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by danaris 1y ago
Social media is some of the least free of all markets, because the whole point of it is to be where the people you want to interact with are. If your entire family is on Facebook, unless you want to deliberately cut yourself off from them
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by danaris 1y ago
This presupposes that we have a truly free market. That has never been less true than it is now, at least in America.
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by danaris 1y ago
The thing is, while this is, to some extent, true, it has to coexist alongside the fact that many SaaSes, in practice, are predatory and overpriced. Once you're providing your product as SaaS, the incentives for you to gatekeep feature
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by danaris 1y ago
I do not, in any way, disagree with holding Gaggle accountable for this. But can we at least talk about also holding the school accountable for the absolutely insane response? You talk about not selling to schools that have "zero tol
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by danaris 1y ago
It can only be "not as bad as you think" if the people currently at the top don't continue to hoard all the gains. If the current system is maintained—the one where if you don't work, you don't earn money, and thu
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by danaris 1y ago
That doesn't mean there isn't a middle ground, y'know—where company/division/organization leaders both advance ideas and take responsibility for them.
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by danaris 1y ago
I frankly don't believe this. (edit for clarity: the proposition that our current rates are highly likely to be towards the top end of what's feasible, not the existence of such a curve) It's been cited as unshakable truth ma
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by danaris 1y ago
It's not a soft science. The problem is that too many people believe you can do research on one group of people, and generalize that universally to all humans, when in fact, the variation in every population of humans is wide enough
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by danaris 1y ago
> Meanwhile 99% of people looking at the products don’t realize that one’s cheaper than the other because it’s going to spy on them and sell the data. And this, plus the fact that it's so abstract and opaque what the negative cons
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by danaris 1y ago
I mean...what you say is not, in the face of it, false; however ... For the past few decades, the ways and the degree to which we have been genuinely trying (at the government level) to "progressively tax money" in the US have
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by danaris 1y ago
Is there any actual evidence that Apple is collecting this information and either using it for tracking purposes, or selling it to others who do? As opposed to processing it in aggregate to improve their services? If there is, I'll be
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by danaris 1y ago
We have ways to do these things. We just refuse to use them, because our politicians either believe that companies should have more rights than we do, or are terrified that if they actually try to enforce the law on them they'll
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by danaris 1y ago
The big difference there is that unlike, say, Price Chopper, Google, Facebook, and Xitter can track not only what you do with them , but everything you do on thousands and thousands of sites across the internet, through analytics packages
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by danaris 1y ago
> Neither Apple nor Google have any interest in making tracking opt-in or working to make this into a standard. Apple has taken steps to make it harder to track, both in iOS apps and in the browser. It's Google whose revenue depen
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by danaris 1y ago
In 2014, SCOTUS ruled that there is no blanket obligation to consider profits first: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. - https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/13-354 > While it is certainly true that
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by danaris 1y ago
Well, sure—and I am, in general, a very positive person. But there's a huge difference between (a) "given that this thing exists that seems very bad, can you imagine a way to a better future?" and (b) "can you imagine
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by danaris 1y ago
It's really hard to imagine how "truth is harder to find, more people lie with impunity, and convince others that their lies are true" could have a positive outcome. Moreover, I think it's really hard overall to imagine
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by danaris 1y ago
> Why is Musk allowed to be worth half a trillion dollars again? Because the US abandoned a number of years ago the idea that the law should apply equally to everyone. At least since the Reagan years, and to an increasing degree recently
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by danaris 1y ago
You can remap the Enter key globally , which is not getting Windows to usefully change the behavior of opening a selected file by hitting the Enter key to instead rename the file. And while I've never tried it myself, I think it hig
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by danaris 1y ago
You have posted a link to a question asking about it that does not actually appear to have a valid answer provided. Someone mentions using F2 (which does not change the Enter behavior), and someone talks about using some third-party utili
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by danaris 1y ago
Can you change the "Enter" behavior on Windows to rename the file? Can you change the Home/End behavior on Windows to match the macOS behavior? (Legit don't know the answer to these, but I suspect not...) If you can&#x27
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by danaris 1y ago
There are absolutely ways in which limiting our choices increases overall freedom: specifically, when our choices harm others , or take away their freedoms. Indeed, this is what laws that create a safe and healthy society based in rule
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by danaris 1y ago
Personally, I would say that his first horseman—competition, or lack thereof—is likely at the root of all four of the major problems. With more competition—with dozens or hundreds of companies competing on an even footing in a given space
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by danaris 1y ago
> Some workers simply aren't capable of generating $10/hr of economic value. The only ones that I believe this can genuinely be true of are people with various types of disabilities. Which I addressed in my post. The idea that
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Yes, everything online sucks now–but it doesn't have to(arstechnica.com)
4 points by danaris 1y ago|1 comments
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by danaris 1y ago
See, there's a fundamental flaw in your logic, at least based on my own: I don't believe that any human being is "only worth" $10/hr, or whatever arbitrary level you set. Every human being deserves to have the r
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by danaris 1y ago
> High minimum wages are making it nearly impossible to run small restaurants. Another way of putting this: "Small restaurants can only operate at a profit if they're allowed to pay people so little they can't afford to li
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Physics Paths(xkcd.com)
2 points by danaris 1y ago|0 comments
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The AI Industry's Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff(wired.com)
4 points by danaris 1y ago|1 comments
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by danaris 1y ago
Now, that's very true! But it's a far cry from implying that all or most humanities teachers are all about writing florid essays when 3 bullet points will do.

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