deadlyduplicate

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look up crisis theory, the rate of profit tends to fall in capitalist systems. Because each company is driven by competitive self-interest, it is incapable of acting for the good of the whole. You simply cannot devote resources to anything but trying to out-compete your rivals and in doing so the profit for everyone tends lower and lower until you have a crisis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe that is accurate. Beside moons (which don’t orbit the sun), Pluto is the largest and closest dwarf planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get sorted...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If those are the only options, I am choosing juggalo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the struggle⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but a lot of people have also ‘heard’ that mbti is not scientifically valid and go around parroting that without any knowledge of what specifically science says about it.

  It is entirely possible that outside of a scientific discipline, mbti works well enough for people to use.

  Kind of like how we use the term “meme” and understand what it means but the concept of memes are not used in science because other models of cultural evolution have better explanatory power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm anyone remember when Andrew Yang was running for president and said that data was the new oil and that people should own the content they put on social media?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gonna be a great day!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And let’s be honest, for mainstream consumers, the Linux desktop and the Fediverse are failures.

  My point is that just because something doesn’t achieve widespread adoption immediately does not mean it is a failure. I use both Linux desktop and the Fediverse and the fact that they are not in widespread use doesn’t rob them of virtue for the people that use them. Technology adoption is a complex thing and its incredibly reductionist to just say "crypto has been around for a decade and a half and you still can’t use it for anything therefore its a failure. Our legacy financial system is very entrenched and its not to going to unseated overnight. These things take time.

  Ultimately I think it should come down to consumer choice, those that prefer centralized finance should use that and those that are OK with the added overheard of decentralized finance should be able to have that choice. That is why I make the analogy to these other systems. Linux desktop for a long time was harder to use but it was worth it for people whose values aligned with open source software. Crypto has a similar trajectory and faces similar uphill battles including negative attitudes from those using competing systems. But for those who value what it provides, it is worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gonna be a great day!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Criticizing the more well known cryptos for being slow, expensive and having a poor UX is perfectly reasonable and valid.

  Saying that entire tech stack is fundamentally unusable is what is inaccurate and ignores all the innovation occurring in the space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gonna be a great day!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What you are saying is inaccurate…

  1. BTC has a performant layer 2 called lightning. And if layer 2s are not your jam, there are plenty of L1s that can handle 1000s of transactions per second

  2. Crypto solves the problem of having a central bank control the money supply. Also having private organizations controlling digital payment rails. Provides options or underbanked people in countries with unstable financial systems. I could go on…

  3. Blockchains do not use an enormous amount of energy. You are thinking of the consensus mechanism used by proof of work cryptocurrencies. There are alternative consensus mechanisms that use much less energy

  Also the adoption rates are not a measure of utility. The Linux desktop has been around 30 years and has an adoption rate under 5 percent. Mastodon has not grown as fast as twitter did. Democracy is not used by the majority of governments and where it is, voter turnout is low.

  Is it also your opinion that these things are bad products?

  Decentralized systems just take longer to mature. It’s crazy to me that fediverse users don’t understand this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remote work is still 'frustrating and disorienting' for bosses, economist says—their No. 1 problem with it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently left a WFH only company. The environment was toxic and there was definitely some insecurity on the part of management regarding worker productivity. There was a much larger emphasis on constantly showing to management what you were working on and proving you were using your work day productively.

  It was a culture shift I didn’t adapt well to and left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, companies are not going to just decide to implement NFTs in a way that gives more control to users unless it means more money for them. Does change the fact that the technology has that potential, even if it remain unutilized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it’s not ownership, it is digital rights management. Right now DRM is handled by private corporations, not the state, and it generally is anti-consumer. NFTs could be used for DRM in a more pro consumer way.