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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
How do you feel about bookstores stocking titles like "Steal This Book"? What about libraries?
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
That's a deal breaker for me. Who has the time to set up full crypto protocols when just noodling around?
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
The squatters really jack up the prices. Yet somehow they pay pennies to squat on domains for decades. It's really a scandal.
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
The Amiga was an awesome machine. And the OS was part of the reason it was able to deliver such good video.
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
Just to be clear, I was not enraged by this headline when I desperately clicked on it as fast as I could. It was out of pure scholarly interest.
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
That's really a different point. Most startups fail -- and it doesn't matter whether they're owned by the workers or some distant capitalist. And, yes, sometimes people are ripped off through dilution. But the reality is that
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
Do the workers at a startup own shares? That means the workers own part of the company. If they chose to raise more capital, that's their decision. Even the most socialist leaning coffee shop will raise capital to pay for capital impro
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
Odd that you're choosing sexist language like that. Are startups not owned by the people who work there? Cooperatives are more complicated legal structures, usually designed to unify a group of producers like farmers. The workers at co
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
I don't know where you get the idea that startups only give stock to 12 people. The main reason that Google went public is that they had given stock to close to 2000 people and the law requires certain things when the cap table gets th
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
You should move to Venezuela or Cuba. Then see how it's "failing".
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
You realize that the folks with these fortunes are the workers who built the companies, right? If there's one place that's "worked-owned" it's a startup. And the VCs who also ended up with stocks did quite a bit of
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
But what about the costs? There are several domains I want. They're just sitting there and no one is doing anything with them. But when I ask to buy them, they ask for outrageous prices (at least in my opinion.) If someone else bought
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
I wonder if it's possible to harvest the metal and recycle it?
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
Who can afford that much RAM? I'm going back to the days when 640k was all we could ever use.
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
This has got to help Space X's plans to put those data centers in space away from the NIMBYs. (Assuming the UFOs don't have NIMBY committees.)
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
Does the model only care about violence against "protected groups"? What about the people who aren't in those groups?
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
Oh, she'll be overjoyed to learn later that you don't own any SK Hynix stock. And then there's the fact that you shop in secondhand stores. (If she's still around after learning this, you may have a keeper.)
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
Can you go into more detail? You're clearly assigning costs to SpaceX that go beyond the invoice price.
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
The patent system is a pretty useful compromise here. The applicants are forced to disclose all knowledge required to practice the craft. They get a 20 year monopoly in return. I realize everyone always wants everything for free, but if you
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
Two tiny notches.
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by xhkkffbf 2mo ago
You realize that there's plenty of surveillance in the infrastructure that sends coupon codes to some patrons and collates loyalty points, right?
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by xhkkffbf 3mo ago
Exactly. And later the person just insists that even the best of rely on the care of others-- while omitting the fact that the "care" is really the labor of others. Yes, we must recognize that we're more than the sum total of
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by xhkkffbf 3mo ago
I agree that surveillance pricing sounds terrible and discriminatory. But people are also happy with coupons, codes, introductory pricing, employee discounts and many of the other schemes that do more or less the same thing. One guy who wor
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by xhkkffbf 3mo ago
The number of city kids really boomed between 1990 and 2010 or even 2020. But the pandemic really changed things.
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by xhkkffbf 3mo ago
I think the answer is that it depends upon who is talking and how the question is asked. Many recognize that it helps the US to import great talent. But people also recognize the downward pressure on wages and the sometimes explicit racism
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by xhkkffbf 3mo ago
Gosh it would be ironic if they were hiding the nuances behind the firewall in a way that makes it difficult for retail investors to read.
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by xhkkffbf 3mo ago
And there were plenty of movies made "the hard way" that tanked at the box office. "Crime 101", "Mercy", and "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" are three prominent star-driven, big-budget live-action
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by xhkkffbf 3mo ago
You do realize that the radio stations and everyone who worked at them used their radio "scene" as a way to make a living, right?
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by xhkkffbf 3mo ago
There are plenty of semi-wild and semi-domesticated chickens in the Caribbean and Florida. I still want to eat the rooster who woke me up from a great dream at 3am.
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by xhkkffbf 3mo ago
And this is another good time to remember Jim Steinman, the genius who brought us "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and many of Meatloaf's greatest hits. https://jimsteinman.com/charts.htm

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