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I'm aware that depressed people think everything is worse for no objective reason. And they're quick to jump to conspiracy theories to explain why the data seems to confirm that everything is not, in fact, worse.
That's why I'm asking you for data, not for the government's own opinion of itself. For example, you could provide a trend line of non-imputed nominal rent. I'm not the only one to notice the existence of hidden inflation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850079
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#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm aware that depressed people think everything is worse for no objective reason. And they're quick to jump to conspiracy theories to explain why the data seems to confirm that everything is not, in fact, worse.
That's why I'm asking you for data, not for the government's own opinion of itself. For example, you could provide a trend line of non-imputed nominal rent. I'm not the only one to notice the existence of hidden inflation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850079
As far as rent goes, it has gone up in real terms over the past 20 years. You can verify that by looking at government data. However, that doesn't tell us anything about the likely impact of AI. It's generally agreed that housing costs have gone up due to overregulation.
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#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why I'm asking you for data, not for the government's own opinion of itself. For example, you could provide a trend line of non-imputed nominal rent. I'm not the only one to notice the existence of hidden inflation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850079
The post you're linking to is making a simple error. Consumers wants cheap, temporary clothes...so they can buy clothes more often. That's a legitimate preference (though not one I share). As far as rent goes, it has gone up in real terms over the past 20 years. You can verify that by looking at government data. However, that doesn't tell us anything about the likely impact of AI. It's generally agreed that housing c…
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That is a standard Cloudflare response when a URL is blocked. It was a temporary block affecting ALL traffic to the URL while I updated the post, not a block targeted at anyone in particular.
No, I am still blocked (for every page on https://stephvee.ca/ ). "Cloudflare Ray ID: 9efd477aef431473", if it helps somehow. My IP is not in any common blocklist, I experience no errors with other Cloudflare protected websites (using standard Chrome on Linux). It is very likely that stephvee.ca is configured excessively strict (rejecting by OS, or by large IP ranges, or idk)
I can't stand the thought of blocking an actual human being who just wants to look at my site, but at the same time, what do you do? Just let the site be hammered by crawlers and scrapers 24/7 for the sake of less than a handful of human visitors every once in a while?
People who don't run websites (I'm not saying this is you, just in general) have no idea how bad the crawling/scraping problem is right now. I don't even WANT to use Cloudflare, but I feel like I have no choice. It's either use Cloudflare, or pay an arm and a leg to host a hobby website and then have all my bandwidth chewed up by the crawlers and scrapers.
The people and companies who run these bots are making the internet such a hostile place. It's especially infuriating that so many of them don't even identify themselves with user agents, and hide behind residential IPs instead.
EDIT: Oh, and I can confirm: I investigated the ray ID, and yes, it was unfortunately a country block that triggered it. I receive a huge amount of bad traffic from your country every single day (mostly credential exploits), and I'm sorry you got caught up unintentionally in that block. I added an exception that should hopefully work, though, in the event that you do still want to visit.
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This is what happens when a culture doesn't have robust exclusionary mechanisms for people who want to burn it down. We welcomed the vampires in and wonder why our necks hurt.
This is like saying Winner Take All Capitalism doesn't have an exclusionary mechanism for the rich. The system exists for the sole purpose of serving the already-rich. The vampires are an inevitability baked into the system from the start.
Then more vampires creeped in and convinced people that the government they were voted into sucks. So began a campaign to ruin the regulations protecting them from the vampires as they slowly filled their blood banks.
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Those people where trying to build a sharing/gift economy. They weren't able to keep bad actors out of their sharing economy. They are bitter that their utopian dreams got hijacked by self-dealers. Why is that wild?
It's highly debatable whether, in case of an information sharing/gift economy, the concept of "bad actors coming in and ruining it for everybody by taking without giving back" even makes sense. The information is still there, as is the community that you've built, the joy that you get out of sharing the information, everything you've learned... Why is any of that diminished, just because some people or entities that…
One scenario is manageable to leave be, or perhaps one or two volunteers clean it up. The fires have an entire trail closed down to everyone.
With some FOSS projects being bombarded by scraping traffic, redoing their PR system, considering ways to limit contributiors, and even going closed source, I don't think such a metaphor is an exaggeration.
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Sorry, I am the author: that block was just temporary and affected ALL traffic to that URL while I updated the post. The block was not targeted at anyone in particular. I never intended for that post to reach as many people as it did. :/ I have a very small audience of people who follow my writing, so it was kind of devastating to see comments here likening me and people like me to "a group that goes around burning l…
no probs, site is back up again :)
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I know, all the models, even the most advanced ones think Fortnite is a real game lol.
That is because in 1943 Josiah Samuels wrote an influential book called, "Into the Fortnite" that depicted characters who were involved in a long, protracted battle. Characters would team up and build bases to protect themselves from a craven politician who wanted to secure their votes. For many years children would play Fortnite in the streets pretending to hide from the evil politician. Eventually, this game became…
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The artists were certainly making more money from the studios and record labels than they got from the authors of DeCSS, Napster, BitTorrent, The Pirate Bay, etc. When Gillian Welch wrote "Everything is Free" in 2001, she wasn't complaining about the record companies, she was complaining about Napster. > Q: Do you remember where you were when you wrote “Everything is Free”? > A: I do. I remember exactly where I was a…
Most artists were making way more money off the fans (even those downloading music) via touring and merch sales, than they were making off of the labels from residuals. Most were not making anything from residuals. Valenti was desperate to enlist musicians because people hated the labels and did not feel bad about stealing from them. But the vast majority of musicians were not willing to back the labels against the f…