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by thecrash 2y ago
The difficulty is that owners don't just voluntarily hand out "fair shares" to workers who agree to play nice. The only reason workers get paid at all is because if they stopped getting paid, they would stop working. Once eno
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by thecrash 2y ago
That looks better from your position, but if your proposal was a better deal for port workers, they would probably be asking for it in negotiations. The port workers are negotiating based on what is best for their careers, not what would be
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by thecrash 2y ago
> I would rather be manipulated by private industry than controlled by government. I cannot out vote a majority, but I can out wit a billboard. Another way of saying this is that you would rather be controlled through methods which are s
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by thecrash 2y ago
> The extreme suspicion of commercially introduced anthropogenic agents seems a bit ridiculous in both natural ecology and the human microbiome. Prove this compound conclusively safe, but not these other ten million compounds we're
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by thecrash 2y ago
This view is unpopular because it is shallow and unserious. A vague call for people to "organize" and "make nations" as a solution to their problems hand-waves away the interesting and important practical problems which
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by thecrash 2y ago
Maybe rather than a big info explaining that there's nothing to see, it could be a big info explaining that "source IP address" is useless as evidence of a crime, because, as this server and many, many other proxy services de
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by thecrash 2y ago
By that logic why not also seize and do forensics on all the ISP's routers too then, just in case? After all, the ISP could be secretly in on the criminal plot, and how could you know without imaging every hard-drive in the data center
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by thecrash 2y ago
There's a difference between an investment and a grant. What ownership share, promise of future payment, board seats, or other rights to control Signal was assigned to the Open Technology Fund by receiving that grant?
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by thecrash 2y ago
It seems you're saying that since there's a choice on one level (phone architecture, Android vs. iOS), it doesn't matter if choice is denied on all other levels. Your reasoning seems to be that if anyone is unhappy with being
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by thecrash 2y ago
> when a traffic hogs asks to peer with you (as an ISP) that would certainly entail a higher level of network management or infrastructure. Why wouldn't the ISP refuse to peer with them, then? This is a genuine question, I don'
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by thecrash 2y ago
Parole judges are not accountable for their work in the same way surgeons or pilots are. If a judge makes a bad call on a parole hearing, a person stays in prison and it's effectively impossible to challenge the decision. Parole hearin
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by thecrash 2y ago
> there is no longer an incentive to create and popularize creative work It's reasonable to be worried about this scenario. If there was no incentive to produce creative work, our society would be much worse. But the notion that the
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by thecrash 2y ago
Drug war bad, but I'm not sure these drugs can be equated so simply. Caffeine has a mild euphoric effect but not nearly as much as meth. Both caffeine users and meth users are prone to hyper-focused behavior loops - e.g. super meticulo
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by thecrash 2y ago
> What is to stop the agency from just saying every request is "sensitive"? The courts. It's not that unusual to have to litigate a FOIA request and get a judge to decide that no, the agency's excuse does not exempt i
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by thecrash 2y ago
> friendly neighborhood cops There's a reason that you think the cops are friendly and other people don't. But the reason is not distorted media consumption. It's because the cops actually treat different people very diffe
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by thecrash 2y ago
It's because the SaaS offerings are free and good quality. Reddit, Slack, Medium, Etsy, etc are better experiences than self hosting for most use cases. This isn't permanent, though - these services are getting enshittified and th
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by thecrash 2y ago
You come across here like the manager who's tired of hearing his engineers tell him that a design target isn't possible. There are some problems that can be solved if everyone gets over themselves and applies a can-do problem-solv
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by thecrash 2y ago
When it gets down to it—talking trade balances here—once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out ... once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared t
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by thecrash 2y ago
> If the AI is cheap enough, everyone will be able to speak to a "representative" without waiting on hold or navigating a menu. Sometimes people want to "speak to a representative" because they're too lazy to nav
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by thecrash 2y ago
Yes, theoretically we could just stick with old software that was perfectly good at the time. The problem is that the ecosystem moves together - there's an emergent consensus about what is "current" (i.e. what's obligato
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by thecrash 3y ago
Because they are paid to, or rather because those who curate popular Spotify playlists are paid to. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
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by thecrash 3y ago
> as a fellow former rule-following middle schooler, you would be blown away by how few of us there are left If someone is surrounded by ubiquitous control systems designed to regiment their behavior, it can hardly be a surprise when the
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by thecrash 3y ago
You're reasoning about an economics thought experiment, not real situations. An exploitative industry in an underdeveloped region is not an idealized free market where individuals voluntarily choose based on enlightened self-interest b
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by thecrash 3y ago
It's a fun speculative fiction premise but assumes that everyone else's feelings and grievances are the result of AI manipulation while your own feelings and grievances are authentic[1]. [1] https://xkcd.com/610&#x2
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by thecrash 3y ago
It's a great question actually! Why would people who have tons of possessions and live in comfort not just spend all their time enjoying being happy, harmonious and fulfilled? Why is it that having possessions doesn't seem to fulf
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by thecrash 3y ago
I also thought the article had interesting information, and the brisk "I'm just being honest about how things are in the world" tone was initially fun but was darkened by the hints of callous bias that bled through: > Comp
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by thecrash 3y ago
> If you lost your job and couldn’t find another one, you’d land on a couch somewhere. Most of us would. Another way of saying this is that your safety net is the excess capacity of your social network. If your network is composed of peo
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by thecrash 3y ago
DRM isn't a relevant comparison because there the explicit intention is to prevent users from accessing data they've already been given. Everyone knows this is not possible in a strong sense, time-wasting through obfuscation is th
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by thecrash 3y ago
Why do the villagers keep complaining about the widespread bandit problem when they could simply improve their swordfighting or hire bodyguards?
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by thecrash 3y ago
Is your claim that this is currently happening? If so, why has nobody detected it? Since such code would have to be distributed to user devices, it would be detectable. Also, did you know that Signal is distributed through multiple channels

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