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by deogeo 7y ago
> In places like the UK and Canada, the top news agencies are literally government owned. At least this would provide an alternative news source that is not driven by commercial forces, and can focus on what it believes is important , r
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by deogeo 7y ago
Why ceramic spikes - would regular iron nails not suffice?
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by deogeo 7y ago
'Worrying changes' is putting it lightly. For those who haven't read the article - there is a very alarming trend of reducing double-jeopardy protections in England. I.e. to allow people to be tried for the same crime again,
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by deogeo 7y ago
> until everyone has adequate shelter, nutrition, and healthcare, and is free from violence and exploitation I.e. never. See my previous comment about staying in Africa. But why are we only applying this "unaffordable luxury" l
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by deogeo 7y ago
A better way of defining (near) monopolies is through market power [1]. It gets at the heart of the matter for which 'monopoly' is just a proxy - the ability of a company to shape the market, even if it has competitors. For exampl
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Military spending is a function of geopolitics and the world economy It's also in large part a function of military-industrial complex lobbying. As for human wellbeing - I don't think that's a function of population grow
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by deogeo 7y ago
> something other than infrastructure, public health and anti-poverty programs Or something other than military spending. Space exploration is probably the best way to redirect the efforts of the powerful military-industrial complex. And
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by deogeo 7y ago
So why does the "I don't want to help people I don't like" attitude affect the healthcare system, but not immigration policy? That is why I don't think the explanation holds water. Plus, Americans do support unive
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by deogeo 7y ago
Wasn't this also true 3 years ago? I.e. it only explains profit margins, not the absence of a price/performance drop. And, well, they have the same number of competitors in both CPU and GPU, and I think even their market shares ar
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by deogeo 7y ago
Americans are so racist , they'd rather get bankrupted by illness and die, than have universal health care help black people. At the same time, they allow ~1 million mostly non-whites to legally immigrate every year. I think insurance
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by deogeo 7y ago
The pharmaceutical/medical/insurance industry has made the payment system exceedingly complex and opaque. The result is predictable - those who understand and control the system benefit at the expense of those who do not, because
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I'm from a city that for a long time had minimal billboards, and had to watch it become uglier as they proliferated. I don't think I'm alone.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> beautiful even without all the billboards and ads. Rarely do I hear the absence of ads framed as a challenge to beauty. So rarely, it only happened twice - your post, and the post you replied to.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> destroyed our beautiful Japanese neighborhood How? Though even if what you say is true, it must be balanced by the many more neighborhoods destroyed by ads.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Lots of businesses, particularly real estate businesses, feature self-dealing and family control galore. American corporate law goes out of its way to avoid criminalising stupidity. Self-dealing, as in how the founder leases his buildi
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by deogeo 7y ago
A shining example showing that the flood of advertising is not unstoppable. Some US states have also limited it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard#Laws_limiting_billbo... Hopefully more will follow.
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by deogeo 7y ago
The difference is the power of the censor - the act is the same (Yes, people have been fired for controversial statements. And less controversial ones: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/business/media&#x
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by deogeo 7y ago
Will censorship apologists claim this isn't censorship, because "no-one is owed a job", or "they're private companies that can do what they like", then link to this 'insightful' comic https:/&#x
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by deogeo 7y ago
> As long as Youtube doesn't remove the videos outright there is no censorship As long as protests are limited to designated "free speech zones", there's no censorship either, right? Yes yes one is private and the oth
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Homogeneity generally engenders more trust. Note that studies have confirmed this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...
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Study Debunks Stephen Jay Gould’s Claim of Racism on Morton Skulls (2011)(nytimes.com)
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> In this case There are many examples in the article of insurance using misleading or faulty evidence, and people ending up in prison or homeless as the result. > So the real newsworthy issue here, which the article missed, is why po
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by deogeo 7y ago
> There is something psychologically triggering about seeing people who look like you routinely killed by the state, regardless of the circumstances or politics. Then you'll be glad to find the coverage is exaggerated: https:/
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by deogeo 7y ago
While everyone involved surely deserves either life in jail or the death penalty, there's something we can do without going through the corrupt 'justice' system: Inform all the clients of these companies of what they're
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In addition to the obvious case of bribery, deliberately misleading the police with intent to falsely imprison someone has got to be some kind of crime far worse than bad faith - defamation at the very least. If I called the police and sa
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by deogeo 7y ago
Europe has managed to significantly reduce the influx of immigrants from the middle east - as has Israel.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The best would be to prevent immigrants from entering, but that's impossible. 'Impossible' is a very strong word for something many countries manage just fine. Unless you define 'prevent' as "no immigrant
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As neetdeth's poll shows, it doesn't matter what the people think - immigration continues regardless. Even under Trump, legal immigration remains at near-record levels.
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> I find it difficult to believe that a pro-trade union candidate like Bernie Sanders does not understand the basic laws of supply/demand: How a supply of cheap labour affects the wages of the individual employee. This interview wou
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Until around 1995, immigration restriction was overwhelmingly mainstream in the United States and still commands a strong plurality. Popular opposition does not look like it had much of an effect on immigration rate [1]. One might even

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