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by lurk2 1y ago
>at this point it is a borderline scam to work for a CEO that isnt significantly better/bringing in capital I never contested that. My point is that there are plenty of devs who think they should found a startup based on the mistake
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> Its some weird myth that someone capable of being a technical leader cannot also flesh out the distribution This idea often gets repeated here but it’s based on ZIRP from 2010s driving up developer salaries to a point where every kid w
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by lurk2 1y ago
> CloudFlare can shut you down if you go against their interests as a supranational gatekeeper They already can. > Smart thinking Batman. “Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.”
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by lurk2 1y ago
The great-grandparent of my comment was arguing that it’s absurd to suppose that the UK has grounds to go after a company on the basis that the company did business with its citizens on servers located outside of the UK. The UK is effective
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I remember this was an issue for The Pirate Bay but so far as I remember they were forced to go through the Swedish court system. It’s been ages since I read about it though so I might be missing something.
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> but they still need to restrict access to prevent US people from accessing the service or they will be breaching the US's gambling laws. Why not just avoid travel to the US?
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The standard you’re proposing would allow Afghanistan to shut down Hacker News on the basis that it provided services to at least one Afghan and the content here violates sharia law.
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> that imgur USED TO provide services in the UK Meaning that the servers were located in the UK, or that the users were, or both?
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That’s true, but what does publishing have to do with being indecent, and how does that relate to in-groups and out-groups?
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If you’re interested in mass market adoption rather than just proving the theory, you will need to change the name. “LimeWire” is fun. “SwarmSearch” sounds like a biblical plague.
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> So you won't consistently get basic human decency any longer. That's something which is extended to the in-group with which you have real social ties and obligations. This is nonsense. People started taking photos of crowds a
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> What's the difference in the lawsuit scenario if a doctor messes up? Scale. Doctors and taxi drivers represent several points of limited liability, whereas an AI would be treating (and thus liable for) all patients. If a hospital
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It's obvious what you're doing and this isn't the place for it.
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Almost all of your submissions to this forum have pertained to Donald Trump or issues adjacent to his administration, and most of your comments appear to be low-effort Reddit-style commentary on American politics. The forum isn't meant
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by lurk2 1y ago
> My ancestors came here ~140 years ago when the only "visa" process was a look in the mouth at Ellis Island This is revisionist history. 140 years ago the Chinese Exclusion Act had already been in place for 3 years, and the Fo
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> The UK has been playing this game for centuries The UK was 94% white as recently as 1991 and was 99% white in 1951. What cheap labor was being imported in the centuries prior? -
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> If anyone bothered challenging them under the APA, they’d almost all be found illegal. Why?
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> and most studies Such as?
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> I'm guessing the guy welding the beams in your kid's school isn't making a quarter of what you make a year. The majority of software engineers aren’t earning anywhere close to 4 times a union welder’s wages.
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> Depends It doesn’t.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Saying “no.”
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by lurk2 1y ago
This is the argument populists make regarding Caesar, and there might be some truth to it, but it falls apart when you look at a Venezuela or North Korea; it’s easy to say that a nation gets the government it deserves when you aren’t the on
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by lurk2 1y ago
> These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content, but because the attention economy has neared its outer limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care. No one goes to the beach anymore—there are too many people the
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by lurk2 1y ago
I’ve come to basically the same conclusion. Attempts to engineer perfect political systems that are immune to this sort of infiltration is like trying to build a structure that will never need to be repaired—you can expend a lot of resource
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> Democracy is following people's will, not "making things equal". His point is that democratic systems are subverted if absolute equality is not enforced. It’s a crude argument but basically correct. The only way you prev
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> Is this incompatible with democracy? Yes. This is why every society of note limited the franchise prior to the 1900s. You can only have debates among equals among people who are equal. The sort of equality communists imagine requires t
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by lurk2 1y ago
The basic mechanism you’re describing is essentially accurate, however: > As soon as you allow any level of inequality to exist, the power differentials caused by it will be used to increase the power differential and inequality even mor
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> and it is worth a lot to demonstrate that we- the global community- do not acquiesce The “global community” you’re referring to consists of America and its client states—only around 1/8th of the world’s population.
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> Unlike social media, few of these forums have mechanisms to "like" or upvote posts so there is no reward for posting just to attract attention, whether it be positive or negative. I’m not convinced. 4chan doesn’t have any of
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I remember figuring out how Google operators worked (back when they still did) and using them to find mp3s, PDFs, and old servers. The younger people I see on social media are mostly all on the plantation but at least some of them have foun

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