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by deogeo 7y ago
> Stephen T. Johnson, the 27-year-old founder of FlipMass, an advertising company for Instagram influencers Advertising, extortionate rents, middle-men, 'analytics'... the sheer number of layers of parasitism in San Francisco i
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by deogeo 7y ago
> today’s American democracy (one of the best versions on the market right now) Having a choice of two whole parties sure doesn't sound as 'one of the best'. Countless countries have have ten or more parties in their par
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by deogeo 7y ago
Political correctness is far more than "treating people with respect". It includes truths you're not allowed to say, and claims you're not allowed to question, no matter how respectfully.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Yet another article framing dystopian levels of surveillance as only bad if they malfunction. As if the only reason we wouldn't want to give complete control over our lives to authority, is because the authority might make mistakes.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Corporations spend a lot on lobbying to make sure those government rules work only for them. They should absolutely not get to avoid blame for corrupting the government with the tired excuse that government is supposed to be incorruptible.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Not really - even wolf packs have borders: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/a3p0uq/an_image_of...
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by deogeo 7y ago
These seem relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_CBF318nBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxWlJ_muK0I I've always found it curious how anti-corporate sentiment disappeared from the Deus Ex seque
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by deogeo 7y ago
Why do e-mail clients still load images by default? This is not a new attack, or even hard to predict.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> How am I supposed to explain to you that protectionist policies benefit a small minority of workers at the expense of almost everybody else? Given that none of the most successful economies developed without protectionism [1,2], you&#x
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by deogeo 7y ago
The mentioned tamper-evident-ness. E.g. the device can display at boot time a warning if any changes were made, or if keys were added to the trusted list. Adding extra keys can easily be locked behind a password that the owner can change. N
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by deogeo 7y ago
Ah yes, mustn't let "the economy" suffer - who cares about the actual workers within that economy.
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's really not - crab mentality refers to pulling others down for no reason other than envy. But in this case, the reason is the lower classes don't want to be pushed even lower. Are they supposed to selflessly sacrifice themselv
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by deogeo 7y ago
From a US perspective, US misdeeds don't make China any less of a threat. Is the US supposed to react as "Oh they're waging a bit of a trade war on us, but we've sinned as well, so lets let them keep it up"?
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by deogeo 7y ago
3000 words in, and the article has yet to make a point other than "the 9.9% kept their share of the wealth, while the 0.1%'s share grew at the expense of the lower classes".
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by deogeo 7y ago
> But in any situation, there are winners and there are losers. The usually trotted-out theory of comparative advantage claims there are only winners.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Also, how much of this effect is basically the rest of the world playing catch up in terms of economic production? If the rest of the world becoming more productive results in US workers being worse off, then something is severely wron
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by deogeo 7y ago
> And yet, at the same time, we seem to be in the throes of a backlash against diversity, against mixing, with many people trying to claw their way back to a largely mythical, more homogeneous past. It's bizarre how a "more hom
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by deogeo 7y ago
But did they use the word 'buy' in their online store? Did they list the item as 'book title' instead of 'book title license'? I'm sure there's a "licensed, not sold" line buried somewhere i
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I understand my neighbors across the pond may not feel that way and I'd be curious about their thoughts. Is this just an abuse of that law? Does that law also feel undemocratic? Other more nuanced position? I'm from Europe, t
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by deogeo 7y ago
They could also make them merely tamper-evident. There's plenty of ways to allow device owners to unlock their own devices, without also letting others do so. Manufacturers just aren't interested in that, and are all to happy to l
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by deogeo 7y ago
Is this the "new, open-source friendly" Microsoft?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Not taking medicine unless necessary still seems like a good default - there's two sides to this mess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overmedication
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by deogeo 7y ago
Sounds like we all agree.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Anecdotal of course, but in the case of a common cold (as opposed to one where symptoms are unusually severe, or lasts too long) no-one in my family takes medicine (other than tea with honey and lemon), and the cold goes away just fine. I
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by deogeo 7y ago
I have to say this reeks of overmedication.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Problem with personal stories is you can find one to support any viewpoint.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> They tend to believe that the body naturally heals itself. If I had a cold, growing up in New Zealand, I was told, "Eat a cucumber," or, "Have a drink of what the neighbour made." Well, the body does heal itself,
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by deogeo 7y ago
As I said, housing is cheaper in Germany - they spend about the same % on housing, but that's out of a smaller income.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Don't think German specialists have it so bad - medical school in Germany costs almost nothing, housing and rent cost much less, as does health insurance.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Other countries benefit from our new drugs yet won’t pay market prices for them, and it’s $2 billion to create a new drug these days, minimum. What makes you think drug prices in other countries aren't 'market' prices? I

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