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by wvenable 7d ago
I don't think so. Google's customers are phone OEMs and as long as they are happy, things will continue as is. The precedents here are Microsoft with Windows and maybe Apple with iOS. Anything Oracle doesn't have much relev
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by wvenable 7d ago
In reading the article, it did feel somewhat wrong in a way that I couldn't quite describe. But after reading this comment, maybe it just seems old and maybe obsolete. Taking the example provided in the article, I don't feel li
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by wvenable 10d ago
> Apply the same question to music, or drawing, and perhaps the answer to this will be easier to see. As much as I experience the appreciation of code as art, the vast majority of code is not art -- it is merely functional and entirely e
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by wvenable 15d ago
You get into vintage computer collecting and regret all things that you tossed...
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by wvenable 16d ago
I think because the Minecraft world is like a giant tub of Lego. You go out into the procedural world to collect your pieces and then you create from that. It's actually your creations that are interesting and without them Minecraft
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by wvenable 21d ago
> I wish IBM got better at product again... I'm not sure where that "again" comes from. IBM has never been good a product and everybody is looking at OS/2 through glasses so rose tinted that they're essentiall
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by wvenable 22d ago
The fact that it was the top comment only shows that people agreed or liked it, not that it was actually valuable, accurate, or useful. Popularity and value aren't the same thing, correlation is not causation, etc, etc...
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by wvenable 22d ago
Most observational studies do in fact account for the first thing a random HN poster can come up with 5 seconds after reading the title. So there is very little value in such a comment.
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by wvenable 22d ago
If the commenter read the study and found that they did not, in fact, account for that then it would be valid to point it out here. Otherwise, it's just a waste of our time.
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by wvenable 1mo ago
It looks like it did and you still posted anyway.
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by wvenable 1mo ago
I never stated I had a problem. The original poster seemed almost offended that McDonald's made a "large" profit. So my question is, what is the correct amount of profit that company should make? And, conversely, what happ
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by wvenable 1mo ago
Many early corporations were ordinary profit-seeking businesses. Manufacturing, in particular, were increasingly incorporated simply to conduct private enterprise, and states began passing general incorporation statutes for manufacturers q
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by wvenable 1mo ago
Such legislation? That's pretty hand-wavy.. what specifically are we asking for here?
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by wvenable 1mo ago
> There was more emphasis on values like: God-as-god. Country. Family. Courage. Integrity. By corporations?!? Because that is what we talking about. Frankly, if we go back far enough we get all the way to slavery and genocide so rose-ti
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by wvenable 1mo ago
Ok. Lets do it. Tell me how?
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by wvenable 1mo ago
Richard and Maurice McDonald had a small business that almost certainly wouldn't even be around today if they didn't sell to Ray Kroc. The McDonald's we know is a corporation. Corporatization is the process of turning gover
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by wvenable 1mo ago
Did they really have broader values or did they just not have the technical sophistication to optimize their operation to this level? Where "values" just a substitute for more limited information? I think computers have made the
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by wvenable 1mo ago
> How many companies with that kind of profit are actively dodging taxes from aggressive accounting, getting deals with local governments, or any other way? I don't think it's fair to imply that McDonald's is doing anythin
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by wvenable 1mo ago
Who say's they don't? How does this compare to what you do for a living?
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by wvenable 1mo ago
This is meaningless because it's entirely hypothetical. If McDonald's is only looking at quantitative data the "bad outcome" hasn't come for them. It seems quite successful in fact (especially in these tough econo
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by wvenable 1mo ago
The large multi-national corporation known as "McDonald's" should care about its family, friends, and personal fulfillment instead?
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by wvenable 1mo ago
Except that, adjusted for inflation, a Big Mac was cheaper at that time.
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by wvenable 1mo ago
They only changed this recently.
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by wvenable 1mo ago
These bad outcomes aren't coming. Maybe we as customers don't like it but it doesn't mean the companies are suffering for it. For example, McDonald's reported a full-year 2025 net income (profit) of $8.563 billion, an i
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by wvenable 1mo ago
That was my impression as well. The data collected is fairly innocuous. This is exactly the kind of data that every business collects and processes to one degree or another even without an app or loyalty program.
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by wvenable 2mo ago
I wonder if it's time to step it up a little bit. We have all the LLMs that are great at looking at code and processing it so perhaps the future of ad blocking is letting the LLM handle it. Has anyone thought about building something
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by wvenable 2mo ago
> Like I said - reports from users. How does that work? Are they generating the same project in different languages and comparing the results? What does it mean for the code to be "better"?
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by wvenable 2mo ago
As linked in the article, you could read the patent application: https://circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/noncastcom...
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by wvenable 2mo ago
Economic theory would work a lot better if humans weren't involved. It's almost impossible for a new company to join most of these markets; the major players are so large that they have influence over the retailers, the suppliers,
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by wvenable 2mo ago
I disagree that it is what people want. Nobody wants a smaller chocolate bar for the same amount of money, more cramped seats, washing machines that break and need constant replacement, etc. Massive corporate consolidation means that when

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