komali2

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by komali2 10mo ago
> Creative people don't have motivation to produce if they can't make a living out of it. I challenge you to ask 10 creative people in your life if they would stop doing whatever it is they do if they had a billion dollars.
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by komali2 10mo ago
Sort of? The contract doesn't mention that "value" and "price" are just as often negatively correlated as positively so, though, and claims the opposite (always positive correlation), hence where the shared delusion
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by komali2 10mo ago
> Someone can work very hard and save their earnings, only to have the value diluted in the future. Isn't that also a delusion? Yes, it is. It's one of my pet peeves about the cryptocurrency movement vs neoliberal institutional
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by komali2 10mo ago
> What’s actually scummy is Spotify paying artists $1 per 1000 streams. I'm pretty sure it's waaaay lower than that per 1000 streams.
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by komali2 10mo ago
Why is copyright infringement wrong?
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by komali2 10mo ago
> Why would you want to destroy your enemies' industries, is what you're asking? Do you have any evidence that pirating is destroying industries? My guess is I can find the majority of this release by anna's archive on som
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by komali2 10mo ago
When I left my apartment back in 2018, I was switching the Comcast account over to my housemate who was staying on there. In doing so I discovered I had a myname2342@comcast.com email account. The UI showed something like 8,000 unread email
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by komali2 10mo ago
You might find it interesting that there's an entire genre of youtube video that's designed to just be chucked one by one into slideshows for elementary school teachers to use as their lesson plan. Including videos that are just &
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by komali2 10mo ago
> Opera I thought was a very strict discipline, needing rigorous somewhat esoteric training in order to produce the right sounds. How could there be so many opera artists? My guess is just the same opera performed by a ton of different o
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by komali2 10mo ago
I had to chuck Youtube Music away when it was polluting my youtube playlists with stuff I was liking on youtube music. Me as a video viewer and me as a music listener are two completely different people.
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by komali2 10mo ago
> Instead of finding ways to improve the market such that the control of content isn't siloed in monopolistic corporations I always assumed the "Anna" in the name was for "Anarchist." My assumption about the arc
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by komali2 10mo ago
> Your savings account is just bits on a disk, yet presumably it represents value that you worked for and which belongs to you to do with what you wish. That's another example of the shared delusion, since yes, we tell eachother it
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by komali2 10mo ago
So there's no subscription thing going on, you just manually pay invoices? I once spent an entire year issuing chargebacks on AWS charges coming from god knows what AWS account. Most likely some client project I forgot about and didn&#
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by komali2 10mo ago
I was just curious about the association between American values and capitalist ones, and whether you had some idea of what, specifically, American capitalist values are, or if you were just vaguely hand waving in the direction of an ideolo
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by komali2 10mo ago
Is that specifically American?
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by komali2 10mo ago
> but surely there was less to do in the 50s? I think just being able to get together with a couple other kids means that, even lacking videogames or boardgames or whatever, means that the opportunities available abound. Kids are infinit
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by komali2 10mo ago
What's an example of a traditional American capitalist value?
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by komali2 10mo ago
I swear I read some case a couple years back where a kid was facing serious prison time for automating requests to w publicly available government website. "Unauthorized access of a computer." I think the author may have just admi
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by komali2 10mo ago
It's still slave labor if the most basic of comforts and privileges are locked away from you if you don't participate. Plus you don't really have choice in the labor you perform, no choice in where you perform it, no choice i
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by komali2 10mo ago
> To the readers out there. Do not be put off by where it was made, how it was made. It was made. And if it never sells, the profit margins for the slave drivers decreases. I mean, I really, this post is trying to justify slave labor. Is
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by komali2 10mo ago
In that link. "Uploaded" column in table is archive links. Or scroll to "archive efforts" for links to torrents.
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by komali2 10mo ago
> People aren't good at visualizing what being in a car all the time is taking from them. I really wish someone would do a study somehow on what kind of psychological effects are caused by being angry at everyone in your city for an
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by komali2 10mo ago
But how do you account for things like cycles of violence and PTSD? I have veteran friends that, sure, could handle being shot at better than me, but on the other hand I can go to a fireworks show without worrying about having a public brea
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by komali2 10mo ago
> This obviously means "human" in this context. I disagree, people who say this often are "great men of history" types that genuinely ascribe much of the significant events in human history to the activities of men al
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by komali2 10mo ago
Nextjs, great example of this. I've yet to find an actually valid use case to choose it outside of "our incestor's relationship got us unlimited vercel credits for like three years."
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by komali2 10mo ago
> That's like saying my C# is getting turned into CLR bytecode, so I do have to learn CLR bytecode because I have an abstraction over it. For a good part of your career this is true, but eventually you will need to justify your seni
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by komali2 10mo ago
Right, it's also bothered me that the Vue docs spend so much time showing how it's a "progressive" framework. "Just use it for one component!" And show examples of how it can be lazy loaded in for your special
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by komali2 10mo ago
Good times make soft men, bad times make hard men. I never quite understood what the implication was and I always questioned the historical accuracy because no part of history is so easily defined as "good time" or "bad time.
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by komali2 10mo ago
> When teenagers aren’t trusted to walk over to a friend’s house or play in the park, when they almost never have a part-time job where they can earn a paycheck and meet expectations that aren’t purely artificial, then I think it’s much
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by komali2 10mo ago
> Why would they go along with it? It's not a relevant question, in the same way the desires of the Confederacy for independence were irrelevant when they lost the Civil War. But also, I did answer it: Some would probably go along w

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