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diogenes4 on Sept 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

> You're missing a huge part of this: The "competition" you think you're referring to had, you know, actual rules

This is, of course, false.

phendrenad2 on Sept 17, 2023 [–]

Competition has no rules? Jury awards ZeniMax $500 million in Oculus VR lawsuit? I guess they made up some rules, no?

diogenes4 on Sept 17, 2023 | [–]

well, the us only pretends to like free market politics. in reality rich dickwads like regulation just fine, namely in the form of protecting the value of their property.

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