe. Back then, Apple wanted content to exist. Podcasts were content. Also, 15 20 years ago, smart people (me being the smartest of all) genuinely believed that "information wanted to be free." The explosive su
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It's all competition for monopoly. No one "owned" podcasting, like itunes own streaming music and youtube own free-to-air TV. Spotify is trying to be the one that owns it. They bought exclusivity to as many top podcasts as th
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by dalbasal 5y ago
That's decreasingly a risk you can avoid, whether you are an only fans user/model/entertainer (what's the OF equivalent of a youtuber?) or OnlyFans itself. It's risky to be dependant on an App store, cloud computing
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Brand, vision for the product and such are one thing. Vague demands and pressures by the financial sector are another. Partly due to actual risk, and partially because of stigma... payment processing costs are substantially higher in "
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This is actually an important question. First, they probably don't have to pay back with interest. Large investments, provided by upper tier firms are "cheap" atm. For loans that means very low interest. More commonly in tech
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by dalbasal 5y ago
OK so this is kind of wordy... Let me try to point out the guts... no one would deny that in an economy operating at 100 percent full capacity - as in the kind of European war economy that Keynes analyzed in the 1940s - crowding out may oc

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