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by tmcb 1y ago
> I am directly threatened by their program. […] Could the left imagine being a little more democratic and making a few more concessions towards… omg, white males? I am not from the US, I am originally from Latin America. I am considere
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Quartz-Astron, the first quartz watch(theseikoguy.com)
2 points by tmcb 2y ago|0 comments
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by tmcb 2y ago
Private companies' adoption of affirmative actions is not enforced by law in most countries, I would say. In the U.S., only government contractors have this obligation---since 1965 by the way, so it is not a new thing. So, companies m
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by tmcb 2y ago
You mean cheap for the user, right? In that case, I beg to differ, it is not cheap. When we are talking about highly addictive platforms, this is a zero-sum game (in which every second spent benefits the platform and only the platform in d
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by tmcb 2y ago
Varoufakis' point is not about the size of those entities, but rather the nature of economical relationships inside these realms. Of course the analogy will break at some point. Every single analogy will. We should also ask which kind
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by tmcb 2y ago
It looks like the "you" in your analogy is different from the "you" in mine.
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by tmcb 2y ago
Not OP, but > But there's a detail here that its hard to answer, or at least for some platforms. Given the complexity of some of these algorithms, do the techno lords have that sort of control of deliberate control, or it's jus
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by tmcb 2y ago
That is not how I interpreted GP's point. It sounded to me as if they were saying that anyone in tech could move to other industries and make big bucks if the points in the interview were true. Thing is, even if the points in the inte
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by tmcb 2y ago
Now I get it, my bad. Yes, his discourse is very political, but he does not come off as a demagogue to me. I personally think that there should be a room in the public discourse for people to come up with unrealistic policies, as realistic
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by tmcb 2y ago
There are ethical and unethical ways to maintain engagement.
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by tmcb 2y ago
Anti-government spending apologists keep saying that politicians should run their budget like households... (Also, I'm not saying you're one of them the way, but you happen to sound like one.) ... Negotiating debt settlements is t
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by tmcb 2y ago
> You can only do that if you have cornered the market. How does capitalism address the fact that so many companies have cornered their markets not on merit but on resource access inequality, and have now accumulated enough resources to
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by tmcb 2y ago
What does it have to do with devs? Those are business models devised by business people, some of them devs, some of them not. The article mentions enshittification. BMW is offering heated seats on a monthly subscription [1]. If an averag
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by tmcb 2y ago
> Mr Vanufakis believe that countries have the right to ask for money, spend it and never give it back, with no consequences. This is actually the opposite of what happened. The Greek government, which was already virtually bankrupt in
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by tmcb 2y ago
Sorry, I am not sure if this is sarcasm :)
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by tmcb 2y ago
> By simple analogy, which self-imposed costs were paid by feudal lords? Mantaining lords and knights, letting go of a parcel of their land so that they could accommodate enough serfs and their families (as in comparison to, say, slave q
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by tmcb 2y ago
You seem confused. It is not your fault, commenters here are focusing too much on the X/Twitter quote from the article, which by the way comes from its introduction and not from the interview proper. The crux of the matter is not the
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by tmcb 2y ago
Science has very solid evidence on social networks being extremely addictive, and there are growing suspicions that some companies have it like this by design. It might be a choice, yes, but this is not a black-and-white situation.
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Digital Georgism(bothfleshandmore.com)
7 points by tmcb 2y ago|0 comments
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by tmcb 2y ago
This is interesting because many Georgists would say that commercial arrangements like malls only exist because land wealth is a leftover from Feudalist societies.
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by tmcb 2y ago
This is the modern equivalent of "if you don't like living in society, go build a cabin in the woods".
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by tmcb 2y ago
Medieval serfs could be rewarded with food housing at no monetary cost as well, but it didn't make the system any less unjust. Also, having the company pay for infrastructure costs does not necessarily imply that users are getting the
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by tmcb 3y ago
For some unknown reason, HN trims the URL, removing the `.md` extension. Here's the formatted version: https://write.as/5f5nw9ad1njduk71.md
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In a Post-Truth World, Artificial Agency Poses Greater Threats Than AI Alone(write.as)
1 points by tmcb 3y ago|2 comments
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[wrong link submitted; ignore](write.as)
1 points by tmcb 3y ago|0 comments
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by tmcb 3y ago
I don't get it. Reddit's OP shared a screenshot along with an automatic translation that says "independent research and development". This is not an authorship claim by any means.
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by tmcb 3y ago
This is an opinion piece, not much different from the strip section with regards to journalism standards. And I mean that as a good thing.
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by tmcb 3y ago
I wouldn't consider it prophetic, although it was a reasonable prediction of what could occur after a global war is fought where the main actors are totalitarian regimes and imperialists. It could have been applied within the context o
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by tmcb 3y ago
had a similar thought the other day, but I couldn't put it into words. It crossed my mind that the word "idiot" in Ancient Greek meant to describe someone who was not involved in public affairs in a derogatory way. It must ha
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by tmcb 3y ago
You are probably looking for help at the wrong website---anyway, just let me know if that helps. suspense_cleanup () { echo "Suspense clean up..." exit 0 } int_cleanup () { echo "Int clean up...&

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