salawat

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by salawat 1y ago
As someone with experience I. The PBM world, they are the only actors in a position to do the "responsible" thing. The problem though, is spread. Which is the foundational profit taking mechanism of most PBM's. Their profit i
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by salawat 1y ago
Said post you learned it from was also a shining example of agitprop.
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by salawat 1y ago
The problem is a function of alienation I think. We're alienating culpability and accountability through technological and legal indirection, and it's that engine of asymmetry through which to extract value and engage in a transac
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by salawat 1y ago
Search engine indexes being turned into copyright enforcement levers also significantly killed the net as it created scarcity in info dissemination for the sake of maintaining info asymmetry. Go ahead and try to find JLG equipment/serv
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by salawat 1y ago
Anything that requires the end user to internalize PKI is dead on arrival. A) The interface won't get intuitive enough. B) The asshats will still find a way in. C) Ain't nobody ever met someone in the real world and gone "Yo
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by salawat 1y ago
Sounds anti-competitive as fuck to me. Maybe we should, I don't know; do something about companies using contractual requirements to lock key industrial into one way of doing things in order to shut down such efforts?
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by salawat 1y ago
Counterpoint: There was a 95 year old woman in my life who was a Stephen Minister living in a small town. Stephen Ministry is a bit like being a professional listener. You kind of do outreach and be present for people to help them through
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by salawat 1y ago
Not quite. At this point we're still more in the "user blows hand off lighting fireworks" part of the problem space where the thing may be able to be used safely in some contexts by trained individuals, but a great deal of se
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by salawat 1y ago
>Nothing like a kid to help you get your head out of your ass. Probably why people report feeling happier, because you can't think about the stupid stuff you used to worry about. Not all of those things were stupid, and not in need
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by salawat 1y ago
Nope. If you're one of them, as a practitioner you should damn well be able to reasonably foresee the pathological use case. Hell, I only cut myself minimal slack for having grown up believing constant exhortations by Oldtimers that &q
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by salawat 1y ago
>I don’t see my primary care doctor selling my health data, due in part to data privacy laws like HIPAA. Oh, you sweet summer child. Bless your little heart. You're right. Doctors don't. Insurance companies do! And that data is
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by salawat 1y ago
>Society has grown up and we’re not comfortable giving the internet a pass because digital identity is hard. I'm not comfortable giving society digital identity, because being a human and not abusing the primitive is even harder sti
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by salawat 1y ago
Ding, ding, ding! Now you're getting it! Got it in one!
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by salawat 1y ago
Sounds like marketing is the problem. In fact, I'd say 90% of the Internet's more problematic aspects disappear once you get rid of marketing/monetization. We had a good thing. We let mercantilism and surveillance capitalis
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by salawat 1y ago
>And then there is AI. Look, I'm sad to say I absolutely know the headspace you're wandering right now, and I don't have a panacea. I can tell you though, fuck the AI hype wave. Fact is, if it gets to the point where the
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by salawat 1y ago
History is written by the victors, and the fight never ends. Yesterday's Lost Cause remains just that until current affairs once more brings forth the need for a rebirth of old ideas. Big fan of cannabis legalization? Hop on the State&
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by salawat 1y ago
...You mean, regulating? Literally the meaning of the word.
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by salawat 1y ago
You seem dense and fairly committed to not seeing the fact that we've pretty much tapped the developable wilds, and set bars so high in terms of barriers of economic entry you can't just plop out a kid and rely on opportunity exis
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by salawat 1y ago
You need to understand something about VC, tech, and finance people in general. They don't care about anything but making money. How do you make money? Sell shovels. Or better yet, monetize them. Rent and lease them out. Make shovels
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by salawat 1y ago
I disagree. I don't think transacting for transacting sake is a good thing. If anything I just see it as a vehicle for both obfuscation, and a means with which to arbitrage info asymmetry against retail investors. And no, I don't
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by salawat 1y ago
You misunderstand. There is no Quality Control you can do for these things. They're ill-conditioned function imitators. Small changes in input, yield massive changes in output. You can't QC that. You can only clean up after it.
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by salawat 1y ago
Sorry sir, to buy your entangled Q-bit card, we'll need to see some ID. <ID scan kept on file or forwarded to LE> Please, if you haven't noticed, network effects are designed to work against you punching up.
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by salawat 1y ago
No such thing as a win-win. Just a lose we haven't come up with a name or explanation for yet.
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by salawat 1y ago
And yet individualists reach to secure those network effects while at the same time decrying they don't exist or will never work, anything to deny the advantage of a network to competing agents.
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by salawat 1y ago
When the benefits accumulate to less than 1%, while the costs are borne by everyone else, who are simultaneously frozen out of benefitting through over-weaponization of high level network effect through acts of political and industrial coll
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by salawat 1y ago
No one should be a tech optimist. Tech can't guarantee good outcomes. It's equally applicable to good and evil ends. The ones who blindly go forward disregarding the potential bloodbath down the road from their creation deserve to
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by salawat 1y ago
There was a commenter that got buried, where the person making it wasn't aware of the precedent for government mandated "apps". So i80and... Look no further than CALEA mandated forensics packages on most network backbone gear
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by salawat 1y ago
Welch in his early career was kept in check in part by Oldtimers who were alive for the experience of the time of the Robber Barons, and the heyday of the American Labor Union. These times were characterized by men willing to do violence to
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by salawat 1y ago
>Is the problem really an inability to vote with our wallets? Or is the problem a complete lack of media/marketing literacy, that leads the credulous to engage with ad slop, against their own best interests? The problem is companies
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by salawat 1y ago
Heh. Corollary: By joining the class, one is setting themselves up as a target by feeding targeting data for ICE into the Court system. The government doesn't even have to look for you now, because you self-selected into the class. Chr

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