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by 39896880 2y ago
The key here is that Meta is not just “A company.” Meta is effectively the communication infrastructure of a vast swathe of EU citizens. The EU has decided they have strong opinions about the administration of this infrastructure.
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by 39896880 2y ago
The net might be less than the cost of a nanny at first, but kids do not need nannies, generally, when they go to school. If the spouse choosing to stay at home would prefer not to set their career back the 5-8 years (depending on how many
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by 39896880 3y ago
>Huge loss for the economy That’s fine. It’s okay for humans to choose to live their one and only life in a way that doesn’t directly benefit “the economy.”
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by 39896880 3y ago
Who approved the Ticketmaster / Live Nation merger to begin with?
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by 39896880 3y ago
“Silence” really does belong in quotes. I spent some time in an anechoic chamber (a few hours a day over 6 weeks) and could hear the blood flowing through my ears. It was quite strange and convinced me that true silence doesn’t exist unless
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by 39896880 3y ago
Looks like what they did to buffy
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by 39896880 3y ago
Toyota did this in the US and it has been rightfully, wildly successful for them.
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by 39896880 3y ago
It's probably against the copyright law in Canada, but all the TV provider would have to do is dedupe and set TV shows older than 60 days to "archived." If people want to call it back up it can download in the background. Wou
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by 39896880 3y ago
Why is that the real question? Shouldn't the real question be: do we want, as a society, to allow something like arial photography of your roof freely accessible to data brokers so that they can form a shadow profile of you and determi
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by 39896880 3y ago
Why do some randos get to profit from this work? Life of the author full stop. Leeches and hangers on fuck off.
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by 39896880 3y ago
It's already been digitized [0]. It's just being held up due to you, you guessed it, lawsuits [1]. Whether it's "good" or not is not really relevant; we have the capacity to preserve it and make it available. [1] ht
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by 39896880 3y ago
He wrote a massive novel, is dead and left no estate, and yet it remains unavailable to read. There is certainly no technological reason why this is the case.
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by 39896880 3y ago
Yeah but it’s a 77 minute flight. That’s one thing that always catches me off guard when I’m in an airport in Texas: the number of intra -state flights is massive. With pre-check and valet parking, you really can make it from door to door
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by 39896880 3y ago
(2021). Maybe the book mentions it, but the article doesn’t cover the massive benefit of the Triangle’s proximity to Mexico. Mexico has a strong demographic profile and is a ready source of workers for manufacturing.
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by 39896880 3y ago
Hm, I don’t think we’re being asked to assume. FTA: >’For middle- to high-income, low-fertility countries, falling below replacement level could mean labor shortages and pressure on health care systems, nationalized health insurance, and
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by 39896880 3y ago
It existed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_EV