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by ericmay 5mo ago
Ok just remove "crappy" then and replace with low-quality. We can differentiate on low-quality, high-quality, and more when talking about consumer products. I'm going off of rough memory here, but don't like half of all
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by ericmay 5mo ago
I already made and proved my point. The iPhone is not a status symbol, and major carriers can and do give them away in various schemes and did so in the past and will continue to do so in the future. You’re anchoring yourself to one payment
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by ericmay 6mo ago
You’re introducing additional details and scenarios that are part of a different conversation, one in which is certainly nuanced and well-worth discussing. But what you are doing here is justifying behavior. That’s separate from a discussio
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by ericmay 6mo ago
It’s free enough that my point stands and I’m close-minded to any further discussion about it.
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> No but money only has value because of a product of the human labor and production capacity it refers to. Money is not capital, it is a reference to/legal coercion of capital These are just strings of words without meaning or impo
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by ericmay 6mo ago
I am arguing they’re not status symbols and using how cheaply available they are as evidence that they’re not. Anyone can get one, some companies run free promotions, some do delayed interest programs, some amortize the price over a 2-year
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> Which is bad, someone who cheats on a test or someone who rats out their friend for cheating on a test? Obviously the first. How is this even a question?
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Capital is not the means of production. Capital is capital. If I have a few million dollars in my bank account I don’t all of a sudden have a factory. Remember from economics class you need capital, labor, and the means of production. Capit
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by ericmay 6mo ago
I don’t know or care much about the specific details but the article was written in 2025. Carriers run deals and give away iPhones or close enough to free or cheap that quibbling about the details is irrelevant. If you think the iPhone is a
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Here's an example from 2025 with a major US carrier - Verizon: https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/deals/articles/want-free-iphon... They run various schemes like this all the time, you can also trade in your
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by ericmay 6mo ago
What source are you using for your claim that capital is flowing out of the country? I'm curious to read more about it.
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by ericmay 6mo ago
No they don't, it's not 2008. Anybody off the street can get an iPhone or a free iPhone with a mobile plan. They're commodity products. Even homeless people have them. To the extent LLMs are commodity products you're rig
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> ? Claude, ChatGPT, etc are heinously expensive for tiny benefits lmao. Local + efficient is clearly the future Corporate America is where the money is, and corporate America will dictate what products are successful by virtue of spend.
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Why though? That could be true of any economic condition. Imagine if any time there was a race or competition in which one group is winning you had to just say "for now". Michael Phelps is winning the race! ... for now China is
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Market forces take time to do things, they're not instantaneous. If San Francisco becomes so unaffordable that employers can't attract talent, then they'll have to open offices elsewhere. I live in Columbus. I'd love to
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Maybe US intelligence wasn't perfect and they found a clandestine Iranian nuclear program? Maybe Iran restarted it. Who knows?
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Doesn't March come before June?
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> Maybe if Iran had a nuke Israel would cut back on sexual torture of detainees and indiscriminate bombing of vast swaths of densely populated land. Aside from the fact that Iran and its proxies do this, you have to remember that Israel
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> A world with more prosperity for more people seems good to me. Agree with that sentiment absolutely. I’m not totally sure that is a given, however. The primary reason being that as America declines economically from the post-war boom,
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> I'm puzzled why we talk about "US decline" when we're pretty much creating paeans to marginal energy construction. It's literally just a mind virus and folks hear it on the news and like the Chinese hypersonic
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Interesting discussion. Something it made me think about is trading cards or other items you typically might want to sell as graded items. If you’ve got a physical GameStop with the digital eBay footprint maybe you’ve got the makings of a
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Of course our activity levels change and in some cases go down as we age, but I'd like to submit that is a given, and that car-only infrastructure is an additional barrier on top of those natural tendencies. It's simply much easie
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by ericmay 6mo ago
As a general comment, I'd like to say that getting out of the house is a hell of a lot easier when you don't have to drive everywhere to participate in daily life. So and so family member sits at home and watches TV all day is a p
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by ericmay 6mo ago
No it doesn't. If the right was in charge of the government of the UK they wouldn't have needed to have a referendum or drum up support for it. Here's perhaps a concrete example to help piece this together. I live in Ohio. Ou
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by ericmay 6mo ago
Yea that's a good one. The problem is folks don't have patience. They see an airline fail and instead of waiting until a new competitor enters the market, as they inevitably will, they want to start regulating or look to other &qu
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by ericmay 6mo ago
No, I didn't. But I wouldn't claim that a referendum that was voted on by the people of the country to be the same thing as right-leaning groups being in control of the government of the UK.
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by ericmay 6mo ago
England has gotten more liberal over time, not less. I'm not following your logic here. It seems you're wanting to criticize the government of the UK for being authoritarian and ratcheting up the surveillance state, but simultaneo
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by ericmay 6mo ago
> I'm not American and I was not thinking from the perspective of an American inclined to join the US military. I would have thought your first inclination would be to say you're not Russian and not thinking from the perspectiv
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by ericmay 6mo ago
You're right, and if someone wants to say I have social media because of this forum that's totally fine. I just mean I don't use any of the major social media platforms, well, except LinkedIn. And I just haven't gotten o
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by ericmay 6mo ago
It’s pretty easy. I haven’t had social media besides LinkedIn since, I think 2013? I participate in all sorts of events, I know about things going on in my neighborhood and city, and I have quite a few friends. You don’t need this stuff and

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