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by nfw2 3mo ago
As yes, the poor, ignorant average joe, who doesn't realize the game they buy on the PLAYSTATION store needs PLAYSTATION to work in order to play it. If only enough bloggers wrote enough articles to enlighten them, then they would join
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by nfw2 3mo ago
I am understandably pissed that Apple no longer makes small 5-inch iphones because I like them. But other consumers like the bigger phones, so Apple discontinued the mini line. Is Apple doing me an injustice by not selling me the good that
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by nfw2 3mo ago
This is just pedantry, and incorrect pedantry at that. BUY does not always mean you gain ownership. You can BUY a license or a haircut and you don't own anything. Are consumers confused in practice by what happens when they click &quot
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by nfw2 3mo ago
There is no perfect word. Ticket and pass imply a fixed duration lease, not an indefinite one. Membership implies continual payments.
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by nfw2 3mo ago
If someone goes to the playstation store to buy a playstation game, you don't think it's clear that they can only play the game on playstation? I think consumers understand what they are buying even if they don't think in ter
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by nfw2 3mo ago
The vast majority of consumers don't care or think about this at all. It's a loud and tiny minority who imagine this great injustice will lead to some groundswell of rallied consumer support if they just write more blog posts abou
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by nfw2 3mo ago
> Anything that you BUY needs to be your property. This is obviously absurd as a universal rule. If I "buy" a night in a hotel room, I should own the hotel room? If I order a taxi, I should own the taxi? If I ride a bikeshare e
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by nfw2 3mo ago
Mean spirited sure, ad hominem, no. It's satirizing the argument, not personal traits unrelated to the argument
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by nfw2 3mo ago
It's not a legal defense strategy, it's a social engineering strategy
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by nfw2 3mo ago
The reason given to use raw SQL is for the performance not the perceived code clarity.
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by nfw2 3mo ago
I would say a combination of already being rich, being old, and insider trading. Congress can't actually take personal funds from lobbyists legally. Maybe if someone is in Congress, they can skirt the law around lobbyist gifts due to y
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by nfw2 3mo ago
If this is the case why would local officials permit them?
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by nfw2 3mo ago
They consume land? Where does the land go?
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by nfw2 3mo ago
This violates Occam's razor despite it being sort of an obvious thing I would do if I was ccp
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by nfw2 3mo ago
A random people on hn, presumably not a data center manager, is not "making a threat" by talking about potential second order effects of data center policy. No despicable data center apologist has ever suggested that communities s
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by nfw2 3mo ago
A hundred is a lot bigger than five
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by nfw2 3mo ago
They can be taxed. There should be a point where the price is right for the community hosting.
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by nfw2 3mo ago
Demand crunches spur supply chain capacity improvements when the market is left alone from populist interventions.
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by nfw2 3mo ago
I think you are misunderstanding what the implications of the proposal would be in practice. It says I can increase my hours on my own accord. Cool. I can't leverage my willingness to do so to my benefit because the proposal will make
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by nfw2 3mo ago
Top down laws from the government preventing people from entering contracts that they are eager to take 1. contribute to the "bad economy" you refer to as if it's some unpredictable moon cycle and 2. affect my ability to find
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by nfw2 3mo ago
I have never worked 40 hours or less in a salaried role. That should be my choice. That has afforded a level of expertise that has given me a lot of bargaining power. People should be free to unionize, and I should be free not to. To your p
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by nfw2 3mo ago
If I am paid on salary, I would rather just be trusted to meet deliverable dates than have to worry about clocking in. If that isn't amenable to you, don't agree to it. Why does this government need to butt in?
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by nfw2 3mo ago
Most of the roles I've had involved irregular and long hours. In most cases, I've been happy to take these roles. The article isn't clear how exactly this is intended to work. I think no surprise hours that aren't recogn
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by nfw2 3mo ago
I don't see how that could be called consent. No one would say someone consented to sex, for example, because they weren't willing to die by refusing.
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by nfw2 3mo ago
Social contract philosophy has always seemed oversimplified to me. Are people in China or Iran consenting? "I consent, so I won't be killed" seems more like coercion.
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by nfw2 3mo ago
They are worth 3 billion after two years so it seems like they are doing all right with their strategy although I'm old now and don't want to do that
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by nfw2 3mo ago
I did an interview a couple years ago when Corgi was first hiring engineers. Nico and I ... did not click and it was probably the least smooth interview I've ever had despite it just being a phone screen. I wouldn't be that surpri
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by nfw2 4mo ago
Deciding whether someone's helpful actions or lack thereof is good or bad based on your perception of their internal mental state seems pretty fraught. How do you know why the business implemented this? How do you know what the other p
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by nfw2 4mo ago
All models are wrong but some are useful. Blame is rarely a useful model because solutions require internal locus of control not external
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by nfw2 4mo ago
Harris lost by a couple percentage points in few key states. Perhaps the news you are talking about wouldn't be happening if trust in institutions hadn't fallen so low. I don't think whataboutism is helpful here. I think the

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