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by dmvdoug 3y ago
have they ever addressed this in later years? Like, what was their justification for Google becoming the AdMonster it did?
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
The financialization of like, literally everything, makes most of that “classic” work of political economics people like to cite wobble badly. Hell, so does advertising if you look at the classic Austrian Econ stuff. It’s invisible in Mises
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Your local university library and its ILL department.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Are… are you blaming the government for Google’s enshittification? Because that’s the only factor related to its size you cite as causally connected to its decline.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
This is actually helpful. So, he’s saying, religions really exist for this social function of group formation/identity. Thus, we know that the principles they proclaim, which tend to be universal claims of truth, are wrong, since if
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
It’s more a tone issue. He’s a skilled enough writer to come across as sincere and well-meaning. Whether he is or not I have no clue, I don’t know the man.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Whereas legal opinions use them either as a citation dump (known as “collecting cases”), as a place to bracket issues that are not being decided, or as a place to put a substantive response to a separate opinion in the case (if you’re an ap
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Good old postmodernist literature. So meta.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
The post is puzzled and thinks there’s a great mystery about what the infringed content was, but the DMCA Notice is crystal clear: > The original copyrighted content is/was posted online at: [private] [private] (*) There are various
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Oh, I think you misunderstood. I’m rooting for the whales as against all the humans. ;)
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
The earlier comments were so cynical I felt like I needed to offer another possibility: maybe they set out to do this in a more systematic way, then got so deep in the weeds they realized it would take them forever to put it into more syste
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I like the idea of someone sitting down and looking at someone else’s code, leaning back with satisfaction after they notice the programmer’s preference. “I like the cut of their jib.”
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Not going to lie, friends: I’m rooting for the whales.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
As usual, this is both interesting but also so generalizing as to get frustrating in places. But it’s clearly well-meaning and earnest, which makes it easier to tolerate some of its annoyingly breezy certainty. Then there’s this: > Relig
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Because he doesn’t really have any influence. He is locked inside a jurisprudence of one. I suppose I prefer that sort of honest integrity—even though batshit crazy-to the kind of unprincipled, inconsistent but always screechy Scalia.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yeah, well, it’s hard to cite precedent supporting your position when you arrive at your position by rejecting basically all precedent. The solipsism of his dissents gets to be vertiginous.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I mean, the FDA has been captured for a long time now, by design (see, e.g., the it’s reliance on funding by the entities it purportedly regulates in order to function at all). That’s not evidence that government in principle is the problem
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Sotomayor as well. What fascinates me about Thomas’s dissent is towards the end he talks about HBCUs and how effective they are. You’ll find language of his in a lot of places suggesting black separatist—type sympathies. He was a genuine ra
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Regardless of what your take is on the substance, as a former lawyer, I was really struck at the language in the various concurrences and dissents. They are very clearly pissed and/or disgusted with each other in a way that is very not
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
pats good old Telnet client
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Preach. Using my iPhone, I clicked on an HN link to Tom’s Hardware earlier today. Readable text occupied less than 1/4 of the screen. Everything else was taken by various banners, modals, etc. I tried to scroll down a little. It jumped
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
It’s hilarious that the prosecutor’s name there was Binger. MICROSOFT!
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Or that multiculturalism is responsible for growing inequality, because the trends emerged at roughly the same time (failing to note that that was also the timeframe of emergence for a kind of conservatism that fetishized corporations and a
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I don’t know, it made me snicker. But then again, I do spend most of my working hours among 14 year olds.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
You have one main point that you are trying to argue for, it seems to me, and I understand what it is. In fact, our disagreement really narrows down to this: > And I'd disagree that history is too complex to find patterns. I think i
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yes, which is why explanatory frameworks for history fall apart when put in contact with the details of history. The value in learning history comes not from the knowledge you acquire about humans, but from the wisdom you gain about human b
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Sonoma Under the Hood(eclecticlight.co)
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
From 2011, no less. Like, the past 12 years alone refute the prediction of corporate decline.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
There are a lot of posts like this here on HN: history by lumpers. They try to discern large-scale patterns or one or two keys that unlock a coherent, consistent interpretation of history. I am a splitter. It turns out that every interpre
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
The article mentions that property existed in feudal Europe, so isn’t per se linked to capitalism. But the thesis is that capitalization is per se linked to capitalism. Then capitalization/capitalism is linked to caring not about actua

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