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You're talking about gitflic.ru

All empirical evidence shows that boycotts don't work unless they're extremely big. Say, if you could get two thirds of the Nintendo fanbase to not buy a Switch 2, that would probably work. If it's only you, then you're just hurting yourself. If nothing else, you're cutting yourself off from the possibility to get a Switch 2 and hack it.

That case was before DMCA made it generally illegal to break any copyright protection measure.

It also wasn't protecting the games from being copied. It was protecting Nintendo (actually Sega) from competition from other people making their own games. The Nintendo Game Boy uses the same technique.

It's not piracy to not give someone money just because they wanted your money.

IIRC Radicle is ActivityPub/traditional federation style (servers talk in a mesh) and Tangled is built on ATproto which means it's trying to work with a logical single firehose feed of everything everyone does.

Anyone can DMCA anything for anything. The relevant factor is how likely different providers in the chain are to respond drastically to bullshit requests.

For instance if I sent a DMCA to HN insisting that your comment violated my copyright, they'd probably ignore it, or ban my account.

Or Git

wdym ever since

this is like their entire business model since they started selling console games

Programmer runs into the fact the law runs on intent and actual happenings rather than the form of a thing, gets confused.

Anything can be a murder weapon too. Kitchen fork. Rubber ducky.

They're both terrible

Has anyone ever made a decentralised platform work?

Why couldn't a rotation of centralised platforms be the answer? If my hairdresser is shitty to me, I can go to another hairdresser. I don't have to invent a decentralised permissions hairdressing marketplace. Why doesn't it work that way with redditlikes?

it's like the thing the stack overflow team said about how devs think about cloning stack overflow and they imagine an SQL table for questions and answers and maybe a little CSS, and ignore everything else

It's a bit like if I'm a car dealer and you can't afford any of the cars in my lot, I should throw a brick through the window of one, and then sell it to you at a discount since it has a broken window.

Neither of us ends up better off from this transaction. You'd be better if you had the car with the window intact, and I'm down one brick.

In some/all cases booking.com has paid for a certain selection of rooms from the hotel, which it aims to resell, and aims to make a profit when reselling but doesn't always.

It could also be fingerprinting. Maybe you've been sorted into the "starving hacker" advertising bucket so you get a discount from the "totally unknown customer" bucket the front desk is forced to put you into.

weird metaphor, if it was actually shoes then the left shoe owners could be expected to make a right shoe next (if they need a pair of shoes and not urgently). It also seems like the pair of shoes just wouldn't be sold (market failure) if the right shoe owner demanded $99 and if all of the left shoe owners are actually trying to run a business. Maybe one is doing it as a hobby and giving up their shoe for free so the profit-seeking right shoe owner gets to keep all $100 (that's a metaphor for open-source software) but I think in reality all the left shoe owners would hold out until they've made matching right shoes.

Yet another non-sequitur?

Book value is pretty much irrelevant unless your business is buying businesses and dismantling them for parts (vulture capitalism). A company's true value can also be less than its asset value because the dismantling process can be costly.

If life didn't evolve it would have to have been intelligently designed...

In places where you have to drive to get to a bar, and it may also be illegal to sleep in your car, if you can't drink and drive, you can't drink.

In places where you can take the metro to the bar, or walk to the bar, it's a lot different.

Expected to read about making the plasma cutter component, but it isn't - it's about the CNC component and the plasma cutter is off the shelf

You need evolution to have life. Why is mutation a deal-breaker?

a.k.a. the waterfall model

that straw man that someone came up with to illustrate bad software processes and then people started actually using it

Imagine if every high street in America had three stores selling Hamas-styled garden gnomes with "death to America :)" written on them. Obviously that does not happen, right? Because Hamas is actually an enemy of America. Since this does happen with China we can conclude China is not an enemy.

also the currency the stock prices are measured in would become less valuable, since a big part of its value comes from foreign countries investing in American stock markets.

These companies are some ridiculous percentage of the stock market. If they collapse the stock market collapses, if the stock market collapses the economy collapses, probably the dollar collapses, if the shock is bad enough it might stop being the reserve currency which would basically nullify half of America's world power. That's the potential chain of events.

they don't solve anything, because the market can still be down at the moment when they move your wealth to a less variable market.

this reminds me of the South Korean tech stock bubble and crash, that crashed when the USA forbade pension funds from investing in the SK indices because they were 70% Samsung, or something like that

And in the end you have a market where nobody has any basis for thinking anything has any value, and the market ends up being a random walk.

This discussion here is not about what you're betting on - it's about whether your bets are fueling a bubble. Which they are.

People passively invest because active investing rarely outperforms passive.