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by nebabyte 9y ago
It really depends upon the person, as I'd never want to go into a business partnership with someone who's just as likely to try and undermine or countermand me later over opinion, but yeah, my inclination would be to at least inte
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Don't you have a legal right to create exclusive distribution of your consumable product? Uhh, counter question. Does such a "right" exist in a free market?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Correction: you sue the wealthiest people who can be construed as involved.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Nothing is done because it's just accepted as a foregone conclusion (i.e. factored into cost-of-business calculations, made part of strategies and so forth) of doing business here. One of the many reasons this is the "land of oppo
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by nebabyte 9y ago
speech
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"I jus' wan' a globally unique identifier to call you by, girl"
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by nebabyte 9y ago
When people are arguing whether or not the ramifications would be significant, you can't point to ink and call it blood. Laws can be overturned, the legality of contracts overruled, recompenses rewarded. There's nothing "irre
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> That would break the Internet in a large variety of horrible ways Scare talk aside, no, it wouldn't. In most cases people would be unaffected; at worst people've dealt with broken links before and will continue to do so. It w
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I don't think any of his reservations have to do with the technical aspects so much as ones which you'd likely be biased [1] against; and there's no point privileging a pro-corporate counterargument by bring them up here. [1]
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by nebabyte 9y ago
What a joke misapplication of that phrase. Apple doesn't shirk from making its users "the product" any more than the other big corps.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Agreed; too little too late.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Everyone in the auto+tech industry "Wants to Drive the Future of Cars That Drive Themselves". "Wants to" doesn't win pennants.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Meh, I'd rather arbitrate my own filters, thanks. Will continue not using Chrome :)
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Ha, that's a great SV hit piece title. Will look into
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Didn't they change it besides?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
They don't call it PR doublespeak for nothing.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
That's why you disguise the CNC commands as legitimate social media noise. Then you can double dip - sell what the content of the command/abort messages are (or just allow for 'padding' messages for advertising in betw
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Why not turn that to your advantage? Institute a policy wherein they are bumped down if they send an email and their reason for doing so does not fall within pregiven requirements (e.g. clerical error in recording a grade). An excellent pro
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Doesn't matter; it's what shipped, and so is a system in spite of its quality or lack thereof. There's no problem pointing out a non-computer as not turing complete if it was shipped and sold as a computer.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Agreed - it's less for the 'this isn't obvious' than the 'this is a well-placed intuitive reminder (or hint) that this number swings around a lot'
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Ahhh I feel like kind of a dick - asked about the same thing wherein I could have just read the comments here first >.> Still, that's fascinating.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Thanks for the backing, but I think you're using "Nth poster up" incorrectly - my understanding is that "first poster up" would be 1 place up - i.e. the comment you're directly replying to :P
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Yes thanks. If I'd allocated more time to that comment I'd likely have edited to better get across that I'm also actively trying not to jump to conclusions on the other end of the spectrum, but I don't particularly care
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by nebabyte 9y ago
That's still BI. There's a foundational difference between a world wherein everyone is considered equal for the basic human resources and those who earn more are effectively told that because they do they're an outgroup to th
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Yup. Attribution's king in adtech.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Not very, but getting them to outright do so would be an excellent step forward for privacy.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
There'd also be a lot more demand for minimal apartments/housing in which you can live in while you save... which, no joke, is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for at the moment, without much success. ._.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> But that's exactly the opposite of what universal basic income should be used for (waste on excesses/luxuries before basic needs are met) BI going towards fundamentals mean people can work jobs to pay for luxuries rather than
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> So in net you're not actually giving that $1k/month out to everyone, only the people who don't otherwise make anything Wrong! Wrong wrong! That is BI , not UBI! This is not just a technicality. The difference between th
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> So in the end, UBI needs to be accompanied with some sort of tax reform, and isn't just about sending out checks to everyone (including Warren Buffet) on top of the existing system. Yes - and the tax reform, fundamentally, has to

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