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by sdellis 5mo ago
Reminds me of my friends in Gaza, where every day means no shops, no restaurants, no home, no medicine, no food, no water, no hope. The beaches are full of people just trying to exist.
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by sdellis 5mo ago
I don't think that's good advice. I, and most people I know who have invested in home ownership over the past 30-40 years, have done way better than we could ever have in the stock market or 401k. It's way more tangible for p
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by sdellis 5mo ago
The USA is currently undoing their previous PFAS regulations and declaring "game on" for poisoning the populace. And who doesn't want Glysophate on their cereal?!? The "free market" has done such a great job protect
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by sdellis 5mo ago
I think the 22 million people who died in World War I, for reasons there is no consensus on, would contest your claim. And that is just a fraction of a fraction of all humans, with their own stories and dreams and loved ones, who have died
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by sdellis 5mo ago
Look, no offense, but I'm gonna trust the peer reviewed research article over your hot take.
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by sdellis 5mo ago
This comment makes it sound like you are trying to belittle people who work at nonprofits to make yourself feel better about putting profits over people.
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by sdellis 5mo ago
The EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. That is verbatim off their website. It appears that this perfectly in line with their core mission.
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by sdellis 5mo ago
You are making a lot of assumptions about the "average" person. Here's a Pew Research study that says otherwise: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-an...
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by sdellis 5mo ago
They care, but realize that there is no such thing as privacy anymore. The amount of obsession required to maybe maintain some degree of privacy is not something most people are willing to do.
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by sdellis 5mo ago
Actually, many people fight this kind of "progress". Just look at what is happening to Flock right now. True "technological progress" would be using technology to empower humans, not to exploit and subjugate them.
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by sdellis 5mo ago
With the level of surveillance and erosion of privacy, that is essentially what is happening. We all know that we are being watched and surveilled. There is no longer an "argument". Anything you say in public or private could pote
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by sdellis 6mo ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting that Rapino is stealing from shareholders. We don't know how that money is spent or disbursed. What is clear from the case and settlement is that they were illegally maintaining a monopoly in th
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by sdellis 6mo ago
According to the Wikipedia page, it seems that copies of the archive are stored around the world. LOCKSS is a decentralized strategy for preservation which includes archival copies at remote sites. It has been in use for a very long time. I
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by sdellis 8mo ago
We don't need an article to tell us that monopolies are not good for society. The fact that the article ignores this elephant in the room is exactly why I have issue with it. I agree that the best way to capture value is to destroy all
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Love this take. Clinging to a particular identity is a path to suffering.
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by sdellis 8mo ago
So what did you think the article is about? The polite thing would be to discuss it. That's what HN is here for!
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Please say something intelligent about a link when you drop it. No one can tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I did watch the video of him and I can confirm (so no one else wastes their time) he does not address why monopolies are
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Sure, monopolies are great for the C-suite, but they turn out to be really bad for the end users and customers, the real losers when there is no competition. Get in loser, we're going for a monopoly! It's all fun and games until y
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Excellent quotes! Thanks for sharing.
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Monetary incentives are the foundations of Capitalism. There are only two ways that ethics might get in the way of their profits. The first is government regulation. We saw lots of deregulation of oversight over the ten years before the 200
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Yes, there are people like that out there. If this makes your head spin, I can't imagine what the Epstein Files must be doing to you!
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by sdellis 8mo ago
For a lot of us, work is not our life. Turns out that most people really want a paid vacation. Smart Capitalists know that it's easier to extract value from workers with higher morale. If you would rather trade your paid vacation for a
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Based on the data sources and the methodology, it looks about as accurate as you could get. They link to their methodology and technical documentation from that site. Even if some resourceful young people you know can get by on less, in gen
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Looks like the Moltbook stunt really backfired. CyberInsider reports that OpenClaw is distributing tons of MacOS malware. This is not good publicity for them.
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by sdellis 8mo ago
We can see that the two-party democracy in the United States has been one of the primary power tools of the 1%. They buy politicians from both parties and then sit back and laugh on their yachts while everyone else goes red in the face, out
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by sdellis 8mo ago
So your argument to the valid narrative of gross unfairness and people being above the law is to look the other way because you are afraid of being called a "socialist"? Holding criminals accountable for bad and reckless behavior
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Anger also comes from many retirees whose retirement savings tanked. Everyday people lost a lot of money, many their homes, and no one bailed them out. It appears to many that those responsible were above the law. It's the same reason
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by sdellis 8mo ago
The key hurdle for AI to leap is establishing trust with users. No one trusts the big players (for good reason) and it is causing serious anxiety among the investors. It seems Claude acknowledges this and is looking to make trust a critical
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by sdellis 8mo ago
Except that government, at least in the U.S., is not doing their job. This administration doesn't want to regulate AI.
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by sdellis 9mo ago
This is an advertisement disguised as a "report".

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