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by midasuni 3y ago
And someone else was shot. I don’t think that fact is in dispute?
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by midasuni 3y ago
Never wrong for long? Sadly consumers reward this behaviour.
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by midasuni 3y ago
How about archiving them (every version) but not allowing access for say a month. Early and late editions of newspapers were archived - at least in the U.K., and stored at the British library. Every version published should be archived, by
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by midasuni 3y ago
Productivity is typically measured in GDP, a metric which can be gamed. If I spend a day doing my garden and my neighbour spends a day painting his kitchen, nothing is added to GDP If I pay my neighbour to do my garden and he pays me to do
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by midasuni 3y ago
The whole point of that site is to sell that narrative
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by midasuni 3y ago
If there’s space for an individual vehicle there’s space to put another 200 person vehicle.
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by midasuni 3y ago
How much money do roads make?
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by midasuni 3y ago
Tracked infrastructure headways are long for safety and operational purposes. Throwing in extra services for private vehicle would remove a train with 200 people on. Of course SV reinventing bus is a meme in itself.
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by midasuni 3y ago
I obe it when something doesn’t fit a narrative so it’s decried as “fake news”
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by midasuni 3y ago
Certainly in the U.K. house builders sit on masses of land but don’t develop it for fear of lowering sold prices. If building a house costs £100k Better to sell 5 at 400k each year for 10 years than sell 50 at 250k https://www.th
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by midasuni 3y ago
The beauty of housing going up is the “work hard” in tears wages which then increased the price of housing. The land owners take all the extra work and laugh all the way to the bank. Of course if people collectively decided to work half as
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by midasuni 3y ago
Supermarkets are colluding to increase prices as all companies are wont to do. There isn’t enough competition to act as downward pressure on prices. This isn’t a monetary thing that YouTube says - the goods a few miles away in Germany aren’
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by midasuni 3y ago
“asymmetric information warfare” I think that’s a great term in explaining how “the free market” doesn’t work.
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by midasuni 3y ago
https://journalistsresource.org/economics/corporate-speech-f... “Citizens United” wasn’t the first time nor the last.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Layers and layers of fragile interdependencies, and stop doesn’t remove the need for ipv4
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by midasuni 3y ago
The usual solution from libertarian techies is to remove what little power democratic governments have and let big business be unchecked other than some “invisible hand” from a collection of individual actors who can’t scale due to psycholo
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by midasuni 3y ago
Big businesses have more resource and more ability to manipulate the public than democratic governments
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by midasuni 3y ago
Those applications are DOA because of firewall administrators that barely allow tcp/443 through.
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by midasuni 3y ago
And now I can’t find anything because mdns doesn’t work, half my kit won’t take dns entries, more fragility from systems which don’t exist, or and of course all my open sessions on local networks break as ip addresses change, not to mention
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by midasuni 3y ago
MDNS, specifically designed for use on a single vlan, so useless
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by midasuni 3y ago
Many ISPs suck. That’s not controversial. We have to deal with the world we live in, not the world we’d like.
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by midasuni 3y ago
I have a few devices on my home internet, on a handful of 192.168 subnets The other week I moved my ISP. The AS my house belonged to obviously changed to the new ISP, and I got a new v4 IP All I had to do was update my Wan router to forward
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by midasuni 3y ago
Pro tip - Use a cloth for insulation while handling them
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by midasuni 3y ago
NIMBYS say that things should be built/mined, just not near them.
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by midasuni 3y ago
If I remember rightly it was “Elvis Presley” who contributed the ProRes codec in the first place. Or maybe I’m thinking of a similar closed codec. There are only a handful of people that really contribute to ffmpeg, yet its codebase runs pr
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by midasuni 3y ago
UBI would simply increase housing costs. The only way it wouldn’t is if UBI was funded from a land value tax, but even that would require enough housing in non desirable areas.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Years ago I subscribed to a daily newspaper (still subscribe to a weekly news magazine), I subscribed to insurance for my car, home, etc - still do. I subscribed to cable tv, I subscribed to my phone line, I subscribed to my apartment by pa
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by midasuni 3y ago
Picture are one thing. Using those pictures (shadow profiles etc) is very different. Whether it’s legal or not is menaingless given the power imbalance.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Tried threatening the President recently? Or making art of counterfeit currency? Or encouraging someone to commit suicide? Or print some child pornographers? Or put up some normal pornography on your property? The US is full of restrictions
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by midasuni 3y ago
Usenet for example, completely unusable as we ended the 90s as the noise:signal ratio collapsed.

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