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by Hokusai 6y ago
> taking $100,000,000 dollars home All this money allows this people to buy many things, properties, services... Do our society can afford for all that in exchange of some luck? There are limited resources and society have decided that t
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That's probably because you have not suffered to be the only people of your country/race/culture in a company. It's an awful feeling. The rest of colleagues have many common cultural references that you cannot identify w
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Kurt Vonnegut is one of that rare academics to be able to entertain and teach at the same time. (Not that this attribute is any more common outside academia) The shape of stories is a very good pedagogical tool to understand narrative, a ni
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Related: "Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates" https://eclecticlight.co/2020/12/17/apple-has-stopped-provid...
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This is one of the problems of crunch and tight release dates. Management gets used to deliver thanks to the developers last moment heroic efforts. But I don't think that Cyberpunk fits in a PS4. People are calling for more "optim
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Amazon shows the reviews, it should be accountable for them. These are not comments from users, this is used to promote sales. > Every "literate consumer" should already know this! So, it is my fault that Amazon promotes false
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> 5,000 followers on Facebook It seems a personal initiative more than an state backed one. But Facebook will run with the false equivalency. Facebook is trying to fight back regulations with missinformation and smear campaigns. This are
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> due to the technical limitations of how they store information. Has nothing to do with technical limitations and everything with engagement metrics. Facebook does not want to show you what you want to see, they want to show you what wi
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That makes little sense when you think about that. The constitution of your country does not stop at the door of a business. All your constitutional rights as a citizen enter the store with you. You have also human rights granted by interna
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That is not true. Each state has different regulations, that's why the article says "moved to California" and not just "moved to the USA". It's possible that UK law is incompatible with other states. The USA ha
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Tech companies, or any company for that matter, will do what is best for themselves. Regulations exist to protect consumers and other companies from accusative behaviors. Remove the regulation and the 'we care for your privacy' me
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> too large fines are bankruptcy events so companies gamble on polluting and then shut down after making a few years of profit It didn't happened like that. And it was not a fine, big or small. It just has to shutdown operations unt
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You are describing video games.
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I agree. Spain did this with river toxic waste. Companies found that it was cheaper to leak everything into the river and pay the fine than to fix the problem. Then the law was changed, if you pollute the river you need to shut down until i
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> The acronym SEO stands for “search engine optimization,” which translates into the vernacular as “tricks marketers use to make certain articles appear at the top of Google’s search results. When I found Altavista it was a game changer.
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Without control big just gets bigger. “Tencent Will Acquire Warframe's Parent Company For $1.5 Billion” - https://www.thegamer.com/tencent-purchase-warframe-parent-co...
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Tldr; the guy has purchased a new computer, it is better than his previous one.
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> The case for free speech absolutism has never looked more questionable I do not see free speech absolutism, I see a hidden agenda. Facebook is a platform used as a hate spreading megaphone. That is the reality that is being defended, f
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There article is reasonable and it just asks to apply laws that already exist. I am surprised how much false advertising is allowed on all this platforms. Chinese counterfeit products sold on Amazon, Russian state propaganda promoted by Fac
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I agree with the article, but a wealth tax would not only increase revenue to pay for health care, education and other social benefits, it will also reduce corruption. There is a point that money is not used anymore to purchase services and
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> with no government intervention. Small amounts of people do not need a government because they can just represent themselves. Any city needs a government, tasting at any sensible scale needs a the government. 3000BC Egyptians had taxes
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> A lot of languages are doing single static binary deploys now As a developer for more than 30 years, I find that statement quite interesting. When I was a kid I was very happy to find a way to compile Basic to an executable like I was
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> due to lax oversight That is an important point. Not only realisations are needed, regulations need to be enforced if we expect the banking system to work.
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> You don't need Big Government to do that. Regulations are there tools that citizens have to reign in corporate behavior. 'Big government' is just a catch name for many anti regulation lobbying entities to remove power fr
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> I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store What about defining a standard subscription protocol that allows any company to offer subscription management, and allow consumers to change their subscription manager i
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Many good points in the article. And the starting point is brilliant: > Extract more revenue from your existing customers That is the only way forward for a company so used to growth. pressure on its current customers is only going up to
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> If you are a disabled person living or working in Paris this might put you in a really bad spot. Can you share some link to the complains of the disabled community? I see you position posted quite often, but I have never seen any detai
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Amazon gets money one way or the other. Amazon is the equivalent to a classic Rome market with people shaving coins down and using rigged weighing scales. Or law enforcement and legislators do something about it or our rights as consumers w
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> Other internal market measures, including administrative tools to facilitate compliance with cross-border VAT in e-commerce, which will enter into force from July 2021, and the harmonisation of consumer protection rules, which will ent
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It is still atrocious. Designers have developed thru the ages great fonts, layouts and a miriad of tools to create text that is easy to read. Not having to read the text backwards is a extremely low bar, I expect more from a text. Twitter i

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