someluccc

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by someluccc 4mo ago
The monstrous tech bros destroying humanity by bringing about electric cars, intelligent machines, mapping the world, bringing information to anyone anywhere. I on the other hand, Maximus Virtus, am a net gain to humanity when I hack into t
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by someluccc 2y ago
It sells for $100k. Bet all $100k cars move volume
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by someluccc 2y ago
“As someone familiar with the aviation industry” you should know people “skiplagging” won’t check bags, which destroys your whole argument since that’s where all the inefficiencies lie. Now you just have a no-show at the gate (P>50% ? so
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by someluccc 2y ago
Because a lot of those business are only possible through monumental amounts of work and/or investment and selling is way easier than being an owner-operator for years under very probable risk of failure?
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by someluccc 2y ago
You can literally use Chrome, Workspace, Drive, Android and Maps without seeing a single ad, without an ad blocker, without EVER using google search, for free.
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by someluccc 2y ago
#1. Would I have used the computer at the same time/place/duration? Then yes it is free. It literally cost me nothing. #2. You can pay? Also is the argument somehow that the free thing isn’t free because the ad in it makes the UX
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by someluccc 2y ago
It’s fucked that people start companies because they have the safety net of possibly being acquired even if the business doesn’t work out?
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by someluccc 2y ago
So you’re telling me the evil monopolist that charges nothing has a competitor, and that competitor is free? Which is why we must break up the evil monopolist?
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by someluccc 2y ago
So in this transaction you’re exchanging something that is individually worthless for something that is individually valuable. Which is a bad thing and should stop. Right now! Ps: it’s also not like you’re paying so little that you could sa
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by someluccc 2y ago
If I build a movie theater and give away the tickets knowing that I can make money on ads before a movie that does not mean that 5 minutes of your eyesight is now worth something
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by someluccc 2y ago
Your data is worthless. Please do tell me how much you could sell your “data” for right now.
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by someluccc 2y ago
Like I said in my comment. All of those things are things you can PAY FOR, today! To multi-trillion dollar corporations! The time you can go back to giving away your money for things google gives away for free is… now! Excellent criticism t
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by someluccc 2y ago
A) Do you pay them? - No: then yes it is free “But my data” Have your ever sold your data? Would the value you could ever possibly receive for your data ever equate to the value you get from the free services? Likely No and No. Is the fre
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by someluccc 2y ago
Please do tell us how Google is a burden to the whole country. Is it the free maps? free mobile OS? free email? free cloud storage? free video service? free office suite? free desktop OS? free AI chat?
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by someluccc 2y ago
Yes I can see the dystopian consequences of google’s search monopoly profits, which they have used to do such horrible things as: - Providing a free alternative to Microsoft’s monopolized office suite and desktop OS - Provide a free alterna
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by someluccc 2y ago
This illustrates why breaking up google is a good idea given their egregious charges (free) for things people used to/still spend money on, such as: - An office software suite - Global maps and GPS, City Guides - Video entertainment -
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by someluccc 2y ago
If only housing could be more expensive
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by someluccc 2y ago
A hack that has worked for me is having another person set up the code for screen time settings, in a way that there is just enough friction for the often unconscious reflex to open XYZ app and proceed to get sucked in. In my case I both se
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by someluccc 4y ago
To me the best argument for UBI is that it would obliterate a bunch of economic disincentives that are dragging down on societal progress. To be clear I’m working from two assumptions: 1) I have no issue with people being completely depende
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by someluccc 4y ago
Financial Times is #1 by far. WSJ is a good second option. Perhaps subscribe with a virtual card you can cancel?
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by someluccc 4y ago
A prisoner costs the same in funding ($150k/year) as 10 school children ($15k/year). The two million inmates in america cost the same as educating 20 million kids -or increasing funding foe x number of kids who need it most-. Furt
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by someluccc 4y ago
Prisoners also cost a ridiculous amount of public funds -I’ve seen numbers in the $100k-$150k/year range-. Prison work contributes to sentence reduction and contributes to their cost of imprisonment.
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by someluccc 5y ago
This is such a disingenuous article. It’s not about facebook at all. It’s about a company with which it and ALL other tech giants contract content moderation work. It critiques working conditions without providing any context as to how thes
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by someluccc 5y ago
Well but that TV requires power lines to operate, and fiber to get its content. Insofar as the neighborhood (or whoever) paid for those, they deserve a cut too.
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by someluccc 6y ago
The premise of this article is that Total Population = Total National Power, or that raw numbers are somewhat of a proxy for strength and prosperity. It also implies that by necessity a growing old/young ratio will saddle a country by
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by someluccc 6y ago
But isn’t this how OSs have been historically sold? You bought Windows XP and were entitled to a set number of years of support in terms of security parches, etc. Similarly if you don’t like the terms of the App Store you could have the opt
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by someluccc 6y ago
I think as lawsuits keep coming, a possible alternative for Apple is to tie the app store to the free update cycle of iOS, essentially making iOS a SaaS product. Consumers and developers will be free to choose if the cost of iOS evens out w
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by someluccc 6y ago
In a way this is brilliant from ByteDance. Sell for the most money to a company that will never grow or operate tiktok in a way that can threaten you outside the US.
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by someluccc 6y ago
As a way out of this Apple should create an alternative for people to run alternative app stores, but disable iOS updates and Apple services on those products and offer them at a cost. People discount the fact that apple provides free softw
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by someluccc 6y ago
Direct mail is to FB ads what chariots are to a Ferrari. You can pay facebook to target any of 1.7 Billion people with 0 research on your end. You can automate a campaign for reach/effectiveness. Your budget can be whatever you want i

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