rhizome

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by rhizome 6y ago
You're confusing Constitutional rights with business models and editorial policies.
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by rhizome 6y ago
This is about as rigorous as the questions by those wondering how Facebook could possibly be a monopoly when other websites exist (exaggerating only slightly). Do you know what "discourse" is? It's "how people talk about
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by rhizome 6y ago
Mostly because your definition of "market" is naive (in the generic sense, not a personal insult) and too-narrow.
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by rhizome 6y ago
They didn't "approve" it, they closed their investigation, which they specifically called out as not saying there's no violation(s): https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/closing-le.
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by rhizome 6y ago
In California, bicycles are defined as vehicles, so they're allowed to take the whole lane if there isn't a bicycle lane and a car and a bike can't fit side-by-side. Sharrows are an indicator of this state of the law.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Their intent is irrelevant. What counts is how they're used for the same purpose.
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by rhizome 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if PE bros know some "fucking up" entry points that regular people don't, which leave even doing-well companies vulnerable.
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Allowing predatory and/or negligent entities to entrap people with less-than-expert knowledge of the relevant industry/technology/whatever Indeed, a lot of companies are paying a lot of people a lot of money to spend a
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by rhizome 6y ago
I don't if I'd call enforcement penalties rare and laughable: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/?insights
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by rhizome 6y ago
Then again as the saying goes, you can't use technology to fix a people problem.
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by rhizome 6y ago
To be even fairer, it's not helping them in the COVID-19 era. In my region, Target is dead last in maintaining inventory and their supply chain. I have given up on them completely for paper products, as they never had any for months
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by rhizome 6y ago
I would love someone knowledgeable to take examples like this (and counterexamples) and create some discourse on how to defend a company against private equity takeovers.
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by rhizome 6y ago
I don't understand, are you saying something like "Oreo has a monopoly on being Oreos?" If so, that's a pretty naive and narrow conception. In other words, "no, that isn't the problem."
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Let me know if I interpreted you incorrectly, but I think you mean that VRBO has existed for longer and has a poor product/UX so they needed to be disrupted. Correct. I first used VRBO sometime around 2002. They were the only gam
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by rhizome 6y ago
First, there's no way to compare the election stuff with this weather thing. Sometimes different things happen at the same time for different reasons. > There exists a certain group of people that think private sector and The Market
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by rhizome 6y ago
I believe you that they had their pitch fleshed out once they got moving, but from someone who, in a way, wished someone would invent AirBNB for years , I can't imagine the original inspiration was any more complicated than "VRBO
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by rhizome 6y ago
Do you think any of those circumstances are happening on FB? Does the supposed rarity make them harder or easier to find?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Facebook is full of sedition and does nothing about it.
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by rhizome 6y ago
> I’m still confused as to which “market” is harmed: advertisers? Facebook users? other social networks? Even with scare quotes it's not a multiple: the social network of Facebook users is an advertising market. You don't have
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by rhizome 6y ago
On what basis could they be sued that wouldn't take out a) ad blockers; and consequently b) a user's ability to modify information displayed on their own computers?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Is that actually a criteria in antitrust?
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by rhizome 6y ago
You might read up on the Trusts era that brought about the Sherman Act[1]. Trains? Horse carriages and wagons were still available, not to mention boats. However, these are not equal modes of travel, though they are "similar" in t
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by rhizome 6y ago
Once something gets commercialized, prison enters the picture.
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Bill Gates is giving away the vast majority of his wealth That's a tax-avoidance scheme. Here's a recent (and certainly not the first) article laying it out: https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/bill-gates-
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by rhizome 6y ago
Find the people who criticize current developments in terms of the original promises of (the relevant) technology. People with a sense of history and the big pictures that no longer exist or which are being actively destroyed as inconvenien
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by rhizome 6y ago
Consider the possibility that they fucked it up. That tweet is actually pretty amazing though: pg discovering practices 37Signals has been using for a decade.
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by rhizome 6y ago
With pittances. What is an example of even a $20 billion project by a private party? Elon Musk's current wealth could fund SpaceX for over 350 years. I have a favorite illustration of what just one billion dollars is: a million dollars
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by rhizome 6y ago
A picture of a propeller craft while talking about rotors, check. I can't imagine it'd be much more than tweaking helicopter designs to suit miniature versions. Designs they've had for decades. Heck, I wouldn't be surpri
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by rhizome 6y ago
Just so we're talking apples to apples, what value is that hegemony to society?
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by rhizome 6y ago
I see this site is doing the "incompatible with recent versions of Firefox" thing that steals the content away after displaying it for a split second, like imgur has also done (among others, I'm sure). That said, I recommend

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