ProofByAccident

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by ProofByAccident 5y ago
>If you, a consumer, are making the decision then it's not censorship. If some company, government, organization, school, etc is making the decision then it is censorship. That seems too strong, what about curation or editorial disc
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by ProofByAccident 5y ago
Does Perl have mature equivalents for pandas and sklearn (setting aside what everyone else is saying about numpy)? The python ecosystem has a bunch of killer apps that make the workaday tasks of data science extremely ergonomic. R is simila
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
Like I don't know how you can read something like this and just say "well have you tried selling on Bandcamp?" ''' Live Nation’s consolidation of the industry was rapid and aggressive, spending around $1 billio
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
>Price fixing? You can buy music directly from artists for any price you want. I think you're missing my point. The opportunity to market direct to consumer does not negate the massive wage-setting power of a cartel which can buy up
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
>Actually, now that we're digital, the economies of scale of music are similar to software, in that they are massive Is this the case? It seems that there's the fundamental limitation of 10 musicians not being able to record a
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
> Only for those who sign with them. I think generally the point of cartelization is to make it very challenging NOT to sign with them. Clearly many independent labels can thrive, and I can't imagine that it's impossible for an
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
Your example is a little specious in that a bookcase is very different from a song. The production of one has huge economies of scale, whereas a song doesn't. I agree that producing things competitively is important to improve overall
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
> has more inefficiencies in the form of middle man that don't contribute much in value production but still takes a large cut. Not to go laser-eyes Marx, but this is definitely not unique to the music industry either
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
Not really, I think roads are a convenient example but the same dynamic described (cities getting out over their skis through cheap-in-the-short term development and debt) can be seen playing out for other types of expenses. The next highes
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
I don't see how my association with or without a particular voluntary organization of legitimate businessmen is relevant to this discussion >_> More seriously I just mean that having a good manager or boss can change on a dime, p
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
I have two responses to this. 1. > These are the few people in the world that would get hundreds of job offers in seconds. AWU is wall-to-wall, so not only are the cushy FTEs represented, but also all the less cushy contract workers, par
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
Fair enough, and it's great that you're in a position to walk to if you don't like your employment situation. With that said, workplace bullshit can sneak up on you, and looking for a job can be pretty time-consuming. IMO a g
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
I can basically guarantee that you will have both an easier time and a more rewarding outcome getting involved in a members union of like 250 people than with a state or federal government in the US
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
Why not join now and help steer the union away from that future?
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
So many in this thread talking about a contract, rigidity, voting, etc. This is not a card-signing campaign, nobody will be voting on a CBA. AWU is running a minority unionism campaign which means that it's closer to a lobbying group o
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
FYI: AWU is a no-contract (minority/solidarity/members) union. Their strategy for the foreseeable future will be pursuing precisely what you are describing here (organizing workers for walk-outs, without locking in a CBA).
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
This is a cool example, and now that you mention it docker as well seems to provide similar functionality. I guess what's striking about WSL1 then (and maybe what the author was saying) is that it's a mix between a docker containe
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
I see, that makes sense! This is a really interesting design and seeing it this way gives me more respect for the Windows operating system generally. Is this subsystem concept something that has a parallel on the *nix/BSD side of the f
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
Sweet, thanks!
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by ProofByAccident 6y ago
I'm extremely ignorant about OS design, but based on this it sounds like WSL1 could be fairly described as basically Linux for the Windows kernel, whereas WSL2 is more like a really fancy VM. Is that the gist of it?
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by ProofByAccident 7y ago
These comments are wild and the headline is not great. I know this is a contentious issue and that people like to armchair philosophize about stuff like this, but I think the study conclusions warrant a lot of critical attention before you