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by db48x 1y ago
Xerox hired an anthropologist once, Julian E. Orr, and it resulted in a really good book called “Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job”. Of course, mostly he found was how out of touch the executives at Xerox were with what
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by db48x 1y ago
He did say that the city is badly regulated…
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by db48x 1y ago
Mass curves space. All mass curves space all the time. You are bending the fabric of spacetime even now! Don’t try to deny it! What does curvature mean? It means that the direction of time’s arrow is different in different places. To an obs
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by db48x 1y ago
There’s no reason to expect that the properties of space are different inside the event horizon than outside. Of course the direction of time turns sharply as you go inside, but otherwise space is just space. You only get an asymmetric blac
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by db48x 1y ago
Great talk about the real history of object oriented programming and entity component systems.
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, something like that. Although even there you still have bond ratings and just straight up reputations to tell you which governments are trustworthy enough to do business with, even without a blockchain.
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by db48x 1y ago
“The commissioner sees it as important that his government department actually follows the rules as written down by Congress” seems like a fairer interpretation. Congress literally wrote “You must do X when Y”, and the FTC said “Well, proba
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by db48x 1y ago
Yes, Congress should probably revisit the threshold. But all thresholds are arbitrary, and for this purpose a hundred million is arguably as good as any. It’s not the end of the world if they only do that every few decades. In fact I would
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by db48x 1y ago
Don’t forget that the FTC’s new rules were about a more than just adding a button to your website. You should go read them, but be warned the pdf is 230 pages long.
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by db48x 1y ago
> It's very clear that the blockchain is 100% BS… Hmm. The blockchain is actually a very clever solution to a very old coordination problem. In that sense it is not BS at all. But I agree that it is an open question whether it can
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by db48x 1y ago
It’s not really rare, plenty of companies in the US use employment contracts. But a majority don’t, not in the European sense. Technically there is always a contract between any two parties who are cooperating; it doesn’t have to be formali
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by db48x 1y ago
They do print the terms on paper. Usually, companies that don’t have a formal contract that both the employee and employer sign will still write down all the important information. First the employer sends an offer letter containing importa
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by db48x 1y ago
Right. It doesn’t count the money consumers save by not being trapped primarily because most businesses are legitimate. This threshold is all about identifying rules that are costly for legitimate businesses to implement and allowing them t
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by db48x 1y ago
> Luckily not all 33M of those businesses are wringing subscriptions out of their customers (yet), so it might be fairer if we could narrow it down to the subset who do? This is quite correct. The FTC estimated that there are 106,000 bus
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by db48x 1y ago
No, it is only cost to implement the new rules. If this cost is estimated to be above one hundred million dollars, then extra review steps are required. These steps allow the public, and the regulated industry, to suggest alternatives. Thes
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by db48x 1y ago
Note especially that the hundred million dollar rule is about the amount of impact _of the new rules_, not the impact of the fraud that they’re trying to deter. The extra steps that they must go through are all about finding alternative rul
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by db48x 1y ago
You might be misunderstanding the purpose of the hundred million dollar rule. It is an arbitrary threshold, that’s true; any threshold would be. But what it triggers is just an extra step that the FTC must go through where they receive sugg
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by db48x 1y ago
You’re welcome.
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by db48x 1y ago
> but your goalpost moving requirement of updating all marketing doesn't meet the bar for me there I didn’t move the goalposts here. The new rules that are at issue here were about much more than just providing a button that cancels
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by db48x 1y ago
> Maybe you saw something in the quoted text that I didn't but I understood the USD100M to mean the costs that would arise due to companies who are currently utilising these practices stopping those practices. No, Congress put in th
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by db48x 1y ago
> The ease with which you can continue to charge consumers without providing value to them directly affects the total amount of those charges (also, profits is a variable) I can’t even parse this sentence. You appear to be assuming a dis
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by db48x 1y ago
Suppose I am selling magazine subscriptions. I basically already follow all of the FTC’s new rules, because I’m not trying to cheat. But the new rules are pages and pages of amendments to pages and pages of existing rules. Those rules are c
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by db48x 1y ago
Why is that laughable? Congress decided that all rules changes need additional scrutiny if they impose large costs. After all, those costs are eventually going to be passed down to consumers so making overly–complicated rules just ends up h
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by db48x 1y ago
For those of you wondering what the actual decision says: < https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/07/243137P.pdf >
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by db48x 1y ago
With 106,000 companies doing this, that’s less than $1,000 each. Do you think that _your_ company could review all of its marketing materials for compliance with a new FTC rule for less than that? How much would you as a consultant charge o
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by db48x 1y ago
That is a novel idea! But ironically it is not actually the issue that was in front of the court.
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by db48x 1y ago
A trivial search will get you the court opinion itself < https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/25/07/243137P.pdf >, so regardless of how bad the news article is you should not be uninformed. From the abstra
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by db48x 1y ago
I guess that only leaves the third option: don’t license music or other assets that way. It’s really not that hard. Instead of writing a contract that promises that you won't distribute the music with your game for more than X years, w
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by db48x 1y ago
How is the logo falling off (or not falling off) relevant to the end of life of the game? The logos don’t automatically fall off at the end of the game’s life, do they?
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by db48x 1y ago
While that is a valid complaint, don’t move the goalposts. The original comment was: > But then I remember that trump is invoking the ancient "war powers act" to do them. Why didn't obama or biden have to do that if they w

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