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by netcan 5y ago
True. I didn't say armageddon. I said fewer cars for a while.
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by netcan 5y ago
If FB went dark permanently, we would fully "recover" very quickly. Not many needs will be unmet for long. Whether people use FB for messaging, groups, news or whatnot... nine of these are scarce. This is obvious, but it's wo
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by netcan 5y ago
>> It's important to keep in mind that there is a distinction between wealth and money... I think this goes astray here. I think the operative distinction is between "wealth" in the abstract "wealth of nations&quot
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't disagree with that. I'm not suggesting that harm is comparable, only structure. You can deal with DisneyLand ice cream by ignoring it. Apple, not necessarily. That said, if you were to deal with DisneyLand ice cream...
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by netcan 5y ago
sure. I wasn't arguing for equal importance, or equal need for policy-level decisions.
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by netcan 5y ago
The frame, considering the overall context is kind of ridiculous: Apple "requiring software developers to use its in-app payment system" is anticompetitive Well shucks. Apple also controls who and what can be sold or distributed
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by netcan 5y ago
In a sense, this kind of confirms some of the instinctive, "left wing" suspicion that Yang's a naive "enlightened centrist" type. Inclination to bring in experts and consultants to run things via "best practice
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by netcan 5y ago
It would be interesting to hear your take on the whole drama a year or three from now. I imagine it's all a bit fresh for retrospect.
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by netcan 5y ago
If he's planning on endorsing candidates in other parties, that's probably an option. OTOH, why take on all that baggage when it doesn't come with any votes? Probably makes more sense to recruit former LP and Green figures t
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by netcan 5y ago
Glad to hear it. Yang Gang had/has the seeds of an interesting political paradigm, and a lot of that just emerged as people showed up on the sub. The paradigm was just not built to last, grow or evolve. Do you see a path from A to B? I
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by netcan 5y ago
IMO, this is an indictment of the structure, more so than the individual. First, a campaign is a makeshift setup, staffed just in time and fired shortly after. Second a campaign is a campaign. It's about media attention, hammering mess
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by netcan 5y ago
If you look outside of the US, Green parties can develop some tension between city and country greens.
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't think it's that deterministic. Facing a behemoth like the two parties head-on is impossible. You can't have as much coverage as them as a starting point. OTOH, you also don't have to stay in their paradigm or spl
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by netcan 5y ago
True, but what you go to as a starting point is telling. "A lot of people on Twitter like this" is a naive seeming starting point. It just seems like an extension/abstraction of Yang's candidacy. My key point is that a p
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by netcan 5y ago
This is kind of a technicality, but I guess I deserve it for posing a rhetorical question. My point was to criticise the "launch" for two things: (A) Launching as a single person. (B) focusing on the "if I were king" man
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by netcan 5y ago
What's missing here, IMO, is a party. Who's with him? Do you have defectors from the 2 parties? Independents or popular figures joining up? Candidates being stood? A political party is not a manifesto, it's an organisation.
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't think these narratives are ever definitive, but I think this rendition isn't really operative. >> Social rights advocacy usually goes hand in hand with far-left positions Maybe to some extent, but mostly I think this
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by netcan 5y ago
I'm not disputing the US clinton part. I'm disputing the Thatcher part. Blaire is "the center-right faction taking over the more left-leaning of the two major parties " and succeeding politically in the UK.
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by netcan 5y ago
It is weird in the context of "modern thought," which is ironic perhaps, but it's not unusual... historically speaking. Once you have generations of commentary, commentary on commentary, past crisis-resolution precedents, etc
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by netcan 5y ago
I think you have a point in terms of choice of symbols, but ultimately... these are just symbolic choices. The nature of politics, usually, is that it defines and harnesses "who we are." That's kind of what defines politics.
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't think I'd call that Clintonite/Thatcherite. Thatcher was quite confrontational, and also hawkish socially conservative. Not dispositionally centrist, consensus oriented or antipolitical. Blaire is probably the PM you&
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by netcan 5y ago
It's always true that the election system itself plays a big role in how/what candidates get elected. It's also true that the US electoral structure was a huge factor in Biden or Trump's election. Change the structure of
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't understand where you're going. Obviously Netflix would have more negotiating power if there were more alternatives. Netflix has enough leverage with Apple now that they pay half what regular developers pay. The dynamics pl
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by netcan 5y ago
>>Disruption could also come from tax reform. I'd say that's the most appropriate place, really. It's a designed system, sort of. It's malleable, in that changes occur regularly. The obvious place for bug fixes is
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by netcan 5y ago
Same answer, I suppose. I take the point that this is complex, but that doesn't discard OS/community by default. It's not impossible that community built OS could produce software trustworthy enough to be widely usable. FOSS
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by netcan 5y ago
>> Generally not the kind of thing for open source Hard to know in advance, if OS communities can do something well or not. There are examples of taking on pretty sprawling problems successfully. On multi Language, portability and suc
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by netcan 5y ago
proves it both ways, does it not? I mean, I agree that if Apple abandoned trying to control app delivery it would be a big deal. I just don't think a simple rule gets us there.
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by netcan 5y ago
Sorry. Poor choice of words. Alternative to what? A law that says apple must allow alternative App Stores? I'm ok with that, and it might be useful to some people. I just don't think it will affect the market much. The App Store &
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't think it does, beyond box ticking. You're not likely to get enough competition to get competitive market dynamics on iPhones. Sure, a highly motivated user might go to alternative app stores. Netflix does not need to go t
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by netcan 5y ago
This is naive, IMO. Even if the app store was run differently, say allowing a competing way of installing apps, Apple still have plenty of fungible power to make such deals. You might have ticked a box to make it technically fair, for some

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