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Western executives only care about getting paid, they don't need to care about geopolitics because they will have already offloaded their responsibilities before it matters.
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The state of cryptocurrencies is nothing more than a visible symptom of larger systemic issues that have clearly gotten out of control. It would be much more beneficial to try and understand why the market has decided to consider it valuabl
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Homeless people are never in vogue, and therefore less marketable.
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Because most people used ventrilo, teamspeak or mumble, which required running or paying for a server, and had limited chat/ social network functionality, and skype which was just terrible. It came at the right time as gaming hit its s
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It is at the intersection of pornography and parasocial online relationships (seen in Youtube, Twitch and other influencers), both extremely profitable. Looking at some of the revenue breakdowns the fees to message are just as significant a
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Not all bread is made equal though, I would suspect that something like Wonderbread that is shipped in from some factory would be closer to ultra processed than bread baked in house at the supermarket for example.
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I think the idea is that everyone else in the world is doing that right now, and a huge portion of gains in recent times has been from a handful of companies, so I guess there is the choice between productive assets that are overpriced beca
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Yeah they use Samsung for their current series but are planning to move to TSMC for the next irrc.
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I thought they are using TSMC for their gpu, which means they will be part of the same bottleneck that is affecting everyone else.
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This isn't the kind of thing that has an easy solution. All the actors in this issue have their own reasons as to why they are incentivized to act the way they have. For example, how news has increasingly become editorialized to try an
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Misinformation is an issue because trust in politicians, the government, journalists, the media and the scientists they use as spokespeople has eroded significantly. It is probably easier for them to dump 1B into something like this initiat
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While reading the article all I could think about was that it sounded like it was written by a bitcoin maximalist, so many things were framed in bad faith that it makes it difficult to take for granted that it is an honest attempt at discus
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I feel like the threat of misinformation wouldn't be as significant if trust in institutions wasn't so abysmally low right now. Everyone needs trusted sources to make sense of the world, and if politicians and traditional media so
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I should clarify, there is a pretty large split between big law and an typical career in law. Those that go into top (200) firms are starting as associates at ~190k [1] with partners making ~1mm [2] with a long tail end. However most others
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Although average wages are around 75k, wages of lawyers are two tiered, the majority settle around ~55k and then prominent lawyers who went to good schools and were groomed to become partners make over triple that [1]. So it is a lot like o
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Yeah, like a lot of large industries, big tech exploits the value of data and the erosion of privacy for profit while outsourcing the social costs for someone else to solve. Almost by design they have created something too big to control.
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I think the difference is that the MTV sexuality scare was predicated on the belief that sexualized videos would normalize sexualization in youth with negative consequences, whereas in social media applications create the incentive structur
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Policy has crept business in this direction by stretching wages low while maintaining the benefits of revenue of a developed society, and while there are some successful restaurants, a large amount of them aren't exactly swimming in mo
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I think in general there are some pretty big costs that aren't fully understood to doing sex work, even outside of the social stigma of being found out by your friends and family, there are mental health costs that are often not talked
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You need to remember that people actually wanted Google and tech companies to be arbiters of truth and moderate content. This is what people asked for, so the real issue probably has to do with why people are comfortable with giving this am
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Because increasing minimum wage is popular politics but it doesn't really solve the issue, and that is even if policymakers are capable of coming together to agree on how to make a 'livable' minimum wage (a livable wage in ru
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The best way to illustrate how absurd prices in Canada are is that oftentimes carriers in other countries offer better plans to roam in Canada than the plans Canadians get to use on their own native networks. There really is no excuse for t
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I went to university a couple years after that and also felt a similar sentiment that it was basically too late to get in on a good career before the industry got outsourced. Of course then social media happened and everyone and their grand
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I think one of the greatest things that is missing from formal education is the encouragement of exploration, and the acclimation towards the failure that often accompanies that exploration. Everyone in school is so caught up on checking of
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It applies to the "My Book Live" version.
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Because this is the kind of story that cryptocurrency detractors love, and that aligns with the general sentiment towards cryptocurrencies on HN.
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I certainly hope everyone involved understands how precarious this path they are taking is. It should be well known by now from history that this sort of thing can be very dangerous, but it seems like there is a large part of the population
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Outside of school where friends basically just enjoyed each others company, I would say most friendships now are made in the work related environments so there is often a layer of politics involved that make it difficult for everyone to see
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Interesting to note that it wasn't even 3 years ago when everyone was making a big hoo-ha about Apple crossing the 1T threshold.
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It is in vogue to make judgements on the past based on current moral standards without much more context or understanding. These issues are far more complex than the popular narrative of Canada needing to atone for the genocide of native Am

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