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by johnecheck 1y ago
By that argument, UBI causes both inflation (for essential goods and services) and deflation (for luxury items and assets). That's the economy reorienting itself around the new demand landscape. Those price spikes are the signal to pro
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Shouldn't they lose to a competitor who's happy to keep the lower margin and dominate the market? If not, I'd call that a failure of anti-trust law, not UBI.
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by johnecheck 1y ago
UBI is just wealth flowing from the government to all individuals. The goal is redistribution. As a government, you can explicitly specify who wealth is being taken from by paying for UBI in taxes. If you don't raise taxes to balance
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Ah, unfortunate. I wasn't expecting the 3d stuff, but web is the most important platform to me. It's just the most accessible distribution platform. Users won't blink at clicking a link and loading a page, but might balk if y
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by johnecheck 1y ago
As if our only options between dysfunctional bureaucracy and corporate absolutism. It's not the formal processes and openness I take issue with. IPV4's ubiquity and the damage it does (funneling real money away from all of us towa
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Yes! Just pile on the tech debt now, none of it matters once AGI comes! And that's any day now, right? ...right?
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by johnecheck 1y ago
I'm a flutter developer, I'm relatively satisfied with it. There is a few missing things that could get me to switch if your framework does them better. First, 3d rendering. I'm already using Flutter to back a 2d game and I&#
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Indeed. I worry though. We need those defense systems ASAP. The misinformation and garbage engulfing the internet does real damage. We can't just tune it out and wait for it to get better.
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That proves nothing. The fact that Mississippi has 4 "s" is far more likely to be in the training data than the fact that blueberry has 2 "b"s. And now that fact is going to be in the data for the next round of training.
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What gives me hope is how the sentiment has turned against that massive ecosystem. Everyone knows it's terrible and damaging our society. The time is ripe for a new information ecosystem to emerge. Authority structures and truth heuris
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"[A democracy] is forced to drastically change course when a large portion of the population is unhappy." I concur. But the odds of that course-correct being the right one must relate to the prevalence of the truth in the popula
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At a minimum, the atproto provides an easy auth solution and public API for your app's data. Running a relay for your lexicon is basically the same as running a normal app server with those built in. Credible exit matters too. The idea
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Historically, we've seen countless examples of societies becoming more and more unequal. Essentially all of them, true. But note a key piece: those societies weren't always getting more unequal. You can find many examples of socie
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Neccessary... Perhaps. Sounds cyclical. I wouldn't expect that reasserted norm to hold for long.
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Agreed. Right now, the truth is losing the information war. But abandoning it in favor of a contest of lies? Against fascists? Really? I don't think so. I value credibility, and I'm not alone. You care about what's true, righ
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Democracy thrives on information, reason, and participation. A democracy that concludes it should "[f]abricate and / or blow out of proportion any issue that comes [it's] way to blame the fascists" is dying. A society wh
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by johnecheck 1y ago
I'd word that last idea differently. All democracies are vulnerable to corruption to a degree determined by factors like information quality and personal relationships/accountability. Small groups with great relationships and comm
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If you generate an AI summary and it's garbage, obviously that's wrong. But assuming you take the time to make sure it's actually good, this seems like a fine use for an LLM.
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This is true. In the simple implementation, your blog would probably lose most comments if BlueSky went down and most users don't migrate to a new PDS. However, atproto data is append-only and cache-friendly. It wouldn't be hard t
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Don't speak for us all. Just because something is difficult to quantify doesn't mean that it's not worth talking about and studying. While I agree that the fields of sociology and psychology have real flaws, implying that we&
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The markets are fickle. That can change quickly.
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by johnecheck 1y ago
The parent comment made it sound like vendors intentionally withhold information to limit how well the open source competitors work. Is that happening? If so, it's a clear barrier to OSS adoption/contribution. A shame.
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You make a good point. It's quite odd that I often feel more connection to users here despite the lack of 'friend' features. Nonetheless I do. I suspect it's due to the relatively high average comment quality. I'm l
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Yeah. We need better tools that empower individuals to think independently and we need them now. Education is part of the answer, but I fear it isn't enough.
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"Outside of forums like this one" The real culprits are revealed. Despite its flaws, Hacker News does foster real discussion that sometimes leads to real connection. Big online social spaces tend to do the opposite.
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"Sane and normal people can't participate in every local government decision unless it's their job. Hence why we have representative democracy". While true, times have changed. The information flow is orders of magnitude
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Apologies, I missed that line. The '[the act] would prohibit members of Congress and their spouses from trading or holding individual stocks' made me think it only applied to them.
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"And other forms of speculation"... Like buying the stock? You're not talking about reform - you can't remove speculation from the stock market without banning stock markets entirely. I agree that market manipulation (es
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That's not what's happening here. It's not a one-time Trump exception, it just doesn't apply to presidents. To me, it's completely obvious that this legislation should apply to the president. All the legislators kno
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I am not a lawyer, but don't employees (and maybe even users) have a breach of contract claim here? At least in the US, if you tell me 'We'll never sell out' and I take a job with no equity because of it, that's a v

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