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by d0lph 9y ago
Lab grown meat is being touted as more sustainable, since you don't have to raise an entire animal. Also, wouldn't lab grown meat be more precise, like with normal chickens you have no idea what exactly what they ate, or how they
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by d0lph 9y ago
To me it's more about people waking up and realizing exactly how much and what data is collected on them. Private messages, texts, things facebook has no business having etc.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Do you have any evidence for this?
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by d0lph 9y ago
It's like every time something new is created, everyone gasps at how expensive it is. Surprise, new technology costs more. I bet cars were prohibitively expensive when the first came out, but now you can get a used one for very cheap.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Right, but surely you don't believe that robotics is stuck where it is, we haven't quite figured out everything, but it's still a new field.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Why is it sexist to suggest that women might prefer different careers from men?
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by d0lph 9y ago
I thought it was death, getting fired, or quitting.
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by d0lph 9y ago
> When it tells them, presumably. Snowflakes don't matter, if only one Facebook user cares about their privacy, then Facebook shouldn't care. Is it a perfect system? No. But it is democratic.
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by d0lph 9y ago
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/customer.html > 1. General: A party that receives or consumes products (goods or services) and has the ability to choose between different products and suppliers. See als
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by d0lph 9y ago
So is their corporate culture different from Walmart's?
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by d0lph 9y ago
Either way, customers leave, advertisers leave. Also, while I do like the expression "if you're not a customer, you're a product", it does not change the actual definition of the word customer.
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by d0lph 9y ago
If you do something users don't like, they will leave if they want to, or else they don't care. > How do non-ad-buying users matter as customers to Facebook They are literally all Facebook has, eyeballs.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Any company that places the wants of the shareholders above the customers risks losing their customer base (see Facebook).
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by d0lph 9y ago
This line of reasoning seems to forget that the ultimate control belongs to the customer. Thus we see Facebook taking a big hit for collecting personal information people assumed was private.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Those are pretty different though, Costco is a "membership-only warehouse club" who sells through wholesale.
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by d0lph 9y ago
I was talking to a friend about their nephew, who has said some racist comments, but I think that is moreso the exception that proves the rule.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Like what scenarios would a signature not be required, it is my understanding verbal contracts are enforceable. But can you give verbal assent to a written contract?
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by d0lph 9y ago
Could you be more specific? I am curious. Did not realize contracts could be implicitly signed.
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by d0lph 9y ago
In the case you cite, advertisers were piggy backing on the feminist movement to sell cigarettes to women because there was a stigma against women smoking. In what way did this harm democracy? Cigarettes are dying off, because of scientific
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by d0lph 9y ago
Because the majority of advertising is for mundane products, which are unlikely to influence people politically.
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by d0lph 9y ago
I cede that point, I tend to ignore advertising, and people do debate whether _internet_ advertising works. However, I don't think that advertising is enough to remove the democratic component from capitalism.
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by d0lph 9y ago
> Advertising is part of capitalism. Because the core principles of Capitalism could function without advertising, I think this is incorrect. The main point I was trying to make was that advertising does not remove the inherent Democrati
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by d0lph 9y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2015/04/28/researc... It's at least not a new thought. Mostly though I'm skeptical that advertising is subverting capitalism. Is demand created th
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by d0lph 9y ago
I don't think you are a complete dolt, nor do I think that you are always right in every discussion. You are making assumptions about large groups of people who I highly doubt are carbon copies of each other.
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by d0lph 9y ago
> The hoi polloi from 1st world countries are unlikely to listen to uneducated 3rd world peasants. Kind of harsh and presumptuous.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Really, because I thought there was debate of whether or not advertising actually works, especially online advertising. However, at the end of the day it won't matter. Advertising is available to all companies, we end up with a tug of
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by d0lph 9y ago
Capitalism exclusively aligns with societal needs, if society does not need or want something we don't buy it, the business evolves or goes bankrupt. Capitalism is not just amoral, but also is democratic in nature.
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If it were non-optional, I think so.
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by d0lph 9y ago
Isolation is a punishment though isn't it?
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by d0lph 9y ago
That being the case, seems like OP's bot probably should have been allowed, especially since it seemed like they were only automating their repos.

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