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by leppr 5y ago
That sounds great in theory, but how would you properly fund foreign interventions, the war on drugs, dragnet surveillance, bailouts, anti-competitive corporate regulations, and other unpopular policies if nobody is willing to pay for it? T
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1. It has been linked many times in this thread. 2. No. 3. Not at a comparable rate as is evident from the graph. 4. Are equities and other assets completely disconnected from the consumer economy? Many of the new rich and retirees will cas
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No, that "crowd" is talking about the 30% increase in a year of M2 money supply, which is unprecedented in US history. The gymnastics going on with the M1 curve don't change that underlying fact, although it does provide a co
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To be fair the push to connect a Google account and use Google services in Chrome is the ad, they don't need more. But I definitely agree about the Firefox nags, I suppose it can be off-putting to new users and project a low-quality
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Indeed. I think algorithmic social feeds are such a popular scapegoat simply because people don't understand them (since they're black-boxes and the tech is new). The common rhetoric that "harmful messages which trigger engag
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Put yet another way, the problem boils down to whole continents worth of people relying on one or two companies' proprietary services for their online social life. The web has a platform diversity problem.
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Yes, the "share message" feature accomplishes roughly the same in a less seamless way.
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Notifications on all Android browsers I've tried are opt-in . On the subject of notifications in general, Apple lets their users be spammed more by not adding granular notification categories like on Android. Your comment doesn't
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I simply solve that problem by having most notifications be silent. Only urgent ones (calls, text messages from a select group of people) are effectively "push" notifications. The rest buffers until I get to looking at my phone.
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I don't feel like that at all because on all of my devices, notifications are opt-in. I get notifications for services I want to receive notifications from (mostly IM). The exception to this are services which trick you into accepting
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Push notifications allow me to spend less time on my phone/PC. Without them, I would have to regularly check the app of interest for any important updates, losing both time and mental space with another thing to keep in the back of my
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You could then use Brave which blocks in-website ads and annoyances even on iOS.
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The nice thing about open standards like web push notifications vs. proprietary apps' arbitrary logic is that the open standard version puts users in control. The browser is free to refuse every notification request AND make websites b
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In what way?
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An alternate history world where technology grew without centralized cloud services and privacy is still a thing. Their systems are often inferior on a pure ease-of-use aspect, but it's not "strictly worse". I found a lot of
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> Roughly speaking nobody has tried to redeem any - for obvious reasons. They know they can't. Usually you at least come up with FUD that sounds reasonable to an outsider. Obviously many people (some that I know personally) have &
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by leppr 5y ago
> All work under capitalism is exploitative and all work that involves emotional labor (e.g. all service work) can be particularly damaging, but sex work is its own separate beast [...]. Instead of reading the first part of the sentenc
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Can anyone who downvoted comment on the reasons? I actually found this post insightful and particularly level-headed so I'm curious if it's something I've missed.
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> It's well researched who are those men Source needed. A quick Google search turned up nothing.
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You should get out of your echo bubble. I have a few friends spending on these types of services (and Twitch which seems to have evolved to host soft versions of OF-type content). They're sociable, principled people, who also have ma
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You're missing the point of my reply, the risk is the same: potentially exposing your biological gender and detailed attributes to the world.
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I hope you always wear pants while using your phone. Otherwise how can you be sure to never having pointed your smartphone camera in your nude genitalia's direction? A hacker could've been filming and potentially ended your life t
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Firefox suggests open tabs by default when typing in the address bar.
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Tabs are like temporary bookmarks. I use 1 window per task and usually open links in new tabs. I don't need to do anything to pause a task: simply minimize the window and the tab unloader extension does the work of automatically keepin
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I think this effect certainly plays a big part in slowing down progress on fundamental research in an otherwise hyper-active field. But the good thing about open technologies is that they can act like neutral tools and not neighborhoods. De
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Heard? By whom? Monopoly-capitalism directly benefits rulers, complaining to the very people who have incentives to keep the system as it is will not change anything. You and your fellow citizens have to actually do something.
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This problem is not nearly close to being solved, but if you look at the more general area around "crypto" (currency) , lots of projects are exploring novel forms of funding development, maintenance and usage of decentralized netw
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> Like so many things, this is definitely about class. "Surveillance" is only half of "surveillance capitalism" ;) I don't think traditional social class plays much in that particular equation. It's a real
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...and that your data passes through a series of intermediaries which have the potential to be compromised. That only makes the point for which the analogy is used stronger though.
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The base meaning of stablecoin is simply a coin which has a stable value. The mechanism through which that stability is achieved is often 1:1 redeemability for another stable asset through a central portal, but that's orthogonal to the

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