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by deciplex 2y ago
China's national bourgeoisie has a seat at the table, but there are plenty of recent examples of them being brought to heel by the CPC. So, while they definitely have some capitalist productive relations I'd hardly call them capit
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by deciplex 2y ago
> This would effectively set the precedent that the US Congress can choose winners and losers in the market No it wouldn't, as that precedent is already set. And, not only do they choose winners, but individual members of Congress f
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by deciplex 2y ago
Our institutions of government are so far removed from democratic control at this point that the content of this bill hardly even matters in the first place: they'll just break the "law" with impunity anyway, if Congress can&
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by deciplex 3y ago
The difference with execs saying it is they're in a position to convince themselves they're right and act to make it happen. And it doesn't help that the immediate effect (lower payroll, higher stock prices) will "prove&
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by deciplex 3y ago
> I think grocery shopping will be the last place self-checkout moves in in a big way Self-checkout is the norm in my area.
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by deciplex 3y ago
> cost cutting When the savings are not passed on to the customer (and they usually are not, as in this case) it's more accurate and descriptive to call it "profit maximizing."
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by deciplex 3y ago
Like anything else they're fine - the problem is when you drink too many of them.
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by deciplex 3y ago
> Extremely authoritarian / communist take. that's how you know he's right
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by deciplex 3y ago
Okay well disapproval is still in the low double digits ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/1116013/china-trust-in-g... ) so are you claiming that China has imprisoned / "disappeared" 15% of its pop
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by deciplex 3y ago
> I don't think we should "lowest common denominator" to oppressive regimes. Chinese approval of their government is much higher than most Western regimes including the US. I think you are right about how we ought to apply
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by deciplex 3y ago
The point I think he's trying to make is that our economic system, to a greater degree than many of us want to recognize, hands out rewards arbitrarily. Merit alone will not get you there: luck and family connections (which is basicall
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by deciplex 3y ago
I know plenty of people like that and none of them are billionaires. No one's saying you're going to become a billionaire by sitting on your ass and waiting for it to happen (unless you're born into it of course, which many o
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by deciplex 3y ago
It's pretty obvious to me that not allowing dangerous aircraft in the sky benefits the public safety. I can only guess at what your objections are, because you're being awfully vague, but since I have to guess I guess that you&#x2
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by deciplex 3y ago
> actually prove the aircraft is safe to fly And, importantly, the process of providing that proof must be open to the notion that it is not safe to fly. It is possible (and IMO very likely) that this aircraft is fundamentally unsoun
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by deciplex 3y ago
> I genuinely wonder if you realize the consequences of this drastic a decision. Well, among other things, an increase in the general public safety vis-à-vis commercial air travel. Plus, I suppose, some kind of material incentive for Boe
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by deciplex 3y ago
is that an earnest question or are you just trying to draw attention to the fact that that's not how any of this works? in case of the former: that's not how any of this works
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by deciplex 3y ago
A contemporary issue in the US was the anaerobic lagoon in Washington DC which almost certainly led to the death of one President, William Henry Harrison, and likely two (the other being Zachary Taylor).
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by deciplex 3y ago
Personally I trust China with it more than I trust SV and their handlers in the CIA. But that's just me.
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by deciplex 3y ago
You linked me to a website for a US organization that apparently encourages the extremely wealthy to create more tax shelters for themselves, and followed that up by pointing out that the US accounts for 28% of the world's billionaires
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by deciplex 3y ago
Providing lower-cost ways of providing health care is directly contrary to the interests of anyone with political or economic power in our country: the hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that directly benefit from high prices, the polit
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by deciplex 3y ago
Not really. The notion that all human interaction is transactional and adversarial is relatively new, and the idea that this is actually good and should be encouraged is even newer. It only seems like an iron law of human nature because i
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by deciplex 3y ago
if they can't do business at that scale in a way that is acceptable to most people they do business with, then why should they be allowed to do business at that scale at all?
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by deciplex 3y ago
or maybe banks, and more specifically people who work at banks, should not be incentivized to screw their clients at every opportunity. which is to say, we should not have a legal, fiscal, and political regime which encourages or excuses th
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by deciplex 3y ago
thank you I got banned from Twitter ages ago and never bothered to create another account. I used to not have trouble reading threads like this but among other things with "X" the UI has become absolutely impossible to use lately.
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by deciplex 3y ago
I'd gladly pay ~$100 or so not to be treated like a criminal by Google Ads support, but when I'm already (or was) paying ~$2000/month I'd expect someone to at least hear me out when I suggest their algo might be fucked u
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by deciplex 3y ago
Google's customer service is famously awful.
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by deciplex 3y ago
It's extremely risky, and while it's relatively easy to calculate the gains realized, it's almost impossible to calculate the cost.
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by deciplex 3y ago
> 4. Unclear definition of install was used. What they eventually settled on: once per unique end user per distribution platform (e.g. app store), was pretty much what Unity was going for anyway, but the initial announcement royally mess
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by deciplex 3y ago
That's not even a rumor: he is on the board, and he did push for this.
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by deciplex 3y ago
Us lawmakers are effectively the employees of the people profiting from skirting these health issues.

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