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by Aunche 3y ago
Android is also the most popular OS in the world right now. There billions of people who developing countries who use a cheap Android phone as their only computing device. I'm sure a lot of them come bundled with rather questionable ap
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Smelting typically refers to extracting metal from ore.
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The Reuters article is just a history of Chinese steel production. It doesn't support anything you said. According to the CNN article, Nucor, an American non-unionized American company, is successfully utilizing mini-mills. > One p
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> Not every wrong assumption comes from emotion I'm not sure what you mean by that. Every assumption right or wrong comes from emotion. The problem tends to come when people let their emotions are left completely unchecked. "Ba
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And yet here we are on a venture capitalist forum instead of huddled around a communal campfire. If life was so great back then, why would we change? The narrative of anarcho-primitivists claims that the transition to civilization forced by
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Pastoralism is a logical evolution of hunting after animals became domesticated. My point is that you didn't necessarily need a large hierarchical society to fend off against one.
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The people who resorted to eating cultivated grass seeds had more imminent problems to worry about before ambitions about being warlords. That occurred a few thousand years later. > which in turn forces their neighbors to do the same to
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> The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race I'm sure the people invented agriculture didn't think of it as a mistake. It's not like they decided that they liked eating cultivated grass seeds more than wild nuts an
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Alternatively, their "living life" was just work. The modern concept of leisure was non-existent outside the very elite until well into the industrial revolution. For the billions of people who moved away from subsidence farming i
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There has never been a war in history where one side stops because they killed enough people. War ends when the enemy surrenders. The Japanese killed a few dozen civilians in Pearl Harbor. America killed 10,000x as many during their bombing
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Most wealth is the integral of a function based off of predicted future profits and predicted interest rates. It's naturally going to be highly volatile compared to people's wages or home values.
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If you have so much faith in civil jury verdicts, then do the previous lawsuits against egg producers where the jury found them innocent disprove the conspiracy [1]? Afaict, there was no direct evidence of any conspiracy. The egg producers
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> You can get by without the latest iPhone. How long will you last without food? So you deserve more money for providing a luxury instead of a necessity? Limits placed on how much you could profit from food never made food cheaper. It ha
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> It was sufficient proof to convince a full jury, which makes them guilty of price fixing. Sure, but it's still the lowest burden of proof. My point isn't to make Cal-Maine the underdog. It's to point out the irony that a
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They didn't make $7 profit for every $1 in costs. They made 700% more profit than the previous year, bringing it to about the same profit margin as Apple for a year. Do you think that Apple should be content with having plenty of iPhon
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This is completely unrelated to the lawsuit which was about activity that occured decades ago. None of Cal-Maine's chickens contracted bird flu, despite being the largest egg producers, so they likely are better at protecting their chi
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Kelloggs, General Mills, and Nestle hired lawyers that appealed to populism to convince jurors that egg producers price fixed with a probability of at least 51%. That's hardly proof of price fixing.
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> How do you know we wouldn't be off even better with less alienation and exploitation? Just because somebody is doing something that you personally can't imagine doing doesn't mean that they're exploited. "Explo
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Shein is at another level of low quality compared to H&M and Zara. That said, I suspect that people virtue signal about fast fashion because they are uncomfortable with the idea of blaming themselves or people they're close to. I&#
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Even when the Simpsons first aired, I highly doubt that you could get a job as a nuclear safety inspector without a college degree or highly specialized training like in the military.
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Part of it is that the Americans are older nowadays, so they have longer to to save up for a home. The median age in 1990 was 33 compared to 39 today.
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You can choose to join a hippie farming commune. You don't have a choice to force Jimbo to get rid of his F-350 and to not get mad at the government whenever gas or prices rise.
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I mean sure was free to publicly disparage her organization, but then she can't expect not to be antagonized. My point is that being a board member is a responsibility, it's valid for Sam to interpret her paper as a violation of h
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Supposedly Worldcoin deletes your biometric data after it's done generating a hash of it. If you don't believe that, then why would you believe that Google and Apple don't secretly send your fingerprints and facial scans off
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It doesn't help that the board publicly accused of being a liar without any evidence. If they simply left it at "Sam's vision no longer aligns with the charter of the nonprofit", I'd bet they would be viewed much mo
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I don't think Sam is necessarily irreplaceable. It's just that Helen Toner and co were so detached from the rest of the organization they might as well been on Mars, as demonstrated by their interim CEO pick instantly turning aga
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Microsoft has more leverage now because they can sue OpenAI for intentionally sabotaging Microsoft's investment.
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Are you going to engage with anything I say or are you just going repeat yourself again? Is there a divine stone tablet that commands a nonprofit board member is solely responsible for the nonprofit's charter that I'm missing?
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That people turned against her is relevant because it demonstrates how untenable this standard of independence is. A charter is just a collection of words. She isn't a board member to a collection of words. She's a board member to
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She joined the board of OpenAI knowing that they owned a for profit subsidiary that received billions of dollars of investment. Being independent means that she could provide a unique outsider perspective, not that she has no obligations to

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