dalbasal

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by dalbasal 5y ago
Perhaps. anchor it wherever you feel it should be anchored, and ask the same question. Whatever it is that FB does isn't scarce. We would also not lack for ways of selling whatever advertisers on FB are selling. They would be different
902.
by dalbasal 5y ago
FB is somewhat of an odd man out... I certainly think reversing acquisitions would be a positive, but... With Bell, standard oil and past monopolies... the goal was to decentralise while keeping oil and telecom viable. We wanted what they
903.
by dalbasal 5y ago
5 & 10 are already here... the rest aren't far.
904.
by dalbasal 5y ago
No, no. That was serious. ;)
905.
by dalbasal 5y ago
>>everything you say can be interpreted in bad faith. You're only saying that to absolve yourself from understanding that people's criticism of whatever stupid or evil thing you're into is valid.
906.
by dalbasal 5y ago
" To determine if your account is associated with an ongoing investigation, please enter any device details below: " Seems like they're flexing.
907.
by dalbasal 5y ago
What a terrible tragedy. These are the stories that make us understand what nazism meant, and what it did to the human psyche.
908.
by dalbasal 5y ago
This is apropos... Google's old link-based authority algorithm, pagerank, isn't alaysing the same web anymore. I think there's barely any signal in links these days. The first major event was Google itself. Once you use somet
909.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Yes, that was tongue in cheek. Honestly though, I don't really think its a job for courts. Courts have a role, but they're there to enforce laws, not enact policies.
910.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Who do you consider to be the victors in this case?
911.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Funny how some things stay with us. We live. We grow... to paraphrase Rabbi Hillel.
912.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Bless his memory too, and those who saved him. Heroism and tragedy of that era is beyond my comprehension. My Grandmother (wife of the man I spoke about) was from your area, Wadowice. She was 16 on the eve of invasion, and her family surviv
913.
by dalbasal 5y ago
I wouldn't even necessarily call the SLS collaborators. They were primaries. Broadly though, yes. When we know a little about a topic, it tends to be clean, black and white stereotypes and cliches. Real history is infinitely complicate
914.
by dalbasal 5y ago
He held no grudges by the time I knew him, certainly not against unborn generations. He visited in Berlin in the 70s, as a tourist, spoke german, had german friends and felt sorry for those who (like him) had their communities destroyed aft
915.
by dalbasal 5y ago
A long series of events, 3 years. Initially there was a backlog. Not enough trains to Poland. He went through several camps, work assignments. He never got shipped to Poland. Eventually he was freed by his brother, with the help of the Czec
916.
by dalbasal 5y ago
יהי זיכרו ברוך My grandfather was on a train to Auschwitz, but managed to avoid it and survive. A childhood friend of his survived in the camp until liberation. They always paid tribute to the liberators along with those who died in the att
917.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Sure, they are pretty closely related in pratice. The Senatorial oligarchy of Rome were pretty much also the wealthy of Rome, and often those with military power. Still, the term implies politics... not just money. I would also hazard that
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Is that what makes an oligarch? The way I use it, oligarch implies political power. You could, in theory, be a poor oligarch.
919.
by dalbasal 5y ago
As with the €2bn EU case with similar findings, the fine itself is the least interesting part. Google is clearly willing to spend much more than this for a lot less to maintain their position in the ad market. What matters is the changes g
920.
by dalbasal 5y ago
So... I think your right. Underlying a lot of trends eroding user/owner rights are practical benefits. This as true for ipods as it is for for tractors. My grandfather had an old Massey, and several others for parts. It's easy to
921.
by dalbasal 5y ago
I like this line of thinking, but I don't like the grand theory aspects of it. Terms like "current political economy." Explaining everything, from poverty to environmental degradation, as a product of psycho-societal ideas li
922.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Since labour shortages are economy-wide, not just at the lower end... I think it's almost certainly macro related. In any case, this is a good thing. When unemployment rates are high, the least employable people tend to be unemployed.
923.
by dalbasal 5y ago
I think social media culture has a lot to do with it. It is a cultural thing, after all. Political culture of the last few years also has something to do with it. Almost everything can be associated with a political faction now, 5G, vaccine
924.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Since we're digging up old notes on the topic, this George Orwell classic deals with (IMO) a similar them. It's a surprisingly difficult topic to deal with in discreet analytical terms, so I suggest avoiding disagreeing with defin
925.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Courses of action are plenty. These are foreign fleets illegally fishing territorial waters, so there's no real reason for authorities to object to enforcement. In this case, the problem is enforcement, which locals on here seem to thi
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Yes. Fishing is basically fishing the globe, regardless of where home port is.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I didn't mean it quite literally, and specified that I'm not suggesting that police had something like this in mind. My uneducated guess is that police were after something specific relating to other information that they already
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>shenanigans.. not sure exactly what you mean I mean that they could have just paid royalties to the US entity, avoiding Ireland and Bermuda. Beyond that, you're taking a very naive, textbook approach. Tomorrow never comes, in the s
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> how reading a news story in a certain window of time could serve as evidence or probable cause or reasonable suspicion of anything. So... I have no idea how they thought it would apply in this case, or what investigators had in min
930.
by dalbasal 5y ago
Avoiding paying more than the US rate doesn't require any of these shenanigans. They could just charge royalties to the US. Beyond that, the arrangement essentially turns corporate income tax into a corporate dividend/buyback tax.

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