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by vonjuice 3y ago
I recently watched a 90s show that, because of the context and the country it was made, they used music with no regard for licensing issues. Essentially, no one would have expected or foreseen that it could run into legal issues at any poin
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by vonjuice 3y ago
My pockets are absolutely overflowing with revenue big corpo would otherwise have gained, it's ruining my pants! Do you know where I could stash all this revenue big corpo would otherwise have gained? Or perhaps I could give it to you?
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by vonjuice 3y ago
No they don't?
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by vonjuice 3y ago
1. That IF is untested, it's hypothetical corporate propaganda. 2. That's a problem for them to solve, it's not a problem for me to solve by going like "alright Sony, I'll do you this solid and pay and inconvenien
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by vonjuice 3y ago
I'm wondering what would stop me from tapping it every 5 minutes.
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by vonjuice 3y ago
How many times has your car been damaged since then?
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by vonjuice 3y ago
The issues can be as varied as the individuals. I think one action is this, talking about it, raising awareness. To some it might be obvious that being glued to a tiny screen to the point that you need to constantly look at it while you&#x2
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by vonjuice 3y ago
How do you get to the underlying issues? An addiction is a layer of defense. It keeps you distracted from those underlying issues. If you remove part of it, you're not "fixing the problem and patting yourself on the back", yo
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by vonjuice 3y ago
If you think addiction is about chemical dependence you need to deepen and broaden your knowledge on the subject.
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by vonjuice 3y ago
Technological problems are environmental problems. The US army officially considers cyberspace to be a dimension https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Dimension_Operations If a factory is polluting the air, the water, if
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by vonjuice 3y ago
Who would win: billions of dollars invested into behavior manipulation algorithms using billions of terabytes of data gathered through constant surveillance vs just don't use it lol
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by vonjuice 3y ago
> Convenience matters - notebook and pencil method cuts down people benefiting from health tracking by a couple orders of magnitude. How?
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by vonjuice 3y ago
What assertion have I made?
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by vonjuice 3y ago
Surely if you're walking around a plane and looking at it physically while holding a laptop, you're moving around, not sitting still on a chair for 8 hours, so I don't see how it would benefit that particular case. You were t
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by vonjuice 3y ago
I'm not the one with the power to stop that evidence from being gathered.
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by vonjuice 3y ago
There's people participating in that economy benefiting from people in other countries being exploited in order for those participants to get cheap products.
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by vonjuice 3y ago
> And some people are more industrious and clever than others and therefore are better at meeting people's needs and being compensated for it. You could replace the words industrious and clever with manipulative and abusive, and whe
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by vonjuice 3y ago
Vietnam? Invading Iraq for oil? The multiple coups in Latin America to establish an authoritarian government? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
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by vonjuice 3y ago
What's GP?
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by vonjuice 3y ago
But why would you do that? Why would you go through the effort to move around? The problem with physical displays isn't that you can't move them around, it's that there's no reason to. It's like a chair, sitting for
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by vonjuice 3y ago
I do see a fair reasoning in not allowing the possibility for a lone mad man to start a big project without needing to like, check up with other people on whether what he's doing is right. In regards to fame, Adam Savage recently said:
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by vonjuice 3y ago
> Do you think your standard of living under such a system would be lower, the same, or higher than it is now? that would probably depend on whether you're being exploited by the current system Imagine looking at a group of slave ow
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by vonjuice 3y ago
> What happened? Um, the US?
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by vonjuice 3y ago
There is a sort of sleight of hand being performed here. Communism is being blamed for the consequences it has on its own country. Capitalism on the other hand, you can look at and say "look how well it works for this country", be
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by vonjuice 3y ago
> Ambition and envy are basic human traits. So are compassion and generosity. And contradiction. The role of systems in society should be to oil the pathways for the better parts of human nature to come forth, and make the other traits l
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by vonjuice 3y ago
Wouldn't it be the opposite? In a hypothetical country, if there's 1B dollars and no limit, one person could own the 1B and everyone else in the country be dirt poor. If there is a 1M limit, then one person could own 1M tops, and
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by vonjuice 3y ago
In an abstract context that all seems dandy. However when the power is held by people who would potentially face significant financial loss from either theoretical or empirical evidence, it shouldn't be a surprise that such evidence is
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by vonjuice 3y ago
I'm trying to parse if this is meant to be an argument against enforcing limits on wealth, and if so, point out the humor that we already reached the road of monitoring through having corporations have uncapped power. An argument could
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by vonjuice 3y ago
Just want to highlight that the way you phrased it, someone doing 99% harm and providing 1% value can be said to be providing value.
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by vonjuice 3y ago
I think that in this context what it means is that it's something fabricated and put on flat screens. Quite literally there's no depth to it. Dreams are another beast entirely, you're fabricating and perceiving the contents a

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