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by orangecat 9mo ago
If your position is that any product that doesn't live up to all its marketing claims is worthless, you're going to have a very limited selection.
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by orangecat 9mo ago
This would make the situation slightly better for people who want to buy houses. To the extent that it has the effect of transferring some properties from rentals to sales, it's only better for the renter who wants to buy and who jus
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by orangecat 9mo ago
Private equity has absolutely been buying up (and building) U.S. residential stock, and this is addressing a real problem. Building more housing is the opposite of a problem.
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by orangecat 9mo ago
Landlords owning property is not a problem. Correct. It is wealth inequality. A vanishingly tiny number of people own almost all the wealth in the system To the extent that this is true, it's not why housing is unaffordable. Even i
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by orangecat 9mo ago
This is obviously correct. Somehow people just can't accept the pigeonhole principle that if X people are trying to buy Y houses and X>>Y, a lot of them are going to be disappointed regardless of what laws you pass.
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by orangecat 9mo ago
Is software supposed to be deterministic anymore? I've never understood this argument. Do you ever work with other humans? They are very much not deterministic, yet they can often produce useful code that helps you achieve more than
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by orangecat 9mo ago
The "world at large" mostly consists of workers, so things that are beneficial to workers are also beneficial to it. When dockworker's unions are able to prevent port automation, is that beneficial to society?
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by orangecat 10mo ago
The only blame you can lay on EU is not enough enforcement. That's a very big "only". Malicious compliance (and non-compliance) was an easily predictable consequence of the law, they've completely failed at responding
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by orangecat 10mo ago
We know, or at least we should know, that a large portion of it is housing costs, and a large portion of the solution is to stop making it illegal to build housing.
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by orangecat 10mo ago
If I run around town smashing windows with a rock, GDP goes up. Not generally. Window repairmen get higher incomes, but the rest of the economy has less consumption and investment.
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by orangecat 10mo ago
Right. Property taxes are a combination of fee-for-service for infrastructure, and a "congestion tax" for occupying land that nobody else can use. It's explicitly not a wealth tax because you owe it even if you have 0% equity
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by orangecat 10mo ago
Why wouldn't a "smart" device connect to any wifi it has credentials for, and why wouldn't the implementation consider "has credentials" to include "it doesn't need any"? Practically because lo
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by orangecat 10mo ago
they already aggressively scan and use public wi-fi networks This is commonly repeated and but as far as I can tell nobody has actually demonstrated it.
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by orangecat 10mo ago
Give it time. The natural end state is that all computing devices available to the general public are dumb framebuffers that are only capable of displaying a UI running in the cloud. No more privacy for anything; even if the cloud OS lets y
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by orangecat 10mo ago
Property taxes are use taxes. You're paying for the right to occupy an inherently limited resource, and for necessary services and infrastructure. It's not a wealth tax because it doesn't matter how much equity you have; it&#
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by orangecat 10mo ago
I'm also against people living forever, but more because it's a way for society to go forward and get rid of old ways of thinking. Well, I'd like to get rid of the old way of thinking that death is good :p And can you imag
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by orangecat 10mo ago
Would a reasonable solution be to introduce a massive, rolling holocaust (i.e. introduce into this world the concept of death)? And not only death, but aging. Even if that society decided (wrongly IMO) that nobody should live longer than
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by orangecat 11mo ago
This is entirely due to the employer being involved. I don't have to pick a new auto or home insurance plan every year.
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by orangecat 11mo ago
Should your employer be required to pay for your housing, food, transportation, and clothes? Company towns turned out to be a bad idea.
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by orangecat 11mo ago
There's a lot of physical infrastructure that works with quarters Very good point and I think I'm convinced.
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by orangecat 11mo ago
Yeah. My proposal would be to have 10 cent, 50 cent, and $1 coins (rounding everything to the nearest 10 cents), with $2 the smallest bill. And probably you could drop the $5 bill at that point.
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by orangecat 11mo ago
Google did more than what is "strictly legal or required", and what they did was submit a good and valid bug report. But for some reason we're mad because they didn't do even more. Why? The Copenhagen Interpetation of
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by orangecat 11mo ago
I strongly dispute that giving megacorporations total control of how we're allowed to use our computing devices is beneficial to any community.
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by orangecat 1y ago
Can confirm, Claude is quite good at this. "Intelligence" -> "Inner neural thinking enables learning, logic, insight, grasping, evaluating, navigating challenges efficiently".
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by orangecat 1y ago
To the extent that this is true, the lesson is very much not that Microsoft should have had total control over what users were allowed to run.
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by orangecat 1y ago
For everything on that list, I'd say that if you figure out how to run software of your choice on them the manufacturer shouldn't be able to legally stop you. (And specifically, the anti-circumvention clauses of the DMCA are terri
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by orangecat 1y ago
See https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h... for an IMO compelling argument that amyloid really is the underlying cause. The theory is that amyloid buildup causes misfolded tau proteins which cau
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by orangecat 1y ago
I appreciate your response even though I strongly disagree. You really can’t trust developers to do the right thing Indeed not, and that includes OS developers. Imagine if Microsoft had been able to block web browsers other than IE in the
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by orangecat 1y ago
It was mobile. The mobile ecosystem has always been user-hostile and built around the exploitation of the customer rather than serving the customer. Right. It was infuriating when those of us criticizing the iPhone's restrictions wer
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by orangecat 1y ago
How is they worked out for PC users since the 80s? Just to be clear, are you claiming that we would be better off if PC hardware and OS vendors had the level of control that smartphone vendors do today?

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