danaris

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by danaris 3mo ago
It's because the people making it are marketing it aggressively to other CEOs as the way they can eliminate their salary budgets and pocket them as profit, and drumming up FOMO among them so each feels that if they don't hop on th
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by danaris 3mo ago
The "AI" that is being used to find cures for cancers is not the same "AI" that is being used as an excuse to fire people, especially programmers. The latter is LLMs. Generative AI, chatbots, etc. The former is analytica
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by danaris 3mo ago
"Recruitment"? Do you think that queer people are "recruited"? Do you think that queer people are a "special interest", like corn farmers? No; that type of attitude is just run-of-the-mill queerphobia. Young ch
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by danaris 3mo ago
The problem with that is, there's not necessarily a signal for "stopped being great or sold to someone not so very great" besides "they gave my domain away to a scammer because they asked."
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by danaris 3mo ago
You may be poorly educated as to how antitrust is supposed to work. Breaking up monopolies that already exist is only one of its purposes and tools. It is also there to prevent mergers that will be detrimental to the public. Past a certai
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by danaris 3mo ago
And this is why the destruction of antitrust in the US in the latter part of the 20th century has screwed us all. The massive wave of consolidation that followed that (ongoing to this day) makes the barrier to entry for every market much, m
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by danaris 3mo ago
Consumers can't choose what they want because what they want isn't on the market. All they can choose is what companies want to sell them. Free Market Theory can only reveal people's preferences when you have a spherical mark
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by danaris 3mo ago
> The existence of that desire is an untapped market opportunity. Only if you can outcompete the giant mega-conglomerate incumbents. And you can't. If you start trying to sell in an area, they can drop the prices on their competing
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by danaris 3mo ago
Nah, moral relativism is bullshit. Sure, I can acknowledge that there may be values out there that are better than my values. That doesn't mean I have to say that people whose values are antithetical to mine—whose values are essentiall
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by danaris 3mo ago
...do....do you think that's a gotcha? Yes , if we had considered ethics in the past, we wouldn't have committed bloody genocide on the Native Americans. We would probably have tried to open up mutually beneficial trade with th
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by danaris 3mo ago
> No doubt the titans of the AI industry, who stand to lose their shirts No they don't. They stand to lose points on their dollar-denominated high scores. If every one of the AI companies went belly-up, their execs would all live ve
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by danaris 3mo ago
I very much understand where the EU is coming from with the DMA. I think that its intent, broadly, is a good one, and something we should be pushing for more. I'm even very sympathetic to the idea that platform-makers/gatekeepers
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by danaris 3mo ago
To be even clearer, genuine effective age-appropriate sex education absolutely includes education on what it means to be trans, gay, bi, ace, and every other part of the queer rainbow, and that all of these things are just as good and norma
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by danaris 3mo ago
To be clear, I recognize that there is zero chance of genuine effective age-appropriate sex education being mandated in the foreseeable future in the US, nor has there been any such chance at any time in the past. I'm merely noting
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by danaris 3mo ago
The problem is, the things that would actually prevent CSA require things like "giving children rights", "widely mandating effective age-appropriate sex education even for young children", and "admitting that it&#x2
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by danaris 3mo ago
Water price is only one consideration for where to build a data center. "The data center can get water cheap" is not the same as "water is generally cheap in the area the data center is built." "Water is cheap in th
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by danaris 3mo ago
The clearest name for it I've seen is the Two Guys Fallacy: you see two guys talking on the same forum, and assume they're the same guy.
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by danaris 3mo ago
> they're being built where water is cheap. water is cheap where it's abundant. [citation needed] There have already been stories about residents in some areas having to ration water due to drought, but the recently-built datac
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by danaris 3mo ago
> They did, though; You cite a bunch of changes, but none of them are what people have actually been claiming for the past 19 that Apple will do: preventing us from installing arbitrary software on our Macs. I still have my MacPorts in
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by danaris 3mo ago
First of all, the answer is "no, they're absolutely not". However, the reason for that is that they don't want to. They want to torture these people for the sin of being brown in America. Second of all, it absolutely d
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by danaris 3mo ago
> These sorts of things done remotely close to residential areas are very rare in the grand scheme. I'm sure that will be a great consolation to the thousands of people who have to live near them. "Don't worry, your situat
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by danaris 3mo ago
As someone who was growing up during the period where the Internet became mainstream... This was happening before then. The Lions, Rotary, etc clubs in my area made very little effort to reach out and invite younger members. Aside from th
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by danaris 3mo ago
But a huge portion of what they burned those resources to produce was energy—both to generate electricity, and to power their vehicles. We now have renewable energy sources for both of these things spinning up faster than ever. It won&#x2
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by danaris 3mo ago
"Voluntary" is bullshit. You can call these transactions "voluntary", but when a huge percentage of the people in America do not make enough money to save, period , that means that all their income is going to necessi
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by danaris 3mo ago
The problem is, the entire right-wing/neoliberal subfields of economics have been utterly refusing to actually compare to reality and make adjustments since Reagan. They just repeat their dogma (like trickle-down economics), and when y
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by danaris 3mo ago
This idea that Apple has been plotting this whole time to turn the Mac into iOS, in terms of limiting the software you can run to their own App Store, is a tired meme that makes zero sense given what we've seen from Apple in the past..
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by danaris 3mo ago
There's nothing special about Sony's store—the point is that, just for instance, many people own a Playstation of some sort, and want to watch movies through it. For some (nontrivial!) percentage of those people, the Playstation i
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by danaris 3mo ago
You seem to have either misunderstood my point (a), or you have a misguided idea of how important small luxuries are to people, especially people who do not have the means to procure larger luxuries on a regular basis. I mean, sure; it&#x
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by danaris 3mo ago
Boycotts don't work nearly as well nowadays because a) Consumers don't have enough money already, so they're both stressed out and getting fewer things for themselves. These combine to mean that they're less likely to
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by danaris 3mo ago
This has nothing to do with "the market". This is a handful of incredibly wealthy companies deciding for us all.

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