Mirioron

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by Mirioron 7y ago
I think TV ads are much worse than ads on the internet. Imagine YouTube, where you have to watch an ad that's a fifth of the length of the video for every video. 10 minute video? 2 minutes of unskippable ads. Right now we tend to have
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Paper press has been disappearing for quite a while even with subscription fees. They're often bankrolled by rich people or companies and likely aren't impartial. I'm not sure TV is a good example either. The number of TV cha
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'm saying better because the consumer now knows of more alternatives. They have to obviously make their own choice on the matter.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
So, does that mean everything has to be packaged in the same grey form factor as to not advertise their product? You walk around a city and see lots of Coca-Cola branding on the bottles people carry around. That's also advertising. If
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It also means that people would have a lot less access to information about what's going on. I wouldn't subscribe to a single newspaper or magazine if it cost me money. I would guess that a lot of the people I know would do the sa
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by Mirioron 7y ago
But consumers could get better services and products, because they'll know that there's a choice to be had. I always go to the same place to have my hair cut, because it's the only one I know. Maybe there are better options f
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by Mirioron 7y ago
On the flip-side, businesses that rely on ad revenue would disappear. That means most of the commonly used websites. No more Google, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, almost all news sites etc. This also means that everything goes back to
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I doubt that Coca-Cola, Gatorade, and McDonald's would he the ones on the losing side of this. Their products are already everywhere. It's hard not to see them in a city, especially Coca-Cola.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I hope this becomes more common in the long-term. Something needs to break playstore's grasp on android.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I don't disagree with the regulations. I'm saying that there are enough regulations that land doesn't directly translate to means of production anymore. > I don't think you'll encounter too many building code pro
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> Only it makes people get more haircuts or their is a labor shortage you get a second job. There are things that are productive that aren't jobs. You having more time to read HN probably has some productive value, because it teach
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> But we know that unbounded growth is neither healthy nor possible. Why is it unhealthy? From where I'm standing, this growth better be essentially unbounded for our purposes. This value's growth represents the advancement of
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The problem is that nowadays your land is not your land. You can't do whatever you want on it. Everything is heavily restricted by permits and regulations. Sure, you can farm, but you can't start a factory or mine the minerals on
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Isn't the EU just lovely? Question to downvoters: does it make sense that every part of the EU gets this degraded quality even if they have competently built IT infrastructure?
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> What "utility" do you think exists for the ISP to increase their bandwidth capabilities? In the US? The fact that everybody doesn't hate their guts. A future government could easily screw them over in the future, becaus
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by Mirioron 7y ago
There's a difference between them though. It's rare that people max out their power when it comes to electricity. But with the broadband it's different. Any time you download a file you try to max out your connection. There i
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I'm obviously implying that the reason capitalism is used is because it aligns people's self-interest with society's interests. You're encouraged to make something better in capitalism and that pushes innovation. Best of
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by Mirioron 7y ago
That's because humans need stuff to live. You want an economic system that keeps improving and nature is pretty good at it.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> The primary beneficiaries of this military consumption are the corporations that supply the goods and services that the military pays for (with public money), but the gains made by those corporations go into a relatively few pockets.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
> There might be some activities of a CEO that a customer buying a product of the company led by said CEO might benefit from, but a CEOs activities are exclusively to the benefit of said CEO. Not to the benefit of the company, not to the
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by Mirioron 7y ago
The beneficiaries of these activities are the people buying the products. If people wouldn't have a desire for more cheap food and other products then people wouldn't make it. Turns out though, that it's the poorest people fo
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Because it is. With enough energy you can make all kinds of problems go away. The industrial revolution was all about unlocking the usage of non-human energy.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
I wonder if games had more mechanics like that whether people would become more aware of how to handle a disease outbreak.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
This isn't necessarily true. The big symptoms of almost any infectious disease are actually the body's response to the disease rather than being caused by the disease itself. Things like fever, cough, runny nose are usually (very
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Do you brush your teeth? Have you ever looked into why brushing your teeth is good scientifically? How many people do you think have done that? Yet we all brush our teeth or at least believe it's good for us. We're not basing our
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by Mirioron 7y ago
With what money? The US population is 327 million. $1,000 * 12 * 327,000,000,000 = $3,924,000,000,000 Collected US tax revenue for 2019 was $3.46 trillion. Even if you could afford it in terms of money, it still wouldn't change anythin
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Maybe not shampoo, but some people can't seem to stand certain types of toothpaste with sodium lauryl sulfate in it. It apartment aggregates canker sores in their mouth. Those are most of the types of toothpastes you can buy. If you cu
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by Mirioron 7y ago
It's not the same thing though. We know that there are chemical responses for things such as touch and other physical interactions. You don't get that online. It's a vastly different thing.
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Yes it is. Science advances one funeral at a time. The most scientifically reasonable thing can still be wrong. If an authority forces everyone to do the same, then everyone would be wrong. And this is all assuming that there is zero corrup
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by Mirioron 7y ago
Most of my clothes are that old, especially clothes I wear at home. Why would I buy new ones for that? The only reason is if the old ones are too broken/worn.

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