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by immibis 10mo ago
So... how does a new person open a shop?
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by immibis 10mo ago
One failure mode is when someone makes 1000 accounts and upvotes everything that benefits them and downvotes everything that doesn't. And you have to balance letting new users into the system with not letting the same user into the sys
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by immibis 10mo ago
Steel man: GP could be using "capitalism" to refer to the distribution of capital - financial markets - rather than the entire system. Financial markets are zero-sum as they don't produce anything and their consumption (wages
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by immibis 10mo ago
But we do do that. People scream from the rooftops that it's unfair to give people money for doing nothing (i.e. welfare or UBI) but it's fine to give the same money to someone who digs ditches all day, and to someone else who fil
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by immibis 10mo ago
That's debanking. Debanking is whenever you can't have a bank account. It doesn't matter what the reason is.
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by immibis 10mo ago
That's called market segmentation. The people who either ignore the game or pirate it when it's full price - well they're trying to at least get some money out of those people. That's how sales work in general.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Steam requires the same bullshit. It's just that you only do it once, and it remembers your PII for your future purchases. In this way, centralised marketplaces have lower friction.
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by immibis 10mo ago
So basically your sources weren't lost sales because you don't show off your mad sk1llz by buying a game, and you weren't a lost sale because you had no way to buy it. But I'm sure you did talk about how cool the game wa
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by immibis 10mo ago
Huge yikes from Framework.
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by immibis 10mo ago
I'm glad you agree that if a child happens to be born to parents who aren't very good at parenting, they deserve to suffer. Basically if a child's parents smoke around them and give them lung cancer, all we should do is yell
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by immibis 10mo ago
If they get enough complaints "the app doesn't work, please fix it or close my account" they'll fix it because they don't want to close more than a few accounts.
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by immibis 10mo ago
The reason banks do this is that if they don't comply with US tax laws they'll be cut off from all US-based banking systems including international payments (universally conducted in USD), cut off from issuing any credit or debit
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by immibis 10mo ago
If you're associated with any hacker group you should ask them if they're included in the pre-sale round. You can get one then if they don't run out.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Why does this pattern come up so often? Something is promoted ignoring the lessons of the past and claiming not to have those problems, then it's discovered that it does have those problems and that ostriching didn't solve them (s
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by immibis 10mo ago
But that's also true on 1 channel. Doesn't solve the hidden node problem. You have 1/20 as much risk of starting to transmit at the same time on the same channel as someone else, after you both determined the channel was cl
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by immibis 10mo ago
Nobody knows what thinking is. A real human brain can be simulated with matrix multiplications.
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by immibis 10mo ago
You can't prove there isn't a boogie monster under your bed
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by immibis 10mo ago
Isn't every law applied selectively? Murder is one of the most serious and uncontroversial laws, yet ICE officers murder black people with impunity.
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by immibis 10mo ago
The message would be 20 times longer (in time), increasing its chance of collision by 20 times and exactly cancelling the 20 times reduction that it gets from randomly selecting one of 20 channels.
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by immibis 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure the Palestine protestors are being silenced under terrorism laws, which is both not hate speech, and something the USA also does.
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by immibis 10mo ago
It means ICE officers can kill you but you can't kill ICE officers. This is arguably an even worse asymmetry than the one about speech.
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by immibis 10mo ago
They're not excusing themselves with "I can say whatever I want to" and "arrests for speech are invalid", are they? - they're not hiding behind free speech. They're excusing themselves with reasons like &q
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by immibis 10mo ago
The way around this, by the way, is to create some kind of alternative exchange system that only admits real-for-real exchange and makes hoarding money impossible.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Why class action? Sounds like you think you could sue individually. I'm not convinced, but you are.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Uh, it is illegal. That's why people get arrested and convicted for it.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Patches welcome, but try to design it in a way that spreads load proportionally to the bandwidth available in each country.
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by immibis 10mo ago
What were people arrested for saying?
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by immibis 10mo ago
Banning children from accessing things proven to be harmful to children does not a dictator make. Or else you'd be rallying just as hard to allow children to drink alcohol.
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by immibis 10mo ago
It means defending Nazi shit by claiming you're allowed to say anything you want. Timmy: "I think it should be legal to kill Jews." Moderator: (bans Timmy) Timmy (elsewhere): "Help, I'm being persecuted for expressi
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by immibis 10mo ago
Yes, that's correct. Have you tried reporting them to the police? If they're in the UK, they can be prosecuted.

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