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by Aunche 3y ago
People see newly constructed "luxury" housing. They also see techies that can outbid them on rent. They mix up cause and effect and assume that it's the luxury housing that's bringing in all the techies rather than vice
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>The author said medieval peasants ONLY worked 150 days a year. They worked 150 days on the field . Their other time was occupied with chores.
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I'm noticing that an increasing number of people are taking advantage people's general lack of interest in history as a means ideologically rewrite it. Just because some nobles and bishops said that peasants had it easy doesn&#x27
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Simply complying with DMCA takedowns doesn't mean that YouTube gets to make money from copyrighted material that copyright holders didn't send a takedown for. That's why they got sued by Viacom and had to make the ContentID s
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A copyright strike does require the claimant to submit a valid DMCA complaint. If a creator wants to ignore the YouTube's copyright strike system entirely, and YouTube will get rid of the strike, but that also means that you're
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by Aunche 3y ago
In the right to privacy is so broad that it applies to abortion, it should also apply to self-medicating yourself with narcotics. I'm not saying that decriminalization of drugs is a bad thing, but it's something that obviously sho
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by Aunche 3y ago
>Truly sordid tropes about rent caps and freezes are trotted out again and again, as if simply reciting them makes them axioms: they're not. Neither does insisting that these are sordid tropes make them so. In a vacuum, freezing ren
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by Aunche 3y ago
This is a meaningless hypothetical because in no world is a highly successful company ever going to let go of all their workers. On the other hand, one can imagine in a less capital friendly world, nobody would partake in Apples 1996 junk b
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I know I should be on the side of union organizers, but it's difficult to sympathize with them when they simultaneously try to portray themselves as David fighting Goliath, but also portray themselves as helpless victims when they get
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> Graeber was a scientist Graeber starts with a conclusion, and cherry picks evidence that supports his conclusion. This is the opposite of science. > Economists (a very dubious and arguably the most bullshit profession?) Yet somehow,
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Fair enough. This does sound like a more reasonable concern than their other antitrust fines. To be fair, this article does a very poor job of explaining by conflating "Google's ad business" with AdX.
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You'd think as such if you're observing the EU. They happily encourage monopolies that they profit from like LVMH and Luxottica.
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One of my friends works for a European adtech company. Unlike the companies I mentioned above, they don't do anything except manage online ads for brands. After iOS and Android enhanced their privacy settings, they lost a substantial p
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>EU is “concerned that Google has made it harder for rival online advertising services to compete in the so-called ad tech stack.” There are plenty of competitors in the ad tech space. China created TikTok. Korea created KaoKaoTalk. Even
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Jon Stewart's journalistic integrity used to better on his comedy show, where he didn't talk over guests. I find it funny that he thinks it's perfectly fine to squeeze as much profit out of your customers as possible if you&#
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You have it backwards. The Fed kept interest rates low while wages outpaced inflation during the recovery of the 2008 recession. They only raised interest rates after inflation started rising faster than wages and companies reported record
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Pharmaceutical companies will continue to develop new drugs so long as Americans are willing to spend infinite money on them. If they can make a marginal profit on selling some to a European country, that's a nice bonus. If the US also
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Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. There's no way debt from a leveraged buyout is going to be rated anywhere close to AAA. The leveraged buyouts of Twitter and Toy's R Us were funded by junk bonds. https:
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Sorry. I didn't realize you were a different person. My point is that the only opinion who matters is the contestants. If I were a poor Mr. Beast fan, I would be offended by the original comments denial of my agency.
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Why do you get to be the arbiter of what's demeaning? Are "poors" too stupid to determine their own limits? Playing silly games is hardly comparable to peeing your pants in public.
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I'm not exactly a fan of Mr. Beast, but this comment reeks of more elitism than any Mr. Beast video I've ever watched. Are "poors" too stupid to make decisions for themselves? Everyone in that video received thousands of
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by Aunche 3y ago
A "profit-price spiral" is simply not a thing. Even the people who use this term never define what exactly is "spiralling." It seems like certain economists are intent on obfuscating the role of expansionary monetary pol
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It took over 4 years for Facebook to hit 100 million users. It took TikTok 9 months to hit 100 million users. ChatGPT hit 100 million users within 2 months. It doesn't seem to continue to sustain the same explosive growth as TikTok, bu
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I'm referencing times that I wasn't a part of, but my impression was that mass shootings weren't so popularized until Columbine. Previously, mass shootings were simply not something that crossed people's minds as somethi
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Even if Ted Kaczynski is in the top .1% of people worth listening to, which I don't think he is, that means that there are millions of people with equally profound ideas. You should prioritze learning from those people first rather tha
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The difference is that employees at startups get a larger share of the long-term profit. At a megacorp, you mainly win by getting promotions, and the easiest way to do so is to optimize for short-term profits.
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>have the benefit of actually owning their own businesses This sounds like a business is just something that happens to fall on your lap while you're fixing a pipe rather than something that you build with your blood sweat and tears
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The public isn't ok with paying for it though. They only want to receive it. The yellow vests were protesting a level of taxation that couldn't sustain the pensions, let alone one that can.
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I'm noticing a trend of utilizing mental gymnastics to frame what benefits them personally as altruistic. This occurs often with policy (like student loan forgiveness), but this is most obvious with tipping. The staff are the ones who
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Alaska doesn't have UBI. The dividend doesn't even cover the increased cost of living of Alaska relative to the rest of the US, let alone the entire cost of living. UBI is supposed to be consistent, but Alaska's dividend is h

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