Hegar

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[–] Hegar@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

Yes, getting sued for stepping on a mine like rounded corners is so good for inventiveness.

It's so strange to me that people buy this BS line about IP laws having anything to do with why we get cool new things.

Either competition fosters innovation and therefore IP laws stifle it, or protecting monopolies fosters innovation and our IP laws make sense.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There has been a centralized bureaucratic autocracy in china since the legalist reforms of qin, a couple thousand years ago. Yes, the empire once united must divide but even during the long disunity before the sui and tang, there were multiple centralized autocratic states. Unity across all of the territory called modern china is not necessary to have a centralized state, and you'll notice I never once used the word united.

forcibly “united” by external forces, such as the Western powers in the 19th century, dividing up and ruthlessly controlling economic spheres of influence

Wait were western powers dividing or uniting china? You're claiming both in the same sentence. But that's kind of immaterial to my point that the centralized autocratic state has existed in china for a couple thousand years and that many important new technologies came out of the cultures governed in that way.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago

I have such fond memories of the days of rick rolling. I knew these two women who were into amateur choirs and they would come up behind people at parties and rickroll them IRL.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I wouldn't be looking for 'game changers' - that's a marketing phrase with no firm meaning and very low applicability to reality. All invention is just iterating on existing ideas.

We didn't see much cutting-edge tech coming out of China while they were recovering from the collapse of the imperial system and the colonial period, but now that they have more resources to throw at new tech, we'll see new tech.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

China has been a centralized autocratic state for a couple thousands years and has invented almost everything in that time.

More seriously though, it's just not true to suggest that collectivist societies or autocratic states can't invent new things. The briefest glance at history shows it's just not true.

New things come from people having the time and resources to sit around and think about how to improve on the things we have. IP, social mobility and individualism just don't really come into it.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Plenty of idiots using a cruise control system and trusting their lives to beta software.

Using it exactly as it was marketed doesn't make you an idiot.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hegar@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Who buys a new peripherals? You can get 100% functional peripherals for a couple of bucks from any thrift store.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

a collection of wet floppy noodles instead of arms and legs.

That basically describes me now. But my mother was a delicious bowl of liang fen so I feel like it's pretty understandable.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

This article:

won't sacrifice lore

Also this article:

"Throwing the Dune encyclopedia out – with the blessing from the Herbert estate – appears to have been a necessity, rather than something ego-driven."

What?

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I always presumed that Montana was telling Idaho, "It's okay, I believe you're in the PNW."

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