philipov

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by philipov 6y ago
Fb is also a problem, so relying on them isn't going to solve anything. A cartel or oligopoly is not a better situation than a monopoly. For there to be a healthy market, it needs to be possible for small business to compete. If that&#
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by philipov 6y ago
> What makes this OK and where does it end? What makes it okay is that intellectual property can be copied infinitely without depriving the original owner of it, and the fact that they refuse to sell it to you means you're not even
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by philipov 6y ago
> I suppose I'm part of some irrelevant market segment they don't care about. So it's not just a service problem. That is exactly what a service problem looks like. The service problem is caused by having strong copyrigh
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by philipov 6y ago
Copyright law has a place, but as it currently stands, it doesn't protect independent artists sufficiently, while giving large media firms disproportionate power. This ultimately hurts small content producers a lot more than it helps t
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by philipov 6y ago
I like "Demilitarize the Police" personally.
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by philipov 6y ago
Good. Capitalism decrees that a company founded on a faulty or unsustainable business model should collapse and be replaced by better alternatives. The sooner the market realizes an error and corrects itself the better.
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by philipov 6y ago
With a hundred billion dollars, they can do both.
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by philipov 6y ago
Calling everything an antipattern is an antipattern.
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by philipov 6y ago
Well, the question was why someone wouldn't use the company's disclosure program, so that's the point.
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by philipov 6y ago
I suspect they're based in Russia, and are not worried about legal action from US-based entities.
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by philipov 6y ago
Did anyone else notice Interlingue in the language options? Maybe we could get a Tour of Rust written in Esperanto :)
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by philipov 6y ago
An industry is booming if you're buying their products, and people use the same books to play D&D whether they're doing it in person or using a virtual tabletop. I admit this is more true for roleplaying games than board games
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by philipov 6y ago
I think the main problem with 1-indexing is that it makes some formulas that depend on the length of an array more complicated. Not a huge problem, but it's kind of annoying.
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by philipov 6y ago
You should try out Tabletop Simulator for board games, or Roll20 for tabletop roleplaying like D&D. Both of these offer good options for online gaming in this space.
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by philipov 6y ago
> Users won't allow for (use) decentralized platforms until there is a good way to censor them. > Facebook and Reddit are successful BECAUSE they are censorship machines. Citations needed.
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by philipov 6y ago
I think the metric Epic would be interested in would be the amount of royalties they would collect, so it would include the number of developers scaled by the financial success of their games. The financial success of the developers whose m
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by philipov 6y ago
> the whole premise of Facebook is to do things for you Disagree; it's to hoover up your personal information to use for advertising. > make cease to be Sounds like a great idea!
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by philipov 6y ago
There is in fact a minimum mass for a black hole. That's called the Plank Mass, which is the amount of mass that forms a Black Hole with a size of 1 plank length. This is also the maximum mass of an elementary point particle.
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by philipov 6y ago
Downloading and trying to figure out the code for DikuMUD-based distributions is what drove me to learn C as a kid.
980.
by philipov 6y ago
Maybe that's because our sensory systems can't really feel states, only differences between states. Hot only exists in comparison to our memory of cold. Without that comparison, there is simply numbness. If that's a general p
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by philipov 6y ago
If it's a big corporation that's systematically the beneficiary of a legal double standard? Yeah, I think I'm okay with that.
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by philipov 6y ago
I laugh every time I see KMS used as the initialism for that, because in my circles that's short for "Kill MySelf."
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by philipov 6y ago
Mean is not a robust statistic, so that's why it's often better to use Median instead.
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by philipov 6y ago
What's a post limit? I've never encountered such a thing.
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by philipov 6y ago
The First Amendment protects citizens from censorship by the government. It doesn't protect the government (or citizens) from censorship by private business. This is why having unregulated private platforms be the primary forum for pol
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by philipov 6y ago
Clearly these people are not outraged. They're annoyed that we are, and the purpose of their debate is to dismiss us.
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by philipov 6y ago
Shocking does not mean surprising. You can be paying attention and still find things shocking. If something is no longer shocking, it means you've allowed yourself to become desensitized and accept it as an acceptable compromise of soc
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by philipov 6y ago
> the teams display high performance, not low cost Performance is relative to cost; you can't have one without the other. Trying to spin it as being only about performance is an attempt to deceive the labor.
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by philipov 6y ago
The trick is that there is no single standard you can apply for what constitutes wealth maximization. In the very simplest interpretation, you have contradictory behaviors that will maximize short term versus long term wealth. This mantra i
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by philipov 6y ago
> they have an obligation to their shareholders to always take the option that yields more money This is not true, and I wish people would stop repeating it like gospel.

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