A responsible domain owner still will read them. My own postmaster is a catch-all for all my domains, such that typos in the username still get caught. Has proven to be invaluable with the family domain, where harried medical staff make mistakes in setting up accounts for my parents.

Radical idea:

Have the government step in and say, “if you want to sell your drugs in America, you can only sell them to me.”

Then the government hammers that price down as low as it can go, and buys in bulk. A small rider is added to everyone’s federal taxes - a few dollars at most - to pay for it all, and the drugs are provided for free with any prescription.

It’s called single-payer healthcare, and most any advanced country uses that method to turn a $2,000/mo drug that the end user would pay either directly or through income-reducing insurance, into a $50/mo drug that is paid indirectly through federal taxes at less than 1/100 the cost.

But nooooooo… America can’t do this because “socialism is evil”.

> if I want to add first party analytics to my site, the data from which I will use solely internally to try to figure out what pages people like and which they do not like,

This is doable entirely on the server side, provided there is no caching or CDNs that get in the way.

What you lose with that method, however, is all the spyware-like shit that analytics tends to gravitate towards.

Half the time? More like 10% of the time.

Sometimes I think I have to use a paint can shaker on a 5-minute cycle just to trigger it.

I am curious if Wipr protects against all four major fingerprinting types, or if it only protects against canvas fingerprinting.

Reddit has ads?

looks up at uBlock origin at the top right of the screen

…huh. I guess Old Reddit has nothing to do with the lack of ads?

Tab Mix Plus is the OG GOAT of tab management. Its claim to fame is that it’s still the only add-in that gives you multiple tab rows.

Stocks won’t fall as far as the economy, so when people start selling off everything not nailed down just for tomorrow’s food, the wealthy can swoop in and buy it all up for pennies on the dollar.

It’s the whole game plan, after all. Land, especially: generally speaking no-one is really making any more land all that fast, and when it comes down to your family starving or selling off your land for food, the land goes pretty f**king cheap and pretty damn fast.

By this method, the Parasite Class will end up owning all the land and everything in it, and the entire Working Class will become the modern version of tenement farmers or those living in company towns - slaves, essentially.

Yeah, land… you know US CRE is on the precipice of disaster, Chinese RE had some huge disasters. And the best opportunity for RE came and went in 2009. Meanwhile the top S&P500 stocks were not the top in 2009, even Apple had already released the iPhone back then. I understand you are making a colorful comment. But “real estate tycoon” isn’t the antagonist for many people.

That's if they're allowed to force the liquidity hose to stay open. An alternative future is one where everyone's bets get called in (as should happen during a downturn). The richest are far more underwater in an asset bubble pop environment than the rest of us are. Remember who bailed out who in 2008.

Force them to close their existing obligations. People will be able to keep their land (albeit worth phenomenally less).

And yet, this is the inevitable end-game of unfettered capitalism: to monopolize a market and prevent new entrants so as to eliminate competition and lock-in customers to a single producer that can set prices to whatever they want.

If the orange Cheeto was truly interested in combatting corruption, he would break apart this entire industry clear down to individual factories and processing plants, and implement laws to prevent anyone from ever buying out anyone else. Consolidation would be impossible, only organic growth would still be legal.

Or just put the entire industry under public control by nationalizing the industry. Without investors and CEOs to Hoover up those profits, prices could crater by 80% or more without affecting production or maintenance.

> and implement laws to prevent anyone from ever buying out anyone else. Consolidation would be impossible, only organic growth would still be legal.

Game theoretically, these groups would still collude to maximise profits.

Yes, but we understand that game and have a strong legal base to tackle it as well (see: Cartels & the Sherman Act/Clayton Acts).

Further - It's REALLY hard to keep a cartel stable (much less secret) if there are more than single-digit members. Hell - OPEC is a great example. It's only 12 country members, and they can barely hold the thing together. Angola just left last year over disagreements...

So breaking up the monopoly and continuing to apply existing cartel laws would be a perfectly fine approach to tackling this problem. It's really disingenuous to imply we can't fix this. We can and have. It's like people don't remember "Robber baron" history at all...

Given the history of the world, and the inability for any government to enforce such a "fair" market, ever. I feel this is extremely naive.

Do you work in tech? Do you hope your startup is acquired? I think a lot of people here would not favor the idea of companies not being able to buy other companies.

It’s not a Boolean.

Traditionally in the US, monopolies are managed by either forcing breakup/divestiture (the the company is already a monopoly) or regulating the maximum market share consolidation (preventing mergers which consolidate beyond that threshold).

And tech is different from agriculture. Governments will go overboard to prevent famine or hyperinflation of food prices because both with cause massive political and social instability. Tech doesn’t (currently) plan an equivalent role in our lives, so people could tolerate monopolistic behavior in tech longer than in core agriculture.

You can both be opposed to monopolies and in favor of sensible acquisitions.

Being pro-markets and pro-capitalism is not the same thing as being in favor of letting companies run rampant with M&A with no consideration for market power or monopolization.

    > this is the inevitable end-game of unfettered capitalism

The US isn't even close. There are loads of regulations -- active and passive. If you want to get a view of places closer, look at the economies of Singapore and Hongkong.

If you consider breaking up big companies to be "socialist", then there is no problem with that type of "socialism" except associations that only exist in your head because you are considering every kind of "socialism" to be the same thing.

> Or just put the entire industry under public control by nationalizing the industry.

Explain what these words in the sequence they were presented mean.

Are you sure you're right, at all?

That wasn't the main idea (which is also the idea that mentioned Trump), that was a secondary one. The main idea was just breakups. The comment I replied to summarized the whole suggestion as socialism.

I have the oddest type of “poor vision”. Some of it is out of focus, yes, but no matter how precise the prescription, I have a “too many sharp+clear edges” problem.

Look at the number 0, like the zero on a speed sign that says “60 km/h”, what do you see? Likely two sharp ovals, with a pigment between them, making the shape of a zero. If you have trouble seeing it, it’s likely because your eyesight is poor and it’s blurry.

Well, I see sharp ovals. I just don’t see only two sharp ovals. I see dozens of fragments of those two ovals, both on the interior as well as the exterior. Those fragments are razor-clear and razor-sharp with a good prescription, but the smaller the zero is, the closer these fragments intrude on each other, and the harder it is to make out that zero as a zero.

Plus, when something like a speed sign gets small enough (enough distance, in terms of speed signs), I even get a distortion of the overall number - a zero starts looking like an egg balanced on its pointy end. It is fatter at the top than it is at the bottom.

This gets immeasurably worse with more complicated glyphs, like a 6 or an R. All those extra sharp-clear edges make them look like other things, like an 8 or a B.

Now, these “fragments” are kind of like looking through an insect eye at the same time as looking through a human eye. I see a part of the glyph that is clear and sharp, which then fades out around a roughly-circular distance from the place of maximum sharpness like it’s a mirage. And these cluster together such that they overlap, and also hover over the “master image” that my eye sees. So I am seeing the same part of that edge multiple times.

For example, if I look at the letter T, I can see the top corner of the left arm multiple times, both as a part of the full image of the T as well as multiple fragment overlays. If I choose a T that has the right contrast, the right thickness, great clarity and the right sizing, I can easily count how many replications of any one point are visible. Even for a precise point like the top left corner of a sans-serif uppercase T, it can be anywhere from 3-5 replicated corners. Teeny-tiny replicated fragments, and clustered tightly around that area, but multiple copies that can dramatically confuse the image and make the letter look like something else.

And this problem is in both eyes, pretty much equally. I take the glasses off, and so long as the text is close enough (I’m nearsighted), it happens without glasses equally severely.