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by netcan 5y ago
I agree. It's ugly, and foul play. It's also just the way a lot of the economy works. Banks... banks absolutely rely on consumer fear or ignorance of bureaucracy & financials to generate their revenue via fees, charges and oth
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I think it's trite to pick on The Jetsons, while ignoring the many attempted predictions of the future that did focus on "underlying social relations." Marxism was, in large part, a techno futurism. JM Keynes predicted a fu
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Go ahead. I could use a lawyer.
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Who says antitrust was primarily a legal matter?
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Good question. Reminds me of the "housing affordability" question. If politicians had a magic wand that turns a city with $1m median house prices into a $250k one...
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They're not required to enter the search market. But, the revenue Apple get from the deal/trust with Google is better than MSFT or Yahoo ever got by competing with them. It's also easy, risk free and pure profit. So, the deal
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The whole structure of antitrust regulation is, by negligence or design, weird and weak. #1 Why does there need to be a plaintiff? A trust affects consumers and society broadly detrimentally, not some specific competitor. The competitor goo
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Nice start. Perhaps try to get it going for one or few places/activities. There's a chicken-eggness to an everywhere and everyone design. ádh mór
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Both can coexist. Consider that Greek mythology or Irish fairy stories are basically different stories in the same "cinematic universe." But... that universe isn't a monopoly. Many authors contributed. Stories were tailored t
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Wikipedia also suffers from the " try to be good and they'll hang you " problem. Whether it's moderation, deletionism, or annual budgets... Wikipedia always seems to have detractors enough to make exon-mobile shudder.
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I'm almost certain that pg gave " compete with Google by competing in some niche " advice 10+ years ago. In any case, I'm not sure that competing in search is a very attractive notion. AdWords is the only meaningfully pr
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There are a lot of ways of defining each of these, and the number of hands-in-agreement will probably depend on the minutiae of each definition. FWIW, I think your last point is the most relevant. It's hard to delve into this sort of t
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Aye sure. There are different things that we call "political" though. Also there's a subtle but important difference between "politics is everywhere" and "everything is politics." The former leaves room fo
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Exponential growth, otoh, is quite a regular feature of nature. Rabbits boom and bust. Single cell algae transforms a newly formed pond within days, followed by exponential growth of organisms that like to feed on it.
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Why workstuff broken? Politics. Sad. :( One definition of politics is the point at which meta takes over. Why doesn't ManagerX just cancel projectY even though everyone knows it will fail? Politics. Reasons unrelated to the task at han
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When I was 12 I learned to make autocorrect replace my 8 yr old brother's name with "poophead." It was a genius prank. If I worked at Apple today, I'd do the same thing with his 30 year old head.
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by netcan 5y ago
It's complicated, in that this depends on jurisdiction. In some places, the age of the character matters, not just the actor's age. Regardless of legality, I think this is very prominent in self censorship. A lot of filmmakers wou
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by netcan 5y ago
>> a lot of work that can be done in Porn with AI. I think that "can be" is probably and "is being." Porn generally, has a historical tendency to be a pioneering adopter of media technology. A substantial chunk of
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by netcan 5y ago
Idiocracy is fun, but the instinctive "OMG so true" is, IMO, wrong. The film riffs on a common fallacy more so than it's actually insightful. Statements like "people these days are so stupid/lazy/immoral"
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by netcan 5y ago
So... this is essentially a cultural question, so I think the best way to look at it is empirically. Not exactly your question, but there's an anthropological pattern whereby gift exchange between individuals of disparate class or powe
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So... I think a lot of people (not you) missed the fact that graeber writes from what I think is a traditional anthropological perspective, as opposed to other social philosophy traditions. Bullshit jobs described as such by the worker was
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by netcan 5y ago
I'm not sure "value" is the correct question. Value depends on... values, I guess. In any case, I suspect Graeber would have advised asking them. The grinders in manilla. The currency buyers, traders, etc. Cultural reasons ar
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by netcan 5y ago
As I was reading Graeber, it's useful to imagine useless job economies of the past. Is a medieval abbey "useless?" Clergy? Servants to the clergy? How about courtiers? Courtiers' dress makers? These classes represented a
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by netcan 5y ago
Netflix & Spotify are currently worth $275bn & $45bn. I think it's quite unlikely that such results would be achieved with a pay-x-get-y store model. Even Disney & Universal, themselves enormously valuable companies, are gr
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by netcan 5y ago
I disagree. The point this article is making is that DRM, as it works, is highly conducive to "platform" power. Whether or not this is the "true purpose" is a rather meaningless question, beyond casual rhetorical usage.
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>> The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices. This is a good spot to place the pin. The "theological" view is that (1) copyright is a moral right. (2) The Law just protects
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by netcan 5y ago
Possibly, but the problem with dichotomies is that they're dichotomous. To the extent that they have teeth, anti-china nationalism, jingoism & anti-authoritarianism are very hard to distinguish. It has to do with motivations, and m
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>> Divest from China and diversify manufacturing sources Who is this aimed at? Major brands (apple, tesla, disney, etc.) are not going to divest from China. China is a big part of their future market, they hope. They're going to
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>> it's always fair to be more skeptical of government access to data given the government's ... I'm not willing to take accept this as an absolute regardless of context. You could also make the case that government is
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The distinction is whatever we decide it should be. Maybe they should be covered by the same category. The point is that once these existed, laws should have kept up.

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