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by pibaker 5mo ago
There are a lot more things we punish people for that take less than 5 minutes.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
It might be a difference in culture, but I definitely remember people saying you should say stuffs like that to encourage others to ask more questions. The rationale is if you are in a more powerful or senior position, like a college profes
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> QR codes on stickers/ads in public spaces are a sort of bridge between the physical and digital worlds They are already like that for at least a decade. The last time I visited London the phone booths all had ads for escort servic
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Handout for American farmers or Argentine ones?
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by pibaker 5mo ago
This is a better idea, but you run into the problem of determining who are the more deserving fans, and you circle back to what Spotify is planning to do.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
You are overlooking the secondary effect — what happens if you, a musician, a person who lives off having a positive public image, becomes known as the kind of musician who uses free market forces to effectively price fans out? Fans will no
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by pibaker 5mo ago
There is a physical limit to how many shows you can put on and the Economics 101 explanation of ticket pricing misses the part where the price of the ticket is a part of the whole image the musician is selling to the audiences. Taylor Swift
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by pibaker 5mo ago
In the case of driving and flying a significant part is the passenger's agency. There are many common sense things you can do to reduce your own chance of crashing your car. Drive defensively, don't speed, don't drive drunk.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Right now you can in fact express pro LGBT or anti fascist opinions despite the administration's efforts to stop you precisely because there are no such regulations. Had a previous US administration thought that the US is a stable an
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by pibaker 5mo ago
In a democracy the populace should in fact bear the consequence of their own government's actions. Try electing more sensible politicians and put more checks and balances into work to stop this from happening again if you don't wa
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Sure, let's just give the state a pretext to jail anyone espousing opinions they don't like for running a psyop. Surely no government will abuse this power and brand anyone in their opposition as a psyop bot army that needs to be
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by pibaker 5mo ago
You are worrying about domestic nation state actors, and you are calling social media to be banned by whom? Some mysterious administrative entity that is surely not a part of the domestic nation state doing the very propaganda you are raili
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> Chattel slavery was exceptionally profitable. This isn't true on a societal scale even though a few slaveholders built a bunch of grandiose mansions. Enslaved people were less economically productive than free people. It also lock
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I think you are both right. It is true that people only hate these people because of their actual views, but also it doesn't help that they made themselves celebrities and go on social media for attention. I bet you there are people eq
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by pibaker 5mo ago
What will happen in reality is the too big too fail platforms stay online by regulatory carve outs and smaller mom and pop forums shutdown, just like what is already happening now under other internet regulations.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Most online platforms will become unusable if it becomes legally untenable for them to set their own rules about what is allowed and what is not. Just take this website for example. If HN stops all forms of moderation, I bet you it will be
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> there's literally no difference between that $1500 lab grown gem and a $5 piece of costume jewelry. Sorry but this is just not true. Diamond has a very high refractive index compared to most materials. Even a total amateur will qu
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> Also - outside the HN bubble this stuff isn’t even unpopular. This stuff wasn't unpopular on HN until it actually happened. Almost every submission on HN about social media had people calling for similar regulations or even outrig
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by pibaker 5mo ago
And yet the stylus was useless to the overwhelming majority of humans who ever lived because they were illiterate. And the stone houses required specialized knowledge held by the masons. And you can walk into any major research university a
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> humans started molding the world to our desires in the forms of agriculture, raising animals as resources, and interfering with ecological cycles What makes human unique in this respect compared to any other species that modify their e
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by pibaker 5mo ago
The fact that one (1) tribe refuses to live in modern society is such big and shocking news affirms GP's point. Preference for industrialized life is so normal that those who choose otherwise are made newsworthy, just like the news wil
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> Would you choose to live as someones slave if that ensures a boring life of a hundred years? There were more slaves and serfs 250 years ago than today. It takes some tremendous mental gymnastics to convince yourself that you are actual
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. If someone starts calling people Avi Goldstein in a thread about Israel I’m sure he'll get flagged to death in no time.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> I don't care for coding new stuff. Everything I may need either already exists or is too complex to do on my own With due respect, are you sure you aren't just burned out? Not finding joy or even meaning in the thing you used
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by pibaker 5mo ago
If all you have is a lawnmower engine, it doesn't matter how much gas you have. You won't be going very fast. Same deal with energy storage. Yes energy capacity matters. But if you can’t put stored energy into the grid fast enough
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> you don't hear more about repurposing old malls and other abandoned large properties as data centers The building is not the hard part. The hard part is getting enough electricity to run GPUs 24/7. Old malls' electric co
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by pibaker 5mo ago
By the same logic Iran is not blockading the strait of Hormuz — just send them 25 BTC and your oil tanker too can pass. By the same logic the mafia aren't disrupting your business when they ask for a protection fee — just pay up and th
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by pibaker 5mo ago
The brick is £35 each according to the article. That's practically nothing compared to the total cost of a modern house.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I think you are way overestimating how technically inclined the average gamer is. Most of them just want to play a couple rounds of fifa or madden or call of duty to blow off some steam after work, not to spend extra time and effort optimiz
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by pibaker 5mo ago
What makes academic perspectives less biased than populist ones? Getting an phd does not immunize you against bias. And as bad as populist reporting may be, it is at least more representative of your fellow citizens' opinions.

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