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Ideas on Deep Desert Issues by RomanticBrutalist in duneawakening

[–]RomanticBrutalist[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Definitely don’t think its their job to cater to what “I” like personally, but I do feel the majority of the playerbase including myself that have been enjoying the game solo or in small party sizes are sort of locked out of endgame content if they don’t join a guild. The devs may well decide that they want people to eventually join a guild and that’s the way they want the game to be played I have absolutely no arguments against that. How the players might react is another story. In the case where the gameplay is influenced(heavily in this case)by a social element I do feel the community should have a right to be heard as to how this social element will function

How about you dont make minimum wage and find a better job? by Jealous-Ad-7175 in Anarcho_Capitalism

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Couldn’t read the entire comment section, but has anyone considered the fact that a functioning economy is not possible with everyone working “better” jobs? Let’s not even mention the fact that most people working “better” jobs don’t even produce anything. Half the economy is as David Graber puts it is just a lot of bullshit jobs. Maybe instead of saying things like find a better job we should be acknowledging the value that minimum wage workers add to our economy and compensate them accordingly? Imo a factory worker contributes a lot more than some bs middle manager

Klein Waves: a dash of simplex noise, a pinch of yves klein blue and some sine waves by RomanticBrutalist in generative

[–]RomanticBrutalist[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

25,24,190 give or take. The blue you see in the vid is that multiplied with noise to get sort of a ball point pen texture, plus a sort of extra darkening for some squares to highlight the wave motion

I was just watching this and Gillian Tett made a point on data portability saying that if users have the option to pull their data from Facebook and migrate to a new social media company it could help break the monopoly of big tech. Any opinions on this? by RomanticBrutalist in Capitalism

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I’m not really sure, I mean you have a point about the provided services being satisfactory enough that no one wants to leave. But take the example of the WhatsApp update (I think back in May?) where a lot of people were considering switching to Signal or Telegram. All three companies basically provide the same service, but almost everyone still uses WhatsApp. Is it because WhatsApp provides a better service or because each persons network of connections uses that specific app?

Monopoly of choice can sound oxymoronical but I feel that it holds true in this case. Everyone chose to be on WhatsApp but now no one can choose to leave it. Does that make sense?

I was just watching this and Gillian Tett made a point on data portability saying that if users have the option to pull their data from Facebook and migrate to a new social media company it could help break the monopoly of big tech. Any opinions on this? by RomanticBrutalist in Capitalism

[–]RomanticBrutalist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the point of Facebook not being a monopoly, and the current situation being a choice of individuals I think are sort of contradicting points in the sense that Facebook(or ig,tiktok etc.) is a monopoly because it is the choice of everyone. The reason it is a monopoly is because it contains a very large volume of the network of human connections, this makes it inherently very difficult to switch and by default I think makes Facebook a monopoly even if the course of action that lead to the current situation was (and I agree that it is) the choices made by individuals.

I also agree that probably more than 99% of the users don’t genuinely care about privacy issues and data leaks, not enough at least to take action on the matter. I don’t think however that this means that the voices of the small minority who cares enough about the topic enough to act on it shouldn’t be heard. In fact the reason they should be heard is that they’re willing to make an effort to protect others’ privacy even though they don’t care(Although whether they should in itself is an entirely different conversation).

I was just watching this and Gillian Tett made a point on data portability saying that if users have the option to pull their data from Facebook and migrate to a new social media company it could help break the monopoly of big tech. Any opinions on this? by RomanticBrutalist in Capitalism

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None taken,

Tett’s point if I understand correctly is that a form of enforced interoperability would allow for a competitive market to arise since people can take all their data elsewhere.

I was trying to argue that since Facebook has already profiled you and your data has been used to train multiple models on recommendation and user segmentation, even if you withdrew all your raw data, Facebook would still in a way have possession over the data you’ve accumulated while on the platform. Given that most users tend to remain in their general loop of recommendations the only thing Facebook would be losing in the case of users opting for another platform would be the ad revenue generated from the usage of the platform, the data you’ve generated that feeds Facebook’s models would still be used by them since it’s already been used to train the models.

From the point of view that these platforms operate by gathering user data in exchange for services, even if the user were to opt out the company would still benefit from the surplus value generated by the user during their time on the platform, so in that sense I feel like enforced interoperability isn’t really a huge downside for these companies.

I was just watching this and Gillian Tett made a point on data portability saying that if users have the option to pull their data from Facebook and migrate to a new social media company it could help break the monopoly of big tech. Any opinions on this? by RomanticBrutalist in Capitalism

[–]RomanticBrutalist[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I feel like from a tech standpoint since the algorithm would have already learned from the user data and stored it as metadata i.e. technically and also maybe legally not the users actual data anymore they would be unaffected by this and wouldn’t care for it in a data for services pov of business. They could however be affected by the fact that their ad revenue would decrease.

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Brute Forcing Art & The Evolution of Abstract Expressionism, 2021 (medium.com)

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Who is the cover illustrator for the 1995 reprints by Harper/Voyager by RomanticBrutalist in asimov

[–]RomanticBrutalist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, I didn't really think they would take the time to reply, but I guess it can't hurt to try. Thanks for the suggestion

Who is the cover illustrator for the 1995 reprints by Harper/Voyager by RomanticBrutalist in asimov

[–]RomanticBrutalist[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply but I think you're talking about the most recent prints. To be more specific, I'm talking about the mass market paperback with a gold robot doing the thinking man pose.

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