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by jasmer 3y ago
I'm sorry but this is upside down on every point. 1) Netflix UX is perfectly fine. You see the film, you click play - that's it. There is no argument to be made that a) it's bad or b) pirate.com couldn't duplicate it. Th
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by jasmer 3y ago
If there were no DRM at all, it'd be trivial to host content with a few ads and the UX would be just fine. Spotify only came to exist because of the massive piracy problems of MP3 - it was all available there for sale, but people would
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by jasmer 3y ago
" decides to solve the obvious problems that cause people to pirate" - you mean like giving away everything for free? Well yeah, something someone else made, but for free, instead of $4.99, that's a 'better product'
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by jasmer 3y ago
That's some heavy handed humanization of ants attitudes there. "in in an effort to prove they're working hard to the other ants" "all ants to be comfortable allowing some of their ant peers to work less" Or may
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by jasmer 3y ago
Yes, that's how Apple outsources those unsavory problems.
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by jasmer 3y ago
It's an entirely different world, make sure you want to transition and it will be highly dependent on organization so talk to the org and work out a path, or talk to managers in other companies to see about it. Always easier within the
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by jasmer 3y ago
Yes, but the are making loans on regular commercial terms. So failure will be bad.
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by jasmer 3y ago
So yes, but, it's not very clear at all, and this idea that 'China is making the loans so they default and then get access to ports' is 'rationally cynical' but not quite right. Also, everyone is aware that this cou
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by jasmer 3y ago
No, this is not true. The loans were not made by special investment banks but regular banks of China, if they are not repayed it will be havoc. They expect the loans to be repaid, and are definitely in trouble now that there are defaults. A
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by jasmer 3y ago
I think Thai food is just really appropriate for the Western palette, it's way better than the ultra-westernized 'not real Chinese' food of the 1970s, and my experience with Korean is that it's a lot of vinegared/pi
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by jasmer 3y ago
They don't pay enough is the point. Really smart and competent people don't work for 1/2 wages unless they are caught up in some kind of system like in Korea where it's a culturally backed norm and frankly they can'
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by jasmer 3y ago
Better redistribution would last a very short while to provide 'more growth' and ironically that is the big canard. 'Equitable' distribution is not the objective - what we want is 'distribution that creates the most
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by jasmer 3y ago
This comment is why the industry died in the US. There is no such thing as a 'free market' really. Once people have been pulled into a specific academic program without 'true knowledge of market forces', the switching co
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by jasmer 3y ago
You missed the part where they do it for a fraction of the salary. I suggest there's a kind of 'cultural imperative' in Korea that is so different from the US that it doesn't even begin to factor into our equations. My K
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by jasmer 3y ago
Is this article from 1985? Memba' then? Industry has to follow suit and compete with those 'other places' or this will be all for naught.
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by jasmer 3y ago
Probably more aptly named 'Venture Dumping' because 'dumping' would be a bit more like the classical term but that just doesn't have the right 'ring' to it.
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by jasmer 3y ago
A 'great' NFL/NBA game experience indeed would be the 'killer app' to make the platform, but I don't see how Apple will have something that crosses the threshold. But they probably have at least a surprise or t
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by jasmer 3y ago
It's really odd to fathom who someone would not understand why Xi wants to take Taiwan, and 'chips' has nothing to do with it. People need to take a much, much broader mindset. China views Taiwan as part of China, and that&#x
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by jasmer 3y ago
I suggest that the 'modern toxic version of the American Dream' is defined mostly by people who want to define it as toxic. So you could say that maybe Zuckerburg represents that, which would make it kind of toxic, but I don'
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by jasmer 3y ago
The 'American Dream' was that you could have a property/house (small!), maybe a one car, maybe some 'fancy' things like a diswhasher, and probably do that while only one parent was working, and your rights would be
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by jasmer 3y ago
It will have a big effect. Information funnels don't work by such hyper rational actions such as 'going to a different state to do something'. That won't happen. TT use will fall dramatically, and given the nature of &#x
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by jasmer 3y ago
This is not a user privacy vs. megacorp story, it's a national security story. I wish there was a megacorp privacy story to run here, sadly, I'm not sure Congress will go for it. There is only one solution and that is for TT to be
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by jasmer 3y ago
The Bilderbergers you don't need to worry about but the WEF are trying to establish a New World Order right out in the open. It's fairly open in that there is coverage, and 'just having a meeting' isn't directly nef
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by jasmer 3y ago
Almost assuredly not a bad thing. Our #1 'economics' problems is that we do not measure 'consumer surplus'. If everything all of a sudden cost 1 cent to buy, the GDP would disappear, but the value to each of us would be
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by jasmer 3y ago
Interesting but there isn't necessarily a hard link between lack of growth and these issues. The West has a demographic problem, that could be hitting hard and I'm not saying it explains everything, but it's a significant eno
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by jasmer 3y ago
This is literally why git exists. I wouldn't say 'beware', rather, just say 'fork it and have fun'. Obviously you have to be a bit selective over who can contribute to a small project.
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by jasmer 3y ago
The author is on point, and he didn't say 'cult leaders' are good, he said that people with that personality type can be, which of course they can. I think that most of our 'great leaders' (good one's) that we
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by jasmer 3y ago
If people stop lending to the government and stop using the currency so that gov. can't print anymore, then that problem goes away. Also, worth noting that all succesfully countries spend more than they take in. US, Canada, UK, France,
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by jasmer 3y ago
Balanced books unfortunately is not a solution. A state needs money in circulation to operate (which comes from debt usually), and, it needs money to pay for stuff while it's in distress. 'Balanced Books' is like asking a can
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by jasmer 3y ago
Given that knowledge, why does any business use Pesos? Why not use USD only? If someone buys in Pesos because the state forces acceptance of it, charge price for it and immediately convert to USD. Touch pesos only momentarily. This is bad b

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