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by pingpongchef 2y ago
If i wanted to claim this article were propaganda, I would use this detail as evidence in favor
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by pingpongchef 3y ago
A significant number of videos are disabled from embedded play
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by pingpongchef 3y ago
Fees businesses charge will be a nonissue when businesses are unable to operate in California
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by pingpongchef 3y ago
Regulation increases the barrier to entry, making competition more difficult to start
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
Subscriptions are an overused pricing model. Businesses love subscriptions because they love recurring revenue. The desire for RR pushes businesses to pursue products the fit the revenue model rather than solving customer problems. Consumer
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
Influenced, but I've been considering it for about a year. As the parent poster mentioned, I too am finding very little of the Netflix content enjoyable. Ahead of my first viewing of He-Man I made some mental predictions of plot direct
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
Long-term there was always going to be a marketplace process for piracy. As the pain/expense of legitimately acquiring content exceeds the pain/expense of acquiring it via other means, consumers will make choices that suit them. W
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
Conjecture: their content and suggestions are garbage because they aren't allowing the data to drive their decisions independent of their ideological or public perception concerns. After He-Man released I ended my subscription, just sh
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
Those are still moves in the right direction. Requiring a cosigner for example brings in another party who can evaluate the situation and contribute to the decision to take out the loan vs. pursuing an alternative. Your point about putting
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
Bankruptcy should help with this but student loans are currently a special case
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
> the blockchains are too inefficient to host it directly. True, this needs to be addressed before I can get what I want. In the case of media it's got to be either on-chain or strongly coupled so that once published, an artifact re
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
I've been wondering about this as well. So far there does not appear to be an accepted route to fixing this in BTC, but there are proposals. I've heard (unreliably) that there are already transactions out there containing snippets
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
I'm most interested in the censorship or in more friendly terms, authenticity gains that blockchain can provide. In a world where works are being revised, "special edition"ed or straight removed from availability, I'm ea
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
Sounds great but we should be worried about the cobra effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
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by pingpongchef 5y ago
Stocks and bonds are still coupled to fiat currencies and will be directly impacted by their perceived deficiencies when compared to crypto. Hard assets like real estate, land, gold don't fit that bill, but each of their own tradeoffs.
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
Somewhat good advice, but with a caveat. While a good narrative is generally helpful, results still matter. Case in point, a team that ships quickly but also has crunch time can craft a story about heroic devs staying long hours to ship a p
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
I can think of a few reasons competition can be beneficial. 1. Exert downward pressure on union fees 2. Offer alternatives in the case of union corruption 3. Offer alternatives in union priorities/mission Also, I don't follow how
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
Skepticism is good, but not outright dismissal
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
Not making mistakes isn't productivity, that's the bare minimum of acceptable behavior.
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
Barring fraud, lavish expenditures that you describe would be counted as compensation not investment and thus the picture changes dramatically.
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
Thanks for presenting this. I suspected this might be a problem across administrations rather than Trump-specific.
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
Problem is that it's a subtle accusation of speaking in bad faith or an accusation of lacking agency. In order to have respect for the other person, you can't start from either of those positions.
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
> but have a warm safe place to sleep with a locked door and fridge seems reasonable. Yeah, that seems reasonable to me but we also know that there's a great deal of variation on all of the details there (warm, safe, locked door, re
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
> If you're not being paid enough to live on 40 hours a week, you're underpaid. This is perhaps a core disagreement, which is wroth digging into. I'm willing to engage with this idea but the disagreement area is critical h
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
I might be in the minority, but I don't read you as being a shill. It's a reasonable framing of the problem, i.e., not as a problem of production but of disposal. We already have markets, taxes and subsidies around the waste dispo
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
You can go down this road, but it looks like you're advocating for each party to simply do whatever he wants. In which case the viewing party will continue to value archiving.
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
It's easy to use words and not have to square them with existing ideas when you also feel free to redefine them to suit an agenda. That's what we see commonly now.
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
TiddlyWiki is ideal for a few scenarios I work on. 1. It's great as a notebook for organizing a creative endeavor like tabletop roleplaying. 2. Its tagging querying capabilities are robust. So robust that I've had success using it
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
The cases of backout that I saw were because they didn't like being on the same side of an issue with people they otherwise disagree with [1]. Nothing to do with the statement. [1]: https://twitter.com/JennyBoylan/
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by pingpongchef 6y ago
If white supremacists can believe contradictory ideas and still be white supremacists, then how are we to determine who is and isn't? By this logic there's no evidence you could give me to prove you're not a white supremacist

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