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by dalbasal 3y ago
I think managing antitrust cases is a core competency for Google. They've learned that antitrust isn't scary. The worst that might happen is a fine or a court ordered policy-change. The fines are the minor cost associated with mon
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Perhaps, but that's not the point. The point is that you can't have this software, because the monopolies in this space have formed a trust to prevent it from being an option.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Ad I said, I'm skeptical of the more expansive of such expectations. They might just sit on the debt, almost certainly if it's valued below a certain sum. The chains of effect leading to a useful improvement in lending prudence...
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Maybe. I mean, it might makes moral sense maybe. IRL, these things play out in unsatisfying ways. "that would make many loans more difficult to issue" Maybe in some cases, but I'm broadly skeptical. Selling bad debt is usua
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Precisely. Culture is very adaptive to adaptive stimulus, and stimulus is high... very high. I think legal/contractual/economic structure is going to determine things, not human preferences. Preferences evolve.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Maybe, but "photographers" aren't really a collective... or too loose a collective to have foresight, interests and such. The credit industry, traditionally, has a cascade of debt collection tiers. Once one tier fails to coll
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Profit is an accounting term, so ambiguous. To be actually clear, it would be useful to qualify it as "taxable profit" or "investor profit," for example. In practice, these are two unrelated numbers for most big companie
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Podcasting, like wikipedia, Linux, WWW and a few other relatively "free" objects are such an important counterexamples. There's so much to learn from all of them, like theoretical devices come to life. The inability of big se
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I don't think this is a problem. A piece like this is not a self contained textbook. It's a hot topic with 100 years of history near the centre of political and economic discourse. Contentious claims are inevitable. The reverse cl
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>> The Department of Defense’s (DoD) mission has traditionally been one of military security rather than economic security and assuring a strong American industrial base. Yet economic security and military security are now inseparable
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by dalbasal 3y ago
In the feisty spirit of this article: Balderdash! The basis for this articles' argument^ is not really empirical. It's theoretical. And rational in the sense that it models theory to create predictions... It is quite a cherry-pick
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I know we're supposed to be jaded by our past defeats, licking our wounds and cringing at the echoes of naive digital ideas we once thought had legs... I know that he's tricking me into liking him by writing well, with conviction
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by dalbasal 3y ago
> a small group of folks that are at least as competent as the folks at WhatsApp pre-acquistion That's a success case... beware survivorship bias. > if there are lots of bozos in the startup No arguing that quality engineers are
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by dalbasal 3y ago
A brain, a manual and google is usually a pretty good way generally to make solid decisions, respect the limits of your chosen stack. What happens when there is >1 brain involved... or when brainless, manualless decisions eventually get
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by dalbasal 3y ago
The problem with these discussions is that you can always get a lot out of any given architecture, structure, db approach or whatnot. Can. There's just a lot of daylight between "can" and "likely will." Ultimately
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by dalbasal 3y ago
you're right. culture doesn't exist, I suppose.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
This is pointless semantics, like the perpetual insistence on correcting "monopoly" to "oligopsony" or whenever monopoly is discussed. No one knows the word "dower," and the term "dowry" is used prett
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Or any other winter festival that was practiced before christmas, and christianity superseded it.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
> No longer purchasing women from fathers is a strict improvement over the allegedly pristine culture of the past. Blah. This is pious view, and a pious dismissal... not a thought out or real feminist perspective... imho. The past (and p
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Or how about a proper dowry... that is the point. A savings bond, or even a symbolic gold chain... provided that the price is reasonably represented in gold weight. Dowries are/were a symbolic and real proof of financial fortitude, int
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by dalbasal 3y ago
The AOL story is foundational, IMO, to gain an understanding of the business. To me, the most instructive part is the open web's triumphalism at defeating AOL. AOL thought they could own the internet by controlling the front door... po
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>> Repeating the negative generalisations over and over can contribute to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Very true, but it's also treacherous to go blindly in the opposite direction. We need to be capable of both modes of thought...
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I think "The Problem with Agile," especially at this point, is mostly upstream of any implementation details. What kind of an organisation is going to adopt a packaged management method like that? Cargo cult adoption of practices,
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by dalbasal 3y ago
A lot of coding work, and modern work generally is all learning. IE, a lot of tasks consist mostly of learning to complete the task. There's just a lot of cascade. The language, library, codebase, prerequisites specific to the task, et
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Museum, often, are 90% warehouse. The idea that museums should have exhibitions and be open to the public was a later development.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Think of all the consumer action efforts, and (especially) talk on one hand. Think of the successes on the other... basically none but a few minor symbolic wins.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Sure. Hiphop also still exists. However, both genres have origin stories that's deeply intertwined with copyright litigation, enforcement and their development.
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I like timelines and other formalisations as of thinking/discussing about digital freedom... and I agree that this is a key freedom battleground in the coming decades (maybe centuries). Alongside this, I think it's worth keeping i
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Twitter's quite easy to stop consuming... Easier than Google, Amazon, etc. It doesn't matter though. It's not just a matter of lock in. There are other reasons. For one thing, data isn't really data in private chunks. It
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by dalbasal 3y ago
"Consumer action," whether organized or individual has 0% chance of affecting what happens next here. It's all down to ip law and it's adjacents. No real reason to expect intentional actions here.

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