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by scoofy 7mo ago
>These prediction markets incentivize the absolute worst in humanity. Just call it gambling. They aren't "prediction markets," they're just gambling. Gambling incentivizes the absolute worst in humanity.
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by scoofy 7mo ago
Look, it's not the point your making, but Adam Smith was not a laissez-faire capitalist. If you want to do the "capitalism bad" thing, I would suggest learning a bit of history, or at least understand that the " laisse
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by scoofy 8mo ago
It seems nobody has posted this, but the only reason why this would ever be an issue is the principal–agent problem. When a representative democracy has a significant divergence between the representatives and the people being represented,
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by scoofy 8mo ago
It is a question of who is "We" because all this seems to imply that the market owes "us" this product. I would lose my mind and switch to Linux for good if Apple every tried to close their laptops. Why? Because unlike m
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I'm currently on Sonic in SF. It's a quality product even though it's technically more expensive than I could get from Comcast. It's just less bullshit dark patterns like constantly having to re-up your contract.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
There are even practical ways to allow this type of exchange. However, they require a truly egalitarian business relationship, mutual respect, and signaling mechanism to note when to be blunt and when to be decent. If these conditions are
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by scoofy 8mo ago
>Somehow we managed to survive without the majority of society being scammed out of their life savings before Apple came in with the iPhone and locked down iOS What on earth are you talking about? People have been getting scammed since t
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I think the idea is that in the future, everyone will need a philosophy degree to go along with whatever business they will work in. It’s no longer going to be about “I know this skill, tell me what you want me to do,” but will be about “I
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by scoofy 8mo ago
This would be illegal in the United States if it were a for-profit company. The US has pretty serious civil rights laws regarding employment and housing.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
You don't have to dance around it. That's exactly what's happening. The people here who are saying it's okay to discriminate against men because "they" commit sexual assaults at a higher rate, those same people
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by scoofy 8mo ago
My argument is an active lawsuit: https://employmentlawweekly.com/uncategorized/uber-lyft-sued... Yes, I realize women face real dangers in car share hiring. The solution isn't just to then just blindly discrimina
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by scoofy 8mo ago
All I’m hearing is bad-faith nonsense built on intentionally ignoring the concept of civil rights. Why go on the internet and do this? Honestly. You know that your line of argumentation doesn’t even remotely care about being serious, yet yo
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by scoofy 8mo ago
Sex discrimination is about equality employment and housing rights. Not about who you have to be friends with.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
Indeed I am.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
We either care about sex discrimination everywhere, or we don't actually care about it at all. "I like discrimination when it's good for me" is not a serious position.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
You don't get to say "these people's rights are inconvenient, so until we make it more convenient, I say we ignore their rights." We either care about sex discrimination everywhere, or we don't care about it anywher
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by scoofy 8mo ago
The difference is the business structure. Women's only gyms are operated as private clubs, and must follow a very strict set of laws. Uber is a public accommodation. It cannot discriminate based on sex. If someone wanted to start a pri
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by scoofy 8mo ago
Imagine a consumer packaged goods fund that focuses on premium consumer packaged goods, like the kind of more cutesy stuff you may have seen on the shelves at places like Whole Foods. You would think that the fund is doing poorly because pe
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by scoofy 8mo ago
"It's 1 person, the bartender, deciding what's good or bad for all their patrons. And this is, I'm not sure what, but gives bartenders at bars too much power to moderate bar conversation the way they like vs giving the i
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I definitely think this is solvable via some basic honeypot laiden proof of work. 1. Exist for some time. 2. Vote on stuff that humans would vote for. 3. Avoiding voting on traps. 4. Comment occasionally and productively. 5. Post to a limit
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I quit moderating because it was destroying my mental health. Getting called a fascist and rehashing how “no, you’re libertarian politics are fine, but can you please just start your own sub” in a long, drawn out, hateful, back and forth ge
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by scoofy 8mo ago
>If you got to choose your own censorship it'd be nice. As it stands, other instances can decide to defederate with what you're on. That is not censorship! This conversation is frustrating exactly because people think a group
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by scoofy 8mo ago
The “this wrecked my industry” sob story is especially rich when the vast majority of tech workers ability to demand premium salaries comes directly from creating software that makes existing jobs obsolete. Let’s talk about the industries t
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by scoofy 8mo ago
In North Korea, you can’t start your own instance to say what you want. They will still jail you for what you say. That’s the actual point. The fact that other people want to be on a system that blocks you is their business, not yours. The
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I feel like a simple reverse-recommendation algorithm could fulfill the role of auto blocking content. “It looks like you hated that Nickleback song! You’ll probably also hate this Chad Kroeger solo project!”
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by scoofy 8mo ago
So start your own instance. You have the right to speak, not the right to be heard.
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I feel like there just something about " this thing is slightly difficult to get started using " that keeps normies out and keeps the place reasonable. It's the only way to prevent the Eternal September of a popular social ne
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by scoofy 8mo ago
My partner works for a small, foreign-tourist focused hospitality company in the US. She says their numbers have fallen off a cliff in the last year. Apparently everyone is hoping that the World Cup will make up for the decline in tourism,
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by scoofy 8mo ago
I don't know what is in the water, but "I can do crimes, as long as it's part of a protest" seems to be what people actually think these days. Civil disobedience means accepting punishment. Literally "letter from Bi
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by scoofy 8mo ago
Congress must approve any renaming the Department of Defense ... They haven't. Stop giving them what they want without them even doing it in good faith at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Departmen

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