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Comment Re: Teenager in a 72 year old's body (Score 1) 205

Thereâ(TM)s a few problems with your proposition.

First is, a lionâ(TM)s share of that cost goes to layers of rent seeking, entrenched âoeproduction and distributionâ outfits that add little value.

Second, for the zillions of creative and technical credits, itâ(TM)s not like those folks entire income depends on their contribution to that particular production.

I would agree that the people who do actual work on a production deserve adequate compensation. But the current model is broken, costs and prices and profits are unfairly disproportionate.

Comment Re: I am optimistic (Score 1) 105

This is a really interesting g question to me. And the question is, did the .com create the rot? Did web 2.0? Or was it inherent in some way? In my view, the problem is exclusivity and monetization/privatization. In the early days much was run on public servers, very much was publicly accessible if one knew where to look and what buttons to mash. Privatization made that more accessible to the massess, which is generally good. But it put everything behind a wall for everyone, which is bad, without keeping the best generators (think, e.g. basic researchers, investigative journalists) properly resourced and basic information properly accessible.

Comment Re:Just balance the budget. (Score 1) 121

As you suggest, debt at the US Federal Government level is so much more complicated, not least of which enforcing collection as a result of default is problematic for debt holders. It's extremely complicated, perhaps so complicated that no-one really knows, but the short answer is that since the money is technically a part of the US federal government it simply doesn't have the same meaning as household, business, or even state/local government debt. It's really more a tool for managing international finance than it is actually money owed.

We can and should look at discuss and adjust how it works, but merely calling for a 'balanced' budget is really meaningless without defining terms and mechanisms.

Comment Re:Who did Stack Overflow kill back in 2014 (Score 1) 125

Man I long for the usenet of yore. Reddit is as good as it gets, and it is sometimes an adequate replacement.

Incidentally, AI *could* be awesome for technical questions if there were decent documentation out there for systems (plus source code for software systems) and the LLM had access to it.

Comment âoeItâ(TM)s becoming a huge problemâ (Score 4, Insightful) 65

This statement, together with labeling residentsâ(TM) assertion of local preference as âoe community, political and regulatory disruptions,â really signals the executive classâ(TM)s complete disconnection from and apathy toward the real people living as citizens in the world. They seem to hold the assumption that their being at the forefront if aome kind of business movement is assurance they are good people doing good things, and that insensitivity to the needs of actual other people is an asset.

Itâ(TM)s a tremendous sign of hope that community disruptions are actuall a problem. for them.

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