Hokusai

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by Hokusai 5y ago
Then why is the title 'Amazon is'?. It seems that just mentioning Amazon brings more clicks, I guess.
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> Amazon really proved to me that no, we do not own digital content. Amazon does not make laws. If a thieve steals your car that does not prove that you don't own the car. The car ownership is still yours, but it has been stolen. Wo
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> you might as well pirate stuff I want big corporations to abide to the law. To pirate is a patch that does not solve the problem. Let's fix that corporations do whatever they want with your digital property. I want to buy digital
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> and all my purchased media is gone Stolen by Amazon. They have no incentive to get it back. Amazon hopes that you purchase it again. Call the consumer protection services. Big tech companies are not the law, they cannot steal things fr
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> is the "The Telegraph" on drugs? It's the Telegraph talking about France. > don't trust the media I am not a billionaire with my own secret service. I need to trust dinner general media. And I trust a lot of th
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> with more artists insisting on getting those rights upfront I doubt that unknown artist can negotiate anything. What you are offered is better than nothing. Big corporations abuse their position all the time, individuals can not realis
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You need trusted authorities anyway. Anyone may show at your home and steal your crypto currency at gun point, you may pay for items that are not delivered, your employer may not pay you. Authorities and the rule of law are fully needed fo
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More people requires more effort, if just one individual or one company can mobilize huge amounts of money it becomes effortless to bend the system your own way. That's why it's hard to organize hundreds of thousands of employees
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> I still have yet to see the research on the electric car co2 implications of producing batteries and offloading co2 output to power plants, when compared to the incumbent solution - https://www.transportenvironment.org/
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Maybe you are right, I want to be able to talk and discuss topics with friends and peers. I feel that is hard sometimes to know what others are watching and how it matches my taste. I enjoy as much watching and reading media as I enjoy shar
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> laziness That seems quite judgemental, each time that I see someone calling others lazy is just a case of not understanding others circumstances and hardships. Walk a mile in their shoes...
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> The media narrative against Amazon is not entirely accurate Anti unionization, abusing providers and streaming their business, allowing fake products, allowing fake reviews,... I am sure that is the press is not entirely accurate. Ther
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> How much above Amazon are you willing to pay to shop at a local or independent seller? I want it regulated so it does not abuse it's position, and I want the government making sure that it follows laboral laws so its employees can
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by Hokusai 5y ago
1. It can still be made illegal, It just requires bigger changes. 2. I understand that what needs to be made illegal is some kinds of lobbying that includes financing parties, not all of it.
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Stockholm Tunnelbannan. T * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stockholms_tunnelban...
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> For many of us a dearly loved date has already been selected, which makes our estimation efforts really interesting as we endeavor to shove more and more "stuff" into that bag. The problem is not to ask for estimates, compani
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Why do Americans do drugs and have more bad behavior than other parts of the world if it's just a personal choice? Blaming the poor for being poor does not help. Other countries does not depend so much inn police but on other social se
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> VR is very attractive for teenagers and preteens Headsets are horribly bad. The day I can get my VR onto my glasses, that's the day that VR will be for everybody. My headset, and many people I known headsets, is in a box. I love V
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> "Did we hide our science? Absolutely not. Did we join some of these 'shadow groups' to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that's true. But there's nothing illegal about that. You know, we were looking
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> Even though the researcher kept the “integrity pass” in place, or the first layer of the algorithm that sorts for integrity ahead of engagement, they said that “integrity bad metrics still shot through the roof.” Not very interesting w
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> any interpretation of reality that sits outside of the general "accepted" media consensus is deemed a "conspiracy theory" Do you think that in the past people were more acceptant of non-mainstream ideas? Because tha
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> "we have to control the flow of information" Someone already controls the flow of information, it can be Facebook, it can be Twitter, it can be newspapers, ... The open question is who should control information and how. My
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I remember a theory of why this happens. In a natural environment it may be better for individuals of social species to look for causation on others. It's better to think that maybe your neighbor threw you a rock on purpose that by mis
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Certificates in Sweden are valid for 3 months. So, if it's the same for Italy then it's not good but not catastrophic either.
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> Most centralization incrementally kills local industry And it makes the world more fragile and less diverse and interesting. Capitalism is founded on the idea of many producers competing for many customers. Amazon model steps as middle
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> By altering how posts about vaccines are ranked in people’s newsfeeds Facebook has been enjoying the fact that they are not held responsible for the content that users post. But since they started to heavily manipulate the timeline, an
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Not just insects. Where I used to live even birds had left. A decade of stronger regulations and cleaning the closer by river made animals come back. And the river started to look less like a sewer and more like a river. The pollution that
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> ability to compete on taxes To steal from other EU members is no competition it's just unethical. Small countries can live just by cashing a small part of the money that is rightly owned by countries with more population. That nee
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> The parliament identified the most urgent measures the EU needs to take to close loopholes that currently allow for tax avoidance, money laundering and tax evasion on a massive scale. This is a very important step to improve Europe eco
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> My favourite tactic is to ask a yes/no question. Depending on culture and hierarchy that can be a bad idea. > do you need to scale up by hand? In many places that is not a question, but just a rhetoric question that means &#x27

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