protocolture

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by protocolture 5d ago
Most people, especially governments, aren't positioned to analyse monopolies. >Regulation can produce a monopoly, but lots of regulations also exist to keep natural monopolies in check. My favourite example of this is Australias NBN
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by protocolture 5d ago
You can get these tiny 3 inch black and white CRTs from china. They arent really good for anything but writing hackaday articles tho.
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by protocolture 5d ago
The gentleman who hosted the LAN party, whose mother had her bedroom right above his PC, with speakers blaring, as we got Microsoft Sam to spell out countless insults and incredulous things while he complained "Cmon guys" never di
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by protocolture 5d ago
waow (based based based based based based based)
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by protocolture 8d ago
>I wasn’t referencing anything specific, but a general response to how/why many companies can’t or won’t do business in the United States. Its a genuinely terrible place to do business, and its full of genuinely terrible people to d
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by protocolture 8d ago
Turn your apple metaphor around. You grow an apple. You plant the seeds and scare off pests for like 12 years and then harvest your first apple. Apples are scarce resources. You are very much entitled to compensation when selling the apple.
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by protocolture 8d ago
Please tell this to your local georgist thankyou.
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by protocolture 8d ago
Theres neither with piracy. Like you have to assume that the lack of the piracy would lead to an actual sale. Which isnt the case at all.
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by protocolture 8d ago
Even the dinosaurs are abandoning the USA.
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by protocolture 8d ago
I went through something like this years ago with my wife and she just scraped enough data together to satisfy the account reset process. After that we both created a set of one time codes and stored them offline.
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by protocolture 8d ago
The other guy still has the apple.
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by protocolture 8d ago
I legit thought you were playing up the stereotype to be funny and commented to that effect.
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by protocolture 9d ago
>I could have whinged even more! Maybe not the amazing argument you thought it was.
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by protocolture 9d ago
>Almost overnight our foreign policy swung behind the US instead. We still had dual citizen brits running government departments making pro UK decisions until like the 70s or 80s. The UK/US have sort of shared us until the 90s. We l
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by protocolture 9d ago
>Wifi, actually, was developed there (CSIRO patents) Ehhh thats more like CSIRO patent trolls for wifi. My recollection is that the particular trick they patented was already in use in CDMA networks, the CSIRO did it using 2.4GHz on a lo
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by protocolture 9d ago
>Pom >Almost but not quite able to finish the post without whinging. Checks out.
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by protocolture 9d ago
I mean, the government could demand an authentication backdoor that's located by non government entities. Or any of a million things. The Australian government needs to be treated as an absolute supply chain risk.
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by protocolture 10d ago
>Mail just isn’t something that’s built in a way that it can be a private service. No but theres a lot of daylight between "There might be intermediaries" and "The australian government can verbally request secret adjustme
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by protocolture 10d ago
I bought a copy of Warhammer Quest, a board game, from Lifeline for 5 bucks. It came with annotations, some kids custom rules, their character sheets and the outline of a custom campaign they were writing. Its got so much texture.
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by protocolture 10d ago
>because I'm Australian and so is Fastmail. That seems like the worst reason to use a product. If I had the funds for a non free mail host, I would choose one thats not going to be easy to target with a TCN or TAN.
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by protocolture 10d ago
Yeah "prefer" over other aesthetics. But most people will prioritise cost (both capex and opex) and comfort over aesthetics.
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by protocolture 11d ago
Weird this isnt getting a lot of attention. Is it Pro Israel brigading, Pro AI doomer brigading, or both?
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by protocolture 11d ago
>testes teehee
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by protocolture 11d ago
>It will be death by a thousand bad impressions, mistakes and oversights. Current human CEO outcome. Honestly, the C level are already finance maximising stochastic parrots so this tool seems perfect tbh.
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by protocolture 11d ago
Hey guys, is it still "Effective" altruism if all the money is spent on sensationalising AI claims?
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by protocolture 11d ago
Very Sad.
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by protocolture 11d ago
Yeah who in their right mind is going to pay for enough tokens for LLMs to rule the world?
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by protocolture 11d ago
>The botnet scare is that article for me. It is the one claim in his essay that lands squarely in a field I’ve spent years in. It is just plain wrong. He either knows it and wrote it anyway, or he doesn’t and is publishing it regardless.
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by protocolture 12d ago
>No? It's not reasonable to expect every conceivable negative behaviour be enumerated in a prompt. How is it negative? I ask it a difficult math question it tends to go off and write a python script to figure it out, instead of tryi
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by protocolture 12d ago
>The YouTube creators that make the content do need to get paid. The world would honestly be better if they didnt.

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