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by pierat 3y ago
So are public libraries just as "unethical"?
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by pierat 3y ago
It's much cheaper and freedom-maintaining if you just pirate. And paying sends the message of "I'm OK with DRM shittified media, abuse me more!" Stripping DRM is also illegal under DMCA. Might as well just pirate and cal
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by pierat 3y ago
Cracking DRM is illegal with the DMCA. So is piracy. So instead of paying the privilege of being illegal, just pirate and save your money. XKCD called this hypocrisy out ages ago. https://xkcd.com/488/
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by pierat 3y ago
Because nobody actually links to the leak proper. It ends up that people talk about writing about writings, rather than see what it is. And the prior post I did was auto-dead.. My guess is from the forum link. Cause we're not allowed t
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by pierat 3y ago
It's also one of my biggest regrets, and I never did it. My mom did. She never asked me, or anything. But half my material is right there, in an irrevocable database, now leaked online for the world. And I have no genetic rights or any
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by pierat 3y ago
Really, thats your selling point? "Shitcoin allows easy fraud, destruction of employment, and subversion of laws we dont like at scale, because it's not a fiat currency" Seriously, if that's your selling point, kill it w
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by pierat 3y ago
And, this is news? Companies' core value is "make money fast and repeatable". Anything else is just window dressing to get employees to work for you and get customers to buy from you. And as companies hit the top of the sigmo
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by pierat 3y ago
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented "Additionally, founders of YC companies see each other's usernames show up in orange, which — although not an explicit benefit — does allow fellow YC foun
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by pierat 3y ago
Because the goal of a vulture crapitalist is to sell at the exponential part of the sigmoid curve. And of course, sell the idea that "the next big idea" is exponential at 30x..... Until you hit the top of the sigmoid. Wash, rinse,
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by pierat 3y ago
I do similar but I look for older laptops. Gets me integrated: battery, screen, keyboard, mouse I can buy an old laptop for $100 and would cost me $150 for similar RPI hardware.
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by pierat 3y ago
As a content company who owns ISPs, I would LOVE NATs. Why? Keeps P2P like BitTorrent, soulseek, gnutella, and newer protocols crippled. And content creators don't want people consuming content other than through themselves. And a NAT
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by pierat 3y ago
> We do have 3 hatchet throwing bars currently and a new brewpub every week. Im seriously not getting the financial metrics of these axe throwing bars. Insurance liability of throwing sharp chunks of metal must be stupid high, and really
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by pierat 3y ago
Laws that you cant prove are jokes of laws. Buyers agent: "I know the house, and didn't think it met your qualifications of what you verbally described to me." (in reality, its perfect, but has low commissions)
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by pierat 3y ago
"The laundry hamper was in the way of a thing I check and I don't move stuff." "I'm an inspector and I dont warranty my work."
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by pierat 3y ago
Upload = people able to host and do things on their own. Media companies like NBC/Sky/Universal/Xfinity/Comcast do not want you to be creators. They want you to consume consume consume... and it doesnt count against your
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by pierat 3y ago
Meh. Ever since Screwtube blocked subscribed channels on blocking history, I just use a private non-logged-in session. And I decide what content loads and doesnt. My client is mine. If I run ublock origin or newer, that's on me. And fr
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by pierat 3y ago
Here's the library name /sarcasm com.tesla.vehicle.image.ai.nude ---------------- But seriously, Im done with Internet of Shit, AI this, shitcoin that. I'm done with this future. It blows. I want my 1990's new, young, un
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by pierat 3y ago
You say "just citing the theory", as if theory is some dirty concept. Marx's critique of capitalism, and how it breaks is well established economic theory. And it explains the labor market extremely well, even with employment
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by pierat 3y ago
No. Most workers are alienated for the 4 aforementioned reasons. The alienation *makes you think* the job is bullshit, because you are kept from the whole view of what you do and how you work within the organization. The whole view (read: t
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by pierat 3y ago
Marx explained this quite well in his capitalist critiques (note: these are different than the communist manifesto). In analyzing Capitalism, Marx found that there's 4 primary types of alienation happening to the worker in a capitalist
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by pierat 3y ago
Yet another company whom never relinquishes real ownership when they "sell" it. At best, any Apple "purchase" is at best a rental. Stallman is right. And always has been with tech.
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by pierat 3y ago
Uh, Hatsune Miku?
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by pierat 3y ago
that was a pre-coffee post. thats my only defense :/
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by pierat 3y ago
To be fair, the lip of the object looks like a vagina. There's probably a reason they look functionally the same. (note: im referring to the physics of said 2 objects and how they keep liquids in. this isnt some bad sexual joke in jest
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by pierat 3y ago
Yep, that's called "Greenwashing". It serves to make the middle class folk think they're making any sort of climate change oriented decision, when in fact they aren't. It also superficially makes the company doing G
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by pierat 3y ago
"AI" means: 1. My data is gobbled up without any real choice. And, when a org is being sly about using data for training, you won't even know until they come out with "Super AI Cloud" garbage. 2. My data is forever
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by pierat 3y ago
Note: California ONLY. (commment: pity all states don't publish this in machine-readable formats. Id say this is more important than the monthly food report in the nnewspaper.)
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by pierat 3y ago
With emulation, there's always a deeper level of emulation you can do to approach "perfectness". In this case, the pinnacle of emulation of a CRT is to simulate photon emission in a tube, and simulate the response curve of ea
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by pierat 3y ago
It's ALWAYS dns :D
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by pierat 3y ago
You know, we're supposed to assume sincerity and general good intent to folks here... But you know, you have to wonder just how many big business astroturfers there are here. We know the oil companies knew about climate change in the 7

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