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New comment by skidd0 in "Ask HN: User communities that aren't Discord?"

skidd0 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:14:59 +0000

You will quickly get flagged/banned and/or asked for a phone number/email address for verification. I've lost 2 accounts to this.

New comment by skidd0 in "Weavers and Concluders: Two communication styles (2021)"

skidd0 — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 12:56:42 +0000

If you're curious, a book The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGilchrist goes over many of the differences in "personality" of each hemisphere which is not as simple of a divide as is commonly heard. It is not so much a logic vs. feeling/art split but maybe more of an isolation/abstraction vs. broad/networked default mode for each.

New comment by skidd0 in "Japan's mini kei-truck sales surge in US despite safety concerns"

skidd0 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:00:32 +0000

I don't think I stated the size or proportions of the market.

New comment by skidd0 in "Japan's mini kei-truck sales surge in US despite safety concerns"

skidd0 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:39:47 +0000

And yet we're discussing the phenomenon online and arguing about it on our niche platform..

New comment by skidd0 in "Japan's mini kei-truck sales surge in US despite safety concerns"

skidd0 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:38:44 +0000

You find this everywhere there is a centralized "authority". Incumbants use every trick to keep their tribe in power at the expense of what that central power was nominally "supposed to do".

The purpose of the system is what it does. The purpose of seemingly all regulatory institutions is to gain and maintain power for the tribe in power.

New comment by skidd0 in "Japan's mini kei-truck sales surge in US despite safety concerns"

skidd0 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:34:21 +0000

You're suggesting government step in and stop the market from adapting around existing regulation? But that's how we got where we are right now. If government weren't in the way we'd have even more happy buyers.

You point out US consumers might be annoyed at bad local options and are looking elsewhere then suggest that this is a failure of the market when in fact it is this market action that permits the consumer to find a better solution for their problems. All government can do if they "step in" is make this even harder.

You cannot Force a market.

New comment by skidd0 in "Japan's mini kei-truck sales surge in US despite safety concerns"

skidd0 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:16:54 +0000

And this Kei Truck response is a good example of how a market (free or not), while seeking to find all profits, uncovers an unmet need in the market and adapts for the mutual benefit of the consumers And the producers.

New comment by skidd0 in "Figma Slides"

skidd0 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:29:50 +0000

Shame != Abuse

New comment by skidd0 in "The Fed Has Avoided a Recession. But Some Have Been Left Behind"

skidd0 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:34:28 +0000

All through unelected bureaucrats, too.

New comment by skidd0 in "Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content"

skidd0 — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:14:11 +0000

Broken clocks don't belong in office though, do they?

New comment by skidd0 in "Priced out of home ownership"

skidd0 — Tue, 28 May 2024 13:53:31 +0000

Both "wings" is how we got here. This is not an issue from a single party.

New comment by skidd0 in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

skidd0 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:33:37 +0000

Right, just like if the good guys don't develop a novel coronavirus in a lab, the bad guys will and unleash it on the world!

Development of tools of death is not a good guy/bad guy thing. The "bad guys" think the "good guys" are bad.

I think "killing" is bad, no matter who develops the tools.

New comment by skidd0 in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

skidd0 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:31:05 +0000

I think optics of being advanced aren't the main goal. Some form of "justification", no matter how flimsy, especially if it's hard to audit how the "AI" came to it's conclusions, is the goal. Now anyone is a target. Similar to cops in the US "smelling weed" or dogs "signaling". It provides the means to justify any search, or in this case, any kill. The machine grinds away..

New comment by skidd0 in "Discord to start showing ads in the coming week"

skidd0 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:18:20 +0000

It's more than open source. A political party I tried to join organized via Discord. A hardware project offered support only through Discord. Seems most "communities" have one now. But I hate Discord and it's a poor tool for those jobs! A subreddit might have been better as I wouldn't need an account to view proir posts for troubleshooting, or organizing meetings.

Or an email address.

Or a contact form.

But no, only the aptly named Discord.

New comment by skidd0 in "Discord to start showing ads in the coming week"

skidd0 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:12:49 +0000

Seems like they want to compete with Twitch. Hopefully with less pools and yoga.

New comment by skidd0 in "After Appalachian hospitals merged, their ERs became much slower"

skidd0 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:49:11 +0000

You might not have realized how this monopoly was granted. It wasn't a free market decision, it was state sanctioned.

New comment by skidd0 in "Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos"

skidd0 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:23:23 +0000

The privacy of the world's populace sounds like a pretty big problem to me considering the damage that can be caused by that information getting into the wrong hands.

New comment by skidd0 in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

skidd0 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 16:20:52 +0000

For the kombucha, you can grab a bottle of your favorite brand and use a bit of it to start your own culture. You'll also need some tea for flavor, sugar to feed it, and some cups to ferment in IIRC. It's been years since I've done it, but it is pretty straitforward and low effort. Go for it!

New comment by skidd0 in "Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals"

skidd0 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:21:50 +0000

I see what you mean. I'd argue that capitalism "wants" freer markets, though, as it benefits from more freedom to spend and earn wealth (liquidity).

New comment by skidd0 in "Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals"

skidd0 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:54:11 +0000

Can you go into more detail here? My understanding is that a free market requires capitalism (privately owned wealth) to function. And capitalism needs free-ish markets to actually use the wealth.

I'm also unsure how libertarianism is anti-capitalist.

Are you conflating Corporatism and Capitalism?