hi_im_miles

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by hi_im_miles 4y ago
> The "free market" will always, always end up with large fish eating up the small fish I still think this has much more to do with market interventions enabling 'artificially' large economies of scale. Infrastructure
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by hi_im_miles 4y ago
There are spaces on the internet where people are nice to each other, it's just they're usually heavily moderated or invite-only where there's a consequence to being an asshole. People don't act nice on the public intern
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by hi_im_miles 4y ago
I feel the opposite actually. I’m super hungry for information provided in good faith, but there’s an overwhelming amount of copypaste crowding it all out.
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by hi_im_miles 4y ago
The "broken" thing is (and always has been) the existence of low cost, low barrier-to-entry competitors to monopoly power.
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by hi_im_miles 4y ago
I think absentee ownership and zoning laws have a fundamental impact on the availability of housing. It seems outside of governmental concern because their impact is already so normal. It’s normal for rich people to own/rent land they
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by hi_im_miles 4y ago
Trust is the biggest thing missing from most forms of advertisement. I know I will gladly check out a product that a YouTuber I enjoy recommends, but banner ads/prerolls/TV ads/etc feel like a scam reel.
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
We basically need a curation protocol.
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
The state suggests that people cannot play nicely en masse without violent control, but doesn’t actually back this assertion up with anything. Maybe I’m a conspiratorial nutcase, but my relationship with the state consistently feels like in
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
This is exactly in line with my experience as well. There is also an idea that all skilled players are grinders, which in my experience is definitely not true; having more games played than a professional usually signals to me that they&#x2
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
> Of course, I don't expect AAAs to offer an experience like this, because human moderation doesn't scale cheaply to 10s of millions of players.. race to the bottom <3 I think it does scale, but it requires users being able
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
As someone who does play competitive video games seriously, rather than having anti-cheat, I would prefer to play on servers/ladders where the players are vetted and where getting caught cheating has meaningful social implications. Ope
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
Not the person you're responding to, but a recent example that caused outrage was Nintendo sending C&Ds to online Melee tournament organizers during the pandemic (using emulators with mods). I'm sure there's some way in w
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
My experience with remote work has been the opposite of this. My team is in a call for the day, and most of my time is spent collaborating with my coworkers. I find this experience to be far superior actually, as we can do things like: use
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
For me as a daily weed user, this "type" of munchies only persisted for so long. Curious to hear of others experiences, but after about a year of developing the habit, I became almost repulsed by very salty/greasy/sweet
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
I don’t think we need a concept of intellectual property at all to talk about why fraudulent behavior is wrong/harmful.
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
> Can you clarify your thought here? American people don't think and behave like they do in Hollywood TV shows. There are exceptions of course, but most pop TV shows do not attempt to accurately portray real human relationships, emo
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
> This essentially is hollywood transfers its manufacturing capacity to SK, just like American industry transfers its manufacturing capacity to China. I think this perspective is one of my many lenses you can apply to this. Another persp
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
There does seem to be a rather large "anti-social media" current here on HN and in tech spaces in general. I find it a bit odd how common that sentiment is, since for me it has been relatively easy to tailor social media to my int
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
Not sure why you would expect people to act any differently when given freely reproducible content. The only solution here would be making adblock illegal and ramping up surveillance.
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
I think the blame is appropriately placed here, no one is forcing them to take sponsorships without due diligence. It’s not exactly secret knowledge that these VPN providers can be scummy.
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
I am extremely skeptical that there is no financial incentive to being first-to-market and building a reputation as an innovator, even at a "higher level", especially when these incentives are completely overshadowed by the ones c
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
The flaw with this argument is the assumption that incentives cannot exist towards innovation without IP protections. It's obvious why investors will seldomly invest in non-protected innovation: monopolies are just significantly more l
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
But why have them at all, especially if we’re going to shoot for arbitrary amounts of time? I don’t buy that IP protections incentivize innovation anymore than they prevent it. The reality is that the gains from intellectual property are no
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
Though this is only one person's personal experience, to me this was an illuminating conversation on the state of medical device repair as a consequence of strong IP protections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsJG2ODO
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by hi_im_miles 5y ago
The problem is that there is no way to experiment with other ways of funding health care research, as the cost of doing so is set at highly entrenched monopoly prices. There is no reason for those with capital to consider alternatives when
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
I have zero faith that regulation here will realistically have any effect other than inching Amazon a bit closer to being a quasi-state service, and I also have zero faith in that improving customer service at all.
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
Yeah, this article is assuming a competitive environment when in reality there exists an arsenal of state tools available for corporations to entrench themselves as monopolies: IP protections, subsidies/contracts, regulatory capture, e
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
Part of this is that Facebook makes the opinions of people you know but don't really care about highly visible, which I think leads to some of the animosity you see on the platform. When the person you're confronting is the uncle
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
For me, organizing stuff is something I enjoy to a point where I'd consider it "living my life". I get a lot of joy out of using emacs/org mode every day, but I can also totally understand someone who doesn't.
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
>It is up to good honest people to set the example, because yes the greedy ones will always greed away. A focus on 'greed' or 'honesty' is missing the mark on what I'm saying here. We currently have an economy bu

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