arrosenberg

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by arrosenberg 18d ago
A bunch of landlords all use the same software to tell them how to price rents. The software continually pushes prices higher and higher. The software requires landlords to use their pricing as a condition of use. Now you have a price-fixin
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by arrosenberg 19d ago
It really wasn't, but in either case your answer takes us back to the original point being made... > it [the US] is the biggest organizer of violence, arms dealing, murder, corruption and every single one of your leaders has been a
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by arrosenberg 19d ago
I guess you'll be as disingenuous as needed to avoid mentioning America's involvement in overthrowing the legitimate government of Iran in 1953.
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by arrosenberg 19d ago
And what lead to Iran exporting Islamic revolution? Possibly something involving Kermit Roosevelt Jr and the CIA?
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by arrosenberg 21d ago
The oligarchs are gutting the regulatory apparatus that stops this stuff from happening.
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by arrosenberg 22d ago
"If you think AGI is imminent" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. The rate of improvement has already leveled off significantly and there is little-to-no evidence that LLMs are close to or capable of achieving general intelligence
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by arrosenberg 22d ago
The cost of getting them there will be absurd and even if someone was willing to fund it, where do you put the heat they will generate?
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by arrosenberg 23d ago
Two businesses merge, now one bigger enterprise has two plants, which they consolidate into one. Maybe they outsource instead (or “globalize” if you prefer, though I’m not clear on your distinction). Now one or two towns that previously had
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by arrosenberg 23d ago
Libby very much exists, you just need to sign up through your local library.
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by arrosenberg 24d ago
That’s the proximate cause, but OP has correctly identified that finance capitalism, outsourcing industry, and corporate consolidation are the forces that have driven people out of small towns and into cities looking for economic opportunit
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by arrosenberg 1mo ago
I guess we will find out if it has stopped during the litigation of numerous lawsuits against your company for doing just that.
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by arrosenberg 1mo ago
Not the person you are responding to, but the fact that Grok is being used to generate a ton of CSAM and pornographic deepfakes isn't great!
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by arrosenberg 1mo ago
Taxing profits incentivizes reinvestment over reaping.
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by arrosenberg 2mo ago
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr... Since 1990 the top 1% of wealth holders have seen their share of the wealth increase significantly, almost entirely on the backs of the mid
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by arrosenberg 3mo ago
While Matt is technically correct, it's much easier to maintain a conspiracy like this when you have a small number of participants with a high concentration of share. If power is more diluted among a greater number of participants you
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by arrosenberg 3mo ago
The point of democracy is consent of the governed. We very much do know the dumb or smart answer as to whether or not to vaccine the military.
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by arrosenberg 3mo ago
Hadrian’s Firewall
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by arrosenberg 4mo ago
Campaign donations are already public if you donate over $200 - https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup
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by arrosenberg 5mo ago
For California, CAISO publishes a ton of data. Here is daily fuel mix - https://www.gridstatus.io/charts/fuel-mix?iso=caiso You can also see Texas (ERCOT), New York and a few other operators.
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by arrosenberg 7mo ago
The point is to bankrupt the country so the robber barons can buy up all the assets for pennies on the dollar.
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by arrosenberg 8mo ago
Every cell in your body (excepting red blood cells) has a complete copy of your genome. What differs is which portions are activated.
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by arrosenberg 8mo ago
Predatory pricing is illegal in the US, but difficult to prosecute under the existing laws.
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by arrosenberg 8mo ago
The fear is being heavily stoked by agitprop on social media.
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by arrosenberg 9mo ago
Lina Khan did try and regulate. She had some successes, but the major cases w/r/t concentration of power against Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta and Apple have all moved slowly and (so far) failed to result in break ups.
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by arrosenberg 9mo ago
Antitrust laws were written in the early 1900s and updated through the 1950s. Credit cards weren't available until 1966 and didn't become widely used until the 1990s. Digital platforms weren't a thing until the late 90s/
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by arrosenberg 10mo ago
If they know about malfeasance and don't stop it, they are complicit; if they don't know about it, they are grossly negligent. In either case, they should be held accountable for the crimes. Maybe in an ideal world it would not be
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by arrosenberg 10mo ago
That's exactly my point. It's not hard to figure out how to "put a corporation into prison", the issue is that we've been trained to accept corruption as a normal facet of corporate personhood.
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by arrosenberg 10mo ago
> This obviously has negative externalities, because while a corporation is easy to fine, it's hard to put in prison... but trying to approach it differently would be about as fun as modeling a CPU as a bunch of transistors. There&#
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by arrosenberg 11mo ago
> And if you are white and have an American accent you're going to be ignored entirely anyway. For now, until they move on to persecuting political adversaries.
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by arrosenberg 11mo ago
Kind of hard for the government to “prepare society to move forward” when the AI companies and their financiers lobby for conditions that worsen the ability of society to do so.

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