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by Aunche 5mo ago
> Because Marx theories do not hold up to reality Sure, but ownership being the root of inequality was the one thing that he was actually correct about. CEO to worker pay ratio is something that is completely irrelevant. Companies spend
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by Aunche 5mo ago
Not sure why the left cares so much about CEO to work pay ratio these days, especially when Marx himself recognized that ownership was the true source inequality. A CEO is just a really well paid worker. Even CEOs who become billionaires do
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by Aunche 5mo ago
They'd probably make this a feature for paying customers. I don't think the economics of scalping this at scale would make sense you're spending money for months and risk Spotify banning you if you get caught.
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by Aunche 5mo ago
Maybe only a handful of people morally consistent or geopolitically neutral. It's unlikely that Saudi Arabia actually cares if Meta gets themselves kicked out of the nation, but it's easy to blame Meta because money in their pocke
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by Aunche 5mo ago
"Flash-Lite" is a different product from "Flash", which is more expensive. They couldn't be more confusing with their naming though, especially since they have 3.1 Pro and not 3.1 Flash non-lite.
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by Aunche 5mo ago
I'm American and was half being facetious.
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by Aunche 5mo ago
I visited California a month ago and had some of the best strawberries I've ever had for $4/quart off the side of the road near Bakersfield (best I had was Oshii berries before they started to sell to grocers, but that was at luxu
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by Aunche 6mo ago
That article is about certain individuals, not Congress as a whole. By definition, some individuals are going better than average.
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by Aunche 6mo ago
Meta has recently been successfully sued for harming children. They are naturally pursuing the easiest path to remove themselves from liability. If you don't trust an age signal that a user chooses on their own at during os setup that
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by Aunche 6mo ago
Parents want another option between their child being shown harmful content on social media and signing up their child up to be a pariah because they're not allowed to use social media altogether.
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by Aunche 6mo ago
Beating the market isn't evidence of insider trading. Everyone invested deeply in tech beat the market, which is what Paul Pelosi did. If he did trade with insider information, he did it in a way that was subtle enough to look sufficie
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by Aunche 6mo ago
Cigarettes don't get less addictive when they are banned. On the other hand, a kid is less inclined to use social media if most of their friends aren't on it. They're less likely to post a video on TikTok if there is a signif
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by Aunche 6mo ago
MAGA propaganda is so effective that it got those who never believed in the economic utility of the stock market to begin with to call for revolution to preserve the integrity of the market. The cost of insider trading mostly get passed to
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by Aunche 6mo ago
People act like the pervasiveness of insider trading in Congress is an indisputable fact, when there have been only a few trades with suspicious timing, which is similar to what you would expect statistically from 535 wealthier people tradi
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by Aunche 6mo ago
Selling your data means that anyone can have access your data forever. On the other hand, anyone can turn off ad personalization and delete their data on Google and Facebook.
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by Aunche 6mo ago
You're only going to hear from people who think that the CPI underestimates inflation. If the CPI overestimates inflation for an given individual, they have no reason to comment on it.
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by Aunche 6mo ago
College graduates make over $1 million in their lifetime compared to high school graduates. > Anyway, I think ev isn't the right tool to model gambling behavior; dollar utility isn't linear. You're right. The more money yo
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by Aunche 6mo ago
If the author didn't want others to think of her as a "careless person", she should have refused a severance with a nondisparagement clause.
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by Aunche 7mo ago
> When asked to choose between whether the federal government should provide “help for American workers who lose their jobs to AI” or create “incentives for American tech companies to keep innovating so that America outcompetes the rest
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by Aunche 7mo ago
> They could require government ID to sign up and an adult sponsor to certify accounts for kids. Even if they used an open source zero knowledge proof, HN will still immediately dismiss it as an attempt to steal your data. The proposal h
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by Aunche 7mo ago
People are making way too big a deal of this IMO. This is basically the OS equivalent of that checkbox you click to enter a porn website that gets exposed to Meta, so they can claim that they did what they all the they could to protect chil
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by Aunche 7mo ago
Most insurance is funded by employers who would switch insurers if they feel they're getting screwed by them. > So insurance companies spend more so they can collect higher premiums. This part is still true though. Insurers want you
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by Aunche 7mo ago
> Western corruption mostly concerns about the powerful and rich making friendly mutual agreements to bend the governing bodies and law to enable themselves become more powerful and richer. Believe it or not, this is how lawmaking is sup
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by Aunche 7mo ago
The Internet thinks that lobbying is bribery. If you wanted a bribery like vehicle, you'd just donate to a PAC or more recently, the new ballroom. Lobbying is just paying people to speak to politicians. After a company has said everyth
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by Aunche 7mo ago
Am I the only person who recognized that this bill explicitly does not require any sort of id verification? The point is to make apps and websites more accountable.
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by Aunche 7mo ago
There is no requirement that the OS has to verify the person's ID. It literally just requires a dropdown menu to select your age bracket.
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by Aunche 7mo ago
> Now your countries are little different from Russia or China or Dubai etc where the old money cabals run everything, This is clearly propaganda manufactured by the evil tech cabal to suppress grassroots efforts to protect children from
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by Aunche 7mo ago
Even if you ignore the climate impact, fossil fuels pollution causes millions of premature deaths a year, and unlike with global warming, that effect is localized. That alone should be reason to transition off of fossil fuels, especially co
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by Aunche 7mo ago
> Nothing will change until developed rich countries are starting to hurt. The EU reduced their emissions by over a third from their peak. Their emissions per capita is less than that of China (not meant to be a dig at China who is the l
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by Aunche 8mo ago
> Because the taxpayers (and all users of USD) repeatedly bail them out. The taxpayer didn't pay for those bailouts. They were funded by the DIF, which was replenished by premiums that banks pay. > They’re a pretty bloated middle

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