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by bparsons 3y ago
Canada is a pretty small market. Google and Meta have come in and (perhaps unintentionally) destroyed the tiny Canadian news media sector. I don't think it unreasonable that these companies, (largest on earth), pay a tiny fraction of a
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by bparsons 3y ago
Between 1949 and 1987, US private companies were forced to pay for and produce high quality news content under guidelines set by the federal government. One of the conditions of ABC, CBS and NBC being given access to the airwaves was that t
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Ottawa pulls advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram(nationalpost.com)
149 points by bparsons 3y ago|198 comments
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We learn every day that it is easy to create small amounts of energy from large amounts of energy.
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Car drivers are used to constantly breaking the law, endangering pedestrians and other road users and seeing zero consequences. Even in cases of hit and run homicides, the driver rarely faces jail time. https://abcnews.go.com&#x2
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I wonder how well the US would function if it were under economic blockade by the entire hemisphere.
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Canada does lots of controlled burns. The forests are on fire because it has barely rained in most parts of the country since April.
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You can boot most games you buy on steam from the folder. It is extremely weak DRM.
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Compared against any other activity or mode of transportation.
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Let me be more precise. Human driving killed 42,939 people in the US in 2021.
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Also, humans are pretty horrible at driving. They constantly commit traffic violations and kill eachother. Driving kills about 1 in 103 people in their lifetime. There is no other day to day activity where this level of risk is considered a
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This is also a way for industry incumbents to pull up the ladder behind them. Once you gain the lead position, it is in your interest to increase the barriers to entry as much as possible.
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No one ever got poor coming up with elaborate rationalizations and defenses on behalf of people accumulating hundreds of billions of dollars.
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It is not far off from Google Earth. Most of the cities have handscaped 3D models, while the rest of the planet is procedurally generated.
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Cancel the credit card and take them to small claims.
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Consequences like a genocide in Burma or massive increases in the youth suicide rate?
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A Brain Scanner Combined with an LLM Can Provide a Glimpse into Your Thoughts(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by bparsons 3y ago|1 comments
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Outside of driving, I never really understood the popular use case for these voice assistants. In most situations it is easier to type your query rather than say it out loud. It was a novelty touted as a big leap in technology.
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GM confirms Chevy Bolt will die this year, making way for electric pickups(arstechnica.com)
3 points by bparsons 3y ago|0 comments
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Progressive corporate income tax for extremely large enterprises could achieve a similar outcome.
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There is a reasonable argument that companies who employ a lot of people per unit of profit/revenue should pay a lower rate of tax on those profits. If you create a fleet of robo-semi trucks and take over the American logistics busines
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by bparsons 4y ago
You think he leaked these documents to bring about a negotiated end to the war?
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by bparsons 4y ago
People are conflating street homelessness with crime. Seeing homeless people in their neighborhood makes people feel guilty and uncomfortable, so they demand that the police remove them from public view. Because there is no coherent strateg
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by bparsons 4y ago
This article contains stats that are pretty shocking and contrary to the overwhelming narrative coming out of the SF tech community. https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made... The murder rate
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You could say the same thing about cigarette and alcohol sales.
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This is the market applying a band-aid to a structural problem of low wages for service workers. If I am at Whistler at a liquor store, I tip the cashier because I know that the cost of living there is the most expensive in the world. The h
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by bparsons 4y ago
At last. Someone has found a real world use case for crypto.
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The idea that a few angry homeowners can block someone else from having a home is anti democratic.
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It is called occupational health and safety rules. You can't (legally) work people to death anymore.
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by bparsons 4y ago
I love YouTube, but the shorts feature is pushing really harmful content at their users. Even though I exclusively subscribe to food and skiing channels, every fourth video on shorts is really vile stuff from Jordan Peterson or Andrew Tate.

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