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by yterdy 3y ago
>The mindless appeal to "property rights" seems to absolve you of the responsibility to consider these complexities, I guess. My argument relies on acknowledging what you've said as the current, horribly dysfunctional real
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by yterdy 3y ago
I'm interested in how you might respond if asked to do so in something other than meaningless platitudes.
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>requiring an independent audit every time you want to do your books is just not practical. Maybe they should take those exorbitant profits and do them anyway. "That would put a ceiling on wealth accrual," you say? Good.
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by yterdy 3y ago
I think most people would find it chilling to discover how many things are "valued" principally by the owners or potentially compromised appraisers - and how often these values are accepted by banks and the government for material
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by yterdy 3y ago
The government's power is delegated by the people (and, in particular, people with influence, i.e., money). The power of corporations to direct government force is therefore inextricable from the power of corporations writ large, and t
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by yterdy 3y ago
They can use the cops against you. Ask Kim Dotcom (whatever else you think of him).
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by yterdy 3y ago
I didn't need education vouchers, I had a full ride off of my academic achievement. Money for effective therapy and stable housing, however... The point of currency is the fungibility. Everyone has different needs, that (I'm told)
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by yterdy 3y ago
It's not nitpicking, it's central to the issue. One could consider that, as far as Western civilization is concerned, colonialism was an exercise in "land creation" - and the various wars of the 20th century, temporarily
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by yterdy 3y ago
>Why would the US _government_ retaliate against the Swedish _government_ for a dispute between the Swedish unions and a company? If you want to go down a fun rabbit hole, look into conspiracy theories about how many things Tesla'
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Pressure to Move and Forced Moves Among U.S. Renter Households(huduser.gov)
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by yterdy 3y ago
Not of non-public figures, not this acerbically, not singled-out, on the front page of HN, with most of the comment section assuming that every word must be true without having ever met them. The Old Boys' Club is real and it would be
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by yterdy 3y ago
>But once you achieve market dominance, your priorities have to shift. It's no longer "why wouldn't you try this" or "let's do the right thing." It's "why would you rock the boat and risk the
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>Charlie's patio at Google, 2011. Image has been manipulated to remove individuals. I don't know if they are trying to make a point here, but this is screaming one.
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If some of the smartest people on the planet are willing to sell the rest of us out for Comfy Lifestyle Money (not even Influence State Politics Money), then we are well and truly Capital-F Fucked.
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HN is filled with temporarily-embarrassed billionaires (and actual billionaires) who would very much like to preserve the notion that big corporations can move with impunity and quash any threat to investment returns. Reality is not alignin
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by yterdy 3y ago
Because they're right. Maybe principles other than, "Get the richest," are important when we're talking about technology that can end the world or create literal hell on Earth (in the long term). One wishes someone had p
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by yterdy 3y ago
I've yet to hear what, exactly, underlies the sneering smugness over the notion that the board is going to get their asses handed to them. AFAICT, you have a non-profit with the power to do what they want, in this case, and "corpo
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by yterdy 3y ago
[Apple app dev smugness stops] People really jumped head-first into dystopia innit?
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by yterdy 3y ago
You misunderstand the nature of whiteness, if you think this is a problem. An uninterrogated aspiration to a Western state of being, atrocities and all, is tantamount to The Thing Itself.
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by yterdy 3y ago
Taking a moment to ask oneself, "Are we the baddies?" would be perhaps even more useful. inb4, "No, it's the bloggers who are wrong."
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by yterdy 3y ago
>The explanation of the community momentum starts from the business investment. Again, an emphatic, "No." Blender's massive improvements in the early-to-mid 2010s are what brought investment from outside sources, not th
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by yterdy 3y ago
I do not, but thank you for bringing it up. The free extensibility of the core software is related to its Python integration and a major part of Blender's current success. Some essential add-ons have even become part of that core softw
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by yterdy 3y ago
>Even though the 2003 Blender didn't have the optimal UI, what the commercial investment did for Blender was put enough value into software such that it had a headstart and momentum for subsequent investment from corporate donors&#
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by yterdy 3y ago
Does this include externalities?
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by yterdy 3y ago
I think that's a Pokemon.
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by yterdy 3y ago
That was literally over 20 years ago. The majority of Blender's development has taken place while it was open-source; most of the features it's known for did not exist in the commercial version.
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by yterdy 3y ago
This is an innocent misrepresentation of Blender's development history. While nothing you've said is false, Blender has been open source for more than 2 decades. It began that portion of its life as something of a mess, with a tru
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by yterdy 3y ago
Dovetales with two other writings I've seen posted here (on opposite ends of the spectrum): "The Privileged Have Entered Their Escape Pods" by Douglass Rushkoff [1] and "The Future Will Be Technical" by Zach Mandevi
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by yterdy 3y ago
>the emergence of a contemporary mode that publicly emphasizes everyday cultural practice (to accentuate ordinariness, authenticity, and cultural connection) A darker interpretation: elites signal their status by doing what the rest of u
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by yterdy 3y ago
Wrt "other sides" and the mechanics of engaging therewith: I have to accept that the person on the other side of the conversation feels that I'm an animal of lower fundamental intelligence and agency, deserving not of dignity

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