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The Cooperative That Could: How S Group became Finlands dominant retailer (2023)(prospect.org)
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“ It will bring more than £500 million in savings for UK consumers in the first ten years.” If you believe that I have a monorail to sell you! Why pass onto consumers what you can take as profit. Norwegian news is reporting that the price o
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I partially agree but early on there's an reference to a balancing couterculture that is now missing. However basing this on his current experience of a visit to London vs living there is short sighted. Merely visiting does not let you
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I wonder if most offices are like us, where we have "flexible seating" but everyone has their spot and sits in the same desk whenever their in and most people respect that. So your chair, monitor position and brightness, desk heig
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This problem has been solved by everyone being rich enough to have a cabin in the mountains! Joking aside, whilst many people have access to a cabin through friends or family, most people don't have to travel far to go skiing as the te
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> Exercise is difficult Which is why they invented skiing! Norwegians do quite a lot of physical exercise but it has to vary over the year. Cross country skiing is a good way to get into nature and is great full body workout. But yes, th
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> "Since then, our business priorities have evolved..." I do enjoy seeing what euphemisms companies come up with in place of "in order to increase profits". A shame to see this service go though, there seem to be less
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This assumes that I think being fast is by itself a worthy competition, which I don't, plus fails to provide a definition of speed. There are plenty of companies with phenomenal growth that we've never heard of because they don&#x
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The more Elon talks about something you know about, the more you realise he's not a tech genius, far from it, but he is a powerful momentum guy. By that I mean that he seems to have a compulsive need to constantly push himself and his
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I had hoped nobody read cyberpunk books and thought that was a description of utopia but consistently we see billionaires trying to act out the sci-fi novels from their youth or impose dystopian world views from Ayn Rand.
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The mega rich have been building bunkers and preparing for the downfall of humanity for a long time now. Look around and you'll notice that greed wins out over everything else. We're surrounded by companies doing nothing or only s
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If anything we've doubled down on inequality.
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A factor could have been that Bhutan's population is mostly Buddhist & Hindu, with a relatively high number of vegetarians, so a cull would be objected to for religious reasons as well as the normal "people love dogs" rea
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From the article it seems that residents & businesses need to buy hardware from Fusus: "I acknowledge that in order to participate in this program I will have to purchase equipment from FUSUS and pay any associated costs to access
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In Norway at least, most childcare is provided by the state (via the local authority). There are some private nurseries but there are very strict rules on how they operate, to the point that the laws are hostile against their existence. Wha
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No such thing about private laws but there can be bylaws/rules that visitors implicitly agree to when they visit but these cannot conflict or invalidate the law of the land. E.g. they are requesting that people not take photos but they
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Yes, the list is basically demagogic pseudo-intellectuals. As pointed out in the article they are "pseudo" as although they might be studied in one field, they quickly start talking about other topics that they have not studied ac
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I'd consider that an exceptional case of one site that was provably harmful. With scam sites it is easy to find thousands that match a pattern that identifies them as scams but that's still circumstantial evidence. We actually don
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No, governments are not piggy banks, you don't get out what you put in. People pay taxes for the general betterment of the country and everyone benefits from a stable country with a healthy population, which are things you can't r
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No, private companies are spending their customer's money. If they spent less, costs to the customers would be less. All our fancy offices, high salaries and bonuses need to be paid for and in my company this is partially by selling le
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Corporate welfare (socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor) is widespread and based on the mythical infallibility of trickle down economics. To add to your list: when a company wants to build a new factory or office, often the tax
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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Whilst I do like a lot of Infected Mushroom's stuff I've always seen them as the cheesy, commercial, "like it ironically" side of psy-trance. I don't consider them truly representative of psy-trance, at least the eu
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I don't agree with a lot about Uber's business model and how it treats its drivers but I have very little or no sympathy for French taxi drivers. This comes from years of running events in France that attracted an international au
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The article doesn't mention hours watched but does mention subscribers, which is the income metric the market is most interested in: "Netflix reported 1.2 million additional subscriptions in Latin America during the second quarter
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Anna's email address is not Benjamin's personal data. The GDPR requirement is for the requester's personal data, not personal data of anyone else.
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The GDPR article 15 states that the data to be provided is "personal data", which is data that can be used to identify you. E.g. name, address, location, tracking ids. Text of an email does not come under personal data so not cove
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There seem to be 2 types of camera apps for the iPhone: those aimed at adding filters and post-processing; and those removing all processing & automatic controls that the stock camera app wants to add (by default the iPhone software wil
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Link is to a puff piece from Dec 2022. What was announced by Humane last week was what the wearable looks like https://hu.ma.ne/media/humanexcoperni The information is vague and I'm made more dubious by it being s
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I notice this when travelling the world and it's one of the main reasons I think the many of the arguments for cryptocurrency are flawed. I've used decades old dollar bills in SE Asia that have been pretty much detached from the U

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