headhasthoughts

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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
Part of the deal everyone's living under is that we live under a system of rough supply and demand. Selling something for what people will pay for it is not a shell game, it's basic economics. The price for people who choose not t
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
No. The "regular" price is whatever people not opting into stalking are paying. Capitalism is based around supply and demand, and people who don't want to be stalked are willing to pay more. That's not an upcharge. That&
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
No. By allowing the practice, people who are okay with being stalked get compensated for their value. People who don't consent to the transaction in question are not a party to it, and are not being taxed; they're paying the regul
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
Why shouldn't they? Are they not people? Why should the fact that they haven't thought things through take away natural rights?
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
A fundamental principle of capitalism is that goods will sell for what they will be bought for. That's part of the deal.
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
Why should they give you a "deal" that they do at a loss or near-loss if you aren't willing to sacrifice the necessary currency for it? Allowing people who don't care about their privacy to sell it seems like a fair tran
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
I don't even like Erlang. I'm just pointing out that removing the main incentive for being there for an employee without giving them something in return is naturally going to cause them to bail. You don't spit in a person&#
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
How was orchestrating a coup that threw Chile into dictatorship against the democratically-elected and ever-popular Salvador Allende protecting democracy or freedom?
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
What's wrong about conducting psychological experiments on users? Everyone who signed up for Facebook agreed to the ToS.
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
"Yes, we are going to make your job six times less efficient and substantially more difficult, while simultaneously removing your main incentive for working here. No, you will not receive a raise or any other form of olive branch from
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
The latter. Under your proposed ideal, he wouldn't be able to defend such a thing, as he was an individual.
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
So did Moxie leave because Signal got overtaken by Feds? Why is a secure messenger adopting the appearance of social media? Doesn't this work explicitly against the entire claimed reason for not having an account system? I would love t
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
In your proposed world, shouldn't we simply get rid of patents entirely? The person who made the flash freezer, for example, was just one person. If he couldn't protect his patent, despite definitively changing the face of global
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
Libel isn't legal in the US. > In since-deleted tweets, the account specifically accused Chasten Buttigieg and The Trevor Project organization of grooming.[40][32][94] And outright misinformation isn't really an "ideologic
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
"Literally every Android app that doesn't directly require GPS" is quite a few native productivity applications.
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
It's open source. Have you contributed?
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
Why should you be offended that learning materials are improving, toolchains are getting easier, and net access is available to all now? It's like complaining that automatics exist. You can still drive manual! You have that on people!
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
ASD and schizophrenia share something in common: Both feature NMDA receptors functioning differently than in neurotypicals, which is a plausible cause for why some people are able to tickle themselves. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
To do discovery to find the proper forms, and what they have to fill out in them, and to get their legal department to make sure they're doing it correctly, has significant costs. You bought your card before Brexit. They're hono
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
The methods you speak of cost more (in labor) for EVGA. EVGA honoring their pre-Brexit policy and not moving mountains is well within their rights. It is your country's fault that Brexit happened, not EVGA's. EVGA did what the
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by headhasthoughts 4y ago
That sounds like it's more a problem with your country's ongoing deinternationalization than EVGA being bad. Would you expect a company to open a Russia-based repair center right now? When a country is deliberately harming its int
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by headhasthoughts 5y ago
I hope Foone moves to a Twitter clone. People who act entitled to a person's content in the exact format they want it to be in are ruining blogs.
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by headhasthoughts 5y ago
The Signal xbps package works fine, and Flatpaks are security hell.