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by cloutchaser 4y ago
2/3 tax cuts she suggested were actually supported by labour previously. I think the mistake is more a massive communications and timing issue. She really should have announced these cuts in a staggered way, with better communication f
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
This lady was for turning. Unfortunately, if you want to shake things up and introduce even moderately radical policies, you better have the stamina and political will and skill to push them through and keep at it. Britain's first fema
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
It’s not a scam, it’s a business model being tried by a startup in one of the most competitive and dirty industries ever. Much less scammy than what google and chrome does.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
It doesn't take too many data points to at least make you suspicious. It's not a conspiracy theory. We know Peter Daszak lied about his involvement in this research. We know Fauci made decisions about coronavirus research. We know
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Technically you are not wrong, but all platforms including Twitter, Facebook, etc basically say "We believe in free speech, but..." It's really just about choosing who moderates your content. 0 moderation is not possible, so
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Parler hasn't been able to get back to how popular it was since the coordinated shutdown. I imagine they sold for a very small amount (although they did apparently raise some money earlier and buy Dynascale, a hosting company). Most of
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
I see comments like this all the time on HN. It's a bit pointless replying, because your views are so black and white, but you really have no idea how much value there is in taking risk, leading a team, and executing well. These are gi
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Yeah this is a very silly and ignorant argument, especially when so many other smart people say Zuckerberg is insanely ambitious and smart. If building a $1trn company would be this easy everyone would be doing it.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Why does a company that still has majority founder votes, and founder CEO do something like this? Zuckerberg can't be this dumb, his bonuses don't depend on the share price, so why destroy your company like this? I just don't
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
They outsource their innovation to freer countries. Germany is basically an industrial powerhouse but they are optimizing things, not innovating. Without the US the standard of living would be much lower for these countries and the rest of
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
It's a scale obviously, and usually the more free markets are, and the less the tax take is, the more successful countries tend to be. Even with authoritarian leaders. Singapore being a good example. It's just that authoritarian l
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
I've noticed recently almost all broad searches on image search return watermarked stock photos. It's terrible. The entire stock photo industry is so bad at creativity you can basically instantly tell if a photo is a stock photo,
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Here's some helicopters flying over the exact explosion locations on sept 2nd: https://twitter.com/BNNBreaking/status/1574804363280719876
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
I wouldn't be suprised if this turns into the next "lab leak theory" in terms of censorship. There's going to be one acceptable party line, parrotted in the media and anything else will be censored on social media as wel
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
They offer financial and legal assistance to people who are deplatformed. Apparently that is already borderline or fully illegal in many people's eyes these days. Baffles the mind that no trial, no defence, instant punishment is litera
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
I think you are reading way too many one sided sources. The Russians are selling more to China and India since the war. The higher price of gas means in the short run they are making more money. Yes, some sanctions might be annoying, in the
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Well, that’s the trillion dollar question no one has the answer to. But politicians say it’s going to be ok. So you know, we’re probably screwed.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
> Shutting out the bad faith actors is necessary to ensure science and public policy informed by it can continue to be effective and useful Did we shut down people saying smoking is good for you? No. So I'm not sure how your argumen
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Or it's cleverly done so everyone has plausible deniability, when in reality everyone involved knew it was basically election interference and first amendment violation. It doesn't take an IQ of 200 to do that without leaving dire
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
The only way you can beat google is to create a search engine in a small niche where they can’t compete, then eventually over the years expand into general search once they can’t catch up (innovators dilemma basically). The only search prod
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
I just can't understand how this makes sense, it seems like its the wrong way round. How can over analysis mean things are less optimal? This is true of every sport, every single record always gets broken, because techniques and nutrit
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Considering the audience of twitter, which is the elite of society, this is really is an especially bad performance. Twitter advertising should be the highest CPM out there, with the probably wealth and influence level of its audience.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
I’m actually in agreement with you up to a point, but these policies won’t stop Elon or bezos becoming billionaires. They’ve built businesses that actually put a lot of value into society. They own shares in those businesses, that’s why the
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Your narrative is as old as time and it’s always the same, and every time society listens to people like you seriously it ends up optimistically as zero innovation over regulated society, pessimistically genocide against anyone who’s ever a
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
So, the million (or trillion) dollar question is, who controls them?
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
Damnit. Fair point. Doesn't quite make the same point as before :) But still. 400k jobs is insane for 1 company.
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
> There is nothing wrong (and a hell of a lot good) with not wanting to be a person that doesn't chase up invoices and worry about payroll, it lets you focus on doing a good job. It has everything to do with this. Not wanting to be
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
A billionaire is usually just someone who's done something like me but 1000x better. Where is your line? What's ok? 100m? 432m? Above that people are "too rich"? What if there's 10% inflation? Do you add that on? Al
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
That's probably true, but it's not the point. People choose to become employees, and are taken care of in an extremely risk free way. Just ask any freelancer how different it is to being an entrepreneur, even that change is a mass
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by cloutchaser 4y ago
> many, many, many people that gave their lifetimes and labour toward furthering the goals of the Patagonia company And they could leave at any point, they are paid for their work within 30 days. They take 0 risk. As an entrepreneur for

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