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by zanny 6y ago
> Do individuals retain any agency and responsibility for balancing risk on their own? When their means to provide survival for themselves is not in their own hands, no. They have no agency. If you are getting evicted this month for non-
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by zanny 6y ago
> people are being asked to choose between their life and their livelihood This is practically the swan song of human history. Society was built on a lose-lose situation for most peasants to either participate and be exploited to death o
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by zanny 6y ago
The thing is that your average city council voting LA resident doesn't want to use trains. They were sold on a "vision" of lifestyle where they have a personal plot, personal vehicle for themselves, and use that everywhere. T
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by zanny 6y ago
And the platforms that do support OIDC properly just require a login portal URL to integrate support for it. Want to add Microsoft logins with an oidc library? One url. Want to add Twitter / Facebook signin? Go get an OAuth library and
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by zanny 6y ago
While we keep pipe dreaming about full AI or home automation the number of people required to extract a ton of lumber, iron, oil, etc has dropped an order of magnitude in the span of decades. Likewise the number of people required to partic
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by zanny 6y ago
> The next generations' youth will make arguments about the 'inhumanity' of such and such. They may have a point, but we will be the 'old timers' thinking they are mostly ridiculous and actually voting. For one,
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by zanny 6y ago
In modern globalized economics the only things that really inflate uncontrollably are things those supply is constrained by forces beyond production scalability. IE patents, copyrights, or things of extremely finite supply like land. TVs ke
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by zanny 6y ago
> still need nearly everybody of working age to work Within my entire known family tree maybe 1 in 8 people work jobs essential to the creation of goods (including food, power, water), the construction or maintenance of shelter, or the p
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by zanny 7y ago
Its 2020 and we still have farmers destroying crops rather than having some sensible state backed cost floor price guarantee to just buy excess and distribute it freely. You can definitely guard against exploitation by doing the math on wha
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by zanny 7y ago
The TSA has been proven many times over to be totally ineffectual security theater - theres this popular report from a few years back that the TSA has a 95% failure rate when their measures are tested[1]. It doesn't go anywhere because
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by zanny 7y ago
> It is quite likely that U.S. will nationalize health care as a response to this crisis. If you think half the country infected with a virus and a million deaths is enough to topple a several hundred billion dollar insurance racket that
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by zanny 7y ago
> has significantly worse problems of obesity and drug overdoses Which can easily be caused by a destructive and broken healthcare system leaving the ill unable to seek treatment and thus left to fend for themselves. Even for those with
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by zanny 7y ago
The only major conservative / anti-progressive argument on this topic I'd give credence to is that corporate power and influence and the resulting abuse of workers is a necessary evil to compete globally. That if you made your nat
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by zanny 7y ago
Its in the same camp as fanart - as long as you don't fall under the ire of the original IP owner you are generally ignored. Nintendo, in contrast, is pretty infamous for claiming monetization on Youtube lets plays of their games and g
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by zanny 7y ago
Clementine the music player is my go-to example of this phenomenon. Its got 750 commits in since its last release in 2016, there is regular merging, but the project management is in a place where trying to deploy builds to every platform is
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by zanny 7y ago
I highly doubt that Twitter approaches the Matrix Foundation with a "we have demands, you kneel to our will for our blessing / funding" and gets anything less than resounding applause. The developers behind Matrix are current
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by zanny 7y ago
Email is only federated and thus interoperable between operators because to not federate would be to not have email. Many, many private money grabs were made trying to establish a proprietary replacement to web standards, including ActiveX,
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by zanny 7y ago
You could also just have actual public transit in cities so that car ownership isn't mandatory for all residents. NYC is pretty much the only metro area in the US that fits this criteria, and thats entirely because it was the only city
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by zanny 7y ago
The tax code is totally corporate dictated and to their interests - the huge bias against self employment is evident of that, whereas in a more competent economy policymakers would acknowledge the strong growth potential of incentivizing sm
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by zanny 7y ago
There are a lot more broken cost structures - housing, which has similar potential losses to incarceration with the stress of rent driving drug use and homelessness costing a ton and taking potentially productive people out of the economy.
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by zanny 7y ago
It has been over a decade since any console hardware product has been sold at a loss. That stopped with the Xbox 360 and PS3. Every Wii, Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, etc have all been sold at marginal profit.
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by zanny 7y ago
Why would you make an open platform with custom hardware when you can make a proprietary locked down one that you can use as an app store % cut mill like what Nintendo does? They take the air out of the industry with how much money they mak
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by zanny 7y ago
There isn't an appropriate analogy for IP based DRM because the real world doesn't behave like intellectual property. I was trying to come up with some convoluted analogy about making art on a gold plated easel that self destructs
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by zanny 7y ago
To play devils advocate, you can sell games without building perfectly viable general purpose compute hardware and then locking it down with DRM to make it useless as such. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are not developing game consoles out
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by zanny 7y ago
But wait, we'd get millions sending their hopes and prayers and everyone in power coming on broadcast news TV to talk about how awful the Chinese genocide is. I can tell because that's how it already went down with the Tibetans an
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by zanny 7y ago
By some definitions I would consider subsistence farming a much more meaningful job than what tens of millions of Americans are doing now - middle management, financial advisory, advertising, bureaucracy (medical, managerial, political, reg
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by zanny 7y ago
The risk is that WMF decides, as the article presents, to sell off rather than downsize if donation revenue drops. Wikipedia itself can be sustained on 1% of the donation revenue the foundation is getting each year, so the only threat to Wi
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by zanny 7y ago
Wikipedia cannot "sell" their product, that's antithetical to it's purpose and mission. Doctors without Borders is not a failure because they rely on donations for disaster relief rather then profiting from it.
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by zanny 7y ago
The irony of this thinking is that if you do the whole "teams must be gender balanced" routine early on where you are getting the 5-1 or worse ratio of men to women applying for a software position you can often be the one passing
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by zanny 7y ago
> most companies, who are expending great effort on balancing the gender ratio while treating men of color as second-class URMs At least in the US actually admitting to having gender biased hiring would have to violate a half dozen anti-

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