this is still the state’s fault.
here’s a similar case: pharmaceutical companies get a patent for a new drug that will last for x years, and acting in their own self-interest they exploit the fact that they can extend the patent with minor modifications to the drug.
it’s a drug that could easily be produced at a low-cost by competitors.
as you’ve noted, the state doesn’t force them to extend their patents, but there’s a clear incentive for them to do this. yet in a free-market, this is not possible and competitors would make the drug.
capitalism fixes this, but the state creates the problem.
yeah i don’t believe in differentiation with terms like laissez-faire or free-market capitalism- that is what capitalism fundamentally is to me.
but it is just an economic lens, and society is also much broader than that.
i think the state’s size and scale comes from the momentum of the past- this should change. IP/patents are meaningful because of that, and i believe they mostly come about because of the same incentives we’ve both discussed- self-interested individuals can lobby for it.
if the state is not as powerful, it doesn’t matter if that happens.
added images/videos back to getwired.app- we’ll see how that goes this time, and will probably be very slow for now.
used @Rif'at Ahdi R ‘s cool repo for detecting NSFW stuff.
yeah just for the moment (using their free server lol)- i’m gonna move it to my home-server.
for some reason i’ve been having trouble with the API key stuff, but that’s probably my bad.
thanks for making it. i was actually looking at nsfwspy and you implemented it exactly it how i wanted to!
everyone in australia is yapping about the supermarket chain profits rn, and their ‘corporate greed’.
Coles reported a $1.1bn profit, a chain which effectively every australian chooses to use.
so they pretty much make $4 a month per australian to provide a convenient, well-supplied supermarket. sounds like a reasonable deal to me.
because ppl are wilfully ignorant, and politicians are parasites, this is becoming a political issue.
even if you think this is a problem (it isn’t), you should tell the commies who want more regulation and price controls to kill themselves, so we stop reinforcing this oligopoly and let more competition come in.
your priors are wrong. capitalism is not some system that was ‘designed’, nor does it aim to achieve anything. it is a natural outcome of the self-interest of individuals.
you would be naive to assume to know how swathes of resources can be allocated to most effectively maximise prosperity.
in terms of SaaS/DRM, this is still the result of the state. look at how easy it is, even currently, to torrent cracked SaaS, or to bypass DRM, but the reason this alt software doesn’t proliferate amongst businesses/individuals is the legal risk.
imagine your nsec key got leaked, but it doesn’t matter cause you can kill it and use a new one with the same npub.
but the sad thing is you’ll probably need to gen a new account under this scheme first.
i’m gonna go see @nick and hold him hostage until he figures that out.
you can get ideas for nostr from anywhere. i’ve been driving around after having 13 domestic light beers and realised we need a police tracker client 👍
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