hi_im_miles

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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
Ebooks are words arranged in a digital document. If that's a "gimmick", then everything is a gimmick.
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
I reject that the only way forward is to simply accept rent-seeking behavior and move on. It's unreasonable to expect people to pay for a freely reproducible good, and "doing something" about that implies state surveillance a
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
Who else would the onus be on then? Ultimately if you don't like something that's happening to you, then it's on you to address it. The cops most likely aren't going to give a shit about someone seeding a torrent of your
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
Money doesn't get invested into projects that 'do things honestly', it gets invested into whatever is deemed to make the most profit. There's plenty of people who provide loads of value to those around them (emotional la
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
> harmful to society as a whole By what measure? You imply that their product being cheaper or unregulated is harmful to society, but you haven't offered any reason as to why. It's also not a tax-free product.
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
> Over time, the choices that affect an underclass are more lenient, as the underclasses vote in their own interest. Short term, there can always be less efficient redistribution outcomes, which does not contradict the mid term effect. T
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
I don't buy this. Even if everyone voted, you'd still end up with policies that continue to advantage whichever voting blocs have the largest influence. The system is broken because it's a zero-sum game; privileging those who
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by hi_im_miles 6y ago
> Governments by their very nature, and democratic ones especially, are supposed to be about charging taxes and redistributing that wealth for the better good. The idea that democracies allocate resources efficiently (as in, "for th
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by hi_im_miles 7y ago
> How do you resolve disputes between rival claimants to a building? What I am envisioning here is a world where abandoning a property grants rights to the next person to occupy it, rather than allowing the original proprietor to act as
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by hi_im_miles 7y ago
I don't have a problem with someone transforming land and subsequently renting that land to recoup the cost of materials and labor. My issue is that the state enables profits far in excess of cost by granting the original proprietor a
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by hi_im_miles 7y ago
> They offer the service of providing limited-term accommodation with no assumption of liability for regular, small payments. Contrast this to owning a house/condo, where the owner has an indefinite right to the property, but assume
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by hi_im_miles 7y ago
There really isn't any such service. The purpose of state-backed absentee title is to enable sustained profits in excess of cost.
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by hi_im_miles 7y ago
I don't really see a way for Naborly to be negatively affected by media blowback from this, considering their consumers are strictly landlords who only stand to gain from these kinds of features. I would agree that this behavior is sle
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by hi_im_miles 7y ago
Tailwind is often paired with another build tool called PurgeCSS which eliminates any unused classes.
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by hi_im_miles 7y ago
I think the fact that it took an entire month to understand how to reach compliance speaks to the "pay to win" nature of regulatory barriers-to-entry.