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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> The key point is that it's not just about cookies; any persistent tracking requires consent. The law mandates that you inform the user if you are setting any type of cookies. So its necessary to have a banner even if you don'
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> And I only wonder why EU has put up so long with price dumping in other domains. Like the whole Microsoft world domination strategy that was made possible by intentionally lousy enforcement of its IP. Because eing a US vassal makes it
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Huh? Database hosting? I dont see it anywhere in Hetzner offerings?
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The military 'ambitions' of China exist only because the military ambitions of the US exist.
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> The October Revolution wasn’t a popular uprising but a surgical strike by a minority faction And with that argument, you reduce every.single.revolution to a 'surgical strike by a minority faction'. The French Revolution becom
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> There was this whole hashtag-like thing on Telegram where people who had a regime uniform in their wardrobe would stuff it in the trash. That's SO very different than every other color revolution, including the ones the US attempt
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
The article talks as if it was different before Musk, Thiel, etc and the Silicon Valley wasn't asserting increasingly dystopian control of the internet for the sake of its shareholders, from limiting what people can do to literally soc
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> These two hot takes at the top of the essay really undermines everything else the author might say in the article and brings into question how serious and critical their thinking is. Does it though... If anything, the numbers prove him
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> Going back to a gold standard will limit the money supply. This means that there will be less capital for building $thing. That's precisely the solution. The current state of the hollowed-out US economy is because of the zirp enab
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Good, simple run-down of how printing free cash like a banana republic through ZIRP by relying on the reserve currency status of the dollar hollowed out the US economy. It led to a scammy economy in which finance sharks printed money and ge
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> The people of Belarus put this to test not that long ago. Massive numbers of people came out, factories went on strike, even people from the military and police spoke out against the regime. Did they, though... The Western media depict
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
It goes far beyond that: France sent troops and France and Spain sent their navies to protect the East Coast and fought with the British navy to prevent them from landing forces. They also prepared an invasion to invade the British isles, w
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> 250 years ago George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War That was a rebellion, not a revolution. The colonial elite broke away from the mother country. They sculpted the eventual legal and political structure to
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> But it was capitalism that ended up producing AI No, it was the scientific method. Back in the mid to late 19th century when scientific research was done in an open-source way without the presence of capital and corporations, science h
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> Capitalism appears to be the emergent system of many independent agents engaging in voluntary trades Not correct - in Ancient Egypt, all the land belonged to the people through the Pharaoh (great house), and they both had the independe
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> For most authors from Ayn Rand to Karl Marx I get the idea that they genuinely believe their ideas would make life better for the majority of the human race. I don’t think the problem with their ideas was obvious to them when they wrot
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> This entire concept of city-states exists on a premise of peaceful coexistence and cooperation F*ck no. From early Sumerian cities to Greek city-states, they were at each others' throats regularly. You can speak of peaceful cooper
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
There was another, recent incident in which some guy shot a few rounds to a healthcare exec's window in the night...
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Which propaganda led the US to the Iraq War?
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Better Chinese propaganda than the lying machine that sold the nonexistent Iraqi WMDs lie for a decade.
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> It is very interesting to me that in my social/professional circle, and indeed here on HN, remote schooling during covid is practically universally seen as a massive failure resulting in serious consequences, yet remote work is a
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> He was also the main sysadmin and always got all of his work done on time. I fail to see the problem there...
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Yes, they are like chancellors, castellans to the feudal lords who own the fief. They are even more vicious than the lord himself because their employment depends on that viciousness. Not that the lords would not be equally vicious if they
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
> CEOs are evil. Worse, they are evil because the system filters out anyone who has any kind of empathy. If they don't maximize profits, they are immediately replaced by someone who is more psycho than them, who will maximize profit
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> But nothing beats knocking on the door of the office next to you. (Whether it’s polite to announce yourself by e.g. email first depends on the country; even if you just show up and you’re turned away Oh boy. What you are saying is akin
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by dumbledoren 2y ago
Her husband also got disconnected. A lot of French nobles who asked and collaborated with their foreign relatives to wage war on their people to repress them also got disconnected.
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Yep. People always think that the aristocracy of old was different. No, they were just normal people like anyone else who were just directly born into narcissist privilege and lived their lives out-of-touch right from their childhood on. Th
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What you will be doing in your office environment will be unblocking that new grad in 20 minutes and then putting your noise-canceling headphones on and concentrating on your screen for the rest of the day. And if new grads and product mana
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This is what would happen if the Horse Carriage producers had lobbies with enough power and money back when automobiles were invented. They would illegitimately push rules, regulations and coerce the public to cripple cars for their profit
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> 2) I see a lot of how programmers are treated through this lens. Companies seem extremely reluctant to give programmers upper-middle perks. I think #1 is part of why: managers really, really don't want to mint a new upper-middle c

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