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Bitcoin does solve a very specific problem very elegantly, it's just a lot more niche than boosters like to think

yeah i have same experience but not sure if its just me getting older. the youngest game i play regularly is still 5 years old

disgusting

None of this changes the facts of the comment you're responding to. Every business must extract surplus value from their employee's work to be profitable. Nobody said every business has to be miserable, or not mask this extraction in fluffy terms. Doesn't mean it isn't happening though

I go back and forth on this. I'm generally opposed, but I also think that if we have a death penalty it shouldn't be so bloodless. It should be a beheading that the governor of the state has to do themselves. We shouldn't be able to pretend we aren't doing something incredibly violent

Yeah slap some bioweapon creation references in there and we're really cooking

An approach for this might be to just attempt to trigger guardrails at all opportunities.

Make writing "regular" code involve racial slurs, societal taboos, talk about committing crimes and making bioweapons etc. I think this approach is more likely to work but man would it be hard to explain to people

This doesn't work anymore give it up man

So many words devoted to tone policing. so few words devoted to the actual issue being discussed

Really? go do it at work then

I think rationalist blogs are often useful for self improvement. It's like a lot of religious thought, if you take it too seriously you'll go insane but in small doses it makes you better

Do you think privacy has value?

I guess we're ruled by disabled people and our colleagues babies?

>but to summarize, this is going to do millions of dollars of economic and political damage, and contributes to social upheaval

millions of dollars of economic damage sure, it doesn't contribute to social upheaval. It's a one time pain in the ass, this seems pretty hysterical tbh

Weren't japanese cars basically better than american ones from the jump?

When nothing is stopping you from using an alternative i just don't see it

How do you defend a company with 30% marketshare being a monopoly but the other company with 70% market share isn't? I can see the duopoly argument, but no idea how apple could be a monopoly by itself

Not surprised they would hack systems, surprised they would spend their efforts on shit like this that doesn't have any real impact

So they mess with 5% of one chain's freezers? idk maybe i'm being naive seems so silly

Really though? this feels cartoonishly evil, like the kind of thing a children's cartoon villain would do. It doesn't have any meaningful impact

true. it's always self interested obviously

immediately thought of this article as well. really interesting. I could imagine someone using options/futures or other obscure financial instruments to make some money off this. hard to think of other motivations

I assume they're comparing them in terms of employment value not effort required

>And, no, this is not just because there's more Indian's immigrating.

yes it is right? am i mistaken here?

whats your point?

The takeaway for me is that reality and systems in general are incredibly complex, and often doing something has second or third order effects that are almost impossible to know about ahead of time

companies are stupid then, because it's obviously good for them. You're maybe thinking about how trademark lawyers pursue use of it but that's for tactical reasons not because it isn't great marketing

Invisible Women and the Culture series by Iain Banks (Use of Weapons currently). Both really good

This place is full of bootlickers what are you talking about? It's a corporate web site

you must not have a lot of immigrants in your circle if you have any doubt of this being true