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by dv_dt 8mo ago
The US has other active vectors with similar objectives of expanding government mandated controls over online activity - see the discussion on California age verification law https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181208 .
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
Disney built a whole Marvel studio complex in Georga, USA moving production away from earlier Marvel production in Hollywood and union labor (and chasing tax breaks). Now they're tearing down that down to move to an even lower cost si
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
The entertainment CEOs in charge would happily enshittify to stream AI slop with no workers if they thought they could get away with it. As it is, they try to leverage the threat, as well as relocating and restarting studio locations, reset
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
"just look at viewer ratings, total views and cinema turnouts of Hollywood movies in the last 10 years compared to for example 1999-2005. The decline in quality is obvious and measurable." I attribute this to the self organized di
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
The tulip craze and many other market excess crashes occurred under non-fiat currency schemes. The money system being fiat or metals backed or crypto is incidental to "let the corporations go out of business, let efficient small compan
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
Saying it will take jobs is the marketing line to CEOs - more than you will be left behind.
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
That public statement could easily be an open negotiation tactic saying they'll do it, but want more money to do it. Especially if it is gov't money which would be paying for that feed.
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
Legal immigrants if this change goes through - and if the minimum wage of these nations doesn't support any citizen living through their life perhaps the minimum wage should be increased and non performant businesses that can't su
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
The latter half of careers, and certainly 30-55 is generally the period of highest productivity of working careers. Its even higher value for the economy when wages do a catch up slowly over their time. I think it is politiczed fear mongeri
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
As I see it, the root of unhappiness in voters is nonperformant housing markets and unaddressed growth of inequality where wages are not sharing in growth of profits. This creates a raft of difficult issues. And the rightwing indeed has an
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
The interesting thing is this is Spain's second wave of doing this, and the economic studies on the first wave of it showed visibly positive results. Spain's economy moved in growth, and with a size larger than many other European
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
I think western companies and governments have ingrained into their own thinking that the optimization strategy of of minimal investments in fundamental sciences and engineering as real constraint. (actually in more that just that, but that
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by dv_dt 8mo ago
Hmm, and what of https://cryptpad.fr/ Though they also seem to be on github https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
What a great way to inhibit a path for a nation to advance it's manufacturing capabilities - putting roadblocks in the way of individuals learning how to manufacture things.
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
I think some the prevalence of AI is actually turning the bias on this. It would actually be a return to the roots of the start of early business computing - and sort of picking up where excel et al left off. I don't think it's A
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
"Broadly applicable" is always in tension with "niche".
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
Or what specialized niche they address
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
The question is still circumstantial correlation or causation with these factors. What you can conclude is that high taxes do not impede happiness or economic prosperity.
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
Look for the Sugarscape model research studies. With uniform equally distributed starting point, fairly unbiased rules, and a set of random early wins, large disparities tend to accumulate over time without active policy to counteract it.
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
So a well managed goverment-involved outcome. The whole point is happiness, not some preconceived need for high taxes or low taxes.
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
Norway also ranks as seventh happiest nation in the world. Correlation or causation? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
I think there is going to be an AI eternal summer. Both from developer to AI spec - where the AI implements to the spec to some level of quality, but then closing the gap after that is an endless chase of smaller items that don't all r
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
If it's hooked directly to AC power, isn't there by definition a flicker? With a power IC, a poorly implemented power circuit will also visibly flicker. With high enough rate and the right power characteristics it should not be n
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
Fractures could happen with ground shifting - perhaps recent flooding could have contributed
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
The employee healthcare costs don't count, so we can pretend that healthcare costs doesn't detract from performance or the ability to hire talent? Serious cancers are on the rise among the young and the type of plans you allude to
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
If they were being pragmatic about it, the more universal healthcare systems offered by many EU nations should be a massive advantage for startups vs nations like the US, but the wrong regulations around company operations negates it or wor
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
Even more troublesome than tying healthcare to employment one might note
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
That is a dubious claim of the accounting chain for expense of fossil fuels, which also ignores defensive tariffs for energy sources like Chines manufactured solar, wind and batteries. Though maybe it speaks to more beaucratic process aroun
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
If you go by the default constitutional allocations, Congress starts with much tighter control of how the executive operates than it does now. Via passage of laws, Congress over the years has chosen to delegate a lot of responsibility to th
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by dv_dt 9mo ago
They say history repeats itself, and this EV market shift is a repeat. A remarkable past parallel occurred with US industrial quality experts and statisticians being ignored by the US auto industry in the 1970s, then being taken seriously

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