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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by viridian on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:56AM (#40916877)
Unless you have a personal history with this user, you are making a lot of unfounded assumptions and sweeping generalizations about them.
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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by DidYaWipe on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @11:01AM (#40916921)
How? The guy told everyone straight-up that he wasted bandwidth for no reason.
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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by jampekka on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @11:25AM (#40917207)
It made others worse off, rising his relative status and competitive advantage. That's exactly how rational economic agents should behave.
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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by ted_dunning on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @11:57AM (#40917596)
Rational agents in the real world should realize that conspiring with others to make the world better gives them more benefits than being a greedy shit.

It is only in academic exercises where collaboration is made impossible that sociopathic behavior is optimal.

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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by jampekka on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @12:09PM (#40917740)
Maybe the economy should be structured for the real-world behavior then?
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Re:PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights by jstanley on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @12:29PM (#40917998)
It is.
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