Barrin92

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by Barrin92 2mo ago
>So McDonald's has a monopoly on the Big Mac? yes, that's called a differentiated product in economics and it confers market power the same way any other monopoly does, Sony controls the Playstation ecosystem, Apple its ecosyst
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>So how is your argument supposed to work? My argument's pretty straight forward. Manipulation on the platform isn't profitable for Mark Zuckerberg. What's profitable is selling ads. Making teenagers anorexic doesn't
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I think they'd give you some leeway if you fired up gas plants to not freeze in the winter, I want to see their faces when you tell them you turned them on because you wanted to generate more digital slop during a climate crisis
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when it comes to commerce it isn't because it makes doing business impossible. How is this practically going to look, Canonical, Red Hat and open source maintainers are going to ship 50 different Linux distributions in the United State
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>Zuck built an empire purpose built to damage democracy and the mental health of children to suicidal levels, for money. That may have been the result of those platforms and he profited from it but I doubt he purpose built them to that e
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>But I should not have to hide my sexuality or identity, nor my politics You shouldn't but you can't and will never be able to know what the future looks like. You could be in libertine Berlin of the 1920s and be hunted down by
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>tinitus sure as hell isn't my friend. what the author is advocating for "befriending tinnitus" is a well established form of therapy (Acceptance and Commitment/ACT), it's generally very effective because avoidan
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As the paper points out that's accounted for in the analysis, because shockingly enough to most internet commentators researchers know that they need to control for confounding variables https://www.bmj.com/content&#x2F
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>but above all fiction has to be entertaining As Neil Postman points out in Amusing Ourselves to Death that is an artifact of modern mass media. In the Abrahamic traditions idolatry and an aversion to imagery exists exactly for this re
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develop or rediscover a culture that views people as possessing inherent dignity, reason, empathy and individual freedom instead of promoting a commercial culture whose logical terminus are the Wall-E people.[1] Practical first step would b
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I'm not sure what that's supposed to imply because if Ursula von der Leyen manages to be less corrupt without being elected by the people that has some uncharitable consequences for the quality of the American electorate, I thin
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the STEM academic world in the Soviet Union was extremely meritocratic. largely shielded from outside influence and maybe the best talent pipeline anyone has ever invented to produce scientific expertise. Exception being biology as Lysenkoi
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>The concentration of deaths is entirely implausibly described as "suicides", The article talks about 19 people. Given the size of those organizations that's statistically elevated but too small a number to descend into co
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>Aldi - these brands prove that catering to poor people is more profitable than catering to rich people At least here in Germany Aldi isn't even really limited to the poor, it's famously a place where you can run into anyone. W
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it contained significantly less extreme content. There's studies on kids as young as 12 routinely being exposed to sexual violence, practices such as choking or degrading activity in porn and viewing it as so normal that young women re
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>Do YC CEO's dress in all white like Boss Hogg? No, of course not, they're your friends. They even have a ping pong table and a smoothie bar. It's like in the Soviet Union, everyone's a comrade, nobody's a boss
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>The modern American standard of life is based on global integration The United States is virtually the least trade dependent country in the world[1] which is why you frequently see American governments wield trade policy as a weapon. Ec
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>He's so evil but the vast majority of Americans can't give up his products? Is he forcing people to login to Instagram or Facebook? People are perfectly fine with him making products, what they aren't fine with is he (and
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>You think the standard of life you enjoy today is because of the triumph of local parochialism? My standard of life involves democracy and self-determination. Americans are 'pathetic' about that because it turns out at the end
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>the American way of life our child’s will inherit is going to mean something very different than what it meant for us. I'm fairly certain the American way of life is exactly what happened here, that citizens of a locality exercise
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>I'm wondering what people expect these companies to do? How is this our problem? We make the rules, the obey them. If they can't they ought to be shut down. If they want to argue that at their scale they can't abide by th
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>It's impossible to have expensive real estate no it's very possible because in an aging country people relocate to a handful of cities. 50% of South Korea's population now lives in the Seoul metropolitan area. The real es
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>An LLM just solved 10 top tier math problems this week and 30 years ago a computer beat Gary Kasparov, if you'd listened to Hans Moravec you wouldn't be surprised that the first thing that gets automated is intellectual domain
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>For the most-dominant military power in the world Russia kept saying its the second most powerful military in the world and now it's the second most powerful military in Ukraine. You can't just keep saying words and then think
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>Germany is home of the biggest chemical companies in the world Some of them are worth keeping but also some of them actually should go. Close to where I used to live in Düsseldorf there was a plastic bottle factory that employed 500 som
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being German that's a sad thing to hear. I really do hope you stay because I think people genuinely do need to stand up to it, don't write us off too quickly. Verbitterung/Verrohung of public life seems to be omnipresent now
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or just look at the faceless and weirdly misshapen 'people' in the crowd. Genuinely who was judging this? Also I'm pretty sure Ohio isn't 250 years old, this is just crazy
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>"Use whatever works for you" is intellectually lazy it isn't in a space that's full of snake oil salesmen trying to peddle you solutions you don't need. The problem with the whole knowledge management thing is t
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that's not the issue, you can buy the batteries if you wanted to. The problem is that EVs require about 50% less labor than ICE cars and this is the first time since the 80s that German car companies have started to fire anyone or clos
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I don't buy the article's thesis because tech bros are neither spending on the sector nor are they popular. I have a simpler explanation, also applies to the 'Otaku-fication' of anime. Miyazaki complained that the people

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