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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
To add some more context, NATO's refusal to establish a NFU policy dates to the Cold War, when NATO military leaders concluded that defending central Europe from Soviet invasion required a credible threat to deploy tactical nuclear wea
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Because NATO would overwhelmingly defeat Russia in a conventional war. There is no real upside and there is very real downside for NATO to escalating a conventional war with Russia to a nuclear war.
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If Russia is currently bogged down in a losing war, now is the ideal time to join NATO since Russia cannot realistically threaten to invade in retaliation. Joining NATO may be unnecessary, but the downside is small and the upside is very la
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
I can't speak for Canada, but in the US if a court issues a search warrant for data stored on one of your devices you are obligated to take whatever steps are necessary to turn over the data, including decrypting the data if applicable
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Being arrested and dragged into court to defend yourself will seriously negatively impact your life all on its own.
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The government has a money source and a money sink, and the idea that input and output must balance is an anachronism dating to days of physical currency. Under MMT, the government spends the amount it needs to spend to fulfill its obligati
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
It’s nice when you don’t have to worry about what linter you should be using because everyone uses the same static analysis to check for this sort of thing and it lives in the compiler.
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The crux of MMT is the idea that spending creates money and taxing destroys money, so deficits are made up and only inflation matters. Doesn’t seem like a “so much for” moment for MMT, which also predicts this if there’s too much money in t
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The President needs to be able to do their job as President from these planes while in the air, including some of the more unique responsibilities of the job like directing a nuclear war. The requirements go pretty far beyond just providing
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Some languages have gendered words as a fundamental grammatical aspect of the language (though since this language aspect evolved out of earlier grammatical distinctions that had nothing to do with “gender”, frequently the gendering of word
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Being better than the competition isn't the same as having no competition, and it's especially not the same as engaging in anti-competitive practices to prevent competition from existing. The purpose of consumer protection and ant
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The topic of discussion from the original comment is a claim that Google has a monopoly on internet search. Whether or not Google has a monopoly in advertising is a separate topic and not one of huge significance because consumer protection
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The initial comment claimed internet search as the monopoly, and that's what I responded to. Also, try to be civil to avoid degrading the level of discussion. If you want to talk about search ads, sure, maybe Google Search has a monopo
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
> In an ideal world, there would be multiple companies offering search ads who compete to give advertisers the best RoI. There are multiple companies that offer search ads, and they compete aggressively, they just compete primarily on th
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Those don't seem like examples anti-competitive practices in the search engine market. In fact they don't seem like anti-competitive practices at all. This first supposes that there's a meaningful "market" of "
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
The claim that Google has significant and durable market power in the search engine market doesn't hold up even by the FTC definition you quote here. There's plenty of competition, and the switching cost for consumers is literally
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by dodobirdlord 4y ago
Market share does not a monopoly make. Do you really consider Bing to be so bad that you don't even count it as a competing product in the same product category as Google Search? The cost to switch is literally nothing.
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It's different because nobody is actually going to ask this silly question in good faith. It does not matter in the slightest bit to anyone whether Google can produce a correct answer to nonsense questions that nobody is ever going to
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Assuming that the "Global Head of Customer Success" is a leadership role that covers support engineering teams (no clue, but it appears to be some sort of executive position), then it's sorta beside the point whether or not t
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The counterfactual isn’t that there’s no gardener and things are the same, in the counterfactual with no gardener things are even worse.
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It’s the Intel MKL, I don’t think Intel has ever even endorsed using it on other vendors CPUs, much less claimed that it is “fair” or “neutral”.
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The end result is that you need enough new housing to satisfy the demand of not just all of the people who currently reside in or near the city, but also everyone who lives elsewhere but is currently kept from immigrating by high housing pr
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> If too many buyers are priced out (by either high prices or high interest rates or a combination of both) then we'll see markets stagnate. Not if there’s a supply shortage. If there is a supply shortage then that necessarily means
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by dodobirdlord 5y ago
Google Image Search has been getting regulated out of existence by the EU for the last few years.
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Undergrad math degrees pay off pretty well. As a group math degrees are second after engineering degrees for highest median starting and lifetime salary for people with only an undergraduate education. Relevant graphs on pages 12, 13, and 1
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The collective of Apple’s users makes its will known by continuing to purchase iPhones.
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> But Apple and Google have been bad stewards of their market power. Can you explain how? Because I don’t think they have at all. App developers are not their customers, they are business partners, and prioritizing customers over busines
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This doesn’t actually help, because ending payment for a subscription doesn’t absolve you of legal responsibility, and you might at some point end up getting sent to collections over something stupid. Importantly, Apple can force companies
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> Supposedly at one point, early in 1990s, some high rank officers from both sides got to meet and look at unredacted data about capacity of both sides in Europe, with NATO representative going "oh god, with those numbers you could
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by dodobirdlord 5y ago
What is the meaning of this comment? Are you highlighting the article title because you think that it’s incorrect in the context of this fab being built? Fabs like this are automated to the greatest extent possible, and the remaining jobs a

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