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by nybble41 5y ago
> … this is a huge problem that we need to hold companies legally accountable for. Legally accountable for what ? They do not owe anyone free access to their service. If you're a paying subscriber then they do owe at least their ch
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> DNS blocks are the easiest hurdle to put up to deterrent most people. Sure DNS blocks can be easily circumnavigated, … You've answered your own question. DNS blocks are not just "easily circumnavigated", they're com
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> But negative interest rates would help the heavily indebted countries to ease their debt service burden. By penalizing their creditors, sure. That should teach them (and anyone else paying attention) not to lend to such countries in
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by nybble41 5y ago
That reminds me of the signup process for the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS), which is used for things like estimated tax payments in the US. It's not quite as bad since you don't actually need to print & post
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by nybble41 5y ago
The problem is mostly the Apple devices which don't support non -proprietary formats. H.264 is probably the most universal codec, but it's proprietary and requires a license for commercial use. The non-proprietary VP8 codec is su
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> If people value an item more than those who bought it, they are perfectly entitled to indicate that they would be willing to pay more on a secondary market, and see if there are any takers. By which point the item may have already been
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by nybble41 5y ago
Please do keep in mind that we're talking about toys here. You don't have to be among "the wealthiest members of society" to be able to afford the market-clearing price.
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> I feel like white lines are almost always ok to drive over… Single and double solid lines parallel to the flow of traffic, of any color, almost always mean "do not cross". A single dashed line, or a double line where one or b
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by nybble41 5y ago
> it's just those that do manage to buy them will tend to get them earlier at a cheaper price That's the problem. It means they go to people who may not have been willing to pay what they were actually worth, while others who
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> In the example of game consoles, Sony and Microsoft aren't trying to sell you a PS5 or Xbox Series X because it makes them money. In fact, they take a loss on them even in "normal" market conditions. The point of the con
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Many countries already use money internally such as the USD (outside the US) or Euro (outside the EU) for which they do not control the policy. Explicit agreements to use a common currency across nations and share control of the policy are
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> For example because an immutable monetary policy won't be seen as a feature. Each nation would love to be able to manipulate the supply itself—why not, if people will let you get away with it?—but the fact that other nations can
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by nybble41 5y ago
Perhaps you meant to respond to another comment, but I don't see any connection between your objection to my analogy and the original point. I did refer to housing but only as an example of a good where the market price for similar goo
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by nybble41 5y ago
Property rights don't expire. Copyright does. These are very different systems based on fundamentally different principles. Reasoning about copyrights using analogies based on physical property such as houses is not particularly produc
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> I'd argue that the original creator should at least retain some license… I'd argue that the buyout should always be for the public domain. The buyer gets the right to use it (as a member of the public) but not exclusivity. Th
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by nybble41 5y ago
> … half (okay a third) of the shares are reserved for employees and one of the results of employment is to become a shareholder. So to become an employee you need to "buy in" to the company? Or is this your sign-on bonus? Can
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This wasn't really the point of the thread, but I'm willing to discuss it. The employees may be "the ones doing the work" but capital investment is key to allowing them to do that work productively. The shareholders prov
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> Your bank account is simply a row in a Cobol database managed by some archaic institution. Your bank account is a set of contracts between you and your bank which say that when you want to withdraw funds or instruct the bank to send so
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by nybble41 5y ago
That last point ("can set fire to it at any time") is wrong, at least for the many NFTs which use decentralized content-addressed hosting such as IPFS. Or even without the hosting, as long as the NFT identifies the content in suff
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by nybble41 5y ago
Emacs is the operating system. Viper is the text editor. /s
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by nybble41 5y ago
> relating to content produced and published by the provider of the service How many places can claim that their comment section can only be used for such comments, and not for any other content? You would need to manually screen every
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by nybble41 5y ago
> Wait, you're now using "cancelled" for "people know what you said and don't want anything to do with you", and suggesting that this is a problem? Yes, it's a problem when it's to the point of com
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by nybble41 5y ago
Being "cancelled" is about people's attitude toward you, not whether you remain employed. People will still know what you said, and still not want anything to do with you; that's what I mean when I say you're still
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by nybble41 5y ago
This is a good definition. It is very close to my own, though I would quibble about endorsing the propaganda term "legitimate". Certainly those who practice such violence want it treated as legitimate, and your phrase "no mea
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by nybble41 5y ago
> So in a way it's still all just barbaric societies, but with extra steps. You've got it. Proper civilization and a free society are still a long way off. Laws and democracy limit the variance (good and bad) but don't aut
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> For example, I'm in favor of democratizing corporations, on the German model perhaps, and I view investment capitalism as a decrepit dead-end system, and the financialization of the economy as an unmitigated disaster. I disagree w
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> I'll ask, why don't you organize with your co-workers and collectively bargain for labor protections, or consider voting in politicians who are for stronger labor laws, and all of a sudden they remember that their corporatist
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It might be easier to design the room to create false positives and undermine trust in the detectors. Assuming you have that kind of influence, anyway. That's not an option if you're just trying to plant a camera in an existing ro
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> but often the account creation page and login page have different behavior It's bad enough when that only applies to the length, but at least you could theoretically still log in once you knew what length it was truncated to. I&#x
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by nybble41 5y ago
There often is such a proxy in these environments but it isn't really related. The scenario here is that you have servers with both internal and external IP addresses, and for whatever reason if someone is connecting from inside the

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