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by mreome 6y ago
There are industries where one company has an effective monopoly, and others where the relevant players have tacitly/privately agreed to split or share the market. Competition is good for the consumer, but companies can usually make mo
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by mreome 6y ago
If a mandate can or can’t be put in place is irrelevant. Remember these are children . When I was in elementary school, it took almost two years for the teachers at my school to get one of the students to stop regularly licking their cla
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by mreome 6y ago
Again, you're still limiting your perspective to some very specific, niche, and frankly unusual industries, and looking at them in isolation. Most industries don’t and can’t have a "loose community of individual contributors and
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by mreome 6y ago
This is an interesting idea. It reminds me of the idea of "I’ll break the cookie in two; you choose your piece." I’d have to work through the implications of how this would play out between large corporations, but the most immed
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by mreome 6y ago
It's difficult to get the general public to support taxes that will fund the repair of degrading bridges, leaking dams, and cracked roadways that may soon fail and actually KILL them. Do you honestly believe you’ll find widespread supp
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by mreome 6y ago
The fact that the 3D printing community, and even some of the companies that currently operate in that niece, share more openly with each other is great. But should 3D printing ever get wide-scale traction (think home appliance), then that
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by mreome 6y ago
I think you may be limiting your view to software here though. Software has an entirely different cost-of-entry then virtually any other industry, and most of the major products you see coming out of the industry right now are a combination
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by mreome 6y ago
This would seem to be very biased in the favor of large corporations. If the fees/taxes are high enough to be non-trivial for a mega-corp, then it's very likely those large and increasing rates would easily outpace the rate at whi
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by mreome 6y ago
I think the value of most IP is to abstract to apply a tax to it. Some patents are extremely valuable, most are worthless. Some are only useful to Patent Trolls, or for defensive purposes, etc. How would you tax a company that patents somet
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by mreome 6y ago
That’s a reasonable point, but I would argue that the same could be accomplished (with a better user-experience) with something like a “Not finding what you’re looking for, click here” shown on the website in the appropriate places that lea
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by mreome 6y ago
But, as a business, when you have customers asking the same question over and over, doesn't that suggest a failing in how you're currently providing (or not providing) that information? Why is the solution a chat-bot and not addin
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by mreome 6y ago
Wouldn't a company improving their website be the more reasonable approach though? Rather than hiding the equivalent features behind a maze of keyword matching and sub-par natural language processing? A chat-bot is only going to be cap
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by mreome 6y ago
The fact that most movies (regardless of who they’re targeting) fail the Bechdel Test is the entire point. The point is that mainstream Hollywood only backs movies where men (be that a multi-dimensional characters or human plot devices) are
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by mreome 6y ago
I was commenting based just on the limited info in the snippets posted. If the CTO/organization you noted it the one that owns the rights to the code, then I’d agree that apparent authority does seem to apply here. I had read into &quo
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by mreome 6y ago
But what should legitimate participation look like for a group who feels that the political process itself has failed them?
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by mreome 6y ago
According to that article: "There must be some act or some knowing omission on the part of the principal - if the agent alone acts to give the third party this false impression, then the principal is not bound" which makes it se
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by mreome 6y ago
Yeah, not much to go by from the snips, but "After DDN’s acquisition ... subsequently improperly open sourced ... without DDN’s permission" [emphasis added] makes it sound like this is what they are claiming happened. That someo
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by mreome 7y ago
It looks like obblekk's comment is getting some down-votes (appears gray to me). I'm honestly curious what people's objection to this comment/idea is? I'm not saying that this will necessarily happen, but it's
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by mreome 7y ago
Providing a UBI doesn't mean market forces vanish, it would just shift/adjust those market forces. I think these "shit" jobs would either cease to exist if they weren't really necessary, be replaced by automated sol
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by mreome 7y ago
Note that while I use/discuses the term racism here, I intend for this argument to apply to prejudice and systemic discrimination more broadly. I would personally argue against any definition of racism that discounts acts based on in
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by mreome 7y ago
Assuming that any individual can be judged, or their actions predicted, from generalizations based on their culture or socioeconomic status is quite literally the definition of racism. Using correlations with race and socioeconomic status a
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by mreome 7y ago
Thanks. I actually came across the issue in a (different) third-party article, but I submitted the Etsy link based on "If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." from the Hacker News Guidelines. I ag
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by mreome 7y ago
I can't image they're going to negotiate on a per-seller basis though. They're going to negotiate as Etsy, and simply rotate their advertisements through items sold by their sellers. The only realistic reason to force the lar
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by mreome 7y ago
Margins aside, anyone selling hand-made goods has a very limited stock and can't really scale up production. What is the value of this advertising to a seller who is already selling at the rate they can produce goods?
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by mreome 7y ago
Sounds like an opportunity for some of the larger sellers to band together to create larger combined storefronts. Or for someone to open something like a selective/curated version of Etsy for larger sellers and small business.
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by mreome 7y ago
Especially given that Etsy is supposed to be primarily for hand-made goods. Their top sellers are very likely already selling items at the speed they can make them, why would someone want Etsy to take a cut of their sales for advertising wh
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by mreome 7y ago
The really bizarre thing to me is the idea of forcing it on the biggest sellers. First because those sellers are obviously doing fine without this "feature" and second because if they are making hand-made items then they may alrea
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by mreome 7y ago
Well it seems Etsy will determine if a sale "will be attributed to Etsy’s advertising" so this tracking could be very basic and inaccurate, as long as it only generates false positive matches between a sale and an ad click-though.
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by mreome 7y ago
The users who can't opt out are subject to a 12% fee, but this is on top of the the existing 3%-4% transaction and payment processing fees.
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Etsy sellers are furious over new mandatory ad fees(mashable.com)
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