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anotherOneSound | 3 years ago | on: U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech

i don’t think the crux of the issue is determining how to legislate the priv/publ dichotomy, but rather how can we enable as many people as desire an ability to establish their own chalkboard. legislation as its proceeding is serving to entrench big tech platforms, its disabling the common person from having their own chalkboard with its own moderation preferences. let the market decide. this, in my opinion, is not the place for law. you don’t like how twitter does things? use a different app. it doesn’t exist? build it.

this includes things like legislation determining how to “appropriately” handle user data. it would be very easy to make it too expensive for any one person to “appropriately” handle user data in their webapp, which is my concern with the current twitter drama

anotherOneSound | 3 years ago | on: Apple’s next big thing: A business model change

nobody actually cares about margin. you can be entirely unprofitable so long as you show growth quarter after quarter. amazons margins are razor thin if not negative. tesla wasn’t profitable at all until EV legislation, and still struggles to be so

anotherOneSound | 3 years ago | on: Apple’s next big thing: A business model change

> The numbers aren’t directly disclosed but reliable sources estimate tens of billions of dollars in net revenue

apple is the source[1] no estimating required. all publicly traded companies, required by law. some math is required, many videos on youtube detailing the process. it can be automated, JSON is available. they are called balance sheets, M.shkreli actually has a video series going through these [1]https://sec.report/CIK/0000320193

look for 10-Q, 10-K; quarterly, annual

anotherOneSound | 3 years ago | on: Causality Is an Underrated Concept

i’m curious, do objects appear to your senses, or do your senses (and predilections) appear to objects?

> rescues the a priori origin of the pure concepts of the understanding and the validity of the general laws of nature as laws of the understanding, in such a way that their use is limited only to experience, because their possibility has its ground merely in the relation of the understanding to experience, however, not in such a way that they are derived from experience, but that experience is derived from them, a completely reversed kind of connection which never occurred to Hume. (ibid.)

> Appearances certainly provide cases from which a rule is possible in accordance with which something usually happens, but never that the succession is necessary; therefore, a dignity pertains to the synthesis of cause and effect that cannot be empirically expressed at all, namely, that the effect does not merely follow upon the cause but is posited through it and follows from it.

[1]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-hume-causality/

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