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by immibis 11mo ago
>>A weaver who knows how to use an automated weaving machine produces 3 times as much cloth as one who doesn't, so why don't they get paid 3 times as much? > An automatic weaving machine, operated by a capable operator, p
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by immibis 11mo ago
A single identity can send messages to hundreds or thousands of users.
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by immibis 11mo ago
They also do wiretaps, and the exact name of the program is not relevant.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Nature has successfully evolved an Israeli Nostr: almost every mammal has at least one nostr.il
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by immibis 11mo ago
Evil is boring, evil is indifference, evil is amorality. That's why they called it "the banality of evil"
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by immibis 11mo ago
There's a little secret that most of the business world knows but individuals do not know: You don't have to follow Terms of Service. In most cases, the maximum penalty the company can impose for a ToS violation is a termination o
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by immibis 11mo ago
Nostr is one of those thought-terminating cults, you know, identical to "blockchain solves this" or "AGI solves this". And "Nostr can't be censored" is, of course, a statement identical to "Blockchain
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by immibis 11mo ago
If true, it's one of the only things preventing totls economic collapse due to lack of jobs.
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by immibis 11mo ago
You win a million dollar prize in cryptography.
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by immibis 11mo ago
It started being enforced only after major USA ISPs started injecting malware into every HTTP page. If it was a theoretical concern I might agree with you, but in reality, it actually happened which overrules any theoretical arguments. Al
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by immibis 11mo ago
Yes. Mozilla presumably want this rent-seeking industry of useless middleman to disappear.
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by immibis 11mo ago
When someone on your contacts list gets Signal, Signal displays this in its UI. I don't think this is a privacy violation. Signal aims to hide your messages, but it does not have its own contacts system, and piggybacks on your existing
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by immibis 11mo ago
If the PoW cost is a low-end cellphone CPU for 2.5 minutes, then it's nothing to the spammer with the 200-core hourly AWS server. If each spammer can create 10000 identities (not connections, identities) per hour, then you might as wel
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by immibis 11mo ago
Signal's security model does not include metadata, and this is a valid design.
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by immibis 11mo ago
It's worse than that - it's totally illegal to invoke scp with the argument of naked_kids.jpg. The horror!
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by immibis 11mo ago
There's no evidence the barrage of residentially-proxied bot accesses hitting every public website have anything to do with OpenAI, but then again, there's also no evidence they don't.
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by immibis 11mo ago
A weaver who knows how to use an automated weaving machine produces 3 times as much cloth as one who doesn't, so why don't they get paid 3 times as much? This is the problem of the decoupling of productivity and wages. It started
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by immibis 11mo ago
How can somebody who is blocked from (looking at your homepage) Docker Hub or Microsoft know that the reason they are blocked is that you have wrong data on them? How would they know to ask you? If they ask Docker Hub or Microsoft, they&#
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by immibis 11mo ago
It's not productivity itself; it's the decoupling of productivity from wages. If I'm creating 3 times as much value as my equivalent in 1970, why aren't I getting paid 3 times as much inflation-adjusted money, hmm? It&#x
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by immibis 11mo ago
If their argument were true we should set them as far negative as possible - we should tax 100% of labour and give all that money to capital owners. Which is kind of something that's already happening.
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by immibis 11mo ago
I think both stocks and homes should be taxed on realized value. If you sell it, that realizes the value, but also if you use it as collateral, that realizes the value. If you just live in it, we could say that it realizes the amount of ren
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by immibis 11mo ago
The wrong decision wasn't using productivity enhancers - it was building a society around the idea that everyone MUST have a job, even in the presence of substantial productivity enhancers which massively decrease the number of jobs. W
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by immibis 11mo ago
That's the brilliance of AI - it doesn't matter if the product actually works or not. As long as it looks like it works and flatters the user enough, you get paid. And if you build an AI interface to your product, you can make it
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by immibis 11mo ago
AFAIK transacting with Monero in the EU is now illegal, and the law is pretty explicit that this is because it's untraceable.
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by immibis 11mo ago
Reddit blocks basically everything - since the 2023 API meltdown it's gone full 1984 censorship and opinion manipulation mode. There are two target audiences for Reddit: propagandists (who are given moderator status, even in subreddits
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by immibis 11mo ago
90% of end users, not 90% of your customers. If your product blocks 10% of end users because it provides wrong geolocation data to your customer, sucks to be them!
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by immibis 11mo ago
Why do we assume that only "bad guys" would want to bypass internet censorship?
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by immibis 11mo ago
I suggest you look up the definition of an ethnostate before trying to argue about it
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by immibis 11mo ago
You just called it a Jewish state and now you're pretending that a Jewish state isn't an ethnostate by definition. A purposefully created white state is an ethnostate; a purposefully created German state is an ethnostate; a purpos
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by immibis 11mo ago
You actually can't. They hide your post and ban your account.

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