komali2

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by komali2 5mo ago
Huh, having read the book and about Dale Carnegie, I completely disagree with that take. There's plenty of stories where he does the opposite of avoiding conflict and faces it straight on - such as when he just ignores a cop's ran
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Some of the stories / aphorisms refer to things that just like, don't exist anymore.
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I've yet to hear a successful true free market argument of why slavery won't happen, or monopoly.
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We can't be sure whether cost came down because of removing regulation or improvements in technology. We can only guess.
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> every working citizen could easily afford more expensive airline tickets You mean every laboring slave. No free market means corporations are allowed to engage in slavery, chattel or otherwise. Let's be honest about what a free ma
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> people and goods would continue to move around the globe as they have done for thousands of years. Would love to compare the economic throughput in raw dollars of the Oregon trail vs a single flight route. Don't forget that the wh
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by komali2 5mo ago
> and "rent-seeking", whatever defines that really. "The act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating public policy or economic conditions without creating new wealth." This is in opposition to profit-see
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by komali2 5mo ago
Have you ever tried to regulate an unregulated industry preying upon a population? Look what it took to wrangle the cigarette industry. Look how unfettered gambling is ripping through the USA. Or look at industries pre-regulation. Meat, bui
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by komali2 5mo ago
> We're in a cesspit of business driven development In a business-driven world with business-driven governments writing business-driven rules, what's the alternative if you want to optimize for success?
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> Can you give me a quick overview of the system architecture I think what the OP is saying is that it's the OP's job to know that, and didn't, because they over leverage the LLM. Like if a doctor was brought in on a cardi
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> When working on something new or something challenging, me typing out code is the process by which I figure out what we should even be doing. This is really validating to read. I recently was having a call with a friend where I was arg
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by komali2 5mo ago
I feel you but I hope we can treat this forum a bit differently than we treat Twitter hot takes. I come here for a deeper level of engagement than we can get elsewhere, and that takes more words to accomplish. I understand I post big blocks
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by komali2 5mo ago
> but not so much that their greed creates an even worse system. The market model won't work because greed isn't real when discussing corporations. That's like calling a tree growing towards the sun "greedy." No,
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> For someone to do something, they need a reason to do it. It doesn't have to be a transaction but there does need to be some reason. Exactly! That's what I'm interested in exploring. > If no one is doing a task you wa
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I don't feel like I'm complaining, I feel like I'm asking how else someone would frame it without leaning on the concepts mentioned. What changes about the dynamic then?
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> If you want something that someone else isn't giving you, you have the option to try to do it yourself, or try to compel someone else to give you what you want somehow. Yes, exactly, the opposite of paying, since when you pay some
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by komali2 5mo ago
I'm not sure if you caught that my post was a criticism of the system. I'm just describing what the optimal strategy is as prescribed by how our society is structured, not advocating for it.
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You don't have to act optimally according to the current system, I don't. My concern is many seem to try to act optimally without understanding how depressing the reality of its incentives are.
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> I plan to have fun spending my money in the future, so it’s time to start practicing now. The most optimal thing to do in our world is to pick an age, say, 60, and until your 60th birthday, maximize your suffering via frugality to just
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by komali2 5mo ago
Just as a purely intellectual exercise, what changes about this if we leave aside ideas of "owe," "deserve ," and "earn?" There's not really an enforcement mechanism in FOSS like there is in capitalism wor
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by komali2 5mo ago
It's funny you say this because the more I learned about mac the more I understood its limitations in being as good an operating system as e.g. Arch. I know a lot of engineers. Some daily osx, some daily Linux. I'm not seeing any
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by komali2 5mo ago
Is it? My editor's terms of service seem much more user friendly: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
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By sandbox you mean limit to certain files, certain actions, or both? I've been wanting to look into better emacs integration for agents. Imagine an agent making direct elisp function calls, or using macros... One could limit which fun
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by komali2 6mo ago
I often daydream about what a magical "life scoreboard" would have on it, some universe-aware program counting arbitrary things. I'd love for such a scoreboard to display "percentage of Nike shoe owners that know Nike is
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by komali2 6mo ago
> But it beggars belief that most of the millions of GitHub's users would switch to something so much more complicated. Has the same energy as "20XX is finally the year of linux on the desktop". This is funny, because 2025
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Would be curious to hear what you've tried with it!
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Surveillance in the PRC is massive and centralized. There's a reason NK fleeing into the PRC plummeted when the PRC decided to stop turning a blind eye.
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Ok, well, I can't fix wrong. I hope you have a good day.
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> distribution costs and fair wages Yes, precisely, because capitalism can't select for things that are useful for people, but unprofitable for capital owners.
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by komali2 6mo ago
"Add me on Line/Insta," display your QR code or scan theirs, fire off your first message "Daft Punk Concert" so you remember how you met.

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