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Part of the deal everyone's living under is that we live under a system of rough supply and demand. Selling something for what people will pay for it is not a shell game, it's basic economics. The price for people who choose not to be stalked is the default price.

No. The "regular" price is whatever people not opting into stalking are paying. Capitalism is based around supply and demand, and people who don't want to be stalked are willing to pay more. That's not an upcharge. That's the default price.

No. By allowing the practice, people who are okay with being stalked get compensated for their value. People who don't consent to the transaction in question are not a party to it, and are not being taxed; they're paying the regular price.

Why shouldn't they? Are they not people?

Why should the fact that they haven't thought things through take away natural rights?

A fundamental principle of capitalism is that goods will sell for what they will be bought for. That's part of the deal.

Why should they give you a "deal" that they do at a loss or near-loss if you aren't willing to sacrifice the necessary currency for it?

Allowing people who don't care about their privacy to sell it seems like a fair transaction. Sabotaging capitalism & markets by not allowing consumers and producers to engage in barter seems inadvisable.

I personally care about my privacy, so I choose not to use overbearing services. I don't think that I should rob others of the ability to trade their privacy for better deals.

I don't even like Erlang. I'm just pointing out that removing the main incentive for being there for an employee without giving them something in return is naturally going to cause them to bail. You don't spit in a person's face and expect them to be happy about it.

How was orchestrating a coup that threw Chile into dictatorship against the democratically-elected and ever-popular Salvador Allende protecting democracy or freedom?

What's wrong about conducting psychological experiments on users? Everyone who signed up for Facebook agreed to the ToS.

"Yes, we are going to make your job six times less efficient and substantially more difficult, while simultaneously removing your main incentive for working here. No, you will not receive a raise or any other form of olive branch from us, management, in exchange for the fact that we have measurably reduced your quality of life. No, we are not negotiating this."

If any job I ever had did this, technical or otherwise, I'd leave too. Especially if you were going to rub salt in the wound and pick Go. It's akin to making someone mine coal with a rock instead of a machine.

The latter. Under your proposed ideal, he wouldn't be able to defend such a thing, as he was an individual.

So did Moxie leave because Signal got overtaken by Feds? Why is a secure messenger adopting the appearance of social media? Doesn't this work explicitly against the entire claimed reason for not having an account system?

I would love to hear tptacek's views on this.

In your proposed world, shouldn't we simply get rid of patents entirely?

The person who made the flash freezer, for example, was just one person. If he couldn't protect his patent, despite definitively changing the face of global food preparation, why should IBM have any intellectual property?

Libel isn't legal in the US.

> In since-deleted tweets, the account specifically accused Chasten Buttigieg and The Trevor Project organization of grooming.[40][32][94]

And outright misinformation isn't really an "ideological difference."

> The account has been criticized for spreading hoaxes, including the litter boxes in schools hoax about bathrooms accommodations for students that identified as cats, and a false claim that students in a second-grade class in Austin, Texas were being taught about furries.[12][95][94]

Outright lies are destructive to "public square"-style communication, and Twitter definitely can't be seen, legally, facilitating libel.

"Literally every Android app that doesn't directly require GPS" is quite a few native productivity applications.

It's open source. Have you contributed?

Why should you be offended that learning materials are improving, toolchains are getting easier, and net access is available to all now?

It's like complaining that automatics exist. You can still drive manual! You have that on people! But fundamentally it is a simpler field than it was then, due to the gigabytes of abstraction for every little thing you can do with a computer now.

That points toward an attribution error or a fundamental insecurity.

ASD and schizophrenia share something in common: Both feature NMDA receptors functioning differently than in neurotypicals, which is a plausible cause for why some people are able to tickle themselves.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3808979/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17097347/

People with either are less likely to experience illusions. SlateStarCodex had a decent article that touched on the phenomenon a few years ago:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/28/why-are-transgender-pe...

To do discovery to find the proper forms, and what they have to fill out in them, and to get their legal department to make sure they're doing it correctly, has significant costs.

You bought your card before Brexit. They're honoring the deal they made with you—not their fault they had the ground pulled out from under them with laws you consented to.

The methods you speak of cost more (in labor) for EVGA. EVGA honoring their pre-Brexit policy and not moving mountains is well within their rights.

It is your country's fault that Brexit happened, not EVGA's. EVGA did what they were supposed to—replace your GPU. You choose to stay in England, as an immigrant, meaning that while you may not like Brexit, you consent to the country's laws.

That sounds like it's more a problem with your country's ongoing deinternationalization than EVGA being bad. Would you expect a company to open a Russia-based repair center right now?

When a country is deliberately harming its international trade ability, it's not on companies for not playing ball—it's on the country not to pull the ground out from under its citizens and companies doing commerce there.

EVGA did nothing wrong. Your country changed the deal, EVGA chose to not humor it.

I hope Foone moves to a Twitter clone. People who act entitled to a person's content in the exact format they want it to be in are ruining blogs.

The Signal xbps package works fine, and Flatpaks are security hell.