Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
I do not work for them. This is something I noticed over the years: as Google ran into more and more obstacles in the US that are political the more they seem to have started to meddle. Maybe it's because this is easier, but maybe it&#
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> They'd just pay their x% tax and suck it up and consider it cost of doing business. And then after that the companies will get involved in politics in those places so that it never happens again. This in turn increases the chance
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by Mirioron 7y ago
In the long term the issue with this is that it pushes Google and Facebook into your politics. If you use political measures to screw with them, then they'll start getting involved in the politics more and more to protect themselves. A
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The issue is that there's no spatial component to WeChat. For whatever reason, it feels different when you have an avatar in a world with some freedom to move around. Another thing is that WeChat doesn't provide you much of an act
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Tomato fruit sugar content apparently inversely correlates with the sugar content of the fruit.[0] That is, larger tomatoes tend to have less sugar in them as a percentage of the whole. I'm not sure if this applies to strawberries, but
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think that it's more about children thinking that everyone is equal in having to keep their word. If you make a promise then you're supposed to keep to it. What often disillusions children is that people in positions of authorit
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by Mirioron 7y ago
This isn't always true. The free market with infinite competition might settle on optimal solutions eventually, but there's almost always a gradient that appears due to time. It takes time for changes to propagate through a system
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> Are you saying that Amazon is the best that is possible in Europe? Even if that were the case, there's no reason an equally bad competitor couldn't fill the vacuum. No, I'm not saying that a competitor can't appear
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> What are you actually arguing about? Because in your original post you seem to be arguing that Amazon here in Europe is heads and shoulders above the competition while still being inferior to the US, implying that the e-commerce landsc
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> Most items can be next day delivered here in the UK for a low standard charge. Cool. What about the rest of Europe/the EU? I am in an EU country and ordering anything from any of the Amazons has a minimum delivery time of 1 wee
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It wouldn't surprise me if alcohol sales are up. People are stuck at home with nothing to do. The aftermath of this is going to be disastrous in so many ways.
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I don't expect France to know what it's doing at all. Not long ago they had massive protests for a very long time and it was handled poorly. And this seems like a regular occurrence there.
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> A second order effect would be the rise of a regional competitor to fill the vacuum. No, it wouldn't. Amazon in the US is amazing compared to what Amazon is in Europe. Packages take a lot longer to arrive and the choice is much w
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What you're not thinking of is that restrictions such as this also cost lives. Suicides will be up and there will be much more economic stress afterwards.
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I think the argument is that YouTube is keeping the "price" artificially low which makes competition untenable. If at some point YouTube "raises their prices" (starts paying out less/takes significant extra money fr
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> they had no ad revenue sharing with video creators This is the one point that makes YouTube so difficult to shake. The money is attractive to creators and YouTube offers the most money with the largest audience. YouTube themselves act
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> Google is apparently less competent then the federal government in that regard (granted Google can't print money, yet). Even if they could, they would randomly discontinue the money 3 years down the line. But I think comparing Go
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The worry, though, is that the state grows too powerful. A lot of things in our society are built on the foundation of curbing state power (it's actually about curbing absolute power - the state is part of the solution to that). Consti
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The easiest way to convince the public is to lie to them, because that data is not going to be private. There is no chance that this won't be misused. NSA employees misused their power to spy on their neighbors and partners. There is v
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And this is why it's done during a crisis: it works. All the education and talk about how the last time the government overstepped their bounds goes out the window the moment a crisis hits. Then it's all about "why isn't
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I don't think this is likely. It's a societal problem with no real fix. If people don't feel like they're part of society then the government is unlikely to be able to fix it. It becomes even harder when those people are
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by Mirioron 7y ago
To explain: a Swedish company warehoused millions of masks in France. Two million of these masks (million each) were supposed to be sent to Spain and Italy. France had confiscated all of these masks. It took two weeks of pressure by Sweden
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> The only real advantage I can see is concentration of skill - e.g. people say that you basically have to develop electronics in Shenzhen, there's simply not enough talent in the US and EU - but I wonder if the efficiency gains are
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by Mirioron 7y ago
From an ex-Soviet perspective, living in a house itself can already be considered bordering on a luxury. When I grew up, a family of 4 to 7 easily lived in an 800-900 sqft apartment.
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Part of the reason those large "essentials" (college education is not essential!) have become so expensive is that people have been willing to pay more and more for it. The supply of these is not increasing fast enough to keep up
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think that as far as internet businesses are concerned, they're going to recover quickly and become stronger than ever. Social distancing is showing a lot of people the usefulness of the internet and I think that this is going to cre
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Are we just lucky here, like with universal health care? You don't hear as much about European problems online, because they're spoken about in the respective nation's language. This means that it's hard to compare
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Email might get compromised more often, but that's usually due to some kind of user error. The problem with these sim swapping attacks is that the only way as a user to guard against this is not to give the company your phone number. T
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Even if there is, there are still so many different carriers in the world. I doubt all of them are going to implement safeguards against this, which means that accounts will be at risk as long as websites rely on these phone numbers.
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> So the question is obviously, how do we change the news ecosystem from what it is, to a system that makes people better informed? I think that other than marginal gains, this is a pipedream. The reason the news media is the way it is

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