yanderekko

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by yanderekko 1y ago
KF never topped the app store charts, nor had the widespread defense that Tea did.
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by yanderekko 2y ago
Citizens United did not overturn the general body of antitrust law...
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by yanderekko 2y ago
Why would they fear people who adblock leaving the platform?
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by yanderekko 2y ago
Deepfakes?
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Yep. Maybe there will be a net reduction in jobs but I can't help but feel like catastrophic 90% reductions involve "lump of labor"-type fallacies where we just imagine taking the given set of work being done and imagine how
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>How many Reddit users knew they were agreeing in the future for Reddit to sell the content they wrote to make money for Reddit, not them? Despite my low opinion of Redditors, I believe that on some level they are aware of the principle
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Are you seriously attributing public sector bureaucratic dysfunction to some sort of subversive public sector conservative operatives, or vague regulatory poison pills that you cannot actually point to here? It seems a lot more intuitive to
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>If "AI ethics" means being run by so-called rationalists and Effective Altruists then it has nothing to do with ethics or doing anything for the benefit of all humanity. Many would disagree. If you want a for-profit AI enterpr
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by yanderekko 3y ago
The reddit moderators who cashed out were not the ones who were shutting down the service. They simply had insider information that allowed them to move first with this information. This was not a rugpull scenario.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Demand for an asset fell so its price dropped. Nothing scammy about this.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Do you seriously think that Andreesen would advocate for technological progress regardless of an arbitrarily high cost to human welfare?
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Andreessen’s newly espoused ideology did not spring up in a vacuum. Instead, it’s part of a broader movement that seeks to take all the guardrails off of technological development and push forward with “progress,” whatever the cost may
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by yanderekko 3y ago
A growing number of Americans consider sclerosis to be a virtue, as long as it can be seen as a natural result of extreme safetyism.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>If I earned profits from a VC fund in San Francisco what are the chances of me paying only UK tax on that? You can also tax the fund directly and the corporations they invested in. You can tax the transfers of wealth between those entit
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by yanderekko 3y ago
It will bring them back to have their wealth arbitrarily expropriated? Yeah I doubt it. Never mind that it's unclear what it means to "deny them access to the US market" when these people are acting via working for / own
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by yanderekko 3y ago
As a response they move their wealth overseas and renounce their citizenship if necessary. What strategy from the banana republic playbook would you like to see the State employ next?
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by yanderekko 3y ago
The notion that "talking to a poor person" would somehow illuminate any of the issues that the author is talking about is laughable. Folk economic beliefs are notoriously terrible. Shedding crocodile tears about how poverty will s
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by yanderekko 3y ago
I mean, if that were truly the case we'd see companies hovering around RTO numbers that just barely guaranteed these benefits - so far I haven't seen any stories to this effect, so it seems sorta hand-wavey to me?
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by yanderekko 3y ago
I mean, yes it's bullshit to try to apply RTO policies on remote workers that were hired as remote workers. It's not even a "return" in that scenario, properly understood. And IANAL but I wonder if that could be consider
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Yeah, when the primary complaint about Twitter is "other people are using it to say things I dislike", then that seems like a pretty.. motivated critique of the platform.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>At what point can we finally admit there is a coordinated war on against freedom of expression online? Just call it a war of hate speech or "disinformation" instead and plenty of people will admit it.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>I don't think most powermods really revolted Well, at least a substantial minority did. >I am very worried about the "hobbyist mods". And yea, they weren't talked about for the same reason you don't talk abou
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>Yet Reddit removed both moderators from their positions this summer because the mods refused to end r/canning's protest against Reddit and its new API fees; the protest had made the entire subreddit "read only." Now,
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Honestly I find this claim laughable and in my view represents a weak grasp at confirmation bias from the API doomsayers. Still remember seeing discussions here a few months ago where people predicted that the API changes would lead to Redd
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes Edgy, not criminal. In the posts you link, you can see Null obviously wants to allow basically anything but is still responsive to legal considerations. Maybe he's rig
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Yes, well, that's the beautiful thing about common law - we still have a pretty clear understanding of what constitutes free speech, and it's largely invariant to whether the means of communication is through the internet or a med
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by yanderekko 3y ago
I'd say KiwiFarms is about as "dedicated to torture" as say the tabloid industry (producers and consumers) is. Seems like a real stretch of language, really.
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by yanderekko 3y ago
>You host death threats and leaked PII These death threats are not true threats and hosting PII is not illegal. Nor is encouraging "harassment" because what's encouraged is not actual criminal harassment. Every victim of a
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by yanderekko 3y ago
Well, right now there's a odd vogue to think that a healthy democracy does things like ban political parties (currently an active debate regarding the AfD in Germany), or embrace indigenous apartheid movements (NZ, Australia), or to ce
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by yanderekko 3y ago
The "good tribe" will always characterize the dissenters of the "bad tribe" in this way.

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