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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Or rather (due to obvious reasons) you just couldn't get a meaningful sample and would just be wasting resources/money if you conducted this test in US/EU.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> and there's huge power imbalance between employers and employees That's the real issue, however fundamentally I don't really see an issue if saying certain things publicly makes you effectively unemployable. > In Euro
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Btw even Nazi radio broadcasting was not blocked during WW2 in GB. No, they just executed their announcer for treason just for what he said on radio and accepting German citizenship (and it was not even clear he was legally a British s
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
What do you mean by "punished"? You have the right to say whatever you want just like I have the right to not listen to what you're saying, not to employ you, not buy goods/services from you and to encourage my friends t
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Shutting down so called Russian-propaganda sites That's a significant disadvantage democracies that embrace freedom of speech have, though. China/Russia/other authoritarian shitholes have a very easy time shaping, block
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Is this some sort of sarcasm?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Yes? That's what it means. Freedom of speech is not the right to impose your opinions on other people or even to force them to listen to you.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> There isn’t much incentive for them to compete Sure but privacy is still a selling point (e.g. Apple has different incentives than ad companies like Google and (regardless of how abusive their policies regarding app publishing are) was
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> We learnt the value of free speech the hard way, and very slowly Did we though? Unfortunately outside the US and a handful of other places free speech doesn't seem to be valued that much, often it's even viewed as a threat (a
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Certainly. Although megacorps at least still have some incentives to compete with each other and therefore try to appease the consumers. Unfortunately the EU does not.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> And so, 96% of people now think Signal is evil. The overwhelming majority of people living in the EU won't really care or even notice this new law/directive/(?) because they don't really pay any attention to what th
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> widespread expectation among many that it's morally imperative for them to be able to elect their own government. So any moves by the government to limit this will be met by fierce resistance. That's not really true as far as
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
At least far as it comes to privacy Apple and even FB, MS and Google to an extent share the same interests as their users, unlike the EU bureaucrats who just seem to be salty because they are unable to exert control over society and justify
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Probably not but you still need to have someone to someone to communicate with even if you manage to install it. If you can't get it on the mainstream app stores it will just be a niche app for "privacy nerds" and drug dealer
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> will happen is that unwitting Signal users will end up being targeted by law enforcement Seems like a good thing. If nothing else works at least that might bring some attention to this nonsense..
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Tell that to the people cheering the EU "sticking it" to the megacorporations like Apple. Not that those policies were bad on their own but we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking that the bureaucrats in Brussels ever car
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
England was mostly clear cut long before the Industrial Revolution. That was possibly one of the main reasons it happened, there was huge demand for coal because there was little available firewood. e.g. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk&
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> and how much more open natural space there must have been across the country. That depends on the country/area a lot though. UK is a bit of an exception because it's population increased much more than almost anywhere else in
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
It's unreasonable if there aren't any reasonable alternatives.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Would it be any better for the whole market if Qualcomm developed their own proprietary RISC-V cores with proprietary/patented extensions that most software would be reliant on? There wouldn't be any equivalent of ARM to keep the
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Would it be any better if Qualcomm developed their own proprietary RISC-V cores with proprietary/patented extensions that most software would be reliant on? Currently Qualcomm and ARM are somewhat balancing each other out, with RISC-V
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> I was talking about the website the article is on, It's website of the biggest(?) real estate classifieds website in Spain so it's not particularly shocking.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> I was talking about the website the article is on, It's website of the biggest(?) real estate classifieds website in Spain
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Not according to the Guardian To be fair that's an opinion piece.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> falsifies your argument Not really. Also could we please stick to the Hackernews guidelines? > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. ... > When disagreeing, please reply to
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Right, so basically you want the system we currently have?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> I was wondering what kind of website You do know that it's run by a VC company? Not particularly surprising that most most people generally support the protection of property rights
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
I'm just curious because I have a only very limited understanding of the situation there but surely it must have been considerably worse back in 2007-2008 compared to now? Since housing prices seem to still be ~30% lower inflation adju
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> are revolutionaries who want to abolish the class society Also, apparently the construction of new housing and maintenance of older stock. So that we would be living in abandoned ruins and huts in a few decades if they got their way...
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> use their real estate instead of letting them rot Or not to invest into it in the first places which results in even lower supply of housing long-term. > value appreciation House prices in Spain haven't yet recovered to their p

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