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by netcan 5y ago
By the commonplace colloquial definition. Economic taxonomy might call it an oligopsony, monopsony or whatnot. To the average person, "really big powerful company that stands above ordinary competition and choice dynamics, influences p
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by netcan 5y ago
“The nerdy ecologist part of me is excited to see what will happen in the coming years,” said Harley. “But most of the rest of me is kind of depressed by it. A lot of species are not going to be able to keep up with the pace of change. Eco
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by netcan 6y ago
Early on, twitter seemed to be aiming for a much more open ecosystem with an eventual range of 3rd party clients and such. If twitter was an open protocol, instead of a company, it probably would have that. I suspect that an as open protoco
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by netcan 6y ago
>Between the two opposing forces are the non-technical masses. These are the online serfs who are completely unaware and will never become aware that their freedom... I actually agree with a the jist of this article, but this kind of a
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by netcan 6y ago
Slaughters per kg is a disparate ratio with regular meat too.
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by netcan 6y ago
It's almost like asking "why are sex scandals controversial." You could come up with all sorts of arguments for or against the controversy in any specific case... but it kinda doesn't matter. When something is controvers
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by netcan 6y ago
Another way of looking at this, perhaps, is that business concerns are deterministic. Deterministic is too strong a word, of course... but that's the idea. 15 years ago, the milkiness of potential cash cows was unknown. Search had an a
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by netcan 6y ago
So the solution is a party that is, in fact, infallible?
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by netcan 6y ago
>>It would seem about 43% or more of the population of the United States is infected with a means of operation which eliminates or completely disables critical thinking mechanisms and relies exclusively on internal.. IMO, it is about
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by netcan 6y ago
yes
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by netcan 6y ago
I've been in these conversations several times recently. My tips: Go in friendly. Make an effort to assume and embody good will and rationality. The premise of most conspiratorial thinking is very dichotomous. They see themselves as th
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by netcan 6y ago
Can we avoid confusing map with terrain? Our minds don't seem to naturally make as much of a distinction between abstraction and manifestation as we do.
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by netcan 6y ago
It's fascinating how fascinated we are with categories, typologies and their exceptions. It's like Sapiens crack, especially nerd sapiens. Here is is our linnaean classification of species. Look how these species are breaking the
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by netcan 6y ago
One element you get for free in a historical setting is a deep & nuanced moral setting that is different from ours. You can certainly write a novel about aliens and their moral codes can play a role. It's very hard to make it nuanc
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by netcan 6y ago
How do you see HN fitting into this? I mean, HN is a "single feed" which avoids the belligerent group dynamics... but culture bleeds. The narrative dichotomies and other elements of this belligerence dynamic (I think it's mor
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by netcan 6y ago
Specific framing aside... A "common enemy" dynamic is not guaranteed even when/if the enemy is a non-metaphorical enemy army. The opposite dynamic can also unfold, as well as the more common many-against many dynamic with mul
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by netcan 6y ago
IMO, you have to think of it structurally. Who was online then and now, for example. Instagram & facebook are a global scale economic mammoth that subsist on promoting the dynamics you are lamenting don't exist. Maybe people have a
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by netcan 6y ago
What Went Wrong: Freedom and underculture. The internet circa 1997 was an unsupervised, all-summer festival for free spirits & adventurers. Skinny dipping, legumes, transcendental dance and chance meetings that change the course of your
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by netcan 6y ago
What a strange world. Whatever about the cake shop, being an aspiring "micro-influencer" sounds awful.
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by netcan 6y ago
True also. This cycle has definitely a proven point now about how asset prices are a fungible for currency inflation. Every flavour is different though... with this kind of inflation, what what government y prints, government y receives. A
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by netcan 6y ago
Exactly. The "pitch" for catching up on GOT now is much weaker now than it was midway through the series.
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by netcan 6y ago
True. No disagreement. I'm not writing anyone off. Both are true at once though. There is such a thing as "cultural centre of gravity." Ignoring what and why so much of society is outside of that is elitist by definition. I
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by netcan 6y ago
OTOH... it's hard to sell Lost or a GOT to someone who wasn't watched it yet. Lame endings are way worse after 8 seasons. Weakens the whole proposition.
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by netcan 6y ago
Yep... but does this work in practice? Whether or not you need to see season 1 to get season 4, do people who haven't watched earlier seasons generally watch a season 4?
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by netcan 6y ago
Cheers. Yahoo's business model is incoherent, so it's hard to make a coherent case for or against killing that comment section. Maybe there's no commercial value in owning a lower tier (in terms of cultural equity) discussion
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by netcan 6y ago
I've been wondering about the "economics" of long running serials for a while. If you have a new series, all potential viewers are potential viewers. If you have a season 3, the only potential viewers are season 2 watchers. A
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by netcan 6y ago
That's on purpose. In fact, even Rome built its public buildings and spaces to make it seem like the "new Rome," except that Rome to them was Athens or Mycenae. There's a very direct line of descent from the White House
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by netcan 6y ago
Hypocrisy is ever present. One thing in common to all ruling communist parties was establishing party members as a full-frills ruling class with their own schools, institutions, culture, etc. For my own "philosophy," I make a dist
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by netcan 6y ago
>>* From my experience, they're not at a level of competence where the malware helps significantly, i.e. for low level crime you don't need it, for highly sophisticated crime you won't have a lot of success with off-the
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by netcan 6y ago
I'm also worried by these stories. However, I don't see any hope that malware exports will be curbed ahead of conventional weapons exports. Ultimately, weapons can be exported under pretty liberal rules. Even if there are controls

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