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by saghm 3mo ago
I don't understand what your point is. Do you disagree with any of the concrete suggestions in the blog post about what should have been done differently, or do you think they're hard to follow?
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by saghm 3mo ago
So the solution is to make it even easier to let the domain records lapse by putting it outside the place where everyone would know about it, with the added bonus that now you can super easily let the domain registration itself lapse withou
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by saghm 3mo ago
I mean, it sounds like they're already doing that, just with extra downside
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by saghm 3mo ago
I mean, yes? That sounds pretty accurate for most companies before chatbots became the new hot thing
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by saghm 3mo ago
Several weeks ago I had an issue not being able to login to Verizon's website, so I tried to chat with someone. The chatbot that was gatekeeping was predictably useless said it would redirect me to a human except...it kept prompting me
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by saghm 3mo ago
Sure, and when they do it for stuff where they're at risk of getting caught, it's confusing too. I'm not particularly motivated by money, which makes it pretty easy for me to not have any desire to take risks like breaking th
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by saghm 3mo ago
Even then, I don't really understand the logic, because it seems like that doesn't take into account the risks and magnitude of the downside. The downside of losing a lot of money from lawsuits or even potentially going to jail is
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by saghm 3mo ago
Also likely a healthy dose of confidence that they wouldn't get caught (seemingly overconfidence, but I suppose maybe they were just extremely unlucky)
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by saghm 3mo ago
Yeah, what this anecdote actually proves is that there's no legal protection against the cops just deciding not to do their jobs.
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by saghm 3mo ago
> You really don't want the law to be "Well you didn't lose a physical thing, so why should it be illegal?" There are people who feel this way, so it's possible that the parent comment does actually want it to be
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by saghm 3mo ago
You're stating your personal dogma as if it's an objective fact. I don't agree with it, and simply restating what I disagree with is not particularly convincing.
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by saghm 3mo ago
I guess I don't find the argument "capitalism is inherently something praiseworthy, regulation is something inherently to be avoided" compelling. I care about the outcome, not the label, so if the strongest argument against s
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by saghm 3mo ago
The part I was responding to was "with digital copies sourced from the high seas". The premise that they were responding to was if the only domestically available media playing devices required subscriptions. It's not clear w
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by saghm 3mo ago
That doesn't seem to have stopped any prosecutions for piracy in the past
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by saghm 3mo ago
You seem to have missed this part: > digital copies sourced from the high seas
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by saghm 3mo ago
The premise of this hypothetical is Steam's servers going away. Ping me about this if and when it ever happens and I'll write you a tool where you can select the steamapi.dll you downloaded and have it copied to where your games n
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by saghm 3mo ago
Sure, but that's orthogonal to discs. Nothing prevents a game developer from making "check the server" the first thing that happens when the game on a disc loads.
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by saghm 3mo ago
The obvious risk is that you don't have nearly as much budget to spend on lawyers if someone does come after you for it. The copyright system tends to disproportionately punish small players and not punish larger ones.
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by saghm 3mo ago
Out of curiosity, why not use desktop mode without an external mouse and keyboard for that?
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by saghm 3mo ago
Programming by hand also empircally leads to quite a lot of bugs. The actual calculus for whether these tools are worth it to solve a given problem is as function of how much time it takes to reach the desired level of quality compared to w
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by saghm 3mo ago
I've always assumed it was a loan word from French, but I honestly also have never been properly able to figure out how to pronounce arbitrary words in French because I'm not familiar enough with the language. My perception is tha
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by saghm 3mo ago
> Isn't the capitalist way to help with this to build new restaurants that do openly provide the lineage for the food that they sell? Some people think that certain things that are not profitable are still worthwhile to society. For
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by saghm 3mo ago
That doesn't seem at odds with what they said. The Waltons are a family, which illustrates the point of what a fully "family-owned" business might look like compared to one with external shareholders pretty directly. I don&#x
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by saghm 3mo ago
So you're saying that this type of regulation would force the food industry to start caring about whether their food comes from? That sounds like an argument in favor of it, not against it
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by saghm 3mo ago
If we can't figure out a way as a society to honestly tell people what food is being sold in restaurants, maybe we shouldn't be starting new restaurants until we figure that out.
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by saghm 3mo ago
Alternately, they could truthfully state what allergens are in literally all of their foods, and then people who are allergic to them can safely avoid them, which is what you're expecting them to do now except without actually saying w
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by saghm 3mo ago
Yeah, policies like this are often not coming from engineering directly but often through other parts of the company like legal, or even sales from contract negotiations. Not that it's entirely comparable, but I was at AWS when the big
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by saghm 3mo ago
> You see a ton of ai start ups with provocative advertising or billboards like "never hire humans" for similar reasons, right? I've never seen this, but I don't live in the Bay Area, so maybe I'm just out of the
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by saghm 3mo ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard that! That does sound like it's just as premature to claim Rust wouldn't have prevented it as it is to claim it would have, which I think stands as valid criticism of the comment I originally res
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by saghm 3mo ago
If you could point to a division that had incentive to try to block the types of online checks like I described, that would be one thing, but I don't think there's any evidence of that, so it's not that much of a leap to fall

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