if this comes with tetris attack I'm buying

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just had to bring up Linux, didn't you?

a monopoly patent was literally a government invention. an actual monopoly does require the government. what you are talking about is called a "natural monopoly" in the literature. that would be a situation where there's only one seller for something like say water in a desert town. in that case you can have price gouging and such.

now, the important bit is the LEGAL ability to prevent competition. if there is a natural monopoly on water, and the seller decided to start charging obscene amounts for water, those extreme profits would normally induce other sellers to enter the market. except when they are legally prohibited, we can expect that a natural monopoly will not last if what we call "monopoly rents" are extracted.

so you see, a true monopoly requires legal force, eg the state.

but almost no two libertarians will agree about those things. if you think there is only one "blessed" or accepted viewpoint on those topics, you've been duped.

for example on the rights of kids. there will be somebody who will argue they fully own themselves and parents are never allowed to hit children or otherwise harm them. then there will be some idiot who argues that because babies are helpless and the parents made it, that the parents "own" the child until some point and can do what they want with it. other libertarians will have even more differing viewpoints.

POV: your family is rich enough for hotels and you’re 12

20+ years at M$ sounds like hell on earth. Might be better for mankind to work for 20 years at an oil company ffs

no friction, even better!

sounds a bit boring. how about -1, or pi, or i, or 42?

dogs, too. such a strange take

AoM was ok but kinda boring. I really just want Rise of Nations tho!

exactly how it feels. worse than before i started

Just peek over at /r/conservative

is that somewhere on lemmy?

they so so fucking intolerably slow to get any amount of information out of. useless for sharing any information

so you admit you weren't using arch in 2015? pffft

riding a bicycle or driving a vehicle is in the same category as piloting a mech.

i consider vehicles to be a form of cyborg (man/machine-hybrids).

you didn't mention your distro. is that because it's ubuntu?

wow that was hilarious. great read

i didn't start my tech career after high school because every career advice i got was "all jobs going to india." could've had 10 more year's experience but instead i joined the military. ugh!

i took my kids to see it in IMAX and they came out calling it the best sci fi movie of all time haha. it was a ton of fun