philipallstar

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by philipallstar 3d ago
It's taken Javascript ten years or more to get to the point Flash was at, and the tooling is still nowhere near as good. Open standard is not the only thing that makes the web happier, and it's not even the main thing. Playing Fla
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by philipallstar 4d ago
> why exactly Hyacinth Bucket has entered the chat.
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by philipallstar 4d ago
It is more surprising than that: it's because the humans in the loop like it.
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by philipallstar 5d ago
> Unfortunately this naive view breaks down as soon as lobbying is introduced, since it is a direct channel for private companies to influence governments. The naive view is to think that lobbying is automatically bad. Policymakers can c
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by philipallstar 6d ago
> So far behind culturally. That's the most positive thing you could say about them. Cultural fashions are like any fashion: just based on "latest", and thus adhered to by even the smoothest of brains. Having said that, al
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by philipallstar 6d ago
> i'm kinda hating how privacy is becoming a boogeyman to oppose literally anything It isn't.
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by philipallstar 6d ago
You'd be much more brain dead to care about Airpods becoming waste once every few years than the far more plastic being chucked in a single 500ml bottle of Coke.
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by philipallstar 6d ago
It's from longer ago than that. There was a West Wing "big block of cheese" episode that made it out to be a white supremacy issue, when the map is really just a useful map for navigation.
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by philipallstar 6d ago
Governments have power, not private companies. Private companies can influence the powerful, of course (as can you or I) but you're complaining about second order or third order power without caring about first order power.
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by philipallstar 7d ago
> if you could somehow guarantee that your book would sell enough copies in that two-year window to make a million dollars profit This is madness. > With much shorter copyright terms, I guess only sequels of already-popular works woul
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by philipallstar 7d ago
> We're excited to tell you that your pedestrian kids are involuntarily participating in this innovative experiment How dare you call my kids pedestrian. They're better than that.
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by philipallstar 7d ago
> "value creation for one's customers" - that is a "not even wrong" level of misunderstanding of the system dynamics of capitalism. The primary driver is generation of _profit_ for owners of the means of producti
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by philipallstar 7d ago
> The people worrying about AI risk are worrying about "it goes wrong once and kills billions of people". This is the new "nuclear weapons will ignite the atmosphere".
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by philipallstar 7d ago
> Capitalism cannot do otherwise. I really think this sort of claim needs to stop. Capitalism, like "patriarchy" is not a force in its own right. Capitalism is a system that encourages value creation for one's customers. T
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by philipallstar 7d ago
Who's going to pay you to work for five years for a book that has a two-year commercial window, and even for that many people won't buy it until another company that just does printing sells it for half price two years from the fi
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by philipallstar 7d ago
You should see all the misallocation that was put towards valve-based computing. Why didn't they just all arrive at the correct answer without investing in discovery first?
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by philipallstar 7d ago
Well, it's different "man" as well - lowering the barrier to entry means people with less skill but with a machine, and maybe the gift of the gab, can commercially surpass the previous people, whether or not they have a machi
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by philipallstar 7d ago
You want people with a lot to lose in a nuclear war to have nuclear weapons, and to make sure no-one else does.
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by philipallstar 7d ago
> If copyright lasted two years instead, all the problems with it would be much less severe. If you spend five years writing a book and then get to sell it for two years, and everyone will just think "I'll get it in two years&q
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by philipallstar 7d ago
> It doesn't make sense to extend drug patent lengths though because often enough, after the release of a compound, it takes just a few years for a new and updated version of it to be researched. I think this is an inversion of caus
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by philipallstar 8d ago
It benefits all sorts of types of people.
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by philipallstar 8d ago
"It's not neat and tidy so it must be genocide" - not sure that's quite right.
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by philipallstar 8d ago
Words cannot hurt you.
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by philipallstar 8d ago
I don't think the EU has the capability to work fast and just is opting not to.
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by philipallstar 8d ago
True - fair enough. Perhaps a little uncharitable. I would still currently say that the Mistral AI is more like a worse cellphone in every sense that has the right supplier agreements, but perhaps there are subtleties I'm missing.
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by philipallstar 8d ago
> The state paying for things is Capitalism, and the state paying for this isn't Capitalism, in the same comment. I see what you mean. In the first example: the context is we're talking about workers vs capitalists. The state i
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by philipallstar 8d ago
They aren't following the same strategy. Apple does race for the frontier in their main field: beautiful, well-integrated hardware and software. Mistral does not race for the frontier in their main field: AI creation. They're grab
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by philipallstar 9d ago
Yes - true. I keep forgetting he passed away.
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by philipallstar 9d ago
It shows the ratings that are provided by food standards inspectors.
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by philipallstar 9d ago
The GOP isn't a bunch of independent cells. It's a single organisation with a strong hierarchy. Like the Democrats. Or most Western political parties.

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