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by saghm 5mo ago
I don't know what neighborhood you live in, but there aren't many billion-dollar corporations hanging out on my block. Given how much shady stuff has come out about some of these companies, I don't think it's really that
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by saghm 5mo ago
Having a few famous Tom Cruises claiming it helped them is almost certainly part of the strategy for hooking in the dubious.
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by saghm 5mo ago
From reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons yesterday after someone posted a link to it in the comments for another thread, I came away with the impression that Hubbard seemed to be into some pretty weird s
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by saghm 5mo ago
If I bought 100 tickets, sold 20 of them at 10x the value I paid for them, and then ate the rest as a loss, I'm still making a tidy profit, and the artist/venue/etc. still make the same amount of money as if 100 individuals b
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by saghm 5mo ago
It seems unlikely they'd continue to do do that if they weren't able to flip it at a higher price later
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by saghm 5mo ago
> Part of me thinks that Ticketmaster/Live Nation probably makes so much money from their own in-house scalping operation that they don't want to fix any kind of scalping problems for fear they would be somehow obligated to not
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by saghm 5mo ago
On the other hand, airplane ticketing is also notorious for stuff like overbooking flights with the assumption people won't show up and then in the rare circumstances where too many do show up, forcing people to give up their seats (in
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by saghm 5mo ago
I'm not sure I find that argument super compelling, since the union campaigns for software engineers (or more specifically game developers, since that seems to be where most of the recent examples are) do not seem to start out by organ
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by saghm 5mo ago
I'll concede that my knowledge of the NFL is much more limited and I'm heavily relying on my knowledge of the MLB. That being said, it's hard not to read that as another data point of someone who was in charge of a union of m
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by saghm 5mo ago
Yeah, I don't think that "precompute something at compile-time" is really comparable to "every import literally executes code as a script". Rust imports are actually about as far from this as I can imagine, because
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by saghm 5mo ago
Right; the issue is that this isn't happening at compile time in Python, because it's not getting compiled ahead-of-time. The equivalent would be if header files had imperative code that got executed at runtime in places where t
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by saghm 5mo ago
That's fair. I think I mostly reacted because of the sarcastic faux-outrage that the original comment I responded to expressed. These are hard problems, and I think the presumption should be someone being frustrated at the slow state o
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by saghm 5mo ago
I still can't really get behind the idea of a closed-source browser. Market dynamics aside, Chromium is at least open source (and if anything, most of the stuff that's bundled into the version of it that makes Chrome isn't pa
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by saghm 5mo ago
I'm sure you're right! I mostly just found the similarities with a famous quote using the word "learning" in a weird way with a plural funny
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by saghm 5mo ago
I don't have any issue with what you're saying if that's what happened. There's quite a gap between that sort of reasoned explanation and treating concerns about large stakeholders versus large numbers of small one with
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by saghm 5mo ago
> It seems like top tech programmers are closer to pro athletes than factory floor workers from the perspective of their value to owners. To me, the question is whether that will continue to remain the case in the absence of unions. It d
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by saghm 5mo ago
Sure, but you'd also have a pretty different experience with the law if you committed a bank heist or stole a cheap TV from a neighbor. I don't think the exact law that an action might violate is an important a distinction as what
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by saghm 5mo ago
I think I come down somewhere in the middle here. I don't think it's particularly harmful for me to copy something for personal use without trying to pass it off as my own if I wouldn't otherwise be inclined to pay for it, bu
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by saghm 5mo ago
I was actually worried that I was so close to it because of the obvious relevancy to WWII that people might object to my analogy, so I found it amusing to read yours immediately after I submitted mine!
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by saghm 5mo ago
No, I think I just find it reductive. The fact that some ideas are independently thought by multiple people does not feel like a compelling argument for normalizing copying someone else's work verbatim and trying to pass it off as your
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by saghm 5mo ago
Is my house a copy of the dirt it's on top of? Did the people who built my house build the dirt? There's a difference between "building upon" an idea and trying to claim you built the idea itself
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by saghm 5mo ago
I don't disagree with your premise, but I'd argue that saying "there are no original ideas" in the context of a discussion of plagiarism is needlessly reductive. Even though I think I mostly agree with the author here, I
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by saghm 5mo ago
Rarely is the question asked: is our AI learning? (For those not familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism )
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by saghm 5mo ago
Not before falsely claiming that it solved some before when it turned out to have just replicated some from existing literature: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/openais-embarrassing-math/
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by saghm 5mo ago
When did the last original thought happen then? Clearly thoughts must have been original at some point, or there wouldn't be any at all
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by saghm 5mo ago
People also got blown up before atomic bombs, but it's hard to argue that they weren't worth treating more seriously than a stick of dynamite. Sometimes being able to do something at a massively larger scale is a meaningful differ
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by saghm 5mo ago
It's basically the same thing as the old joke "if you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem; if you owe the bank a billion dollars, they have a problem". IP law seems to always be disproportionately wielded again
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by saghm 5mo ago
I admit that I did consider whether that was a possibility when reading it, but I also felt like the analysis you presented was straightforward enough for people to be able to discuss on its own merits rather than needing to reflexively dis
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by saghm 5mo ago
MLB players routinely have contracts for multiple season, so I'm not sure what you're talking about here. How many salaried engineers in the US do you think have multi-year contracts compared to "at-will" employment? Als
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by saghm 5mo ago
> How do you know the salaries wouldn’t have increased just due to baseball popularity and demand for good players? For starters, baseball is not nearly as popular today as it has been in the past, but salaries have not decreased. But mo

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